Thursday, July 11, 2013

Active Memory, Conscience, Proprioception

Corresponding, according to Nietzsche, in the Genealogy of Morals, II, 1, to Active Forgetfulness, is an "active" "memory of the Will", which, as he further argues, in GM, II, 2, is the origin of "conscience", not to be confused with "bad conscience".  However, the proposed correspondence does not hold, since, according to his own analysis, that Active Memory is the product of training, whereas Active Forgetfulness can be only internally generated, independent of all antecedents.  Likewise, as the product of learning from one's past mistakes, Conscience is not easily distinguishable from Bad Conscience, as the general argument of GM II requires.  In contrast, in the model that has been proposed here, Conscience originates as Proprioception, i. e. as the intra-organic homeostatic counterpart to Motility, with respect to which Nietzsche's 'active memory', 'conscience', and 'bad conscience', are all derivative processes.

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