Fifteenth
The notion or word as psychic vector of transmission: intuition versus knowledge
We will frame a model, which may allow us to explain a certain number of phenomena in an appropriate way. Its validity will be taken of the fact that observations do fit into the model and do allow understanding.
As said (“Therapy for schizoid understanding”), we may think that the word while interacting with a human being, does determine the psychic mass at the moment we may say that ‘we believe something’. We tended to represent this phenomenon by imagining that words are the particles of some kind of matter (iron, aluminium, gold, etc) and the psychic mass it’s embedded in, a generator of (or logic generating) different kinds of currents (spirits or forces determined by different principles). In order to allow the simple representation of the phenomena in question, we tended to think that the physical masses were doubled by some kind of universal intelligible psychic mass interconnected as described. Seen like this, the human being looks like an antenna that does not only receive and transmit information, but does also generate it. The antenna has an inherent radio station.
This visualization does allow ordering reality in a somewhat unusual way: instead of ordering outer impressions, we can order blocks of believes as appearing in a place or another, thinking that they will be in interrelationship in one way or another. We can also group these believes in the categories of the intelligible, unintelligible or unconscious and repressed. The intelligible are those we think to believe (compounds of knowledge or information as transmitted through education, mass media or personal interest). The unintelligible are those transmitted by tradition or nature mostly implicit to behaviour, tones, or reaction. The repressed ones are those that result from the interaction of the second and the first, or of data generated by the personal logic, confronted to the first and rejected for different reasons (incompatibility, inconvenience, etc.)
We can thus figure out that we have three types of vectors of transmission forming three different realms somehow interconnected, and reacting to different ‘waves’ or currents. Once we have distinguished these realms, we may further differentiate the word as such, either expressed or potentially expressible, from the wave or spirit or current as being determinable in word (intelligible) by the explication of the governing principle. In order to understand this, it is necessary to clearly separate the essences from governing principles in determined logic (“Essence, principle and identity”), as much as it is necessary to visualize the difference between a wave or a particle, as they will have the same functions in the explanation. Although it is perfectly possible to consider the phenomenon of electricity through a more spatial point of view (talking about electrons), we do measure force (or possibilities of transmission in the case of radio transmission) in waves or currents. The explicated spirit may be thus compared to the ‘electron’, while the force itself is the very spirit, or current or wave. It becomes thus possible to talk of measured psychic forces, and even to try to find out how these forces are generated or get lost.
Even better for our model works the image given by the functioning of neurons. As far as I understand, neurons are understood as some type of very specific cells (units) that do transmit some kind of energy or electricity. Differently to the first and the second image, we can though introduce in our model the notion of ‘specified energy’ (determined current through principle of action).
We may thus think in a very ideal representation, that a human is an amount of units, ordered in blocks through categories of organization that do interact with another through forces that can be detected by other human beings, through similarity in the principle of logic of the force or energy in question.
Roughly, the blocks are ordered in three categories: the whole, a group, and the particular. The first category groups words or statements referring to human kind as a whole in the principle of survival, the second, words or statements referred to a specific group, as a nation, a religious group, a professional category, etc. and the third, words or statements linked to our own identity as integrating itself in a group or whole through similarity or differentiation.
These categories are embedded in a general principle of understanding or interpretation, the Apocalypsis recognizes four of (the four horses, white, green, black and grey: probably for progress, the red one, for self determination, the white one, for death, the black one, and for illusion or vanity, the grey one), although I suppose they can be grouped otherwise, too, or appear alternatively. This general principle of interpretation or understanding does allow reception of different blocks of stories determining the logics of behaviour or general interpretation and evaluation of reality as possibly ordered in causal and final links and these do determine more specifically what we may call sympathy or antipathy, in complementarities or similarities, in alternation or depending on the subject.
Let us take a simple example:A Chinese does register a certain number of data concerning his environment, implying notions of law, social organization, generally admitted thought and behaviour.Follows a process of evaluation: The ‘I’ as synthesized does situate him somewhere in the whole: he is a clerk, belonging to the right party, middle class, either because he shares already the ‘thought’ as implied or because he thinks he is in disposition to acquire it, or because he pretends to share the thought. General principle determining behaviour: survival and material improvementFollows the organization of existence: to pass these examinations, to get this work, to buy this kind of house, to be surrounded by these peopleFinally he specifies himself inside of the whole by preferring banana to apples, chess to football, that deputy to another, or does even generate personal thought concerning one matter or the other.His behaviour is generally ordered inside of the block of thought as transmitted by the groups he is submitted to, inside of their logic (reaction to rejection, way of moving up the social scale, way of expressing anger or happiness or whatever) in slight interaction with the logic of tradition which will be similar in most cases as the subject does move into these determined groups.
