Reader, this turned out to be a massive mistake, one that I am resolved not to repeat any time soon. Life is too short to spend it deciphering this garbage when there are so many other books to be read.https://twitter.com/SteveCooke/status/1168464109702189056 …
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That is distressing.
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It's made even more distressing by the fact that what it appears to say nothing more that that humans are distinct from other species because they are self-conscious & have second-order desires. Being beings being beings makes being beings being.
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It's possible there's something going on there, which I don't know enough to understand, to do with Brentano's concept of intentionality, which posits a gap between consciousness & its objects, but leaves consciousness itself a negation. H. might be negating the negation.
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Or that could be complete bollox. Hard to say, really, without spending way more time than I'd ever be willing to spend trying to get to grips with the terrain.
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