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Hermann G. W. Burchard
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Oklahoma State University, Stillwater OK, USA
In this essay, our goal is to discover science in Martin Heidegger’s Introduction to Metaphysics, lecture notes for his 1935 summer semester course, because, after all, his subject is metaphysica generalis, or ontology, and this could be construed as a theory of the human brain. Here, by means of verbatim quotes from his text, we attempt to show that indeed these lectures can be viewed as suggestion for an objective scientific theory of human perception, the human capacity for deciphering phenomena, i.e. hermeneutics in its broadest sense. His added notes from the 1953 edition, all of which are comments, not corrections, imply that he never abandoned these thoughts on metaphysics, despite all of his utterances about a need to overcome it, and their popular interpretations to that effect. In his presentation, he further develops the colorful and intuitive style, an hermeneutic language, that he had created in his earlier work Being and Time. The logical functions of Dasein’s anatomical brain are performed by the logos machine, formerly the human soul, using top-down processing based on a global context, the noumenal cosmos which humans maintain internally. Heidegger’s 1942/43 winter semester lectures Parmenides extend in unbroken fashion his 1935 work, proving that he never abandoned, as is widely claimed, his metaphysical avenue of thought.
Cognitive gap, Perception, phenomena, transcendental Ego or Self, Prefrontal cortex PFC, parietal cortex PC, top-down processing, default mode network DMN, Language L, Universe U, Language System (or Machine) LS, Logos Machine, Noumenal Cosmos NK, Conceptual-Categorical Apparatus CCA, pre-linguistic structure pLs, internal structural-historical records ISHR, Formal Linguistic Dualism LD
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