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Despite a stronger start for the Maple Leafs against the Vancouver Canucks – building a 7-1 lead at one point on the shot clock – things didn't look too good until the final 20 minutes. Struggling to generate much offence in the second half of the first period and into the middle frame, the Leafs found their legs in the third period, scoring three unanswered goals to split their season series with the Canucks at a win apiece with a 3-1 victory.
"We were pleading, begging, crying, all those things to change the way we were playing and it just seemed that we didn't have our sharpness in terms of making tape-to-tape passes," said Carlyle. "Then we tried to make plays as individuals in the second period and they just sat back with their 1-4 (formation) and trapped."
But with a chance to head into the Olympic break on a high and post an impressive 11-2-1 record in their last fourteen games, Carlyle asked his team during the second intermission to find twenty inspired minutes.
"The idea is that it was a one-goal hockey game, here we have an opportunity to pull a game out of the fire by scoring one goal to give ourselves a chance," explained Carlyle. "We had a break coming. Wouldn't it be nice for everybody to feel a lot better about ourselves with a win here versus a loss?"
Tied with Montreal at 70 points in the Atlantic, the Leafs run has positioned them well for the final 22 games of the regular season, sitting seven points up on the Columbus Blue Jackets for the final Wild Card spot.
"We talked about wanting to go into the break I think probably six games ago," said Dion Phaneuf. "Our focus really focused in on playing well going into the break. We feel we've done that, we got some big wins and we wanted to get as many points as we possibly could going into the break and we did that."
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1) Burrows Pokes The Bear
Alex Burrows drew the ire of Phil Kessel late in the second period, cross checking him near the chin before giving him a glove on punch. Kessel responded with a few shots of his own and was noticeably agitated as he left the ice. But the Leaf sniper responded in the third period with what held up as the game-winning goal along with an assist on James Van Riemsdyk's insurance marker.
"I don't know, it's just a hockey game," said Kessel, after the game. "I wasn't too happy, but it's part of the game."
It wasn't the first time, though, this season that Burrows had gone after Kessel. In the previous meeting on Nov. 2, the two players fought in what was only Kessel's second career NHL fight. On Saturday, both players received just two minutes for roughing with an extra two minutes going to Burrows for high sticking.
"I think Burrows has kind of a mandate to disrupt Phil so it's always nice when you come out on the right end of a big game like that and Phil scored a big goal for us," added Carlyle.
2) Kulemin's New-Found Talent
Nikolai Kulelmin surprised many by how well he performed playing centre between Mason Raymond and Troy Bodie on Thursday in Tampa. But he showed it was no fluke with another solid outing on that same line against Vancouver.
Assisting on Mason Raymond's goal that tied the game 1-1 early in the third period, Kulemin also improved in the faceoff circle going 7-for-16.
"There has been kind of an unveiling of Kulemin at centre," said Carlyle. "It's been a big surprise for everybody."
With Kulemin heading towards unrestricted free agency this summer, it will be interesting to see if his new-found versatility will affect how the Leafs approach the decision they will have to make.
Additionally, Carlyle also indicated that David Bolland should be available once the Leafs resume their schedule on February 27th against the Islanders, giving the Leafs a wealth of strength down the middle with Tyler Bozak, Nazem Kadri, Nik Kulemin, Dave Bolland and Jay McClement.
3) Bodie Plays Into Carlyle's Good Books
Bodie continued to be featured regularly by Randy Carlyle against the Vancouver Canucks, playing 14:13 on a line with Raymond and Kulemin. On Thursday in Tampa, Carlyle suggested that Bodie's play has been so strong of late that he felt he owed the Portage Le Prarie native more ice time.
"It's a nice vote of confidence," said Bodie before Saturday's game, regarding Carlyle's comment. "Being up and down from the minors, it's not the easiest thing to do but to get in the line-up and get some opportunity and to play well with it, it's nice. To hear it from him (Carlyle) is good too."
Bodie rewarded his coach, assisting on Mason Raymond's tying goal, and tied for the team lead with six hits.
"I think just being strong on pucks, getting into fore-checks and being hard on fore-checks," said Bodie, on what has allowed him to play into Carlyle's good books. "That's really my game, getting in there and just getting pucks back for the skill guys on the line."
4) JVR and Kessel Excited For Their Olympic Experience
Van Riemsdyk and Kessel played a big part in the Leafs come-from-behind 3-1 win but next week, they will be hoping to display that same prowess for Team USA at the Olympics. The two players along with Kulemin will head to Newark on Sunday and then on to Sochi.
"I'm excited," said Kessel. "Obviously whenever you get the chance to play for your country it's a big honour and I'm looking forward to it."
"It's a huge thrill on this stage," added van Riemsdyk. "One of the highest levels of sport you can play at is the Olympics and to be with a guy I play with day in, day out, it should be fun."
It would stand to reason that JVR and Kessel would play on the same line with Team USA but both indicated they have not been told as of yet who they will be playing with.
One thing is for sure though. If they do play together, they'll have to find a new centre to mesh with.
