jbml thln 92: the meaning of this book is
TRIVIALIZED
IF IT BECOMES NECESSARY
TO EVALUATE THE SCIENTIFIC TRUTH
OR FALSITY OF JABÈS' CLAIM,
"You are silent, I was; you speak, I am."
Moreover, Benveniste's analysis of personal pronouns makes the intersubjective argument that human language permits shared under-standing through its access to inherently subjective, non-empirical experience.
This is not to advocate any program of anti-rationalism, but to allow for the coexistence of that which can be demonstrated by evidence-based reasoning and that which cannot, without reducing either to ridicule by insisting that it masquerade as the other.
The maximalist empiricism associated with Rudolph Carnap's logical positivism and B.F. Skinner's behaviorism are no longer in favor, but the extreme reductionism that forces all experience into the domain of observable, scientific phenomena continues today in the search for genes that "cause" love, poverty, and religion.
Another curious notion - known among fabulists of artificial intelligence - is the proposal to accelerate evolution by uploading the "memory content" of a human brain to a robot that will replace the human so that "he" will experience the continuation of "his" life through this engineered medium.
Asih, man, 80 jaar
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