‘We see things, not as they are, but as we are’: a phrase credited to Anais Nin, and to Judaism. How is it that we are? – That is, ‘as we are’ means what, in regard to ‘seeing things’? We are sensing, seeking, making, sense-seeking-making mammalian multicellular metabolisms in membranes with memories, with ‘sensing’ becoming ‘sense’ by iteration as material molecular metabolic meaning-fullness. We make meaning, we mean. Meaning-fulness is inherited-inherent so intendent in human beings, in human-being, in being human. Humans see themselves as intelligent. ‘Intelligence’ means simply ‘reading into’ and ‘choosing among’. What is being read into and chosen among by humans is meaning and meanings and meaningfulness. Minds are meaning-making means, media, modes, of the brains bodies bring forth.
Brains are presumably an excess of various environmental materials > metabolites that get deposited/reposited at the edge of our bodies. This is the case with all structural aspects of bodies, if we look tautologically not teleologically. So brains can be seen as accumulative fatty deposits at one end of our central spindle, that like fat deposits over the rest of our body turn out to continue live/life and contribute in various ways to our ongoing metabolism. All aspects of our bodies can be considered from this happenstance position and perspective: bones, skin, nerves, lungs, circulations (NB calling circulations systems may seem to perpetrate and perpetuate a teleological account into a tautological, unless a careful clear distinction of systemic from systematic is made). All characteristic mammalian multicellular features can be seen as iterative depositions of metabolic by-products at the edges of cells/membranes, registering and replicating axis polymorphies of cellular metabolism including membrane-and/as memory-making in environmental conditions under metabolic constraints at mega-multicellular scales and scopes.
In this view DNA also can be seen as expressing a material memory of metabolic meaningfulness made by metabolising in species-specific patterns of cellular metabolic processing in particular material environments. Genes become tautological/ly emergent by-products of metabolism, rather than as currently seen, an essential/ly teleological morphic blueprint to be realised in metabolism, as in the central modern dogma, genes copy only one way. Instead, the entire material-molecular metabolic-morphic meaning-making membrane-memory medium-mode could be seen as fractal iterations with fracted itinerations of a central tendency or propensity to sense sense in experienced iterations. The issue then is one of making the sense we sense consistent across senses, on the grounds that that is not only likely to be how it is, but actually how it is, that is, it is experienced iterations and the experience of iterations that we experience in fracted degrees of similarity and familiarity despite variability as sensed sense, our intendent ‘essence’ and the essence of all the entities that emerge to our experience from our environment of as yet unattended-to sensed sense.
Of course, this account is me/my making meaning out of metabolising existing meanings, metabolising my current meaning environment, sensing and attending to emerging aspects of all the meanings in my experience, seeking a view, a position – procept, prospective, proscape, prospect – through and by which to reconcile and resolve parallaxes.
(Next: How meaning-making works might be something like this…)
