Re: [OPE] mirror theory (for Howarde)

Hi Howarde,
I send the quote because you asked me to do so sometimes ago.
Cheers,
Dogan

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From: Howard Engelskirchen <howarde@iastate.edu>
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Sent: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:06
Subject: Re: [OPE] mirror theory (for Howarde)

Hi Dogen,

Thanks very much for this.   However, it doesn't establish mirror theory; it establishes that we appropriate the things of the world in thought and that the arrow goes from the world to the brain.  Mirror theory says more than that.   It says what the brain receives is a mirror image of the world.  That's a very different proposition.  We don't need mirrors; we need only an information processing system to guide practice.  I hope before long to be able to return to this conversation, which we have certainly not completed.

Thanks,

Howard

At 12:35 PM 1/6/2009, you wrote:

Marx: "My dialectic method is not only different from the Hegelian, but is its direct opposite. To Hegel, the life-process of the human brain, i.e., the process of thinking, which, under the name of “the Idea,” he even transforms into an independent subject, is the demiurgos of the real world, and the real world is only the external, phenomenal form of “the Idea.” With me, on the contrary, the ideal is nothing else than the material world reflected by the human mind [in the original manuscript he says "Menschenkopf": "human
head"], and translated into forms of thought." (The forth paragraph from the bottom of the "Afterword to the Second German Edition")
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