> What I had meant to say is that objects become symbolized through
> hypothesis and theory; though, the symbols thereby lose their object
> nature-- becoming a means for fantasizing a reality which is not in line
> with the natural action of objects.
I may eat bananas, and also worship them as a diety. But John Doe in Australia may never give a second thought to his banana slices in his morning cereal. Neither of us are going to disagree that they are generaly hard out of the box.
> Ultimately, this symbolization
> (when applied to survival) suggests that the individual might also
> negate his own objective existence for a fantasized reality.
I choked to death while kissing my banana in a bizzare worship practice. My environment set me up to do this, my neurochemistry is objective (i assume, since all it is is IS), my reality wasn't really 'fantisized,' its just the way it grew. We see the world through alot of neurons, who knows what is objective and what isn't. All we know is what others communicate to be common to them as well (I see a donkey in the cloud, you see a birthday cake, we both can find out that it is water vapor).
sorry my brain is twisted, i've been working all day,