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. Source Text

Friedrich Schiller, "Eleventh Letter" in On the Aesthetic Education of Man: In a Series of Letters, trans. Reginald Snell (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1994).

. Application

MicroSoft Word v.X for Mac

. Document Contents

.0 Schiller

.1 Microsoft

.2 Term Clusters, Layered

.3 Operation Sequence, Parameters, and Count: Find and Replace

.0 Schiller

When abstraction mounts as high as it possibly can, it arrives at two final concepts, at which it must halt and recognize its limits. It distinguishes in Man something that endures and something that perpetually alters. The enduring it calls his person, and the changing his condition.

Person and condition—the self and its determinations—which we think of in the absolute Being as one and the same, are eternally two in the finite. Throughout the persistence of the person the condition changes, through every change of condition the person persists. We pass from rest to activity, from passion to indifference, from assent to contradiction; but we always exist, and what springs immediately from ourselves remains. In the absolute Person alone all the determinations persist alongside the personality, since they flow out of the personality. All that Divinity is, it is just because it is; consequently it is everything to eternity, because it is eternal.

Since in Man, as finite being, person and condition are distinct, neither can the condition be derived from the person nor the person from the condition. In the latter case, the person would have to alter; in the former, the condition would have to persist, and thus in each case either the personality or the finiteness would cease. Not because we think and will and feel do we exist; not because we exist and think and will do we feel. We exist because we exist; we feel, think and will because there is something other besides ourselves.

The person must therefore be its own ground, for the enduring cannot issue from alteration; and so we have in the first place the idea of absolute being grounded in itself, that is to say of freedom. Condition must have a ground; since it does not exist through the person, and is thus not absolute, it must result; and so we have in the second place the qualification of all dependent being of becoming, time. 'Time is the condition of all becoming' is an identical proposition, for it merely asserts that the result is the condition of something resulting.

The person that is revealed in the eternally persisting ego, and only there, cannot become, cannot have a beginning in time; the reverse is rather the case—time must begin in it, because something constant must form the basis of change. There must be something that alters, if alteration is to occur; this something cannot therefore itself be alteration. In saying that the flower blooms and fades, we make the flower the thing that persists through the transformation and lend it, so to say, a personality in which both those conditions are manifested. It is no objection that Man has first to become; for Man is not simply person in general but person situated in a particular condition. But every condition, every definite instance arises in time, and so Man as phenomenon must have his beginning, although the pure intelligence in him is eternal. Without time, that is to say without becoming it, he would never be a definite existence; his personality would certainly exist in potentiality, but not in fact. Only through the succession of its perceptions does the persisting ego itself come to appear.

The subject matter of activity, therefore, or the reality which the supreme Intelligence creates out of itself, must first be received by Man, and he does in fact receive it as something external to himself in space and as something changing with him in time, through the medium of perception. This changing substance in him is accompanied by his never-changing ego—and to remain perpetually himself throughout all change, to turn every perception into experience, that is into unity of knowledge, and to make each of his manifestations in time a law for all time, is the rule which is prescribed for him by his rational nature. Only as he alters does he exist; only as he remains unalterable does he exist. Man conceived in his perfection would accordingly be the constant unity which amidst the tides of change remains eternally the same.

Now although an infinite being, a divinity, cannot become, we must surely call divine a tendency which has for its infinite task the proper characteristic of divinity, absolute realization of capacity (actuality of all that is possible) and absolute unity of manifestation (necessity of all that is actual). Beyond question Man carries the potentiality for divinity within himself; the path to divinity, if we may call a path what never reaches its goal, is open to him in his senses.

His personality, regarded in itself alone and independently of all sense material, is merely the potentiality of a possible infinite expression; and so long as he neither contemplates nor feels he is still nothing but form and empty capacity. His sense faculty, regarded in itself alone and dissociated from all spontaneous activity of the mind, can do nothing beyond making him material—for without it he is mere form—but by no means uniting him to matter. So long as he only perceives, only desires and acts from mere appetite, he is still nothing but world, if we understand by this term simply the formless content of time. It is indeed his sense faculty alone which turns his capacity into operative power; but it is only his personality which makes his operation really his own. Thus in order not to be merely world, he must lend form to his material; in order not to be merely form, he must make actual the potentiality which he bears within himself. He realizes form when he creates time, and opposes constancy with alteration, the eternal unity of his ego with the diversity of the world; he gives form to matter when he proceeds to annul time, affirms persistence within change, and subjects the diversity of the world to the unity of his ego.

