Phil & Cons

In a nutshell, this song stresses is the ideal of sublimated love—inescapable as it has no purpose. We can only contemplate it, revere it, and ultimately, surrender to it

It is the same as the monk standing before the sea in Friedrich’s painting

This song of Stevie Wonder evokes the idea of beauty. But it also evokes the Kantian idea of sublimity, particularly, of physical sublimity. The sun that ceases to shine, the sea that threatens to consume everything, the day when all will vanish. In the face of this, all we can do is surrender.

The judgment of beauty—of the beauty of loving—has no purpose; it is purely contemplative. It may also involve the contemplation of the sublimity, of the abyss. Such a judgment is typically reflective.

The reflective judgement is the judgement "als ob"/"as if". Stevie Wonder presents the love (for his beloved) as something universally valid: comparable to God's love, love in nature, the laws of Physics and gravity, and even the idea of eternity.

The reflective judgment appears in the "Critique of Judgement" and it is oposed to the determining judgement. While both judgements seek to unify the particular and the universal, the reflective judgement steams for the particular and elevates to the universal.

The great song "As", by Stevie Wonder, is the ultimate song about the Kantian reflective judgement.

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Just like Herzog's Grizzly man or Aguirre der Zorn Gottes

Reality prevails in every aspect of life: everyone waits for the white smoke as a gull regurgitates a rat to feed its young.

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In psychoanalysis too, uttering the source of the hidden trauma, putting it into words, may partially deactivate its effect.

“La Dispute” (by Yann Tiersen) is a profound reflection on art and its healing power. By repetition, suffering, initially painful, progressively becomes the theme of joyful variations, and transforms into nothing more than an aesthetic leitmotif.

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What is it like to have an experience of being in/between reality??

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Remember, all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more.

Neo: And how will I know that you are not fooling me?

Morpheus: This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

YouTube video by cyanide98765 Solaris Full Highway Scene

It is also in Tarkovsky's highway scene.
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It is part of this substantialism that permeates popular culture, religion, psychology, and sociology.

But the idea of a substantial ego is unnecessary, and perhaps even counterproductive.

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The somehow confusing idea of all of us possesing a substantial ego, an hypokeimenon, lying beneath conscious experience, is beautifully protrayed by the image of the passenger in the car.
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Archspreading

But opening a bakery in your neigborhood is not behaviorally scalable (if everyone does it, the outcome may be catastrophic). However, it is not morally reprehensive for this reason.

Stealing is not behaviorally scalable, so it is morally reprehensible.

You cannot apply it to concrete behaviors, such as going to the cinema at 8:00 PM, or opening a bakery in your neighborhood.

This rule is only applicable in the case of abstract behavoirs, such as killing, robbing, being impolite, lying...

Do just what can be behaviorally scaled to the maximum.

The Kantian categorical imperative is just behavioral scalability.

The butterfly in the last scene of Heretic remains us of this chaotic effect that challenges the notion of iteration offered by the character of Hugh Grant.

Parvus error in principio magnus est in fine

In the "last time" iteration the first and the last song have nothing in common, even though they belong to the same iteration.

This means that tiny changes make big differences.
Paruus error in principio magnus est in fine.

YouTube video by shortrax The Staple Singers - This May be the Last Time

To illustrate the relevance of those tiny twists, I will offer another iteration example. Here I will coin it the "last time" iteration:

The Staple Singers
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Rolling Stones
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Andrew Oldham
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The Verve
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