My Morning Jacket sings George Berkeley

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

I admire the ideas of George Berkeley. He’s probably misunderstood. He probably didn’t think what he was saying was the absolute nature of reality in it’s precise form. He merely brought to the surface that you can be completely sane and logical and believe that the physical doesn’t exist (or more accurately, that the material [...]

Self-Awareness Experiment

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

What would life be like if you constantly were confronted by your immediate self? A better memory, maybe. By providing instant feedback, I think we’d be self-aware of everything. The repetition would at least for a time make us think more about what we are doing. If you were always reflected back to your consciousness, [...]

Superceding

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

I was thinking about thinking. Is it possible to not think at all? Or to think of everything simultaneously? I can assume it takes many cubic miles of minuscule meta-thoughts to make one coherent thought. Sometimes, (I think) I am thinking so complexly that my own brain will not understand. Those short moments when I [...]