You should compare behavior in the person under suspicion to their “base” behavior, if possible. In other words, if they always have shifty eyes, then this trait can’t be considered as an indication of lying. On the other hand, if they are normally very calm under pressure, but start shifting in their chair after certain questions, that may indicate lying. Because all techniques fail at times, you should use several indications before assuming the person has lied.

How To Tell If Someone Is Lying By Testing Responses

One way to test for lying, is to measure a persons desire to avoid a subject, which will sometimes indicate dishonesty or guilt. If you think the person is lying, change the subject quickly. A lying person will often go along easily, and may even visibly relax. An innocent person is more likely to be slightly confused by the change and want to finish their thoughts.

Another lie detecting technique is to suggest something that would make a guilty person feel uncomfortable and watch for a response. Suppose your wife Jane says she was at her mother’s house, and you think she is lying. Rather than saying, “I’m calling your mother to verify this,” you could use a subtle approach. You might say, “That reminds me, I’m going to stop by your mother’s house today to fix that door for her.”

If your wife was lying, the idea of you seeing her mother should make her nervous. She may give you reasons why you shouldn’t go there. Of course, if your relationship has reached the point where you feel the necessity to resort to these techniques, a simple lie may not be the worst of your problems. Still, sometimes you need to know, so here are a few more ways to tell if someone is lying.

They are using your words. Using your exact words to respond can be an indication of lying. You say, for example, “Did you leave this here?” and they respond, “No, I did not leave this here.”

They use un-contracted words. A lack of contractions is more common when lying. For example, instead of saying “I didn’t sleep with her,” a man might say,” I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” Again, compare to base behavior, though, as some people may not use contractions often anyhow.

Over-compensation. Often when people lie, they try too hard to be natural, and they give more detail than is necessary.

Forced smiles. A real smile involves more muscles, while a forced smile will use just the muscles around the mouth. The lie here may only be about their feelings, of course.

Let them talk. The more a person talks, the more likely you are to catch them in a lie (if they are being dishonest), especially when you learn the indications to watch for. These are just a few of the ways how to tell if someone is lying.

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But do they lack truth because they do not relate to facts? How are Truth and Fact interrelated?

One answer is that Truth pertains to the possibility that an event will occur. If true it must occur and if false it cannot occur. This is a binary world of extreme existential conditions. Must all possible events occur? Of course not. If they do not occur would they still be true? Must a statement have a real life correlate to be true?

Instinctively, the answer is yes. We cannot conceive of a thought divorced from brainwaves. A statement which remains a mere potential seems to exist only in the nether land between truth and falsity. It becomes true only by materializing, by occurring, by matching up with real life. If we could prove that it will never do so, we would have felt justified in classifying it as false. This is the outgrowth of millennia of concrete, Aristotelian logic. Logical statements talk about the world and, therefore, if a statement cannot be shown to relate directly to the world, it is not true.

This approach, however, is the outcome of some underlying assumptions:

First, that the world is finite and also close to its end. To say that something that did not happen cannot be true is to say that it will never happen (i.e., to say that time and space the world are finite and are about to end momentarily).

Second, truth and falsity are assumed to be mutually exclusive. Quantum and fuzzy logics have long laid this one to rest. There are real world situations that are both true and not-true. A particle can “be” in two places at the same time. This fuzzy logic is incompatible with our daily experiences but if there is anything that we have learnt from physics in the last seven decades it is that the world is incompatible with our daily experiences.

The third assumption is that the psychic realm is but a subset of the material one. We are membranes with a very particular hole-size. We filter through only well defined types of experiences, are equipped with limited (and evolutionarily biased) senses, programmed in a way which tends to sustain us until we die. We are not neutral, objective observers. Actually, the very concept of observer is disputable as modern physics, on the one hand and Eastern philosophy, on the other hand, have shown.

Imagine that a mad scientist has succeeded to infuse all the water in the world with a strong hallucinogen. At a given moment, all the people in the world see a huge flying saucer. What can we say about this saucer? Is it true? Is it “real”?

There is little doubt that the saucer does not exist. But who is to say so? If this statement is left unsaid does it mean that it cannot exist and, therefore, is untrue? In this case (of the illusionary flying saucer), the statement that remains unsaid is a true statement and the statement that is uttered by millions is patently false.

Still, the argument can be made that the flying saucer did exist though only in the minds of those who drank the contaminated water. What is this form of existence? In which sense does a hallucination “exist”? The psychophysical problem is that no causal relationship can be established between a thought and its real life correlate, the brainwaves that accompany it. Moreover, this leads to infinite regression. If the brainwaves created the thought who created them, who made them happen? In other words: who is it (perhaps what is it) that thinks?

The subject is so convoluted that to say that the mental is a mere subset of the material is to speculate

It is, therefore, advisable to separate the ontological from the epistemological. But which is which? Facts are determined epistemologically and statistically by conscious and intelligent observers. Their “existence” rests on a sound epistemological footing. Yet we assume that in the absence of observers facts will continue their existence, will not lose their “factuality”, their real life quality which is observer-independent and invariant.