"I'm excited to watch them play; I think they're going to do great," said Tyler Bozak, who said he'll be watching his teammates from the Bahamas over the Olympic break. "It's nice that they're coming into the Olympics really hot. I'm Canadian so if Canada and the U.S. play each other, it's going to be tough. I don't know who I'm going to cheer for yet."
5) Olympic Break Concerns
The Olympic break couldn't come at a better time for the Vancouver Canucks, having lost seven straight. But for the Maple Leafs, the concern for Randy Carlyle is that the break will interrupt the hot streak the Leafs have found themselves on.
"It gives us an opportunity to get our team back together and not to drop what we've done now, it's to maintain some level of consistency and push for the last 22 games to get ourselves in the best possible position to qualify for the playoffs," said Carlyle.
With four sets of back-to-back games remaining and a five-game road trip that will take them to Anaheim, San Jose, Los Angeles, Washington and Detroit, the schedule will be a grind.
"We know that the games are going to get tougher, we're going to go out west, play some Western Conference teams, it's not going to be an easy schedule that we've got coming," Carlyle cautioned. "There are no easy ones in the NHL and they're just going to get tougher when we come back, that's for sure."
He also opted to leave his players with a message he hopes they heed over the break.
"The message was 'the break is here for you to rest and relax but you'd be well advised to make sure that you have some form of exercise taking place a few times during the break because when we come back, we're going to go to work'," said Carlyle.
Injury Update:
Jay McClement left in the second period after tangling with Dan Hamhuis, falling awkwardly into the corner boards. He did not return to the game, playing just 5:22. Randy Carlyle confirmed after the game that McClement had a gash over his eye and went to the quiet room.
Stats Pack:
11-2-1: Leafs record in final 14 games
100: Career assists for Tyler Bozak; earned it on Phil Kessel's goal
14:13: Troy Bodie's ice time; second highest among this season
60%: Tyler Bozak's night in the faceoff circle going 12/20
57%: Nazem Kadri's night in the faceoff circle going 12/21
7: Losses in a row for the Vancouver Canucks
19: Games since Daniel Sedin last scored a goal
28: Games Alexander Burrows has gone without a goal
Quote of the night:
"I don't think anyone's happy when stuff like that happens, he kind of went after (Phil). I mean it's a scrum, there's going to be tons in hockey but I think Phil kind of likes that stuff secretly. It kind of fired him up. They say don't poke the bear and I think they kind of did there. Phil showed it in the third period." – Tyler Bozak on Phil Kessel's skirmish with Alexander Burrows.
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Throwback Tuesday. It feels like a throwback day today so why not start things off with A$AP Ferg calling up some rap group veterans. Speaking of veterans, is the label responsible for setting N.W.A. ablaze in the music industry relaunching? With the idea of old things becoming new still in your head, is Cash Money welcoming Juvenile back? All this coming up in SOHH Whatcha Think.
[Editor's Note: The views expressed in this column do not necessarily reflect those of SOHH]
1. Oldie But Goodie
Is A$AP Ferg trying to do a Vh1: Hip-Hop Honors concert? You would think so considering he is working with the likes of New York rap veterans Onyx and Cleveland's Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. MTV has the inside:
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Originally, A$AP Ferg planned for Trap Lord to be a free online mixtape, but after putting in so much work, the up-and-coming Harlem, New York, rap star decided to put a price tag on his very first project. Those old-school features have to cost a pretty penny, right?
"I got some of the best of the best on there. It just got serious and more serious because my features are like Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. I got Onyx on the same song as B-Real," Ferg told us last week. "It's a kind of legendary piece of work, it's like art. You can't really give good art away for nothing." (MTV)
How refreshing would it be to hear some iconic crews like Onyx and Bone Thugs rapping with the new school? There's so much emphasis on the new rappers today but seeing these types of mash-ups helps unite the old and the new. #SOHHWhatchaThink?
2. Priority First
Is the music industry thriving again? With the recenet surge in album sales from Jay-Z, Wale, J. Cole, Kanye West and more, could the music industry be thriving once again? It looks like the label most known for helping launch the careers of groups like N.W.A. is back. Complex is all over this:
Priority Records, the '80s and '90s rap label once home to N.W.A. and Snoop Dogg, is returning in conjunction with Capitol Music Group and Insurgency Music Group. The relaunch officially begins with a single from Just Blaze and Baauer, featuring Jay Z (whose former hyphen has been left out of the process entirely) called "Higher."
The new direction of Priority is supposed to be "producer-driven," with a focus on "electronic and progressive urban music." Feel free to interpret that as you will, but from the sound of it, the new Priority may not resemble its titular predecessor very much.
Michael Cohen, who is set to be the executive of the imprint, said the following about the move:
"I don't come from the hip-hop world, but the genesis of that label was really about supporting the indie level; it broke the mold in terms of working outside the system to bring street-level music to the mainstream without any compromise. And the producer—who has always played a strong role in hip-hop—has become the focal point coming out of the global electronic music space. It's heralded a paradigm shift in the way music is created, discovered and spread. Our first single 'Higher' epitomizes everything we're trying to do with Priority." (Complex)
The indie grind is very much alive and the relaunch of Priority Records seems pretty promising. Could other labels follow close behind like Loud/Rawkus? Only time will tell but this is a great sign. #SOHHWhatchaThink?
