The Haircut
My brain is like a lawnmower which has been in the garage all winter, and it doesn’t start too easily. Oh, there are times when I am up all night with anxiety, but that is chatter, and chatter, is, by and large, the result of too much self-consciousness. Let meContinue Reading
More Than We Know
There is always qualia available, ready to reveal itself to us, when we need it. It may be hidden by our usual landmarks and pathways, by the habit of not having had to seek it. It may be beyond our immediate landscape, in someone else’s landscape, and we must journeyContinue Reading
Change
Anybody who has ever played around with an idea knows how one’s sense for that idea evolves over time. In addition, the idea itself evolves over time, too. Furthermore, the landscape of the brain, the neurolandscape, evolves as well. In just the same way, as our animal ancestors in theContinue Reading
Momentary Gods
Ernst Cassirer gave the name momentary gods to the things that fortuitously come to our rescue. He mentions a man during a time of drought who discovers a hidden spring, and for some time after this, his tribal family respects that spring as if it were a deity – aContinue Reading
Self-Consuming Ideals
Ideals arise from our interpretation of what our senses send us from the outer landscape. We taste a blackberry off the vine – how close is it to perfectly ripe? Ideals are self-consuming artifacts: eventually, we let go of them. Ideals are no longer necessary once their purpose is achieved. TheyContinue Reading