the syntheses of habit forming

 GILES Deleuze REFERS TO THE the syntheses of habit, we find bodily, desiring, and unconscious “contractions” which unify a series of experiences, extracting that which it to be retained in the habit and allowing the rest to be “forgotten” ach passive synthesis is serial, never singular (there is never one synthesis by itself, but always a series of “contractions,” that is to say, experience is ongoing and so our habits require constant “updating”);

Deleuze always held the critical axiom that the ground cannot resemble that which it grounds; he constantly critiques the “tracing” operation by which identities in real experience are said to be conditioned by identities in the transcendental.

Deleuze will reject the notion of the possible in favor of that of the virtual. Rather than awaiting realization, the virtual is fully real; what happens in genesis is that the virtual is actualized.

ere is not less but more in the idea of the possible than in the real, just as there is more in the idea of nonbeing than in that of being, or more in the idea of disorder than in that of order. W

(at the most basic level, for instance, the series of taste contractions is related to those of smell, sight, touch, hearing and proprioception); he aim of philosophy is not to rediscover the eternal or the universal

whereas identity is the condition of possibility of thought in general, it is difference that constitutes the genetic and productive principle of real thought.

proclaims this as a bald thesis

1. perception or awareness of the position and movement of the body
2. transcendental empiricism