3. Why Can't We Be Friends
Is Juvenile finally coming back to Cash Money? With artists like Torion Sellers trying to get off Young Money and Lil Twist more interested in hanging out with Justin Bieber than Lil Wayne, the Young Money/Cash Money team could use some veteran leadership in the form of Juvenile. Real Talk NY has footage of Juvie and Weezy hooking up:
Last night I attended Cash Money's, "Rich Gang," album release party in NYC. The compilation album featuring, Lil Wayne, Birdman, Nicki Minaj, Tyga, Future, Chris Brown, R. Kelly, Ace Hood, Yo Gotti, Rick Ross, Kendrick Lamar, Busta Rhymes and more is on sale today. Check the slideshow for pictures from the party. (Real Talk NY)
A picture is worth a thousand words and this could all be nothing. One thing is for certain and it's that Juvenile does not have the same issues with Cash Money as former artists like Mannie Fresh. Is it worth holding out to see if Juvie is really back with his old pals? #SOHHWhatchaThink?
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Coke CMO slams 'short-termist' Facebook critics
Cannes 2012: Coca-Cola's most senior marketer has delivered a passionate defence of Facebook in the face of recent criticism of the social network, arguing marketers must not underestimate the long-term role that Facebook will play for brands.
Speaking at Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, Coca-Cola CMO Joseph Tripodi, said that creating brand advocacy on social platforms has overtaken loyalty as the holy grail for brands. He called on the creative and marketing community to come together to develop unique solutions to leverage the Facebook platform to create brand strength.
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Tripodi defended the social network against recent criticism that it is not offering marketers enough data to prove return on investment from campaign, adding that Facebook is still in it's infancy despite having more than 900 million users around the world.
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"That platform is at the early stages and we're still learning how we engage and leverage it, but this hysteria that I've seen lately [about Facebook], I think it's very short-termist and not thinking about the long term implications and the implications of engaging with people on that kind of platform."
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I would like Facebook to work better for Business to Business eg display business likes
No one is looking at the structure of Facebook -- which is a limited collection of your friends, not a broad public platform like the NYT's, where everyone sees the same thing -- and where display is more expected.
After all, I don't want Coke or anyone else bugging me in my living room or at the dinner table with my family.
And then there's the vague nature of a "Like". You "Like" what? A single post? An offer? The brand? And, say, did you get paid to "Like" it once? Then you ignored or deleted that expression of favor?
hats off to the Coke CMO for explaining the role & purpose of social media marketing. It's astonishing how many marketers and agencies think of social as a 'brand-to-consumer' marcom platform (we have many alternatives to Facebook for this) and not as a platform for word-of mouth marketing (where Facebook rules.......).
What Coke and Ford clearly understand is that social ads should put your brand in a context that is easily digestible to users – a one size fits all approach just won't work. We used users anonymous online behavioural data to qualify audiences for brands. By doing this, we have been able to provide high-quality fans to a global entertainment publication and major UK mobile telecoms that were 20 times more likely to display interest in becoming customers.
Brands need to treat social as a new and separate medium to ensure positive ROIs on their direct response ads – we've done some work with a daily deals site (Cobone) and by simply using the tools available through standard Facebook ads and ensuring creative continuity in their ads click paths they maintain a strong ROI on their campaigns


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Thank you, Hugh [Price]. It's a special honor to be introduced by someone who has been a leader and innovator in improving education and in tearing down the national shame of Jim Crow. I know how personal this anniversary is to you, since you served as a marshal in the March on Washington. It's an absolute privilege to be here with you, and so many other distinguished leaders this morning.
Education is the Only Solution
Good morning. Thank you, Christie, for the kind introduction, and for your tremendous work here at USAID. I also want to recognize Administrator Rajiv Shah and Assistant Administrator Eric Postel, for their leadership.
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Getting America Wired for Educational Opportunity
Thank you so much, Michael, for that kind introduction. And I always love following Jennifer Lopez.
I'm going to talk to you about some really sexy topics like academic learning standards and fiber-optic cable installation.
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Marathon bombings: A Bostonian's response
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Yesterday was an important date in Boston. Long before the bombs exploded and plunged the city into chaos, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts commemorated the third Monday in April as Patriots' Day.
The special holiday marks the battles of Lexington and Concord on the morning of April 19, 1775. We Boston natives share hazy memories of getting up before dawn and driving to Lexington Green to watch men reenact the legendary ride of Paul Revere and the "Shot Heard 'Round the World." Every year the battle continues a few hours later at North Bridge in Concord.
Patriots' Day reminds Bay Staters of the rebellion we launched 200 years ago that birthed a new nation founded on the idea of freedom. The holiday is an annual rite of spring for residents to take the day off from school or work to spend time with their families — to explore the city's rich history, to enjoy nature and see the annual herring runs, to catch an early Sox game at Fenway Park, or yes, celebrate with runners as they cross the finish line of the famous Boston Marathon in Copley Square.
