01 March

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Presentation, Speech and Workshop plans

Presentation material at PCA Conference to be held on April 16th at Philadelphia
https://www.academia.edu/42081774/Anime_Study_Madlax
The latent linkage between Madlax’s country and the country Margaret is living in is indicated by cut back, though there is no direct mention to it other than the name Vanessa’s computer accidentally displayed on the monitor. Myriad hints seem to have been charged everywhere, but it is not clear whether any integrating perspective axis is going to function to gather theses together. Madlax frequently utilizes cutback, to describe various events occurring simultaneously in parallel lines. But the explanatory description about the association between each of the scene has been intentionally omitted. Viewer’s concern is naturally focused on the prospect how individual perspective richly filled with detailed representations of fictional reality should be unified by means of higher meta-perspective. It is the highly speculative consciousness aware of the fictionality of literary works, that the hyper-natural directing tactics are trying to appeal, which demands the audience grope for perspectives a fictional work may present and set up logical inspection onto the phase structure of them, viewers of quite antipodal mind-set to the ones of non-reflective emotional structure, who tend to confuse fictional world with real world.

Speech to be given at the Asian Studies Conference to be held on April 17th at Bowling Green, Ohio
https://www.academia.edu/42106075/BGSU_Asian_Studies_Conference_Speech
New discoveries I have gained show how ingenious visual expressions adopted in the anime THE LAST UNICORN reflect the profound theme hidden in the original novel and indicate the principle that is supposed to rule the universe to the extent of enfolding both the spiritual and the material in a continuum phase space.

The transcendent essence of the primordial archetype often manifests its form in quite different appearances when materialized in the phenomenal world. According to Marie=Louize von Frantz, who made great contribution in developing Jung’s philosophical ideas at C. G. Jung Institute at Los Angeles, “shadow”, being materialized out of subconscious, sometimes assumes a satanic hostile figure and sometimes reveals itself in a very friendly and favorable appearance as if bringing some sort of graceful revelation. This suggests the inversion principle similar to the principle of “coincidentia oppositorum,” that Nicolaus Cusanus asserted. The same inverse doctrine is found in the Chinese philosophy of Lao‐tse and Chuang‐tse which forms the spiritual basis of many Eastern cultures including Japan .

A subject of consciousness is able to construct various speculations and delusions, free from mechanical domination restricted in the workings of physical existences as science advocated as its systematic basis. The power of speculative thinking that is able not only to reconstruct information of perceptions and emotions gained through physical experience and disposing them in a series of events in a similar manner to the description of one’s recollection, but also to envision possible worlds surpassing the limits of phenomenality after the guidance of imagination inspired by free will, must be linked with the essential modality of the universe at the metaphysical plane.
If free will is admitted and intuition fulfills its function in the grasp of the intrinsic principles for the generation of phenomena, teleological implication of fictionality must be asserted as trials of original world making performed by consciousness through secondary creation of worldview.

Workshop lecture plan 1: to be given on April 20th at Bowling Green, Ohio
https://www.academia.edu/42107245/BGSU_Workshop_Anime_Study
Madlax asks Nakhl, “Why did you save me?” Nakhl answers, “I don’t know.” “That’s a lie.” “You’re right, it’s a lie.” Nakhl applies the implication of her own words she had told to Madlax, to herself this time. She answers, “You’re right, it’s a lie. I acted according to my internal conviction.” “Tell me.” Nakhl put her hand on Madlax’s face, saying, “You already know yourself. So there’s a reason for you to exist here. I was convinced of that.” Nakhl is acting following after the internal conviction that is neither reason nor instinctive urge. Madlax now understands the implicate order[i] of the universe hidden in herself. “A reason to exist. A reason for me to exist… That’s right. I can’t die. Because I made a promise. Right now, just because of that promise…” The conversation between Nakhl and Madlax seems to suggest the principle of establishing self-identity this anime asserts through its background proposition. It may be considered as some kind of destiny wave affecting both the function of consciousness and the spatio-temporal structure of the universe, as well as guaranteeing the existential ability of fictionality that is a purely idealistic method of description of possible worlds, and also is the result of the ability of free will that is the source of its generation.
[i] This concept was first raised by David Bohm introducing the term “Pilot wave”, in order to solve the logically ununderstandable result of “double slit experiment” reasonably, making it conform to existing terms of physics, but later, several researchers of consciousness have discovered the function called “retro causality” in the argument of this element, developing the idea Bohm had started. One of the leading scientists who advocate this theory is Bohm’s disciple Jack Sarffatti, who tries to explain Bohm’s “destiny wave” as the effect caused from the future, extending the idea of “oneness” to the temporal dimension of the universe.

