A Spiritual History of Creation and Extinction

• A spiritual history of generation and extinguishment Living a never-ending mind
• Shimonishi, Fusumi.
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Programming in Logic

• Introduction: Metaphysics of Mind and Metaphor
  • The Self-Evident Mind: The Archaeology of Foucault / The Mind that Speaks / From Metaphysics to Metaphor / Mind as Mirror / The Origin and Coming of Artificial Intelligence
  • The position that the mind is an “invention”. - type of dramatic recitation accompanied by a shamisen (associated with the Japanese puppet theater) : Human being is a way of being created by the knowledge forms and institutions of a particular era → disappears when the era changes: “the end of human being The End
    • This book follows how the mind was invented
    • Foucault’s “l’homme” is translated as “man”, which of course differs from the Japanese word “human”.
      • It” is “a way of being created by the knowledge forms and institutions of a particular era,” so it is naturally different in different languages and cultures.
    • Tetsuzo Watsuji
      • Concepts based on “human” and “person-to-person” relationships
      • ↔ Heideggerian man living as a lone man.
    • Similarly, the concept of Mind in the English-speaking world is strongly associated with reason and consciousness, but the ancient Japanese “Kokoro” is not.
    • Richard Rorty “Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature”
    • Pointing out that philosophy has not eliminated metaphor, that it is not a “logical analysis” but a “projection of images”.
    • If the history of philosophy is not a “history of argumentation” but a “history of metaphor,” trace the transition of how metaphors were created and transformed.
  • mirror metaphor.
    • The heart is a reflection of the world.
  • type of dramatic recitation accompanied by a shamisen (associated with the Japanese puppet theater) “man was invented” roti “the mind has co-evolved with the images that man produces” Dreyfus. “When Plato reduced knowledge to a methodological procedure by claiming that ‘virtue can be taught’, the way of intelligence leading to artificial intelligence was established.”

Part I: The West

• Chapter 1: Invention of the Mind

  • Homer --- Gods and Nature
    • When there was no mind / God - mind - nature / Mind like wind, body like animal
    • Socrates --- The Coming of the Age of the Mind
    • Invention of Mind --- Socrates and Plato / Controlling Mind / From “cure” of soul to “molding” of soul / First collusion of self and mind / Mind as information processing system / Creation of mind and anxiety

• Chapter 2: Reinventing Consciousness and Modernity - Descartes --- lonely, flickering heart - The Direction of My and the World’s Existence / From Soul to Consciousness / The Flickering Mind - Pascal (Blaise) --- A crazy mind with no access - Socrates’ Miscalculation / The Age of the Godless Mind --- Pascal’s Anguish / The Infinite Universe and the Infinite Mind / From Cusanus to Pascal / Reformation and Inner Madness / The Rolling Mind --- Leisure and Consumer Society - Kant --- Mind as empty form - Software of the Mind / Mind Conditions and Rules as Form and Function / Kant and Cognitive Science / Kant and the Brain / One and Nothing Mind

• Chapter 3: A Fraying Heart - hussar --- Philosophy of Consciousness - The Zero Point of Perception / Flowing Consciousness --- Perception in Reverberation and Premonition / The Relaxed Ego --- Away from Descartes / The Body, the Other, and the Living World - Heidegger --- Philosophy of Man and Network - Walking in Circles / Two Heidegger Images --- Death and Tools / Radical Unlocking of Consciousness --- Tools, Moods, and Life / Consciousness Returning to Life and Networks

• Chapter 4: The Mind in Cognitive Science

  • The Birth of Cognitive Science --- Language, Neurons, and Subjectivity
    • The Formalization of Language and the Desire for Logic / Nerves and Computers / The Ghost of Subjectivity
  • Varela --- vital heart
    • Starting Point for Cognitive Science / Embodied Mind / Dimensions of Life --- Circuits of Action and Circulation / Sensor Motor Subjectivity / Brain --- Body --- Environmental System / Between Life and Man
    • Merleau-Ponty. --- The heart that cuts
    • The Fall of the Kantian Model of Consciousness / The Sensor Motor Behind Existence / Intruders into Ambiguous Consciousness / The Philosophy of Flesh / In a World Where All Things Wrap Around Each Other
  • Appendix: Life Resumes
    • The Performing Mind --- Francisco Varela

Part II: Japan

• Chapter 5: The Emergence and Development of the Japanese Mind
  • Mythological Origins and the Primordial Mind
  • From “Manyoshu” to “Kokin Waka Shu” --- From Words to Heart
    • From “seeing” to “thinking” --- the eyes of the body and the eyes of the mind / From “hybrid nature” to “informational nature” / From “message” to “negotiation” --- the changing relationship between nature and mind / Possible worlds and technologies of mind / Doubling the possible worlds and reality
• Chapter 6: Natsume Soseki’s Suffering and Utopia
  • A heart torn asunder
    • Soseki and Modernity --- Virtual “Nature” and Difficulty of “Subject” / “Kusamakura” and “Agubincho” --- Mountain, Spring, Sleep / Psychosomatic Problems in “Miner” --- Others, Group, Civilization / “Sorekara”, “Mon”, “Higan” --- Whirling Mind / “Gyojin” --- Thought of Madness
  • Soseki, Bataille, Jun Eto
    • Jun Eto and Bataille / Soseki’s Body / “Mei An” in Farewell
  • Soseki and cybernetics?
    • Soseki’s View of Nature --- From England to America / Whitman, James, Ginsberg / Soseki’s Scientific Theory of Consciousness / The Call from the Whole
• Final chapter: Diffusion and Concentration
  • Diffuse mind --- Concentrate mind
  • AI as a self-portrait?
  • The Never-Ending Heart

Epilogue: In Reply to the Postscript

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