Our Chinese is not alone. One million other Chinese do share in general lines his fundamental structure. Whenever a movement happens somewhere, he will be informed through very slight internal impulses. An irregularity in the process of ascension will cause an unexpected reaction of rejection, because he may think his possibilities in danger, or his happiness, if he believes he may do they same in order to get up the scales, etc. If there is an attack on the administration he will feel fury, or anger, or think of a counterattack, putting into movement general logics to counter the attack or to eliminate the ‘enemy’, etc. As such, he will be moving in ‘lines’, as a ‘body’ that moves through the interconnection allowed by the admittance of the same intelligible cells and principles.
These bodies do have priorities: an attack on administration will make forget the animosity between the right and the left, an attack on a mate, the personal dispute, and do have, on the other, related bodies or groups in lines of sympathy or antipathy. Administration will prefer another Organ of State (general body) than a private business, as the similarity in structure and organization of thought allows better communication than with something that is ordered and structured differently. Finally, if the State gets lost, I will get lost, and if the State takes glory, I will take glory, which is not the case if the business works or not, except of I consider myself in this case as belonging to the nation and not to the part of the nation.
The involvement in one group or the other depends on the subject and determines new categories. There are people who give priority to the personal survival, others to the survival of the business or of the party, others to the nation. The ones who do give utter priority to the nation are those who have the so baptized ‘codes of the nation’ or deepest inner logics allowing the survival of a specific nation in its differentiation to others, and thus a general overview on the general structures in interaction; state to the private, army to police, lower class to middle and upper class, etc.
We may thus understand a nation as an interconnected intelligible body, transmitting information through the given lines and moved by different principles.
It seems though as if a certain number of dispositions did allow the increasing of perceived data and thus the possibility of interaction through given psychic lines, as much as the consciousness regarding the process. These dispositions do certainly imply the clarity in the organization of concepts but do seem to depend mostly of what we call moral dispositions. How far moral dispositions do increase perception and inner possibility of action should though yet be established, but seems to be linked to the fact that the moral (determination in the principle of behaviour through given belief), does open the consciousness to the possibility of organization of an inner realm, so that parts of the concentration is centred on the inner movements allowing clarification and interaction. It is obvious that the belief that ‘love is just a sexual interaction’ centres attention on realization, while the belief that ‘love is a determined feeling’ does concentrate consciousness on fields of the inner reality, the second allowing the discovery of other inner movements and interaction with psychic currents with deeper implications.
As such, it is of need to differentiate clearly psychic currents linked to social organization and those linked to moral involvement.
To think through that word as itself can be a vector is somehow absurd. Most of our beliefs are not explicated and do just form some kind of general notion. A notion is an intelligible unit that is not said, or if said, is not specified. Someone says: “This is happiness” and has a clear notion of what he talks about, but if asked: “What?” he may very often not be able to determine what appeared so clearly to his mind. This very clear something that appeared to him is a ‘notion’. We may say that 98% of ourselves does works on basis of notions, and we may even go as far as to say that this part of our identity we have in common with animals, although animals are not able of building up notions (constructed). It is in any case absurd to maintain that animals think, as thought is transmitted by language and animals don’t talk, they communicate. Tending to support this thesis is a paragraph of OT (Jonas), where God attributes soul as much to human as to animals.
The information gathered through or in general notions is called ‘intuition’. Intuition is thus nothing but the unconscious organization of tons of information in general patterns as given in psychic logic, which is mostly ordered in notions. If the understanding does still work in interaction with psychic masses, it will select a certain number of information through criteria of importance and select indicators that may allow him finding outer elements of support to the intuition in order to avoid subjective overreaction (rationalization of intuition). This mechanism gives the fundamental structure of the organization of scientific thought.
Through this general model, it may be possible to understand how the psychopathetic logic functions.