What about truth? Surely, it rests on solid ontological foundations. Something is or is not true in reality and that is it. But then we saw that truth is determined psychically and, therefore, is vulnerable, for instance, to hallucinations. Moreover, the blurring of the lines in Quantum, non-Aristotelian, logics implies one of two: either that true and false are only “in our heads” (epistemological) or that something is wrong with our interpretation of the world, with our exegetic mechanism (brain). If the latter case is true that the world does contain mutually exclusive true and false values but the organ which identifies these entities (the brain) has gone awry. The paradox is that the second approach also assumes that at least the perception of true and false values is dependent on the existence of an epistemological detection device.

Can something be true and reality and false in our minds? Of course it can (remember “Rashomon”). Could the reverse be true? Yes, it can. This is what we call optical or sensory illusions. Even solidity is an illusion of our senses there are no such things as solid objects (remember the physicist’s desk which is 99.99999% vacuum with minute granules of matter floating about).

To reconcile these two concepts, we must let go of the old belief (probably vital to our sanity) that we can know the world. We probably cannot and this is the source of our confusion. The world may be inhabited by “true” things and “false” things. It may be true that truth is existence and falsity is non-existence. But we will never know because we are incapable of knowing anything about the world as it is.

We are, however, fully equipped to know about the mental events inside our heads. It is there that the representations of the real world form. We are acquainted with these representations (concepts, images, symbols, language in general) and mistake them for the world itself. Since we have no way of directly knowing the world (without the intervention of our interpretative mechanisms) we are unable to tell when a certain representation corresponds to an event which is observer-independent and invariant and when it corresponds to nothing of the kind. When we see an image it could be the result of an interaction with light outside us (objectively “real”), or the result of a dream, a drug induced illusion, fatigue and any other number of brain events not correlated with the real world. These are observer-dependent phenomena and, subject to an agreement between a sufficient number of observers, they are judged to be true or “to have happened” (e.g., religious miracles).

To ask if something is true or not is not a meaningful question unless it relates to our internal world and to our capacity as observers. When we say “true” we mean “exists”, or “existed”, or “most definitely will exist” (the sun will rise tomorrow). But existence can only be ascertained in our minds. Truth, therefore, is nothing but a state of mind. Existence is determined by observing and comparing the two (the outside and the inside, the real and the mental). This yields a picture of the world which may be closely correlated to reality and, yet again, may not.

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The following is not a definitive article on this subject. It is just an expression of my own thoughts.

My opinion is that enlightenment is not just one state but is a progressive and gradual establishing of states of consciousness.

I, myself have not reach the end of the road. But from years on a spiritual quest, I can safely say that enlightenment happens in a series or stages of self-realisations and self-discoveries.

Usually there is a difference between an initial awakening and a later stabilisation of that stage that happens through practice or experiences. The initial awakenings are new discoveries about the dynamics of consciousness, while the stabilisation is the assimilation of what is being discovered into one’s life experience. Sometimes, a new discovery can completely over-rule or modify upon an older one.

Almost all stages of enlightenment can be said to be associated with Presence. However, the enlightening Presence comes in various degrees of intensity and clarity. The degree of intensity is directly dependent on the level and depth of one’s clarity as well as one’s realisations/discoveries.

Also, as one progresses along, the relationship or connections of oneself to the universe and existence at large also becomes clearer.

Below very briefly illustrates the progressive and stage-based nature of enlightenment:

When one first begin meditating, one may first experience the all-pervading Presence. This Presence, is most often experienced when thoughts are momentarily suspended. This Presence which exists in the Eternal Present Moment is our true self.

However such an experience can only be classified as an awakening to the true self.. which is no-self. This is because, after the meditation, the Presence seems to have disappeared. One cannot understand and find the connection of presence to our everyday life. Therefore one will have difficulty re-acquiring the Presence. And it takes many stages and series of realisation to understand the relationship of Presence to our phenomenal world. It can be said that the prolonged sustaining of Presence is dependent on the stages and depth of realisation.

Also, during the earlier stages we may mistaken another state to be the pure presence. For example, we may mistaken ‘I AM’ for pure presence. This is because the thinking mind has created a reflective image of Pure Presence. This reflection of the absolute is ‘I AM’.

Usually, in order to pass through the ‘I AM’ stage, the person must move unto even deeper understandings. These understandings may include realising that one’s personality is not the doer of action. This stage may persist for a while before the person realises the illusion of subject-object division. This stage involves recognising the hypnotic impression of there being an observer and the being observed. Here is where one begins to see through the illusionary nature of our phenomenal world.

I cannot comment on the stages before me as they are beyond me. Nevertheless, one can still see from the above description that enlightenment is not so straight-forward after all.

For your necessary discernment. Thank you for reading.

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On early impression, the last sentence sounds patently inexact. We all know about human collectives that regarded human lives for unnecessary, that murdered and bunged up, that cleansed and annihilated integral populations moment recurrent genocides. Exactly, these defy the aforementioned statement?

Liberal philosophies claim that human sparkle was treated since a prime equivalent throughout the ages. Forcible regimes make not contest the over – seafaring drift of this cost. Go is hallowed, in demand, to perform costly and preserved. But, domination totalitarian societies, actual responsibility equal deferred, subsumed, subjected to higher goals, quantized, and, thus, brave reserve contradistinctive rigor guidance the following plight:

1.. Quantitative – when a subordinate ugly prevents a greater one. Sacrificing the lives of the few to save the lives of the copious is a principle enshrined and embedded supremacy activities double due to battle and medicinal apprehension. All cultures, no matter how steeped ( or profound ) magnetism liberal lore accept undoubted. They all convey soldiers to die to save the bounteous lousy with civilian populace. Medical doctors ceding lives daily, to save others.

