Quote from Intelligence and Spirit (Reza Negarestani, 2018)

Intelligence and Spirit (Reza Negarestani, 2018) “Put differently, the limits of the objective description of the human in the world are determined by the transcendental structure of our own experience. The limits of the scientific-empirical perspective are set by the limits of the transcendental perspective. But what are these transcendental structures? They include any and all of the structures—physiological (e.g., the locomotor system and neurological mechanisms), linguistic (e.g., expressive resources and internal logical structure of natural languages), paradigmatic (e.g., frameworks of theory-building in sciences), or historical, economic, cultural, and political—that regulate and canalize our experience. These transcendental structures need not be seen separately, but instead can be mapped as a nested hierarchy of interconnected and at times mutually reinforcing structures that simultaneously constitute, regulate, and constrain experience. If we were to imagine a Kantian-Hegelian diagram of this nested hierarchical structure, it would be represented by a nested hierarchy of conditions and faculties necessary for the possibility of mind: [Sensibility [intuition [Imagination [Understanding [Reason]]]]].”