[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for your wonderful and informative essay-post, dearest sister in Christ!

The Heraclitus quotes very quite interesting.

It seems to me that apperzeptionsverweigerung is closely related to Cicero's aspernatio rationalis, or "contempt of Reason [Nous]." I also see the kinship of this idea with the Greek word anoia: "folly, oblivion, [I'd say 'to be out of one's mind' in modern parlance]."

I very strongly agree. Such a person would simply be going through the motions of physical life (action/reaction) like a primitive life form, a biological robot.

[betty boop]

... like a primitive life form, a biological robot

A "biological robot" indeed, a human being reduced to a machine, as part of a still larger machine.... Deeply troubling. It seems many are prepared to sacrifice their own humanity to the "findings" of metaphysical naturalism.

Thank you so very much for your observation, dearest sister in Christ, and for your kind words of support!