For artificial intelligence, animism, and religion
one looks for intentionality in the object looked upon, this is also called
anthropomorphizing. In other words if
something behaved as though it has intent or even consciousness we consider it
to be alive and aware with thoughts and direction from the source of its
consciousness. The wind is considered to
be spirit because it seems to have a way of being that is intentional,
potentially destructive, and alters our experience. An animal displays an aggressive behavior we
tend to believe it has intentions driven by some form of intelligence. I assume another person has intentionality
when they behave and speak in certain ways.
This intentionality and personality entice me to know the consciousness
and subjective experience of the other. It
does not take much time for me to be curious about what the other is
experiencing, what their about, etc . . . My wondering mind creates scenarios about how
I might enter the other's world, experience their intentionality, their choice,
feelings, and perspective. Looking inot
the eyes of the other is an invitation to a world through an experience which I
will never know, but my interest in in social creatures of all kinds. I worry that I think about the other and do
not have a grasp on the ends of man, how am I to be with, speak for the other,
or know the intent of the other, really, when humanity as we know it is not
lasting. I am talking Foucault, who said
man is “an invention of recent date that soon will be erased like a face drawn
in the sand at the edge of the sea.”
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