tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post8105170097818633589..comments2023-09-25T04:26:51.568-06:00Comments on The Barefoot Bum: Confidence and doubtLarry Hamelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08788697573946266404noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-24618192305159260582007-06-03T07:39:00.000-06:002007-06-03T07:39:00.000-06:00THE Matter of the physicality of thought -- cohere...THE Matter of the physicality of thought -- coherent fields of electrons and all that -- and its endurance in Dr Hawking's light-cone' requires perhaps further attention.<BR/><BR/>Suffice it that here a consequence is that fiction (sic) is in fact as real as, say, quartz or farts -- or Mr Dawkins and Sidi bin Ladin, Goddess preserve us!<BR/><BR/>NO More so perhaps (and, from /my/ temperamental bias, alas!), but equally of course no less. <BR/><BR/>THE Gauge, or scale, is wherein lies the difference.<BR/><BR/>HOPE And bullshit and calming faith, be that trust in faith /or/ reason, all lie juxtaposed therein.<BR/><BR/>WE Embodied social animals necessarily are trying to understand reality from within the molecular scale on which we have our bodily existence.<BR/><BR/>HENCE, The salience of the ever-ongoing quest for an archimedian position should be clear.<BR/><BR/>AS Nature becomes conscious (facon de parler!) in our persons, we perceive -- and therefore are perfectly entitled to take as real -- our interior states, emotions, thoughts, feelings. These moreover we perceive with equal force and salience as we do the external stimulae that called them forth (in orthodoxy) 'first'. <BR/><BR/>(First in inverted commas because the other matter to which we must give further attention, in addition to the question of what is 'real', is the question of time.)<BR/><BR/>THE Point is that reverie as such is on all-fours with ASBOs and Mr David Cameron -- more importantly, it is the interior states of the brain and its efflatus of 'mind' that conduct us toward an awareness of other levels of reality, other scales and ranges, on which levels in fact magic & miracles can -- and, in active phantasy, do -- happen. <BR/><BR/>THIS Is of all the more importance in periods of the exhaustion of the old creative cultural impulse.<BR/><BR/>IT Is from out of this generalised bubbling of 'impermissible' and, my goodness me, 'irrational' phantasy that the new culture will emerge, and its resulting ensemble of civilisations.<BR/><BR/>ONE Small trick here should not be over-looked.<BR/><BR/>TRY Substituting in this case 'non-rational' for irrational -- sometimes in reverie this very sort of word-play can release thought-patterns from the sorts of cramp we necessarily experience in the outward prestige-struggle with other chimps in this sort of discussion.<BR/><BR/>ANYHOW, There is a lot ahead for, precisely, non-religious and therefore post-human being -- I expect that as /this/ whole dying contemporary system of binary ructions and two-valued megrims is, finally, exhausted, our descendants, inshAllah, shall look back and grin as derisively to themselves, as we do mutually now at terrorists and pornographers....<BR/><BR/>EVEN Whilst then they are frying their own fish -- and, one another! <BR/><BR/>THE Whole point here seems to be that at the end of the day -- and, of our cultural aeon -- that any archemdian 'stand' rather now-obviously must embody a lot more of /dancing/ than we have heretofore perhaps been able to realise.<BR/><BR/>s/Wook 'abd al-'AbruBodwyn Wookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04152813177593209096noreply@blogger.com