Comments on: Two cultures http://www.peterdsmith.com/archives/2007/07/12/81/ Kafka’s mouse Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:46:36 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: PD Smith http://www.peterdsmith.com/archives/2007/07/12/81/comment-page-1/#comment-32 PD Smith Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:14:15 +0000 http://www.peterdsmith.com/archives/2007/07/12/81/#comment-32 Hmm. I see your point. I agree this is a problematic how-do-we-know-what-it's-like-to-be-a-bat kind of statement. But surely there's something liberating in acknowledging that ours may not be the only view of the way things are...? Hmm. I see your point. I agree this is a problematic how-do-we-know-what-it's-like-to-be-a-bat kind of statement.

But surely there's something liberating in acknowledging that ours may not be the only view of the way things are...?

]]> By: shannon http://www.peterdsmith.com/archives/2007/07/12/81/comment-page-1/#comment-31 shannon Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:40:28 +0000 http://www.peterdsmith.com/archives/2007/07/12/81/#comment-31 I found this interesting: "A new humanism should begin with a modesty cure, perhaps by abjuring the very arrogant concept of humanism, which places the human animal as the central reference point for all of existence." Really, could we have any other reference point than the one that comes from our own consciousness? I don't think we can. From this reference point comes the reason for both science and literature--our search for answers on our origins, our motives, where our future will take us, etc. They are just two different tools used to dig for the same answers, as far as I can see. I found this interesting:
"A new humanism should begin with a modesty cure, perhaps by abjuring the very arrogant concept of humanism, which places the human animal as the central reference point for all of existence."

Really, could we have any other reference point than the one that comes from our own consciousness? I don't think we can. From this reference point comes the reason for both science and literature--our search for answers on our origins, our motives, where our future will take us, etc. They are just two different tools used to dig for the same answers, as far as I can see.

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