Title: Sharing the World: Nativism, Embodiment, and Metaphysical Localization
Abstract: You and I share the world in a meaningful sense that exceeds the mere common denominator of a physical space; we can interact and communicate by understanding each other’s intentions in a genuine manner. Curiously, we seem to have escaped the explicit chaos of Quine’s radical translation, building a world brimming with interpersonal systems where collaborative efforts have enabled the work on science. In this paper, I explore how it is that a person can meaningfully share the world with others, and how significant this phenomenon really is. It is my thesis that a person’s native properties and nature of embodiment strongly participate in her relationship with reality by essentially carving out an aspectual side that forms her perspective of the world. Persons share similar perspectival views of the world by virtue of the similarity of their relationships with metaphysical reality. The project is split into three movements; in the first I compose a metaphysical account of ontology and discuss how a person perceives objects and such by abstracting from within this metaphysical reality. I will attempt to demonstrate how this process of abstraction is essentially framing. The second portion of the paper focuses on what native properties and embodiment are, and how persons who possess them in likeness are metaphysically localized onto the same “band” of reality, allowing for meaningful interaction. The final segment will be an attempt to reframe the A.I. project as an attempt to create silicon brothers local to our metaphysical existence, and its implications will be carefully considered. This could be construed as an ambitious project, and I may fail to give an adequate treatment of the subject. Time constraint and my technical inadequacy will restrict me to sketching my proposal in broad strokes, but it is no matter. My concern will be to convey a rough, original idea that is meaningful, potentially productive, and significant to our sense of existence.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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