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slow learner, draughtsperson, musician, philosophy student at the NCR&P, work in pedagogy via musical ludics, bodiless them of the void i write here: evenprometheusstartedsmall.wordpres… and music is over here: www.filipefelizardo.bandcamp.com
![a footnote in a draft of a philosophy essay:
Due to space limitations, tt is too late in the game to properly justify the use of this expression in the main text, especially given it is potentially the offshoot of a separate investigation. “Thinking body” perfectly encapsulates the materialist, or, for the anglophone philosophical community too afraid of continental philosophy, monist stance undergirding this research. As a chimaera of Cartesian res cogitans and res extensa, it pops up in Ilyenkov's Dialectical Logic, posited as the “only one single object” as opposed to “two different and originally contrary objects of investigation body and thought,” the “ thinking body of living, real man (or other analogous being, if such exists anywhere in the Universe), only considered from two different and even opposing aspects.” pdf p9 [check book pp's] Ilyenkov expands on the concept [pdf 9-24] when speaking of Spinoza's contribution to dialectics, having advanced that “thought and extension are not two special substances as Descartes taught, but only two attributes of one and the same organ”-- famously, the organ of nature. How much of a dualist was Descartes or if he was actually a monist is itself debatable, but that'd take us on a tangent. That the english translation places “thought” in the gerund is remarkable, giving it a processual undertone that points to a possible bridge with Lorenz Puntel's predicate-only, or subject-less propositions in his (perhaps excessively) language-based ontology. Though Puntel's intriguing aversion to substance-oriented accounts would put him at odds with Spinoza, Ilyenkov, ourselves, the nonetheless monist-- if properly milled and scaled, materialist-- outlook of a proposition like “it's thinking-bodying” may seed a great mass of intelligibility in a diachronic-History account of intelligence such as the one put forth by Negarestani-- in its multi-modular, scale-sensitive functionalist (that is, deracinated when and if successfully m…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:df6jzgdk6ezuukvs5izxqrzx/bafkreiertlreo5ipfuf6ufrqekzpeshlm2m3egiylzhgx3zbiexbamglce)