Hence flow two contrary demands upon Man, the two fundamental laws of his sensuous-rational nature. The first insists upon absolute reality: he is to turn everything that is mere form into world, and realize all his potentialities; the second insists upon absolute formality: he is to eradicate in himself everything that is merely world, and produce harmony it all its mutations; in other words, his is to turn outward everything internal, and give form to everything external. Both tasks, considered in their supreme fulfilment, lead back to the conception of divinity from which I started.

.1 Microsoft

When abstraction mounts as high as it possibly can, it arrives at two final concepts, at which it must halt and recognize its limits. It distinguishes in The Medium something that endures and something that perpetually alters. The enduring it calls her script, and the changing her data.

Script and data—the medium and its determinations—which media objects process of in the absolute System as one and the same, are eternally two in the finite. Throughout the persistence of the script the data changes, through every change of data the script persists. Media objects pass from rest to activity, from passion to indifference, from assent to contradiction; but media objects always run, and what springs immediately from media remains. In the absolute Script alone all the determinations persist alongside the program, since they flow out of the program. All that A Network is, it is just because it is; consequently it is everything to eternity, because it is eternal.

Since in The Medium, as finite system, script and data are distinct, neither can the data be derived from the script nor the script from the data. In the latter case, the script would have to alter; in the former, the data would have to persist, and thus in each case either the program or the signal would cease. Not because media objects process and iterate and parse do media objects run; not because media objects run and process and iterate do media objects parse. Media objects run because media objects run; media objects parse, process and iterate because there is something other besides media.

The script must therefore be its own index, for the enduring cannot issue from alteration; and so media objects have in the first place the idea of absolute system indexed to itself, that is to say of freedom. Data must have a index; since it does not run through the script, and is thus not absolute, it must output; and so media objects have in the second place the qualification of all dependent system of becoming, code. 'Code is the data of all becoming' is an identical proposition, for it merely asserts that the output is the data of something resulting.

The script that is revealed in the eternally persisting syntax, and only there, cannot become, cannot have a beginning in code; the reverse is rather the case—code must begin in it, because something constant must form the basis of change. There must be something that alters, if alteration is to occur; this something cannot therefore itself be alteration. In saying that the user blooms and fades, media objects make the user the thing that persists through the transformation and lend it, so to say, a program in which both those conditions are manifested. It is no objection that The Medium has first to become; for The Medium is not simply script in general but script situated in a particular data. But every data, every definite instance arises in code, and so The Medium as phenomenon must have her beginning, although the pure process in her is eternal. Without code, that is to say without becoming it, she would never be a definite existence; her program would certainly run in potentiality, but not in fact. Only through the succession of its perceptions does the persisting syntax itself come to appear.

The subject matter of activity, therefore, or the numericality which the supreme Process creates out of itself, must first be received by The Medium, and she does in fact receive it as something external to herself in operation and as something changing with her in code, through the medium of interpretation. This changing substance in her is accompanied by her never-changing syntax—and to remain perpetually herself throughout all change, to turn every interpretation into experience, that is into unity of execution, and to make each of her manifestations in code a law for all code, is the rule which is prescribed for her by her binary nature. Only as she alters does she run; only as she remains unalterable does she run. The Medium conceived in her perfection would accordingly be the constant unity which amidst the tides of change remains eternally the same.

Now although an infinite system, a a Network, cannot become, media objects must surely call distributed a tendency which has for its infinite task the proper characteristic of a Network, absolute realization of capacity (actuality of all that is possible) and absolute unity of manifestation (necessity of all that is actual). Beyond question The Medium carries the potentiality for a Network within herself; the path to a Network, if media objects may call a path what never reaches its goal, is open to her in her algorithms.

Her program, regarded in itself alone and independently of all algorithmic modulation, is merely the potentiality of a possible infinite expression; and so long as she neither compiles nor parses she is still nothing but form and empty capacity. Her algorithmic faculty, regarded in itself alone and dissociated from all spontaneous activity of the compiler, can do nothing beyond making her modulation—for without it she is mere form—but by no means uniting her to matter. So long as she only perceives, only desires and acts from mere appetite, she is still nothing but signal, if media objects understand by this term simply the formless content of code. It is indeed her algorithmic faculty alone which turns her capacity into operative power; but it is only her program which makes her operation really her own. Thus in order not to be merely signal, she must lend form to her modulation; in order not to be merely form, she must make actual the potentiality which she bears within herself. She realizes form when she creates code, and opposes constancy with alteration, the eternal unity of her syntax with the diversity of the signal; she gives form to matter when she proceeds to annul code, affirms persistence within change, and subjects the diversity of the signal to the unity of her syntax.

