Wednesday, 19 November 2025

The dialectical theorem in "Insight"

 Needed: a correction of my understanding of the dialectical theorem in Insight.

Dialectic is not the concrete unfolding of linked but opposed principles of change, but rather it is APPLICABLE to such.

Dialectic distinguishes between the purely intellectual element and the interference of human sensibility and nerves (see INCW 269). This distinction is applied to the concrete unfolding...

The correction arose in the process of actually trying to understand how the theorem yields dramatic, individual, group and general bias. 

Dramatic bias: the linked but opposed principles of change are consciousness and its neural basis. Dialectic identifies the intellectual element and distinguishes it from human sensibility and nerves. it asks what happens when an insight is unwanted: how the pertinent images are suppressed, not consciously but preconsciously...

and so on.




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