Alterity, Anomaly, and Corporeality and Corporealization

 Alterity, Anomaly, and Corporeality/Corporealization

The following is a draft/super-rough sketch of a re-organization of my philosophy of mind and phenomenology; I'm partially publishing this unfinished because I just need to get these ideas down first so I can come back and correct myself soon. The most important take away, I feel, is the reconsideration of death as a phenomenology. Essentially, I asked myself how our phenomenological perceptive sense experience could itself occur, to which my answer is corporealization. Corporealization is the 'explosion' of sense experience enabled by any body (which is Corporeality); everything has a corporeality but corporealization is not necessarily realized through PPSE in all things. Thus, PPSE is a theory of mind, while corporealization is (almost?) an ontology.

   When we think about Death-Consciousness, we can then analyze it through the PPSE occurrence (i.e., "does consciousness exist after death?") or (and frankly more interesting, IMO) we can analyze death through it's corporealization. TO make sense of this, we often think of Death and Life being diametrically opposed: this may indeed be the case that they are, but what this does not necessarily mean is that Death and Consciousness are diametrically opposed. For example, we experience a 'non-experience' all the time. Peter Watts has a great example when he talks (on multiple different occasions he says this, im not gonna look for a source) about how our brains go on 'auto-pilot' when doing things and consciousness is what our brains use to solve problems that it cant do automatically (like solving a math problem vs driving home from work, for example). I also am thinking of Heideggerian philosophy here in that nothingness is still 'experienced' in some way (he, or other Heideggerian, might totally disagree with that but I'll go further into detail a different day).

    All of this is to say that death cannot be assumed to be the 'lack of consciousness' or experience or perception or whatever because this lack also occurs in what we think of as 'life.' So thus I'd say we must open the possibility that death is not limited to non-consciousness just as life is not limited to 'experience.' On a similar note, if we adopt an ontology similar to how Sartre and Levinas argue against solipsism ("the world is created from the interaction with the other"(something like that)), and I'd even go further to say that death is not the antithesis of consciousness, but of subjectivity. This is where my theory of the Necro-Hallucinatory-Anti-Experience begins: that which is diametrically opposed to our consciousness cannot be nothingness but only the corporeality tied to that explosion of PPSE-Based Corporealization as that is the removal of all Subjectivity leaving us only with anomaly/animalterity of the Other-realization of experience: Anti-Consciousness. I call it hallucinatory because it can only be these 'experiences' plastered onto a wall that doesnt exist which is like a hallucination i think. Essentially I'm also thinking that this is similar to the idea where "the opposite of Love is not hatred but indifference" but almost the other way around, because I think the idea that death is nothingness and that anti-consciousness is non-experience is wrong as it still takes fundamentals of our 'current' (i.e., "life") experience and applies to the antithesis of life. I'll make an update post where I go over some terminology in more detail ASAP.