I think the early psychoanalysis is the best when it comes to such phenomena. You can either see alien as the registers of cosmological traumas or as expressions of something quite mundane which you can't explain coherently .
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Any story about aliens should be made in the fashion of the collective unconscious or individual consciousness.
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but why? why just treat every surface as a mirror? (one thinks of the limitation of human understanding that Lem's evoked in Solaris)
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Maybe because the monkey mind hasn't evolved far enough to comprehend further out...
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or maybe to ignore the absolute horror, either in the mundane or the cosmological. while there is another path, to "grow" extra organs for extra sensations and "comprehension". Xenogenesis vs. humanist sci-fi
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You don't need extra organs, you need an entire new set of transcendental conditions. The mere addition of sensory apparatus doesn't give you a new world so long as the representations of space and time, and your concepts remain the same.
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What if you think of something like CERN (or better examples that eludes me r.n) as the organs i was talikng about. Every H endeavour for knowledge and expanding its milieu as an extra-organic sensory apparatus. Also, time and space has already changed quite a lot since Kant.
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For a blind person, isn't seeing a color for the first time through an exo-organic sensory apparatus a 'new world'? Isn't the squid an alien that already has been put into new non-human lights via our new organs? I realize my argument is ill-equiped but i guess you get my drift.
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Yes and no. Perhaps new elementary experience (erleb) but not a new Welt. The latter is entirely inferentially structured like a new web and to structure that you don't only need new sensations but also concept to organize and make sense of those primitive sensations.
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Ex. when a red dot is registered on your retina, it doesn't tell you anything about itself, to say otherwise it's just the myth of categorial given (Sellars). You need to have the concept of red to plug that new sensation in. For X to be read, it means it's not white or blue.
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I see Intelligence and Spirit in your immediate future!
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