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Question: Can you help me with Kant's Epistemology!?
I would first like to say i did not come up with this, but i would like to pass on the question!.
Kant sometimes refers to "things in themselves" and/or "things in relation to consciousness" implying that one cannot perceive reality because it is done through a specific identity, its consciousness!. I believe he says that consciousness should not have identity to perceive reality!. I am wondering what can perceive reality in Kant's philosophy!? How can something without identity exist!. Even a God, if he existed, would have to have a certain consciousness or identity!. How coudl this God perceive reality if it is done through his consciouness!? Wouldnt that be "in relation to his consciousness"!?
It seems a lot of philosophies make this flaw in their basic Epistemology, or maybe you dont see it as a flaw and would like to explain how it isnt!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
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The old lack of an ideal observer, oh well what can you do, oh and I think it was an understatement to say that many philosophies are flawed by this problem because I can not thing of any that are not, only those that claim that a transcendence is possible but can a being experience a transcendence from the subjective confines of its own consciousness!? Perhaps, but I do not see how it would help those of us that are not able to do so!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Kant based his mature philosophy on epistemological awareness!.
He assumes (red flag) that knowing is putting together of data stream impressions!. In effect, we as intelligent germs lift ourselves by our own autopoietic feedforward!. A!. N!. Whitehead has a similar, if more profound, approach, in his concrescence and Monadic Dyadic Triadic process!.
So, Kant promotes the "grown up germ" notion of "reason," but stops short of investigating e!.g!. Swedenborg's demonstrated clairvoyance, as he cannot find spacetime causation to explain e!.g!. Swedenborg's statistically significant contemporaneous narrative description of a unique event occurring 100s of kilometers away!.
The red flag assumption of Kant is that his level of awareness is the standard for epistemic logic, not e!.g!. a Swedenborg's level of awareness!. By so delineating the epistemic question, Kant begs the epistemic question!.
You indicate a presumptive "reality" apart or distinct from "God!." This is not considered the case in so-called "expert testimony," where "the LORD our God is One God!."
In this latter system, God is eternally Being, and Reality is, in e!.g!. Plotinus' "One Mind Soul" system, the Energy-Form dynamic unfolding, undistorted by erring iniquitous experimentation--this latter erring = energy-veiling, e-veiling, eviling!.
To reach this "Pure Ego" Being level of e!.g!. Husserl, one generally follows protocols of purification which claim state-specific levels of awareness beyond "mere kantian 5-sense data streaming" which latter builds, Wittgenstein "Tractatus"-like Bilden into sensory awareness levels into organized ideas into concepts and theoretics!. This latter kantian epistemic presumes classical mechanistic process, etc!. (which in fact are not the reality at finer levels of physis)!.
It is worth noting that true mentation does not follow Kant's somewhat idee fixe classism!. Brain scan studies indicate a widespread "neural networking" rather than a kantian Turing machine/digital computer model, at levels of ideation and conceptualization!. Brain scan studies clearly show distinct categories of mentation, including lower beta qua kantian ratio, and higher gamma qua insight and creativity ("Meditation for Beginners," Dr!. Jack Kornfield)!. To presume to parse epistemics for e!.g!. high gamma wave mentation, from lower beta wave state, is a category error clearly demonstrated by modern brainology!.
An interesting series of experiments regarding intentionality and biofield quantum influence is given in "Psychoenergetic Science," Dr!. William A!. Tiller, http://www!.tiller!.orgWww@QuestionHome@Com