Being / Knowledge --> intuition/rational - simultaneous/sequential - Varela

By being here I mean, for the purpose of this discussion, the same as experience, sense-of-self

or direct-knowledge. By knowledge I mean the same as description, nomological net, logical

discourse. I take it that this Star is closely related to two other stars we have mentioned before

intuition/rational – simultaneous/sequential

In other words, and again for the present purposes only, the qualities of being can be thought

of as perceived by intuition: better than by discourse, and in a simultaneous whole, rather

than in piecemeal approximation in time. I also take it that being should be on the left side of

the Star, insofar as introspection says that it is out of this background of being that thought

occurs, it is the archipelago of ideas in the giant sea Page 67 of feeling and experience.

Similarly I assumed that intuition is the earth from which discourse can be built, and to where

it eventually returns.

So much for the general characterization of what I mean by this Star: being/knowledge. Note

now that knowledge is habitually represented as much more corrigible than being. Effectively.

however, it is the case that both sides mutually specify each other and that every knowledge

requires a certain level of experience and vice versa. In other words there is necessary balance

(stability, complementarity) in this Star (just like in any other Star). My claim is that it is this

balance which is the key to a fresh understanding of the M-B relation.

In other words, if we represent mind as conversational pattern, this does not mean that there is

a corresponding experience of this larger whole; experience is usually kept at the subject side of

the computations in a conversational pattern. (Accordingly, those who favor the so-called

Identity Theory of Mind-Body relations search for neural states that could be related to

consciousness).