@Fido,
Fido;111689 wrote:Well then; how would we know of it??? If we concentrate on what we can know we are bound to be in better shape at the end of the day...Science and technology take turns waiting on each other, and together they extend human perception far beyond what the past could imagine... So why imagine when for us it is fantasy... Let the geeks do their geeky things and report in triplicate later... learn what we already know...
It's like Kant's thing-in-itself. It's the part of the map that refers away from the map, to what the map is not. "The map is not the territory." It's the map's self-negation. (We're the map, and we're
alive...)
But, as I've said before, one could argue that the map
is the territory, and that the thought that "the map is not the territory" is one more piece of the map. It's the artistic arrangement of metaphors, conceptual poetry.