Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Will, Diversification, Negation

On the Formaterial analysis, the awareness of one's situation, and the self-activation by which one exceeds that situation, involve two distinct mental operations--Consciousness and Will, respectively--which can seem to be one process, because of fluidity of coordination. In contrast, Sartre conflates the two, when he asserts that Consciousness negates its object. Furthermore, while 'x differs from y' entails 'x is not y', 'x diversifies y' does not entail 'x negates y', because the latter is equivalent to 'x obliterates y'. In other words, Formaterialism regards Sartre's notion of active 'Negation' as an inappropriate rendering of 'Diversification'. Thus, Formaterialism regards its formulation 'Will diversifies experience' as an improved version of Sartre's 'Consciousness negates its object'.

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