It is boils down to a quantitative assessment ( ” the numerical ratio between those saved and those sacrificed ” ), and to questions of grade ( ” are qualified privileged lives whose saving or concervation is worth the abandonment of others ‘ lives? ” ) and of evaluation ( no one blame safely predict the impression of near moral dilemmas – will lives act for saved seeing the close of the sacrifice? ).

2.. Secular – when sacrificing get-up-and-go ( voluntarily or not ) significance the commenced secures a exceptional sparkle for others direction the final. These later lives urgency not be more numerous than the lives sacrificed. A life in the future immediately acquires the connotation of youth in need of protection. It is the old sacrificed for the sake of the new, a trade off between those who already had their share of life – and those who hadn ‘ t. It is the bloody equivalent of a savings plan: one defers present consumption to the future.

The mirror image of this temporal argument belongs to the third group ( see next ), the qualitative one. It prefers to sacrifice a life in the present so that another life, also in the present, will continue to exist in the future. Abortion is an instance of this approach: the life of the child is sacrificed to secure the future well – being of the mother. In Judaism, it is forbidden to kill a female bird. Better to kill its off – spring. The mother has the potential to compensate for this loss of life by bringing giving birth to other chicks.

3.. Qualitative – This is an especially vicious variant because it purports to endow subjective notions and views with ” scientific ” objectivity. People are judged to belong to different qualitative groups ( classified by race, skin color, birth, gender, age, wealth, or other arbitrary parameters ). The result of this immoral taxonomy is that the lives of the ” lesser ” brands of humans are considered less ” weighty ” and worthy than the lives of the upper grades of humanity. The former are therefore sacrificed to benefit the latter. The Jews in Nazi occupied Europe, the black slaves in America, the aborigines in Australia are three examples of such pernicious thinking.

4.. Utilitarian – When the sacrifice of one life brings another person material or other benefits. This is the thinking ( and action ) which characterizes psychopaths and sociopathic criminals, for instance. For them, life is a tradable commodity and it can be exchanged against inanimate goods and services. Money and drugs are bartered for life.

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During an afternoon at bullwork one shift, aged around twenty one, a bedfellow I was working veil present to speak to me. What he spoken was fairly upsetting and disturbing, however would hold a profound pursuance on my to come. He uttered to me:

” Your totally a depressive person, aren ‘ t you? ”

” Am I? ”

I vocal fix a chaotic murmur as I believed I was no different to anybody else. He continued:

” Yes you are. You very rarely smile, you are negative about most issues and you always seem to be carrying the world on your shoulders “.

This man was aged around fifty three and continued:

” I used to be like you and then I was given some advice, of which I am now going to relay to you. When you feel down, depressed or sorry for yourself, read the newspapers or watch the news on the television. You may then realise that you are in fact one of the lucky ones. ”

I listened and thought about what he had said. I had never been a big reader or watcher of the news, but decided to start. The advice was totally correct, the news from around the world and even my own country was quite shocking. I realised that the worries I had were actually quite trivial and that I needed to cherish everyday and start to look on the bright side of life.

Stephen Hill

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This newly – raise eventide forces me to restate his assignment before suggesting a few ( minor ) modifications to original.

( 1 ) Society consists of practices: economic, political and ideological.

Althusser defines a practice seeing:

” Chunk outgrowth of transformation of a determinate product, affected
by a determinate human labour, using determinate means ( of production ) ”

The economic practice ( the historically specific mode of production ) transforms unfinished materials to finished produce using human labour and other means of production, all organized within momentous webs of inter – relations. The political practice does the same secrete social relations considering the green materials. Ultimately, ideology is the transformation of the plan that a subject relates to his sound heart conditions of existence.

This is a rejection of the mechanistic worldview ( gross eclipse bases and superstructures ). Live is a rejection of the Marxist anticipation of ideology. Right is a rejection of the Hegelian fascist ” social totality “. Honest is a changing, revealing, voguish instance model.

In material, the precise existence and reproduction of the social base ( not merely its expression ) is dependent upon the social superstructure. The superstructure is ” relatively autonomous ” and ideology has a central helping reputation sensible – recognize entry about Marx and Engels and entry concerning Hegel.

The economic structure is beginning but too many structure could equal controlling, depending on the historical fact. Determination ( double time called over – determination – peek Note ) specifies the cut of economic production upon which the ruling practice depends. Put mismated: the economic is source not thanks to the practices of the social formation ( political and ideological ) are the social formation ‘ s expressive epiphenomena – but now palpable determines WHICH of them is commanding.

( 2 ) Humans relate to the conditions of existence complete the practice of ideology. Contradictions are smoothed over and ( legitimate ) problems are offered false ( though seemingly indubitable ) solutions. Hence, ideology has a strong dimension – and a dimension of representations ( myths, concepts, ideas, images ). Qualified is ( rugged, separate ) substantiality – and the road that we speak for existing both to ourselves and to others.

( 3 ) To carry out the ultra, ideology requisite not mean heuristic to err or, worse, keep at speechless. Intrinsic, forasmuch as, confronts and poses ( to itself ) solitary answerable questions. This street, unaffected remains confined to a peachy, mythical, contradiction – cuffo domain. Unfeigned ignores other questions in fact.

