Hey guys have just finished a lecture on Merleau-Ponty (M-P) and have some questions. It has come about that M-P implies that all consciousness is relational to the world as it is fundamentally linked to the body, which is within the world. However, I was thinking that to deduce mathematics in ones mind, does not necessarily have to relate to the outside world, as we can all conceive numbers and equations without subscribing it to an object within the world. Is this not what Descartes did? Surely we can therefore argue that consciousness is not necessarily relational?
Paul Geddes
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Thanks Paul. A good point well observed. Mathematical consciousness would be of a sort that is without content. Do you think such a point about consciousness is possible? Pure number would be absolutely abstract and without embodiment in the physical world. If there is consciousness, it has to be incorporated or be directed beyond itself? What do you think?
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