A thought is not what it thinks about but is artificially identified with what it thinks about

By Charles Brown “My dialectic method is not only different from the Hegelian, but is its direct opposite. To Hegel, the life process of the human brain, i.e., the process of thinking, which, under the name of “the Idea,” he even transforms into an independent subject, is the demiurgos of the real world, and the real world is only the external, phenomenal form of “the Idea.” With me, on the contrary, the ideal is nothing else than the material world reflected by the human mind, and translated into forms of thought.” - Karl Marx https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/p3.htm Perhaps to Hegel , the Idea is Language - Culture - Tradition- Custom - Religion -God , which derives from many generations of brains’ perceptual experience in objective reality or derives from those experiences as reflections of the material world into memories in many brains in the form of words . The Culture is a demiurge , or Natural Soul ( not supernatural, though it does give a certain finite immortality to dead generations through their words ) for individual living brains . The external world is not literally the same thing as the Ideal ; BUT humans conceive of the external world in the form of ideas or identifying ideas with the external world . _The_ human mind is the accumulation of language by and in many brains in communication with each other . A thought is not what it thinks about . The Idea ( a culture , a tradition, a language) is not what it is an idea about . Ideas and thoughts are in the form of words , symbolic signs - signs with an arbitrary relation , not necessary or natural relation , between signifier and thing signified. Words are not what they represent, not what they refer to . Words are artificially identified with what they represent, with their meaning . They are not really what they represent . Saussure : the word “donut” is not a donut Charles Brown : thus , by the word donut living generations can know about the tradition of dead generations eating donuts , because though the donuts are eaten and gone , the word “ donut” is not gone because it is not the donut . A word is not what it represents. A word poses as identical with what it represents. So, Use of language is a unity of opposites : identification of something with something it is not ( by definition of a word or symbolic sign ). For humans , most things, objects , processes , are identified and shaped by the words that represent them . Language , symbolic signs , mediate our perception of objective reality . Is this Hegel’s sense of the Idea alienating itself as nature ? ( as I believe he says ). The Idea is a Language or a Culture -Tradition-Custom. All human individual brains or subjectivities or consciousnesses relate to objective reality or experience or perceive or practice in objective reality through words, culture , by conceiving of it in language . In other words ( speaking of words ), the Idea as brain cells does not create objective reality like a 3-D printer , but humans only cognize and act in objective reality in ideas , words , sentences , paragraphs, books , libraries, songs , the World Wide Web. Words are invented by large numbers of individual brains , dead mostly and living ( now dead not dead when they invented the words . ) in the course of their practice in objective reality . So, another rational , truthful kernel in the objective idealists ,Hegel and Plato , is that for human individual brains -subjectivities , pretty much everything in their objective world is known to them clothed in ideals-ideas -words. The ideal and the real are _not_ each other , but are a unity of difference, a sameness of differences, unity of opposites. This is Hegel’s famous unity of subject-object , a unity of opposites. Remember words are constituted of the experiences of many generations of brains not just the brain of the individual thinking , perceiving and practicing in objective reality . Like Isaac Newton , all humans stand on the shoulders of giants , are scientists. Individual only observations of reality, ignoring the experiences an Individual shares with many other individuals through words , as the basis for scientific discovery is the error of positivism-empiricism .

Walter : “We need to get a 60% position in both the House and Senate to make the Republicans irrelevant. Then some of them will even cross over. “ CDB: Be a People’s Lawyer. Advocate for Democrats. We must be critical of Republicans. Gotta get straight to the bottomline of the whole sausage making process: it was the Republicans. The two Democrats in the Senate were a tiny fraction of the Democrats. Overall the Democrats should be voted for. Can’t get votes for them by criticizing them . Republicans are by far the main problem. Yes two blue dogs are the margin of difference, but that’s not Biden’s fault ! From the news you’d think it’s Biden’s fault. Plus Biden has 3 more years when he can get more . What’s going on is a reason to vote in more Democrats . The media is a distorting drama Queen .