Flannel Jesus wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 9:21 pmWhy is it hard for you to just be up front with this information?
Like you, I am grappling to understand the human brain/consciousness/self-consciousness/"I" given what I am unable to fathom definitively about this...
All of this going back to how the matter we call the human brain was "somehow" able to acquire autonomy when non-living matter "somehow" became living matter "somehow" became conscious matter "somehow" became self-conscious matter.
I merely take it back further by noting the gap between this and what we are not privy to regarding the very existence of existence itself.
Yes, it is truly fascinating to think about these things. Philosophically. Scientifically. And the overwhelming preponderance of men and women around the globe don't. Instead, they leave all this stuff to the ecclesiastics...to God and religion. To the theologians.
Me, I am no less "fractured and fragmented" regarding the Big Questions "out there" than I am conflicting goods "down here". It's objectivism that I take aim at.
And it's the objectivists that are often most inclined to make this all about me. My frame of mind threatens the comfort and the consolation they sustain in imaging that they are in sync with the Real me in sync further with The Right Thing To Do.
And the Right Way to think about things like this.
No, this time -- click -- really think about it.
Nature to iambiguous:
You took the words right out of my mouth.