Hmm can vitalism be refactored as an aesthetic? As a non-empiricist metaphysics it’s a non-starter in 2018.
Like stream of consciousness, but for any process, not just literature.
A post-biomorphic aesthetic of organic as opposed to mechanistic systems.
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Empiricism is almost inherently vitality-draining, no? I've never been good at combining the two, at least.
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So something like say “false class consciousness” somehow seems to work in a vitalist way without being vulnerable to empiricist critiques. Because it derives its vitalism from individual, empiricism-proof, consciousness
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Ah. I frequently exhibit this problem discussing machine intelligence, and have been guilty of dismissing it as a metaphysical question. I'm curious if Mary Shelley readers had the same debate back in her day.
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I think this modernized flavor is what’s been called Emergentism... basically a hand wavy sum-greater-than-parts argument.
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