For members of the Boston diaspora here in the South, it was maddening to watch the news knowing we were 700 miles from home — unable to help or even just be there with loved ones. Pictures and video from the scene showed that our city is in good hands, however.
Boston police, firefighters, EMTs, military personnel, doctors and nurses — even bystanders and marathon runners — all rushed to the fore to save lives regardless of personal risk. Red Cross officials stated yesterday that they had plenty of blood to help the victims and requested that people simply check on family members and consider donating in the future.
A quote attributed to beloved television host Fred Rogers made the social media rounds yesterday: "When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'"
Boston is full of helpers right now, and it is strangely comforting to be reminded of that fact by a late childhood icon. The city will pick itself up and move on as it has from many disasters over the past 400 years, and before you know it, we will see victims throwing out the first pitch at Fenway alongside Jimmy Fund supporters.
Tragedy will not change the way Bostonians celebrate Patriots' Day. Sure, it will take time to heal. Families have suffered loss, and others have experienced the psychological trauma of an attack at home.
But holy ordinances like summer night Sox games at Boston's grand cathedral will proudly continue. The marathon will be run next Patriots' Day as it has every year since 1897, and Boston residents will commemorate yesterday's tragedy the way they have for centuries: by learning from the past and moving on — never forgetting the lives lost.
The bomber(s) would do well to remember one thing: this isn't Boston's first massacre, and the last did not end well at all for its perpetrators.
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Well said, Omar. Well said.
Comment by Flo Paras — April 16, 2013 @ 3:52 pm
Excellently written my son! Very proud of you!!
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Omar, that last paragraph did me in…tears in my eyes… Well written. 'Nuff said. Bless your heart!
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In this forum we focus again and again on questions about consciousness and I think theres a deep reason why the meaning of this term tends to remain so unclear. Basically what were trying to understand is how our subjectivity fits into the world of objective reality described by science.
We have two basic standpoints available to us. If we take the (Cartesian) standpoint of science, we treat consciousness as an objective property that certain kinds of entities have. After all, we experience consciousness, so it must be objectively real, right? But this leads only to confusion.
Or, we can take the (Kantian) perspective of subjectivity itself, which is after all the only thing anyone ever experiences. Therefore consciousness must be something basic and irreducible, right? This justifies various kinds of mysticism, but otherwise leads nowhere. It treats consciousness so abstractly that it loses any relevance to science or to our actual experience.
Heideggers Being and Time (1926) was an explicit attempt to get past this dichotomy. He said, the reason we cant fit subjectivity into our scientific picture is that we havent gone deep enough on either side. Yes, we need to develop an ontology based on our own existence, because thats ultimately all we have. But our own existence is not mainly a subjective viewpoint on a world of objects its an active / receptive engagement in relationships of many kinds.
In other words, consciousness is not basically self-enclosed... though it can seem that way when we become self-reflective about it. This capacity for focusing on our own experience as something going on in our heads is basic to how we philosophers think, since the 17th century. But its not basic to human consciousness, which is essentially involved with the people and things it cares about.
Now presumably, existing in a world of connections is something we humans share with all other kinds of beings. Its not a matter of some things being inert objects and other things being conscious subjects. Its a matter of different kinds and levels of beings coming to exist in the context of different kinds of relationships. So Heideggers project was to develop the kind of categories needed to describe a world of relationships as seen from inside.
The idea that consciousness is built on engagement is not unique to Heidegger. But his analysis of human existence was specifically intended to sketch out a new concept of time that he thought was fundamental to all forms of existence as being in the world, not just human.
Ill summarize his idea of time in another post. But does it make sense to anyone that we could bridge the gap between subjective awareness and objective reality in this way? Thinking of the world as made not just of different kinds of things some conscious and some not but as a nexus of different modes of involvement between things.
From this perspective, whats unique about human beings is not what goes on in our brains, but the kinds of communicative relationships that our brain-software has evolved to support. That is, we grow into having a conscious perspective through the kinds of relationships we develop with others who have such a perspective. (And when dogs or cats or chimpanzees have relationships with us, its not surprising that they too can at least begin to develop in this direction.)
Mar30-11, 11:37 AM
Science is pretty much sterile on questions concerning existence and its not possible to model existence even in principle.
I would say that such questions might be addressed through other means - e.g. self-reflection and meditation. Consciousness is not like anything else we've observed in the universe so it makes sense(to me) that perhaps questions about it should be relegated to exploring its true inner nature. Especially if we can get some form of reputable findings and research to compare and draw conclusions.
I would say that both approaches become equally abtract once you push them hard enough. But the first is definitely more intuitive.
Sorry i am not of much help, your questions seem quite abstract by themselves.
Mar30-11, 12:04 PM
From what I can tell, Heidegger's idea is not unique. It's just another viewpoint, or formulation, of old, old ideas, from many mythologies, and within seemingly disparate belief systems, such as Buddhism to the American Indian myths. (Of course, the disparities aren't as deep as they seem, as has been shown)
It's often called the idea of Interdependence.
