Thursday, May 16, 2019

the intent of the other and who I am



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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