when you perceive - and ask the question -
the philosophical question - what do I perceive? -
the answer is of course reflective - after the fact -
and is what?
the idea that we can speak of the image of an object
and the object itself (the ground
of the image)
what is - what is perceived
both these dimensions - are the result of reflection -
after the fact -
and this reflection is necessary for knowing - knowledge
is not all knowledge - reflective?
and my point here is that the awareness of x (as it were
pre-reflective) is pure and undefined - in that it is
non-reflective -
the experience is without knowledge - pre-knowledge
the awareness - I say is noumenal
this is not quite the Kantian sense - in that Kant
I think regarded the noumenal as analytical - or reflective -
and the phenomenal as the presentation
here I suggest the noumenal is the presentation
what is presented is the unknown
reflection - and the phenomenal?
do we want to say here that the phenomenal is reflective -
post presentation -
yes I think so -
my idea is that -
the connection of things - even persons and non-persons
(perceivers and their objects of perception) - would be
included here - is - purely existential - primitive -
any definition of this is after the fact and - reflective
so pure experience is of the unknown
is noumenal
mind - enables the reflection that is experience -
that is knowledge
the world reflects in mind
the mind reflects the world
it is not hard to conceive a world without this -
reflection
no experience - no knowledge
it is this world - the unknown that we are fundamentally
connected to
the mind is the reflection of this
the reflection - after the fact - of connection -
of - existence
so the philosopher's stone - the unknown
NB
it goes without saying that this argument is an
argument of reflection
it is - as it were a reflective return to the
non-reflective
paradoxically - if you like - a return to the
ground of reflection - the ground of mind
it is to say we can know - that the basis of the
known is the unknown
knowledge - knowing it's origin - its reason -
is not knowing the inside of itself - it is
knowing the outside of itself - what it is not -
the unknown