In the modern day western mind, we like to view ourselves as seperate beings from the environment around us. But, the claim could be made that this view we hold is just a "modern-day" myth (i.e. an image we create in our minds to help us get on in the world, help us make sense of it), but it's not at all how things really are. If that is the case, then, yes, we are truly limiting ourselves in understanding what consciousness really is, by adhering to this viewpoint.
Mar31-11, 04:54 AM
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Time and relationships (or, consciousness per Martin Heidegger)
It is hard to find anything to disagree with in this preliminary statement. I would much prefer Peirce to Heidegger of course. Heidegger remained too attached to the human condition and a narrowly psychological model IMHO. But the essential approach is the same.
So the alternative view (suggested by quite a few) is to generalise the whole(ness) of our experience. Take the mind and reduce the entirety of what it is about.
The alternative view says mind only exists in interaction with the world. It is part of the action. And generalising the very notion of mind as an action is a way of describing precisely those parts of reality that have gone missing in the atomising reductionist paradigm. Like a direct causal linkage for a start.
But I wasn't grabbed by it that much, so it would be interesting to hear more of why you like it.
Mar31-11, 08:31 AM
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Yes, were looking for a way to understand our existence as interdependent. And the notion that the mind grows out of active engagement in the world is by now commonly accepted. This is very good... but its not hard to make objective statements like this. In the same vein physicists learned to acknowledge the viewpoint of the observer in Relativity, and even observer participation in Quantum Mechanics and continue to develop theories about the world from the same objective viewpoint, as if we could put the world on our desks and inspect it from outside.
What I think was important about Being and Time is that it tried to develop a radically new conceptual framework for understanding the world from inside, as a web of interactive dependency. And it certainly did not succeed. Heidegger couldnt even complete the work as hed originally envisioned it... Part Two of the book never appeared. Most readers saw the book as a profound analysis of the human condition, but didnt take seriously its claim to open up a new fundamental ontology relevant to all the sciences.
So that task is still before us, as I see it. We know how to describe systems of many kinds objectively, from the outside... and weve developed ways to investigate the structure of our internal subjective experience. But the deep problem is how to reconceive the outside world of relationships from the standpoint of one participating in it.
I have to apologize, because Im thinking slowly this morning and I have to get to work, so I wont get to the question of time until tomorrow. But I think this is where Heidegger made his most important contribution. He understood that the essential thing about the world from inside is that it operates with a different time-structure, more fundamental than the time-continuum of objective reality. But the point is not to replace the old concept of time with a better, more accurate one.
Its not that our view of the world from outside is inaccurate. The problem isnt that our objective scientific theories are wrong, but that theyre not fundamental theyre operating with the wrong notion of what a foundation should look like. So we can know all about the physical world, down to an incredible level of detail, and still have no clue what the picture is showing us.
We can recognize that we live in a participatory world, but were still looking for a way to understand what that means.
Mar31-11, 12:32 PM
He posits two different standpoints, that of the transcendental ("inner experience") and that of the scientific (starts from the world of "physical nature").
Here are his conditions for the reconciliation of the two: "a demonstration of the objective reality of inner experience and a proof of the existence of an external world from which we can then conclude that this external world contains human facts and spiritual meaning by means of a process of transferring our inner life into this world."
While I'm not sure he tells us HOW to fulfill either of the necessary conditions, he seems to encapsulate some of the issues quite clearly.
Let me know if any of these quotes need clarification, or if they are germane to the conversation. Dilthey seemed a natural element to inject into this conversation, as he is manifestly concerned with the ultimacy of the human individual, and the nature of the relationships his existence in the "objective" world entails.
Mar31-11, 06:28 PM
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Again, I will come back to Peirce. And his reduction thesis. The claim that a worldview must be not monistic, nor even dualistic, but fundamentally triadic.
Monism seeks the one - the one true principle, the one essential stuff, the one fundamental thing. So this is standard issue reductionism. What is reality made of? Atoms. Or energy. Or geometry. Or something. Even "everything is mind" - our mind, god's mind, a panpsychic property, or a Matrix-style simulation.
It then seems obvious that the one must become two. Relationships seem primal. Dichotomies seem fundamental. You have to have a worldview based on dynamic interaction somehow. Monistic approaches always end up with dichotomies anyway. If everything is atoms, you still need a void. If everything is geometry, you still need an energy or an entropic direction to animate it.
But Peirce's approach was triadic. Hierarchical. He pointed out that a little bit of inter-relating eventually must end up with a stable global pattern of relationships. Local dynamics eventually produces global equilibrium states. And the local dynamics has to arise out of some potential in the first place. So you have an essential threeness.
And how else could we place ourselves in the universe except in the middle of it? To be the interior or subjective POV, we must have reality extending to either side. To both the larger and the smaller. We must be bounded both above and below.
Dyadic relations still leaves one side standing looking at the other. There may be an interdependence, but the two entities anchoring it are not "inside" the relationship. They are its object(ive) boundaries.
