Hey guys, whats up?
Hope I’m not too late for this topic. I want to jump in on the debate over metaphysics in Earwa and also the Kellhus is deluded thing.
First, I'm trying to get a handle on what you guys are arguing about related to metaphysics.
… In our world, we can speak of 'metaphysics' as something dealing with the soul that we don't believe in except as a metaphor, contrasted with the biological mechanism that is the body and the mind it fools itself into thinking it possesses. To the characters in tSA, though, there's no distinction, just as there wasn't to our own ancestors (and this is the point I think Bakker is trying to make throughout the series). In a sense, there's no such thing as 'metaphysics' to Earwans; it's all just 'physics'. The soul and sorcery and life after death are as real to them as rocks and trees and human bodies. Analysing Earwa from a 21st century scientific-materialist perspective is, IMO, a fundamental error.
But metaphysics is a thing to some Earwans. And the same goes for our ancestors.
Look at the philosophers of Earwa. Ajencis, for example, wrote books called The Commerce of Souls, Meta-analytics, and Theophysics. It seems very clear that those three books would all at least touch on metaphysical inquiry.
If Ajencis can analyze the metaphysics of Earwa then can’t we do that same?
The soul and sorcery and life after death are as real to them as rocks and trees and human bodies. Analysing Earwa from a 21st century scientific-materialist perspective is, IMO, a fundamental error.
Your implication is that the distinction between the two is a directly connected with our frame or even that metaphysics itself is a product of our frame. Metaphysics is not a product of the scientific-materialist frame. It is within the domain of the philosophical frame. How can you even have physics without the possibility of metaphysics?