through our brains, we have transparency to our preferences, to our will, to what we want in life. And I think Heidegger was the first one to sort of show that that's not true. He sort of reversed that 180 degrees and said, we are not described very well by thinking. We are doing things. We are engaging in worlds. And that's a different thing than sitting back and thinking through things. We can do that. We can sometimes look at objects and say, I wonder what that is. You know, and his example is, of course, hammering. So you can look at a hammer and you can say, that's a weird wooden shank with a metal blob at the end. But it's rare we do that. It's more likely that we know what a hammer is, that it's connected to wood and nails and houses and carpentry and so on. And that's the world of carpentry. And we know how to engage with objects in that way, which is exactly not the way that René Descartes or Plato or others talk about objects. So for me, he was sort of a break with a 2000 (21/57)
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