But a triadic framework puts all the localised interacting within a more general realm, a broader, more stable and enduring, context. So a local subjective POV can make sense as it is now both made of - or generated from - something (firstness), and it constrained by something (thirdness), and it is then freely doing something (secondness) within this world. The world, in the end, is all spun of relating. But there is that further level of global relations which stabilises the local relating, forming a meaning-making context.
Now this is obvious to many people. But Peirce really went to town to construct a whole metaphysics based on triadic systems principles. It was fundamental and explicit in his worldview, rather than something that popped out as a result, or was left vaguely implied.
Heidegger's approach to time in fact also seems to have just this Peircean structure of firstness, secondness, and thirdness. But more by luck than design perhaps.
Time is naturally triadic - we divide it psychologically into past, present and future. And as you say, the objectifying reductionist wants to reduce our subjective experience to a monistic description. Time is a linear succession of moments - atomic intervals, points on an endless line. Past and future are meaningless. We have mechanical equations that can describe everything as a frozen block.
But Heidegger wanted to re-psychologise time (from the admittedly little I have read him). So the past became firstness - the ground of possibility. A history of events creates a memory that sets the scene for what can happen. Then the future weighs down as a strong set of global constraints that create a context for what ought to happen. Then the present is about what is happening, the freedoms being expressed from this POV suspended between grounding possibility and super-arching constraints.
So, to the extent that Heidegger sounds to have got it right, it is because he is talking about a hierarchically organised, dynamically evolving, systems view. The Peircean metaphysic. Does this sound plausible from your readings?
Apr1-11, 06:43 AM
PF Gold
I dont know Dilthey well, though Heidegger did. He mentions Max Scheler along with Dilthey in a passage in Being and Time. They were all looking for ways to talk about the depth of human lived experience (as opposed to the merely observational sense of experience as used in physics). In effect, instead of making the opposition between objective, physical reality and conscious subjective awareness, they took subjectivity in a deeper existential sense. This was when Kierkegaards critique of Hegelianism was becoming widely read.
So Dilthey took life as a fundamental category not in a restricted biological sense, but in the sense of an entire human life, from beginning to end. I dont know where he went with that, but its appealing to me. But of these philosophers, I think Heidegger is the one who made a real breakthrough, seeing subjectivity as growing out of relationships, taking being in the world as his basic category, describing subjectivity as being there.
This points toward human connection as whats fundamental in our lived experience though Heideggers was too abstract a thinker to develop that theme very far. I think its the basic weakness of his work that it doesnt focus specifically on human communication, or give it a central role in the nexus of relationships that underlie our existence. But by making being-in-relation a basic ontological category, he did open up the possibility of seeing both physical objects and conscious subjects as having the same ultimate ground in a world of connections.
Apr1-11, 08:10 AM
PF Gold
Apeiron thanks for putting so much into your response. Ill have to discuss the time question separately with apologies again if it gets pushed off to another day!
In the abstract, I can agree with what you say here. Triadic thinking has a long history in our tradition, always as a kind of resistance movement against the monistic ontology and dualistic logic of the dominant Greek philosophy. In the development of Christian doctrine, which was (from an intellectual standpoint) a defense of a mythic way of thinking against Greek rationalism, the Trinity was a key idea. Where the NeoPlatonists, for example, saw the dynamic of the universe as an emanation of Oneness out into Difference, Trinitarian thinking always kept alive a sense of connection-in-difference as belonging to unity itself.
So Im in sympathy with your metaphysical inclinations. I appreciate the grand scale of your vision and how much thought has gone into constructing it. To me, though, you seem to be standing a long way outside the universe, not merely viewing it objectively the way a physicist does, but seeing it as a unfolding drama of essences, ideas. I get what you mean when you say one must become two... or how else could we place ourselves except in the middle? But although I recognize this is trying to express the dynamic / relational nature of existence, this kind of quasi-logical language doesnt appeal to me local dynamics has to arise out of some potential...
When I read self-evident statements like this, I think of Heideggers constant (and even tiresome) refrain, that the basic categories we use rest on assumptions we havent thought through. To me, what we take as basic reflects the aspects of our own lived experience that weve implicitly chosen as most meaningful. So with Peirce he takes very seriously that as thinking beings we emerge out of a formless vagueness, as we grow up, and learn to structure our experience through interacting sets of dichotomies. As Ive mentioned before, this has a kinship with Hegel, who found deep meaning in the intellectual experience of resolving philosophical antinomies by brilliant strokes of insight, and developed his basic ontological categories on this model thesis, antithesis, synthesis. Peirce also seems like someone for whom the experience of achieving intellectual clarity went very deep.
As for me, I identify with Kierkegaard, in that struggling with personal relationships is by far the deepest experience in my own life. What I found in Heidegger was an attempt to build categories not to describe the world as a nexus of relationships seen from afar, but to describe existence as an issue of being in relationships. So even as Im trying to understand the physical world, I remind myself over and over the basic structure of a world of relationships cant be envisioned from the outside. Relationships dont even exist, except for the ones who are in them.