Workshop lecture plan 2: to be given on April 20th at Bowling Green, Ohio
https://www.academia.edu/42106349/BGSU_Workshop_--_Real_Entity_Revealed_in_the_Phase_of_Nonexistence_The_Unicorn_and_Coincidentia_Oppositorum
Marsilio Ficino, Neo-Platonism philosopher of Renaissance period, attempted to understand the evolution of universe as a process of autonomous contemplation on itself undertaken by primordial intelligence. This interpretation interestingly applies to the big bang theory, now accepted as the main explanatory theory of modern cosmology. Renaissance philosopher Francesco Patrizi speculated the metaphysical principle of the universe as self-division process of intelligence attempting its own dissimilation and assimilation in order for contemplation on itself.
As for the surprising relationship between the shared idea of contemporary Japanese subculture and Patrizi’s concept on the mechanism of division and reintegration undertaken by intelligence in the process of its own autonomous evolution, I have applied the idea on the argument of the psychical mechanism ruling the phase shift between god and man, depicted in the anime Ergo Proxy, in my study “Science, Science Fiction and Speculation: God, Man and self”.
This cosmological vision is supposed to have started from the pre-Socratic Eleatic philosopher Parmenides’ idea of “emanationism” developed in his speculation on the mechanism of world creation, long preceding Platonic idealism. Nineteenth century American thinker Edgar Allan Poe attempted to gain integral cosmological view in his speculative poem Eureka, comprising extensions both out of space-time and mind-matter limits, focusing on the powers of attraction and repulsion in the phases of diffusion and conglomeration encompassing all conceivable expanses. His speculative view interestingly foretold the ideas of both big bang and big crunch suggested in modern cosmology. As Poe asserts for himself, intuition gave him this conviction in the deepest part of his mind, without depending on the result of integration out of discreet information accumulated from experiments and observations, or the conclusion of deduction processed from axioms. It is the concluding assertion of the theories such as “Fundamental Awareness” and “panpsychism” Post Quantum Mechanics proposes, represented in this typical instance of big bang cosmology; that the mysterious coincidence ancient philosophers seem to have gained in their essential comprehension of the deepest aspects of the universe long before the time of Poe or contemporary physics study, without resorting to the knowledge quantum physics has attained based on the achievements modern science has elucidated through many experiments and observations, can be understood as the result of interactive working between mind and all-pervading space-time continuum field, through the spiritual faculty of intuition. Following these thinkers’ visions presupposing the existence of universal awareness as the first cause of creation, many clues are to be proposed to solve the hard problems of philosophy concerning qualia generation and free-will’s ability of constructing speculation, on the extension of perspectives conforming to physics methodology.
It is a very significant fact that The Last Unicorn introduced the motif of magic as the universe’s implicate operating factor that causes actual phenomena. Magic that comes to and goes away from men’s domain, ruling men’s activities unrestricted by the mechanistic rule of cause and effect, is a latent power sometimes reveals occasions of synchronicity and sometimes gives men internal conviction as daimonion had afforded to the mind of Socrates. This mental function may be understood as a core subject of cosmology suggesting some kind of hidden variable that prompts the overall evolution of the universe that may include such notions as David Bohm’s “implicate order” and Bergson’s “elan vital”.[i]
[i] In my anime study Unacknowledged Virtue of “The Last Unicorn”, in which I have considered the function of consciousness that intuits the fictional archetype and contemplates the primordial modality of the universe pervading many possible worlds, through the inspection of various production data of the animated film, such as scenario and story boards, I have introduced several Post Quantum Mechanics theories and argued the relationship of them with the fantasy literature subject of magic. Beagle’s magic is a metaphysically converted formula of intuition.