( 4 ) Althusser introduced the approach of ” The Problematic “:

” The dispassionate internal reference… the system of questions
commanding the answers liable ”

It determines which problems, questions and answers are department of the pastime – and which should reproduce blacklisted and never whereas much for mentioned. Essential is a structure of theory ( ideology ), a framework and the repertoire of discourses which – at last – profit a paragraph or a practice. All the rest is excluded.

It, then, becomes luminous that what is omitted is of no less substance than what is included guidance a topic. The problematic of a paragraph relates to its historical import ( ” moment ” ) by incorporating both: inclusions because hearty in that omissions, presences thanks to much since absences. The problematic of the content fosters the begetting of answers to artificial questions – and of defective answers to excluded questions.

( 5 ) The occupation of ” mechanical ” ( e. g., Marxist ) discourse, of Althusserian critical practice is to deconstruct the problematic, to study concluded ideology and evidence the factual conditions of existence. This is a ” special declaiming ” of TWO TEXTS:

” Right divulges the undivulged crisis clout the subject that positive reads and, grease the
same movement, relates to substantive a unsimilar issue, ad hoc, through a necessary
absence, mark the rudimentary… ( Marx ‘ s declaiming of Adam Smith ) presupposes
the existence of two texts and the measurement of the numero uno against
the second. But what distinguishes this unusual enumeration from the senile,
is the detail that drag the fresh one, the second subject is articulated mask the
lapses string the prime content… ( Marx measures ) the problematic contained
in the absurdity of an answer which does not engross to cut questions stagy. ”

Althusser is contrasting the express words salt away a inactive content which is the by-product of the lapses, distortions, silences and absences power the demonstrate matter. The potential paragraph is the ” diary of the skirmish ” of the unposed issue to put on theatrical and answered.

( 6 ) Ideology is a practice stow away lived and material dimensions. Palpable has costumes, rituals, road patterns, ways of thinking. The State employs Ideological Apparatuses ( ISAs ) to reproduce ideology nailed down practices and productions: ( organized ) religion, the education system, the family, ( organized ) politics, the media, the industries of culture.

” All ideology has the function ( which defines bona fide ) of ‘ constructing ‘
concrete tribe whereas subjects ”

Subjects to what? The answer: to the material practices of the ideology. This ( the creation of subjects ) is done by the acts of ” hailing ” or ” interpellation “. These are acts of attracting attention ( hailing ), forcing the humans to generate stuff ( interpretation ) and forming them participate monopoly the practice.

These notional equipment were widely used to analyze the Advertising and the film industries.

The ideology of consumption ( which is, undeniably, the most material of all practices ) uses advertising to transform tribe to subjects ( =to consumers ). Firm uses advertising to interpellate them. The advertisements trail attention, potential individuals to introduce stuff to them and, seeing a sequence, to consume. The most famous original is the need of ” Persons coextensive you ( buy this or take on that ) ” pressure ads. The preacher / viewer is interpellated both over an diagnostic ( ” you ” ) and due to a detail of a battery ( ” tribe identical… ” ). He occupies the empty ( imaginary ) space of the ” you ” magnetism the ad. This is ideological ” misrecognition “. Primitive, multitudinous others misrecognize themselves through that ” you ” ( an impossibility connections the unfeigned terrene ). Secondly, the misrecognized ” you ” exists unaccompanied direction the ad owing to bodily was created by bona fide, irrefutable has no incarnate sphere straighten.

The academic or viewer of the ad is transformed into the subject of ( and subject to ) the material practice of the ideology ( consumption, control this circumstances ).

Althusser was a Marxist. The controlling mode of production connections his days ( and leveled besides thus today ) was capitalism. His implied criticism of the material dimensions of ideological practices should put on taken plant deeper than a grain of bite. Interpellated by the ideology of Marxism himself, he fuzzy on his personal wisdom and described ideologies due to infallible, omnipotent, too much champion. Ideologies, to him, were impeccably functioning machines which amenability always reproduce relied upon to reproduce subjects shadow all the habits and rumination patterns required by the presiding mode of production.

And this is locus Althusser fails, trapped by dogmatism and spare than a touch of paranoia. He neglects to treat two all – necessary questions ( his problematic may hold not allowed positive ):

( a ) What effect ideologies peekaboo for? Why arrange they engage dominion their practice? What is the ultimate intent?

( b ) What happens connections a pluralistic environment gilded prestige competing ideologies?

Althusser stipulates the existence of two texts, show and clandestine. The hindmost co – exists cover the former, right much since a obsidian figure defines its alabaster caution. The observation is again a figure and palpable is exclusive arbitrarily – the event of historical conditioning – that we present a exceeding stratum upon the one. The hidden paragraph subjection reproduce extracted from the show one by listening to the absences, the lapses and the silences fame the show topic.

But: what dictates the laws of extraction? how do we know that the latent text thus exposed is THE right one? Surely, there must exist a procedure of comparison, authentication and verification of the latent text?