This is just my own perspective, the basis from which Im trying to work. But it explains why I dont find Peirces categories and logic convincing, even though I appreciate the creativity of his intellectual imagination. But the dynamic of intellectual dichotomies just does not seem profound to me, as compared with the dynamic of actual one-on-one relationships.
Apr1-11, 04:37 PM
PF Gold
I of course see selfhood as hierarchically and semiotically structured. So it is full of internal or subjective dichotomies such as impressions~ideas, surprise~anticipation, habit~attention, what~where, figure~ground, action~sensation, psychology~sociology. And all these dichotomies are based on local~global interactions, and all can be mapped onto the brain's actual design.
So I see selfhood/consciousness as having an immense amount of structure. It is not at all a pure "being there", but complexly organised. And organised according to the common logic of a hierarchy in which local and global are in interaction - that is the fundamental nature of interaction.
But I don't see how this obvious rich complexity can be handled just by a stripped-down view of pure relating, with no account of the differing scales of relating.
My view is essentially asymmetric. There is the small at one end interacting with the large at the other. Whereas you seem to be talking about a symmetric interaction (neither side is dominant). Or at least scale seem irrelevant.
So is "being there" really about a "me" in interaction with a world (which is actually pretty asymmetric I guess). Or is it more accurately describe as my ideas in interaction with my impressions? So my global weight of memories and expectations bearing down as a context to organised the current upwelling flood of stimuli both predicted (so able to be handled thoughtlessly) and surprising (so the proper focus of attention and learning).
Being there could be very simple (a pure dyad), or it could be irreducibly complex (a hierarchical triad).
Apr2-11, 06:41 AM
PF Gold
Yes, self is complicated, and operates on many levels. Likewise relating. One of the things I most like in Being and Time is that in trying to grasp whats fundamental in human existence, Heidegger isnt looking for a single basic structure. For example, he talks about the being in aspect of existence that is, relating to ones overall environment and the being with aspect relating to other people and he calls them equiprimordial.
We could say existence involves an I - it kind of relationship, which is asymmetrical. It could be a relationship of observing, or a more practical kind of involvement with things we need and things we make. In any case there are particular objects were relating to, as well as a general background-context of other relationships.
And, existence also involves an I - You kind of relationship, which we experience as mutual, or at least as having a potential for mutuality. Here also were having a relationship with someone in a context of other relationships.
And our relationships with ourselves involve both an I - it aspect reflecting on our own behavior, for example and an I - You aspect, i.e. talking with ourselves. So there are quite a few basic relationships going on, each contributing to the context of meaning in which the others evolve.
I think your asymmetric dichotomies capture some aspects of this kind of structure. The key question for me is whether theyre adequate to describe this intersection between the essentially impersonal world of I - it relationships and the essentially personal world of I - You relationships. Since I think the difference between these two is fundamental, along with their interdependency.
Theres no question about the importance of hierarchies and differences of scale. And I think we agree that the very notion of relationship has nothing pure and simple about it, since relationships can happen only in the context of other kinds of relationships (even in physics). The question is how best to clarify whats involved in this irreducibly complicated business of being in relationships.
Apr2-11, 09:14 AM
PF Gold
Were talking about two kinds of time. The one is the objective time we measure with clocks and mark out on calendars. This sense of time is basic to the very notion of an object, as something that keeps on being what it is over time, and also moves and changes, in time.
Heidegger calls this inauthentic time (uneigentlich, i.e. not ones own). Essentially this just means time conceived from no point of view, as if we could stand outside of time and view the whole course of history from a distance, mapped on a time-line. In contrast, authentic time is this ongoing present time that is all we ever actually experience, in which we live our lives from our own points of view.
The conceptual shift from the usual subjective / objective dichotomy to authentic / inauthentic is at the heart of Heideggers project in Being and Time. Its a shift from a relatively neutral language about experience and reality into language thats highly charged with psychological and even moral overtones. For Heidegger, being a self and having a point of view of ones own is not at all something to be taken for granted. Our normal view of the world is an inauthentic one, a view we learn from other people as we learn to talk and think. The shared world of objective reality is an aspect of this inauthentic view.
Because of the highly charged language, its very easy to misunderstand this, and interpret Heidegger as saying that the inauthentic view of the world is wrong. On the contrary, we can only be objectively right about things within this inauthentic framework, which is the framework of science, among other things. Our own authentic view is of course partial and limited and biased, always merely subjective, with respect to the facts about reality.
Subjectivity in this sense is just a given. Authenticity in contrast is something we have to fight for and struggle to achieve learning to see and understand things from our own unique viewpoint. We get to have a self only to the extent that we learn a certain degree of independence from the way everybody thinks.
Now the reason this is so important, for Heidegger, is not just that independent thinkers may sometimes break through the limits of our collective worldview and discover new truths. The point is that whats truly fundamental about the world can only be seen from a point of view inside it. The objective, inauthentic view may get the facts right, but because it only sees the world in general, from a distance, it misses the inner life of the world, so to speak that is, the one-on-one engagement each of us has in our relationships. Our lives are not just the subjective observation of objective facts!