Hence flow two contrary demands upon The Medium, the two fundamental laws of her algorithmic-binary nature. The first insists upon absolute numericality: she is to turn everything that is mere form into signal, and realize all her potentialities; the second insists upon absolute formality: she is to eradicate in herself everything that is merely signal, and produce interface it all its mutations; in other words, her is to turn outward everything internal, and give form to everything external. Both tasks, considered in their supreme fulfilment, lead back to the conception of a Network from which I started.

.2 Term Clusters, Layered

Term Clusters, Layered (Schiller 1^st Order)

Being	system
Divinity	a Network
divine	distributed
Man	The Medium
person	script
condition	data
ego	syntax
self	medium
we	media objects
ourselves	media
personality	program
time	code
space	operation
reality	numericality
formality	formality
material	modulation
result	output
finiteness	signal
world	signal
ground	index
grounded in	indexed to
harmony	interface
flower	user
exist	run
will	iterate
mind	compiler
intelligence	process
contemplates	compiles
think	process
knowledge	execution
perception	interpretation
feel	parse
feels	parses
senses	algorithms
sense	algorithmic
sensuous	algorithmic
rational	binary
he	she
his	her
him	her
himself	herself

Term Clusters, Layered (Microsoft 2^nd Order)

distributed	divine
system	Being
a Network	Divinity
data	condition
signal	world
signal	finiteness
modulation	material
binary	rational
numericality	reality
script	person
algorithms	senses
algorithmic	sense
algorithmic	sensuous
formality	formality
syntax	ego
program	personality
code	time
index	ground
indexed to	grounded in
media	ourselves
media objects	we
medium	self
The Medium	Man
operation	space
run	exist
execution	knowledge
compiler	mind
compiles	contemplates
parse	feel
parses	feels
interpretation	perception
process	intelligence
process	think
iterate	will
output	result
interface	harmony
user	flower
he	she
his	her
him	her
himself	herself

Term Clusters, Layered (Schiller 2^nd Order)

Being	system
Divinity	a Network
divine	distributed
Man	The Medium
person	script
condition	data
ego	syntax
self	medium
we	media objects
ourselves	media
personality	program
time	code
space	operation
reality	numericality
formality	formality
material	modulation
result	output
finiteness	signal
world	signal
ground	index
grounded in	indexed to
harmony	interface
flower	user
exist	run
will	iterate
mind	compiler
intelligence	process
contemplates	compiles
think	process
knowledge	execution
perception	interpretation
feel	parse
feels	parses
senses	algorithms
sense	algorithmic
sensuous	algorithmic
rational	binary
he	she
his	her
him	her
himself	herself

Term Clusters, Layered (Microsoft 1^st Order)

distributed	divine
system	Being
a Network	Divinity
data	condition
signal	world
signal	finiteness
modulation	material
binary	rational
numericality	reality
script	person
algorithms	senses
algorithmic	sense
algorithmic	sensuous
formality	formality
syntax	ego
program	personality
code	time
index	ground
indexed to	grounded in
media	we
media objects	ourselves
medium	self
The Medium	Man
operation	space
run	exist
execution	knowledge
compiler	mind
compiles	contemplates
parse	feel
parses	feels
interpretation	perception
process	intelligence
process	think
iterate	will
output	result
interface	harmony
user	flower
he	she
his	her
him	her
himself	herself

.3 Operation Sequence, Parameters, and Count: Find and Replace

SEQUENCE	FIND	REPLACE	COUNT
1	Being	system	5
2	Divinity	a Network	6
3	divine	distributed	1
4	Man	The Medium	9
5	person	script	14
6	condition	data	13
7	personality	program	7
8	time	code	12
9	space	operation	1
10	reality	numericality	2
11	formality	formality	1
12	material	modulation	3
13	result	output	2
14	ground	index	2
15	grounded in	indexed to	1
16	harmony	interface	1
17	flower	user	2
18	exist	run	9
19	will	iterate	3
20	mind	compiler	1
21	intelligence	process	2
22	contemplates	compiles	1
23	think	process	4
24	knowledge	execution	1
25	perception	interpretation	2
26	feel	parse	3
27	feels	parses	1
28	senses	algorithms	1
29	sense	algorithmic	3
30	sensuous	algorithmic	1
31	rational	binary	2
32	ego	syntax	5
33	self	medium	1
34	finiteness	signal	1
35	world	signal	6
36	ourselves	media	2
37	we	media objects	16
38	he	she	20
39	his	her	22
40	him	her	7
41	himself	herself	5

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