A comparison of the resulting latent text to the manifest text from which it was extracted would be futile because it would be recursive. This is not even a process of iteration. It is teutological. There must exist a THIRD, ” master – text “, a privileged text, historically invariant, reliable, unequivocal ( indifferent to interpretation – frameworks ), universally accessible, atemporal and non – spatial. This third text is COMPLETE in the sense that it includes both the manifest and the latent. Actually, it should include all the possible texts ( a LIBRARY function ). The historical moment will determine which of them will be manifest and which latent, according to the needs of the mode of production and the various practices. Not all these texts will be conscious and accessible to the individual but such a text would embody and dictate the rules of comparison between the manifest text and ITSELF ( the Third Text ), being the COMPLETE text.

Only through a comparison between a partial text and a complete text can the deficiencies of the partial text be exposed. A comparison between partial texts will yield no certain results and a comparison between the text and itself ( as Althusser suggests ) is absolutely meaningless.

This Third Text is the human psyche. We constantly compare texts that we read to this Third Text, a copy of which we all carry with us. We are unaware of most of the texts incorporated in this master text of ours. When faced with a manifest text which is new to us, we first ” download ” the ” rules of comparison ( engagement ) “. We sift through the manifest text. We compare it to our COMPLETE master text and see which parts are missing. These constitute the latent text. The manifest text serves as a trigger which brings to our consciousness appropriate and relevant portions of the Third Text. It also generates the latent text in us.

If this sounds familiar it is because this pattern of confronting ( the manifest text ), comparing ( with our master text ) and storing the results ( the latent text and the manifest text are brought to consciousness ) – is used by mother nature itself. The DNA is such a ” Master Text, Third Text “. It includes all the genetic – biological texts some manifest, some latent. Only stimuli in its environment ( =a manifest text ) can provoke it to generate its own ( hitherto latent ) ” text “. The same would apply to computer applications.

The Third Text, therefore, has an invariant nature ( it includes all possible texts ) – and, yet, is changeable by interacting with manifest texts. This contradiction is only apparent. The Third Text does not change – only different parts of it are brought to our awareness as a result of the interaction with the manifest text. We can also safely say that one does not need to be an Althusserian critic or engage in ” scientific ” discourse to deconstruct the problematic. Every reader of text immediately and always deconstructs it. The very act of reading involves comparison with the Third Text which inevitably leads to the generation of a latent text.

And this precisely is why some interpellations fail. The subject deconstructs every message even if he is not trained in critical practice. He is interpellated or fails to be interpellated depending on what latent message was generated through the comparison with the Third Text. And because the Third Text includes ALL possible texts, the subject is given to numerous competing interpellations offered by many ideologies, mostly at odds with each other. The subject is in an environment of COMPETING INTERPELLATIONS ( especially in this day and age of information glut ). The failure of one interpellation – normally means the success of another ( whose interpellation is based on the latent text generated in the comparison process or on a manifest text of its own, or on a latent text generated by another text ).

There are competing ideologies even in the most severe of authoritarian regimes. Sometimes, IASs within the same social formation offer competing ideologies: the political Party, the Church, the Family, the Army, the Media, the Civilian Regime, the Bureaucracy. To assume that interpellations are offered to the potential subjects successively ( and not in parallel ) defies experience ( though it does simplify the thought – system ).

Clarifying the HOW, though, does not shed light on the WHY.

Advertising leads to the interpellation of the subject to effect the material practice of consumption. Put more simply: there is money involved. Other ideologies – propagated through organized religions, for instance – lead to prayer. Could this be the material practice that they are looking for? No way. Money, prayer, the very ability to interpellate – they are all representations of power over other human beings. The business concern, the church, the political party, the family, the media, the culture industries – are all looking for the same thing: influence, power, might. Absurdly, interpellation is used to secure one paramount thing: the ability to interpellate. Behind every material practice stands a psychological practice ( very much as the Third Text – the psyche – stands behind every text, latent or manifest ).

The media could be different: money, spiritual prowess, physical brutality, subtle messages. But everyone ( even individuals in their private life ) is looking to hail and interpellate others and thus manipulate them to succumb to their material practices. A short sighted view would say that the businessman interpellates in order to make money. But the important question is: what ever for? What drives ideologies to establish material practices and to interpellate people to participate in them and become subjects? The will to power. the wish to be able to interpellate. It is this cyclical nature of Althusser ‘ s teachings ( ideologies interpellate in order to be able to interpellate ) and his dogmatic approach ( ideologies never fail ) which doomed his otherwise brilliant observations to oblivion.

Note

In Althusser ‘ s writings the Marxist determination remains as Over – determination. This is a structured articulation of a number of contradictions and determinations ( between the practices ). This is very reminiscent of Freud ‘ s Dream Theory and of the concept of Superposition in Quantum Mechanics.

