Mind Transformation 436

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Wolff’s lectures: 6, 7. Ferguson, Engvid, Kant.
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d – 30, g – 40, b 20/3, c 30/2.
The subject of today’s contemplation is gonna be the ‘transcendental unity of apperception.’ At first, I wanna say a couple of words about why I’ve chosen it. Before starting the note, I was thinking about all things which I’ve got through during the day. Among these things were the concepts of ‘good and evil,’ ‘right and wrong,’ ‘life and death,’ etc. Every time when I tried to think about these stuff, I very quickly got to the point where there was nothing interesting to discuss and then I shifted to another theme. At some moment I said to myself, ‘Wait a minute, what if I just take a theme and, without thinking about it, start to write everything that pops to my mind?’ So and here I am: the first thing appeared in my consciousness was ‘transcendental unity of apperception,’ and now I have half of the page to say something about it. As it may be expected it’s not an easy thing, and I have to actually exert my mind quite a bit to find something worth to put down here. Well, let’s start with a trivial question like that: How multiplicity of experience becomes the unity of the self? In other words, what exactly is the self? I’m going to oversimplify it and say that the self is pure memory. Why not? Something that holds all things together and has an access to everything that an organism has experienced may as well play the main character in the universe as for example the so-called ‘imaginere’ or anything of that sort. But what is memory? How it works? What do I know about it? Of course, I can look for an article in Wikipedia, but I want to think—not to get answers. No doubts, I can describe what I understand by memory, but now I’m interested rather in how does it possible that we have such a thing. Oh, Kant.

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