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13 August 2005:
I ended yesterday's entry with the opinion that "poetry exists because it can provide certain worthwhile human experiences at a higher level of emotional intensity than anything else can." I had previously written that it exists because it is more effective at expressing certain things worth expressing than any other form of expression." I think that true, but decided it didn't only outdo other human procedures at what it could do but Nature, as well. I won't go into that yet except to say that it has to do with Manywhere-at-Once, or the creation of metaphors and like verbal constructs. Nature cannot produce such things, I don't think.
To be as philosophically rigorous as possible, let me also say that, of course, poetry exists because human beings exist. Ultimately, then, to explain why it's here, one must explain why human beings are here. I unoriginally propose that human beings are here because the nature of our universe and its laws makes the formation of life inevitable, and life, once existent, makes the formation of human beings inevitable. To be 100% accurate about it, then, I must say that poetry exists because the universe in the form in which we know it exists. The question as to why that should be so is a null question--to descend to one of the boringly elementary Absolute Truths of philosophy (and non-philosophy, for that matter). We only ask why a certain X can lead to a particular Y. Asking where the X came from, ultimately, leads to an infinite regress, which is to say that it cannot be answered. There is no final why to anything. The universe exists because the universe exists. Only ignoramuses and verosopaths will refuse to be satisfied with that.
Okay, I hope that with that I've gotten the area of discussion bare of everything but my "ground-statement," as I think I'll call it. Tomorrow, some attempts at more advanced thoughts.
Now, briefly, a digression, to put a new word of mine into the record. It's "awariality." uh WARE e AAH lih tee. Meaning: the state of having awareness. It is the second of the two, and only two, components of existence, in my philosophy, the first being materiality, or the state of having substance. Yes, mind and matter. Important note: by awareness I don't mean "communicable awareness" or some kind of "intelligent awareness," I mean simply an area in which matter can make itself known. There is at least one standard word for this, but I forget it--and like my word better.
It would seem that awariality and materiality are inseparable although anything awarial but not in touch somehow with something material would, in effect, be blank--as would anything material not in touch with something awarial. . . .
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