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Nothing to get hung up about: Strawberry Fields
Nothing to get hung up about: Strawberry Fields
For baby Nathan, time is not experienced as it is for us. Heidegger asserts that my experience of time is dependent on my nature as a Dasein, A Dasein is that sort of being which recognizes that it's own being is an issue for it. Dasein can ask the question: "What the f..k am I doing here, on this planet?" (to sorta paraphrase Heidegger) and "Who am I?". Dasein also recognizes, at some point, that his/her/its time is finite, and so time becomes meaningful for it/her/him. (Isn't it funny how Martin H. can refer to a Dasein as an "it"? Dasein is of course always an "is"!)
For the baby, there is no recognition of himself as Dasein. He hasn't yet asked the question: "Who am I?" At the same time, there is no experience of time, in the way I/we experience it. When things are going well -- he's at his mother's breast, for example -- there is no question of beginning and/or end. Similarly, when things go wrong and he begins screaming and complaining, there doesn't seem to be any recognition that this anguish that he's experiencing may and will come to an end soon -- he'll be fed, or his diaper will be changed, etc.
Having no experience of time means that in his world there's nothing to get hung up about, nothing to ideologize, to fixate upon, no one to totalize, no ideological position to attempt to adhere to. It's truly Strawberry Fields. At their worst, and their best.
At some point, he'll have an experience of time, and will be able to ask questions concerning the ongoing nature of things.
In the meantime, he just experiences. Pure, unmediated experience. No attempt to create a trace, a systematic reflective narrative. Nothing to get hung up on.
Did Piaget get that?
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