So theres a paradoxical aspect to the language of Being and Time. This highly charged language of authenticity seems to pertain exclusively to human psychology and human morality. But its only by getting to the depths of our own emotional existence that we can see whats fundamental to existence as such. A more neutral language for example, about logical dichotomies and hierarchical systems remains at a distance. So it may not be able to get to the heart of what it means to have a point of view to be lucky enough to get to participate in this world.
Inauthentically, we live in a world of objects, things that last through time and change over time. No doubt, this objective reality is important for us to get to know and understand. But authentically, we live in a world of "real-time" connections which is no less important, and maybe even more fundamental.
So what is authentic time? The idea is not to replace the inauthentic view of the time-continuum, as if it were incorrect. The objective view is right, but may not be fundamental since it doesnt get how time actually happens, how this business of the present moment actually works. It just takes it for granted that time passes.
From ones own point of view, there is always only now. The objective past is gone, and the objective future doesnt yet exist. But this ongoing moment in which each of us lives is nothing like the frozen point in time captured in a photograph. Its a continual happening, that has an authentic past and an authentic future built into it.
So youre correct about the triadic structure of time, except that the ground of possibility is what Heidegger understands as the authentic future. The now we experience is first of all an anticipatory openness to what can happen. Like the wave-function in Quantum theory, the present situation is essentially a structure of whats possible. Secondly, its constrained by the authentic past, i.e the structure of facts inherited from the past. Thirdly, what happens in each moment, in our connection with the world, revises the shape of whats possible by adding new facts to the situation.
So this does have affinities with your way of describing how the world happens. Though Heidegger was building on Husserls phenomenology of time-perception rather than Peirces metaphysics. Heidegger also sees this as a phenomenological description of our human experience of time but again, what hes really is something deeper. Hes trying to develop a basic understanding of how this side of the world works, thats based on participating in relationships.
And Being and Time was only a preliminary sketch, despite the length and density of its arguments. Even as a sketch, I think it has serious limitations. Heidegger was never able to focus on the structure of one-on-one (I - You) relationships, or on human communication. And in his analysis of the triadic structure of the moment, he has surprisingly little to say about the authentic present itself.
But these are limitations of our entire intellectual tradition. My sense is that were still at a very primitive stage when it comes to envisioning the world we actually experience, each from our own existential viewpoint in real time. And I think thats why were still so far from an integrated evolutionary picture of the world that encompasses physics, biology and our own humanity. There are big pieces of the puzzle that are invisible when we only see the world from a distance.
Apr2-11, 05:04 PM
I can find zero reason to assume that time is fundamental. Or space or causality. In fact we know they are not. The fields ontology being our by far the best and most consistent theory of the world, i would say that awareness is the odd one out. Think about it, the longer you think, the less likely you'd be to return to naive common-sense views. You do have a no-go theorem that explicitly forbids the fields from being both local and realistic and the foundations of all human knowledge is a philosophy that we believed was true(though it never really made sense either).
Well if space and time really turn out to be not fundamental, then the fundamental dynamics of reality would lie completely out of sight(i am stumped by this possibility).
Apr2-11, 05:53 PM
PF Gold
This is why I like Peirce's epistemology.
Apr3-11, 02:02 PM
Responding to the OP: read Whitehead's 1925 book Science and the Modern World and his 1929 book Process and Reality. Whitehead is difficult, but SMW is the best introduction to his thought. He presents a comprehensive and compelling worldview that encompasses science, philosophy and faith. He was a mathematician, logician, physicist and philosopher at Cambridge and Harvard so he is well-qualified to write on these issues. The last phase of his career was his philosophical phase and he sums up a lifetime of thinking about nitty gritty mathematical, logical and scientific problems in the books I mentioned. His vision is panpsychist: the fundamental constituents of the universe are "drops of experience" and it's all about relationships, as Heidegger writes. I agree with Apeiron that Heidegger seems to mistake psychology for ontology at times, but he certainly got it right in focusing on relationships.
Apr3-11, 02:04 PM
Some essays on these issues, from a Whiteheadian perspective:
Apr3-11, 05:12 PM
That would have been the minimalist, no-assumptions, critical view of everyone, had they spent enough time pondering the following:
1. Reality is surprizingly knowable and comprehensible(no requirement that it had to be so)
2. The geometrical nature of spacetime and the relationships that are its sole occupant
3. Laws - the constituents of reality follow strict physical laws that can be modelled effectively by math(no requirement that it had to be so)
4. Mind and awareness cannot be explained by the prevailing philosophy of science(mind is unlike anything else found in the universe)
5. Inexplicable but seemingly fundamental features of the reality we experience - Meaning, Logic, Intelligence
6. The inexplicable by the current mainstream philosophy rich inner life of each one of us(or at least me in particular)
These points don't prove anything yet but should serve as red flags for hasty conclusions.
Apr3-11, 06:11 PM
Maui, are you saying you agree with Whitehead's panpsychist approach to the mind/body problem?
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