Friday, May 13, 2011

Material Causality, Motility, Spatialization

As Levinas proposes, Interiority is Sameness, and Exteriority is Alterity. Hence, any transition from Interiority to Exteriority constitutes a Diversification of Sameness. Now, Motility--e. g. Will, Impulse, execution of Intention, etc.--effects a transition from Interiority to Exteriority. Thus, Motility constitutes a Diversification of Sameness. But, as has been previously proposed here, 'Diversification of Sameness' is a definition of Material Causality. Thus, Motility is an instance of Material Causality, i. e. it is the fundamental experiential mode of Material Causality. Furthermore, since, as has been discussed, Externalization is Spatialization, the structure of experiential Material Causality is Spatialization. Inversely, since Temporalization is Internalization, as has been discussed, Material Causality is not merely a-temporal, but, more accurately, counter-temporal. One important implication of the classification of Motility as Material Causality is to oppose it to traditions for which it is either an instance of Efficient Causality, e. g. for Newtonian Physics, or one of Teleological Causality, e. g. for Behaviorism.

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