Corey Anton | RE: Agency in the Universe (0ThouArtThat0) @CoreyAnton | Uploaded December 2013 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
A Response to: youtube.com/watch?v=KPiuBf_u010
READ: amazon.com/gp/product/1557535612/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1557535612&linkCode=as2&tag=corant-20A
Schrag's Book: amazon.com/Experience-being-Prolegomena-Northwestern-phenomenology/dp/0810102722/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1386504221&sr=1-1&keywords=Schrag+Experience+and+being
I personally would never describe cosmos or reality as mechanical, but I do not subscribe to the cosmos itself being alive from the beginning. Once life emerges, it cannot be separated from the Cosmos, and to that extent, life will remain a symptom of the universe rather than the cause of itself. Oxygen molecules are not alive per se, but once aerobic breathing emerges into being, one cannot draw a hard line between them. That is, the molecule does not become alive in my body and then die when exhaled. But my life, including my body, cannot be ontologically separated from the oxygen I have breathed, the sun I have absorbed, the nutrients of the larger world, even the historicity of my culture. To that extent, life as a whole reached back in retroactive fashion, encompassing and incorporating much that has come before it.
A Response to: youtube.com/watch?v=KPiuBf_u010
READ: amazon.com/gp/product/1557535612/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1557535612&linkCode=as2&tag=corant-20A
Schrag's Book: amazon.com/Experience-being-Prolegomena-Northwestern-phenomenology/dp/0810102722/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1386504221&sr=1-1&keywords=Schrag+Experience+and+being
I personally would never describe cosmos or reality as mechanical, but I do not subscribe to the cosmos itself being alive from the beginning. Once life emerges, it cannot be separated from the Cosmos, and to that extent, life will remain a symptom of the universe rather than the cause of itself. Oxygen molecules are not alive per se, but once aerobic breathing emerges into being, one cannot draw a hard line between them. That is, the molecule does not become alive in my body and then die when exhaled. But my life, including my body, cannot be ontologically separated from the oxygen I have breathed, the sun I have absorbed, the nutrients of the larger world, even the historicity of my culture. To that extent, life as a whole reached back in retroactive fashion, encompassing and incorporating much that has come before it.
