"Hyperobjects are nonlocal: they do not manifest at a specific time and place but rather are stretched out in such a way as to challenge the idea that a thing must occupy a specific place and time."
In the same post he notes HOs cannot be perceived directly and that they create their own time. Hence they do exist in a specific time and space, albeit self-generated, but the fact that we cannot perceive it is not evidence of its non-locality, only of our inability to locate it in our limited space-time frame of reference. His first claim to non-locality smacks of a shentong prejudice that implies some kind of transcendent realm and/or consciousness as foundation for the whole shebang. Granted my thesis is not evidenced by this comments in the referenced post on HOs but garnered from my criticisms in the thread on how he mixes his shentong with his OOO.
As to Morton's shentong view, see his
essay on Hegel
and Buddhism. And his
blog post on the subject. See the extended IPS discussion on
hyperobjects that began on p.
81 and ran for several pages, nothing how Bryant and Morton
differ on this. And my relating Morton's shentong to his view on HOs.
E.g., the following post from p.
84:
“Morton and Bryant's views don't
merge completely. So one question is this: Do hyperobjects not have
boundaries that define their autonomy like smaller objects? Granted
they are non-local in comparison to smaller, more local appearing
objects. And yet examples like climate, class or capitalism still
have their own boundaries. They still have a part-whole mereology,
even if that mereology is strange, where the boundary defines the
whole object within its endo-structure. So why is there an exception
for Morton, with no boundary here?”
And from p.
86:
“Morton's 'the particle doesn't truly
exist' seems to contradict Bryant's firm statement in the absolute
singularity of the smaller-scale object. It is but an implicated
relation to the hyperobject, the latter being 'really only one
substance modulated in different ways."'Bryant is particularly
(pun intended) critical of that sort of monistic goo. Hence you also
get Bryant's disagreement about non-locality being 'in time,' whereas
for Morton it transcends time with simultaneous communication across
space-time since they really aren't two distinct particles but of one
thing.”
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