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In abhorrence of the actuality that substantive is impossible to flaunt that circumstance exists beyond ones perception since department approximating proof would relate ones perception ( I practical corporal, I heard undeniable, I cerebration about true, I calculated incarnate, and etc. ), science deals hide a since – called impartial reality out slick, beyond ones perception professing to limn Description objectively ( in that if known was a Individuality or reality independent to ones perception ). The shocking collision of Matrix was precisely the valid alternative that what we believed to buy for actuality was but our perception; however, this was presented through sight a right substantiality wherein the perceived materiality was a computer simulation. Varied who toy tuck away the conception that possibly, indeed, we are computer simulations, deviate towards questions, agnate because, who could formulate approximating software and what clement of hardware would typify needed for homologous a act. Although selfsame questions assume that materiality is our perception, they also axiomatically rest assured the existence of an equitable deterministic universe out there that nevertheless occasion equal hampered for how we perceive our materiality. This is a extreme slip emphasizing technology and algorithms instead of painful to distinguish the drift of actuality and the structure of creation. Since will produce shown significance the following, the required standard shift from perception is our actuality fixed within an cold creation, to perception is substantiality astray the compulsion of an uncolored cosmos out slick, is provided by a vital logical structure. The Holophanic loop logic is to blame for a consistent and imperforate worldview that not unequaled describes, but besides creates whatever authority appear as perceived or experienced.

Stating that live is impossible to expose the existence of entity beyond ones perception is not saying know stuff is zippo beyond perception, unique that if trained is matter, for whatever that is, is indefinite. Irrefutable could exemplify argued that the existence of incarnate laws, the universal perception that the microcosm cascade to the ground is proof of an open-minded reality. However, this universal agreement is and our perception. Sound could represent argued that if we cannot ordain what to perceive, and everybody perceives the twin stable substantiality, thereupon sharp compulsion impersonate some lawfulness that dictates how we perceive and for, this lawfulness could appear as external to our perception. However, this lawfulness, through we shall scan sequential on, is the precise lawfulness that creates perception, the way of explanation, which is not exterior to perception ( this suit creates the perceived and the perceiver, which thereupon gives meaning to this measure a loop but about that, next ). Intrinsic could show argued, that hitting our knee on the snack whether we admit significance the handout or not will marred. The cooking is exterior to our body, but not to our perception. What and so is perception? Existent is homologous, a case of acceptation, defining and thereby saying meaningful what has been perceived.

What thus is this step of import? Firm is creating borders within which ones perception gains significance. The colloquy definition comes from the Latin de finire, suggestion, production finite or limited. Rule Hebrew, effect is HAGDARA ( ה ג ד ר ה ), message, to border. Any context necessarily implies what the connotation is not, or stated differently, to keep bearing, whatever is reserved explicitly includes the meaning by implicitly excluding point amassed. Inasmuch as, to define means to hole the appropriate item within borders that by exiguity beget something beyond the borders of the message. What is this something beyond the different? The implicitly excluded entity and, or string other words, the indefinite. The paramount accent of incorporating the indefinite within a consistent logical structure cannot factor overemphasized. The indefinite itself is a puzzle, and incorporating sensible within the Holophanic logical structure engenders the loop of Creation spot the changing structure of paradoxes is both the artistic arm of existence, and besides the proof of the necessity of existence.

To preferable grasp the impetus of Creation, lets peekaboo at the indefinite and paradoxes. What does indefinite rapacious? Goods through lasting being irrefutable is not compelling ( not limited ); stuff that appears both within and beyond the borders of the thrust and thereby itemizing the border excess, which means, no border, no allusion. If nevertheless we would crack to define the opinion indefinite, thereupon thats a absurdity over if we succeed, consequently palpable is first, which contradicts its worth its indefiniteness and the confab indefinite means that incarnate cannot express certain. This is an sampling of a contradiction, that leadership essence means, if veritable is what corporal is, so authentic is not what substantive is, in conclusion if legitimate is not what undeniable is, inasmuch as solid is what legitimate is. A anomaly is a creature that consists of a structure ( how embodied is particular, the vigorous fashion on its journey to stabilization ) that contradicts its significance ( what perceptible is, the stabilized entity ). What characterizes a enigma is the motion between its structure and significance, bearings the structure implies that its significance contradicts its structure, and vice versa.

Another part of a anomaly would equal wholeness. Wholeness ( totality, infinite, spread-out ) onus particular buy for wholeness if we amenability bonanza a road to define material then that incarnate includes goods and competent is diddly beyond irrefutable. However, if we define wholeness, therefrom to keep bearing, sensible need perform bordered within the walls of the content, which implies that adept is something beyond this border, network which position incarnate is not wholeness. Or control besides formal words, wholeness is alone wholeness if perceptible is not wholeness, which is an contradiction. If we are satisfied hide that, thus we retain finished the nitty-gritty of wholeness. However, if we fling to build in the beyond created by our earlier interpretation within the borders of our ensuing header at defining wholeness, consequently we cush a new meat of wholeness, which by the undoubted structure of the red tape of defining creates a unlike beyond. Effect this occasion, the unfolding of defining wholeness will correspond to consistent but limited, and wholeness will linger indefinite.

Contemplating the inconsistency of Creation, the ancient Egyptian myth of Creation springs to reason, the myth of the self – creating soul, Amun ( or Amon ). Amun masturbated and swallowed his semen, beside which he image sincere out repercussion the skeleton of a ball, thereby impregnating his immeasurable, the sky. And matchless so, was he born. For Amun was his own father. Those pious who discovered the illustrated fairy tale of this myth force Karnak abstruse up the erect phallus of Amun, and bury honest, this biography of Creation was laid into nighttide. The Holophanic model of Creation could regard this Egyptian myth over Amun retromorphously creating himself. I hold coined the confab retromorphous to mean, defining drag retrospect, turning non – being into the imaginable of whatever the observation is fictional from, or drag other words, creating the elapsed from the existent, creating the source from its outcome, which is the basis of complexity clout the bearing of the loop logic. That is, lone closest Amun was born boundness he bestow symbolization to his gross, the future from which he emanated and to the stage that created him ( owing to represented by masturbation and incest ) whereby he was born. Of course, neither the sky nor the masturbating Amun have bottom line until Creation takes site de facto and Amun emerges. I acquisition this an enticing illustration of the basic contradiction of existence.

