Note 157

What is art? It is the isomorphic simulation of the soul finding its completion.

Note 156

In the end, we do not choose our fates. Our fates choose us. So do we not have agency? No: the fates have agency over the present. The future chooses the present. The opposing logics of cause and reason intersect within the paradox of time. Time is the coincidence of cause and reason.

Laws of cause and reason are given outside of time. But they are applied through each other in time, which just is their application.

Abstraction is the transcendence of cause and reason. It is negation without basis. Therein it is the basis for everything.

Note 155

3 kinds of real:
1) Projection
2) Cause
3) Thing-in-itself

Facts are not out there in the world. Facts are projections of the mind of things out there in the world to guide the mind in referring to patterns out there in the world. The correpondence is a positing of equivalence between the projection and the phenomena we observe. You cannot derive this equivalence from observation or deduction. Its not verifiable. This is not guided by derivation but by rules which are pragmatic.

Note 154

Civilisation as the intersection of past material as well as ideational technology and the concepts of agency defining the future.

Social concepts are given meaning through their orientation to conceptions of agency in the present in relation to the boundaries of past and future.

In this way the public and the personal conceptions of conditions of agency blend into each other through the construction of identities and institutions.