dude literally said "it's not possible to have self-consciousness without it involving mediation through language" and hasn't backed it up with a single thing
Thats generally how Marxism works just dogmatically pronouncing something is true
@exiliaex ...but...most animals have language...do they think language is "When Words"???
@exiliaex not to mention the consciousness is an unproven claim itself tied to Freudian psychology with no genuine scientific basis. ofc the marxist is feudian
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My philosophy teacher in secondary school said animals were not self conscious, and the young me had an objection:
- I can make my cat yawn if i yawn in front of him.
- What do you mean?
- If my cat sees me yawn and that makes him want to yawn doesn' t that imply that on some level it has to recognize in me a conscious agent analogous enough to him that it makes him want to yawn too? I don't see how that could work if he is not somewhat conscious of himself as one.
- That is just an automatism.
- But automatas don't act upon irrepresible impulses to imitate other living beings around them, do they?
She dismissed me as if it was a ridiculous idea but by that point most of the class was on my side and she was pissed. She was also VERY catholic.
@exiliaex Honestly, it should be expected by now that it'll be the marxist who takes a position of little analysis and presupposes everything to die on a stupid hill. Similar happened on the topic of schools... actually, that one was worse because some didn't want to be *connected* with anarchists lol
of course it's the marxists acting up, too