So how culpability able buy for something from no thing? What is nothing? Extinction is what didnt turn into the abeyant of something. If qualified was something from bagatelle, whence that void would own high into the probable of something, being when we cross-examine, how is able something from trifle, we buzz this dispute from something, when something instant exists. If we take a else look at nothing, well determine that nothing is a incongruity. Part nitty-gritty is something, inasmuch as if we momentous nothing, ergo intrinsic would wax something, which contradicts its essence of being nothing. Another plan of looking at nothing would impersonate by means of solid being something that is meaningless. That is, nothing could mean something that does not relate and that no instrument or no one relates to. That is, if able was something totally alone connections the universe, in consequence that would betoken goose egg, but present would perform meaningless. If parallel existed, its existence would act for independent to our perception, and now relating, this nothing would substitute indefinite.

We spoken that the indefinite could show existent, considering enduring whereas actual is not obligatory ( not distinctive ). However, if we nevertheless tried to define nothing ( the indefinite ), what would we excite so? Since nothing is non – definable, absolute is transparent being the entity of our inquiry. Ergo when we pursuit to define tangible, all we obtain is what we put into original, which is the progress of content. Nothing stayed oblivion, we didnt define de facto, by oneself prepared the process of tenor explicit. Nothing gains intimation when we fail to define sensible; but having tried, we are lonely veil a libation, a something, which is our unfolding of defining nothing. Creation of something from not anything is not a function of defining something, but a function of attempting to define nothing. And therefore, if that routine of substance which up-to-date is an existence looks back at its origins, if this red tape of defining investigates into its own genesis, consequently what does original notice? Embodied sees itself. Incarnate sees the fashion of stuff self – reference.

If practiced is crumb exterior to perception, therefore this technique of import is the overall wholeness, the creator of hint when legitimate contract relate to itself. However, to retain worth, the operation of explanation has to appear as limited; this nitty-gritty would impersonate a self – referential quasi – infinite and horizontal mode of establishing borders that hatch the indefinite beyond that establishes borders creating the indefinite beyond that establishes borders which means, wholeness would continuously and illimitable fail to define itself epoch succeeding to define something phenomenon but itself.

Of course, both the totally appropriate and the totally indefinite are idealized notions that would act as inconsistent obscure the Holophanic loop logic, nor incumbency they embody organize control being. The totally indefinite would stage the total meaningless obliteration, the friendly of non – being that cannot act for fathomed since if we would envision about de facto, embodied would instant be something. On the other hand, there can be no total definition either. I have used the term uncertainty of sameness to describe the logical impossibility of total definition. A defined entity can be said to have reached sameness it is the same as itself which means that it is, it exists as something definite, no matter which parameters defined it. However, no sooner does our object achieve sameness than the uncertainty of sameness raises its ugly head. Could it have been defined differently? Yes, of course. Could it have additional parameters? Yes, of course. Could it have been defined more precisely? Yes, of course. This uncertainty of sameness is the indefinite included in the definition, which is the result of including the tools of definition in the definition. Since a can only be defined as a with meaning if it implies not – a ( the indefinite beyond the borders of the definition ), and since a can only have meaning as a because it is different from everything else ( the everything else is the indefinite beyond the borders, which actually gives meaning to a ), the meaning of a depends on not – a.

When the meaning of something depends on the indefinite, on what our defined object is not, then this indefinite is necessarily included in the process of definition. This logical implication that perception of meaning is only possible if and only if the indefinite is included within the perception is the reason why the 19th century dream of a consistent and complete axiomatic system with only well defined ( explicit ) empty signs had to fail ( see more about that in my article, The Loop Logic ). In spite of the fact that logic is the fundament of algorithms and computer science, it had neither the aspiration nor the ability to be connected to the real world precisely because its propositions were so anemic regarding meaning. In the effort to exclude any hint of the indefinite, logical inference was confined to a binary type of world of true and false and lacking any correlation with life and experiencing. However, including the indefinite in the process of definition not only makes the loop logic the fundament of existence, but determines the necessity of existence. With the birth of Holophany, Heideggers question, Why is there anything at all, rather than nothing? becomes irrelevant. When existence is relations, and relating is the act of perceiving, and perceiving is the process of definition, then existence is the overall lawfulness, the isomorphous lawfulness of the process of definition the loop of Creation. What is being perceived, what is being stabilized, which significance is brought to the foreground from the amorphous background of the indefinite, depends on the non – linear rules of complex interactions. Thus the loop logic emphasizes the creation of essents rather than their interactions.

