The thing is that unlike many other animals, humans are able to imbue the observable or experiential processes with meanings. All our conscious being in the world is relative to our brain's capacity to form a narration, to remember. In the end what we are left with is narration of experiences, not the experiences themselves. This is a narration of living in a big city. This is the legacy of my mind and my thoughts, so shut up and behold.
poniedziałek, 14 października 2013
środa, 9 października 2013
glorious bastard
I read this passage recently.
Does man think, then, because he has found that thinking pays?—Because he thinks it advantageous to think? (Does he bring his children up because he has found it pays?)
What would show why he thinks?
And yet one can say that thinking has been found to pay. That there are fewer boiler explosions than formerly, now that we no longer go by feeling in deciding the thickness of the walls, but make such-and-such calculations instead. Or since each calculation done by one engineer got checked by a second one.
So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.
It's from a book I was given for my birthday by that guy. That book meant a lot to me as does a lot of other things but it's not an epitaph, so I'm not going to jabber about all that. Maybe let's just not get mawkish in public, shall we? This one time? Right.
I just wanted to say thank you for all the thinking we've had together (very epitath stylah!)
aaaand...
CONGRATULATIONS on getting a job at the uni you lazy often-bearded animal food trough wiper!
You have lived off my taxes but only so long!
Logicise their heads off and math their brains out! I know you can. I know you will.
May my state give you grants aplenty and may you never have to do any actual work (since you're getting good at it and it would be a waste of talent)!
Seriously,
Mazel tov, Mikey!
PhD (among other things)
Does man think, then, because he has found that thinking pays?—Because he thinks it advantageous to think? (Does he bring his children up because he has found it pays?)
What would show why he thinks?
And yet one can say that thinking has been found to pay. That there are fewer boiler explosions than formerly, now that we no longer go by feeling in deciding the thickness of the walls, but make such-and-such calculations instead. Or since each calculation done by one engineer got checked by a second one.
So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.
It's from a book I was given for my birthday by that guy. That book meant a lot to me as does a lot of other things but it's not an epitaph, so I'm not going to jabber about all that. Maybe let's just not get mawkish in public, shall we? This one time? Right.
I just wanted to say thank you for all the thinking we've had together (very epitath stylah!)
aaaand...
CONGRATULATIONS on getting a job at the uni you lazy often-bearded animal food trough wiper!
You have lived off my taxes but only so long!
Logicise their heads off and math their brains out! I know you can. I know you will.
May my state give you grants aplenty and may you never have to do any actual work (since you're getting good at it and it would be a waste of talent)!
Seriously,
Mazel tov, Mikey!
PhD (among other things)
niedziela, 6 października 2013
looking forward
once owned, now free
watcha still looking for?
do you miss your past glory?
or your friends?
or being taken care of maybe?
everything that ends, ends
somewhere
somehow
wtorek, 1 października 2013
facing the inevitable
having asssumed a truly anthropological position Olga is dreaming of the brave new world awaiting out there but she needs to watch out
although she's finally got a driving licence her soon-to-come MA in psychology will not make dreaming any easier
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