Beings of Sounds

Characteristics of Living Beings

Heidegger’s Metaphysics of Material Beings

Heidegger famously draws a distinction between the present-at-hand and the ready-to-hand, also sometimes known as the distinction between occurents and equipment. Some entities are ready-to-hand: they are tools, objects of use, cultural products, things of value and significance. Examples include hammers, doorknobs, books, can-openers, and pinball machines. Some entities are present-at-hand: am...

The deaths of human beings.

In ‘When Does a Human Being Die?’ Schofield et al. present a definition of death focused on the ‘final denouement’ of human beings as biological organisms. Their view is such that the moment of death occurs ‘when the last process in the collection of bodily processes that maintain homoeostasis finally cease[s]’. Whilst this definition avoids certain conceptual problems there are difficulties wi...

The Relations of Living Beings

I N the preceding essays* we have considered the relations of living beings to space (as revealed to us by Palreontology) and to timeas shown us by organic geography. The inter-relations of living creatures, as enemies, as rivals, and as involuntary helpers, constitute 1\ third department of Hexicologyt not less interesting than the two others already treated of. There is one very general inter...

Representations and Inhomogeneous Beings

Beside the regularly applied concepts (e.g. neuron, brain, sign, representation, code, sense, experience, perception, etc.) an additional collection of concepts (entities, interaction, border, inhomogeneity, dialectics, necessity and contingency, freedom, historicity, acquaintance and knowledge, culture.) is proposed for the better understanding mind and cognition. An anti-Parmenidian ontology ...