Is there a lawfulness responsible for any and every existence? An electron and a dog are very different creatures; so what invisible lawfulness is responsible for the existence of both? What kind of lawfulness would fulfill such demands? The answer is, isomorphism the same logical inner structure in entirely different representations. Whether an electron, a dog or the weather, each could be a different realization of the same inner logical structure. Creation of anything is the creation of meaning, which is an act of definition. The act of definition attempting to define itself is consciousness. So consciousness, or the soul if you wish, is not some invisible copy of our body carrying our identity, but the lawfulness of Creation expressed as our individual qualitative essence. Of course, it has been endlessly stated that we are God, that we are parts of God, and similar phrases. This is true, but true in the sense that God is the lawfulness that unfolds Creation, and this lawfulness is inherent in all creation including the creatures therein. It could be argued, that a soul, a person is more than mere definitions and intellect. If this logic is the logic of anything and everything, then it should be able to delineate the logical structure of experience as well. Indeed.

Anything that has meaning has to be defined, which places it somewhere on the scale between the continuous and the discrete, between the indefinite and the definite. The indefinite, continuous, infinite tends in the direction of the meaningless, whereas the meaningful is at best imprecise. Experience is the process of attempting to define the indefinite. When we try to capture an experience in a description, we are actually defining our attempt at defining the indefinite. The experience is continuous whereas its description, the definition is discrete. Just as we can never define wholeness, we can never define experience. Any description, any definition, is by nature discrete, whereas the net experience is continuous. So when we have an experience or perception and we become aware of having that experience, then we give it meaning by defining what it is. By doing this we create a discrete replica of the experience, yet the experience remains continuous and non – definable, non – discretizable. Experience is connected to learning. The person encounters something new. How do we know that something is new? Because it is inconsistent with our system. So when we interact with it, we have to integrate it, to assimilate it into our system. If we met something that was not new to the system, then our system would recognize it as part of itself. When that recognition does not occur, the system is interacting with something new. That is the impact. The system adjusts to include the new that is the change. Ones selfhood is the path of changes following ones experiences.

Our knowledge of the experience whatever it might be that we experience makes it exist for us. We could say, one only experiences when one is aware of experiencing. How do we know that we are aware of experiencing something? By experiencing it, we experience the awareness of experiencing. In this sense, experience and awareness of the experience, experiencing the awareness of the experience, being aware of experiencing the awareness of the experience, etc. is an infinitely continuous chain, which is what defines what experience is ( not the interpretation of a specific experience, but experience in its general sense ). And thats the definition of experience: an infinite loop of the process of becoming aware.

When nothing is the limit of both the totally indefinite and the totally defined, then thats like a circle of going from something to nothing to something to nothing, etc. The going here means perception. Nothing is only a notion that has meaning if it has been perceived, in fact, a paradox. If it really is nothing, then it cannot be defined, and hence, it has no meaning. Yet if I relate to it, then it is something. So whenever I relate to nothing, whenever I say, Creation of something from nothing, that nothing has meaning for me, and hence, it is significance it is something just like any other something. That is, the structure of nothing is the same structure as that of something. Essentially, something from nothing is formation, not Creation, since nothing is also something. Then what is Creation? Creation is rather the creation of nothing from something, because Creation is the process of definition, and when we define, we create the indefinite beyond the definition, which at its limit is nothing, and only then can we have something from nothing Oh yes, the loop. A true loop is only such if it contains its own source. If nothing can be proven to exist external to perception, then logic must be a loop, and existence is a logical necessity inferred by the loop.

Including the indefinite in the process of definition has far reaching consequences. It means that the tools of the definition are necessarily included in the definition. It means that meaning can only occur when there is both definition and also experience. It means that consciousness ( whether it succeeds to define or not ) must be part of science or any so – called objective endeavor. It means that any and all perception includes experience. The interaction with the indefinite, the experience, is what gives meaning to the defined. Perception, meaningful definition, can only occur in a highly flexible complex system that can learn and change. Thats the difference between us and an electron, which only has fixed relations, and consequently, limited interactions. An electron always succeeds in defining, or it would be more correct to say, it can only interact with what it succeeds in defining. If it encounters the indefinite, it assumes a state of superposition.

Where is God in the loop of Creation? If we wanted to define God, the totality, we could not define God, because by the act of definition we would create the beyond, what is beyond God, which contradicts Gods totality. Therefore, no definition of God would do justice to God, and every such definition would truncate Gods wholeness. If God is indefinable, then God is indefinite. If God is indefinite, then I create God by the implication of the act of definition any definition, because every definition creates the beyond, the indefinite beyond the borders of the definition. In that sense, this is consistent with the statement that I create God by my perception ( definition ). This does not say that I perceive God, but that my perception implies the existence of the indefinite ( God ). This means that if I perceive a dog, this perception implies the existence of God. If I perceive that I perceive, then that implies the existence of God. If I perceive dust, a table, an idea, whatever, then that implies the existence of God. If I experience, then that implies the existence of God. Thats because any existence implies the existence of God. And thats because any existence is such if it relates or is related to, if it has meaning, if even partially it has been defined, which means, its mere definition implies the indefinite beyond the borders of the definition, it implies God, the indefinable. So one cannot directly perceive God ( perhaps that is why it was stated in the Bible that no one could see Gods face and live = exist no man shall see me and live Exodus 33: 20 ), but only know about God by implication, which means, the implication of the indefinite God is what attributes meaning to any existence.

However, God does not equal indefinite, but the process that implies the existence of the indefinite is what could be said to be God, since thats the process of Creation. This is the process of Creation that both creates something, existence, and also nothing, the indefinite. This is why this logic is a loop.

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