how would you explain the term "modes of being"? — Moliere
Is it just a way of being? — Moliere
Modes of being are fluctuations within the dimensions of collective consciousness. — stonedthoughtsofnature
In it he uses a phrase: "Modes of existence", in particular to designate what both having and being are. — Moliere
've been reading up about perception, familiarity and anticipation. One hidden assumption in a lot of cogsci - but this goes back centuries, millennia - is that there is a sort of equilibrium we as human beings revert to, want to get back to. Our mode of being is not so much to make the world as to perceive it then act upon it.
An interactive and anticipatory way of understanding would on the contrary be that our mode of being is world-making, future- and other-oriented. As an example in language (the example I'm most interested in) the 'meaning' of anything one says or hears would then never be restricted by a compositional account, because part of the meaning would reside in what I am about to say, and what you think I am about to say, and what you are about to say, and what I think you are about to say... — mcdoodle
The relation of emotion to anticipation and memory is a related area (and I have some memory you're interested in emotion). — mcdoodle
A guy called Tronick studied infant moods and proposed that moods embodied a 'Janus principle' facing both past and present - that they are a non-cognitive way in which the past enters the present, or the present inhabits the future. That would help explain why athletes for instance focus on mood: mood changes anticipation and both in turn influence how the world is to us, and how we are in the world. Deep mood might then be how we are in the world, which would be why we call bipolarity or depression 'mood disorders'.
A man and a woman have a child, but that does not make them parents. It is what they do, how they demonstrate their care for the child, that makes them be parents.
Having is necessary but it is not sufficient, doing is both necessary and sufficient for something to be. — Cavacava
Being is conscious, lived-experience rather than just being a passive observer where pleasure or the instinctual determines action. — TimeLine
What would you say is this distinction between mood and deep mood? — Moliere
That's a good approach, though I'd express hesitation in using "form of life" to get at "modes of being". It seems to me that forms of life deal with daily activity, and I don't think that a mode of being relies as much upon our actions. While our actions may influence our mode of being, I'd say that there is also an experiential element to it -- something like an encounter, but not necessarily something we or I or you or they are doing.
Of course you say "like", so maybe I'm just being too literal in this reply. — Moliere
Interesting. Seems to me that at least you are saying what a mode of being is not -- i.e., habits. — Moliere
If that is being, then what would you say a modality of being is? Would you say that the egotism you describe is such a mode? (And, if so, then what is an authentic mode?) — Moliere
We are the modal initiative; to say 'consciousness' is to enable the necessary preconditions that initiate an awareness or lived experience of the external world by making it 'conscious' rather than asserting a constructed reality. Indeed, if self-consciousness is a feature of consciousness (thus circular or reflexive) where being conscious is to consciousness itself, any authentic modes of experience requires the subject to be aware of the subject. Empathy, for instance, removes itself from egotism and one becomes morally consciousness. — TimeLine
I must admit I'm not following the part in the middle, from where you start "...to say 'consciousness' is to..." all the way to "...where being conscious is to consciousness itself..." -- My best guess is that saying and meaning "consciousness" is sort of a bootstrap operation whereby we both become aware of ourselves and reality, and given that then in-authentic modes of being would make us not aware of one or the other, since consciousness requires both. I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "constructed reality", though. — Moliere
OK, cool. I found him on Academia. He's very prolific. (and does work on a lot of things I'm interested in)
I understand your explanation, but if I wanted more, is there a good starting point? — Moliere
The term, or idea, is not unique to one speaker, but it's not exactly clear what this resonance consists in. — Moliere
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