1 : 10^48 Ratio of 1 human being to the mass of the universe
A careful exposition of mistaken ideas is helpful -
A clear mind with love. A clear mind, without haste
A complexity balanced on a complexity. Complexity of body,
complexity of brain, complexity of existence.
A continual pleasure to evolve new thoughts and to be in some
sort a spectator of the way in which under persistent
contemplation they gradually unfold into completeness :
'appropriating the unknown' a keen delight. (Spencer)
A Copernican change?
A declension, a conjugation of meaning, underlying language?
An organising structure producing related patterns of
sound/meaning/ bodily state within different languages?
A dream has attached to it the sense of reality, of nowness -
which distinguishes it from imagination -
A fairly small cry of 'Freedom'
A fatigue-destroying word (?) (ssski) Zakimata Zola
A flare of brain (of mind)
A frustrated Messiah?
A game of chess between the given environment and the given
inherited pattern
A growing suspicion that the human race is to be superseded
A human being as a slow-burning fire
A long look before the pattern's seen, how wide, how deep.
This comes no faster than it may, a day, a life, eternity. One
can go no faster than one can
A loop? Pleasure in clarity, in calmness, in unclouded
perception?
A moral vacuum (cf. Havel, Solzhenitsyn) - the liberated East
rotting fast
A most powerful force - what will others think of us, what
image will they form in their minds?
A musical club - in every room a different type of music, so
that one can move from one to another, as the spirit moves you
A necessary, however arbitrary, social system ?
A neuro-sensory organisation that has evolved in the service
of survival.
A new age of faith: recognition that the progress of the
growth of nature, of the development of the universe, lies in the
development of mind, of consciousness and social consciousness
(?)
A new morality, a new society (? based on Adam Smith and his
moral foundations for society and economy)
A new type of colonial organisation -
A not-desirable Europe Retrouvée - We need a new Europe, not
of nations or histories - but of great Europeans - a Europe of
the mind
A pattern is what we see as a pattern. What we see as a
pattern is what we can see as a pattern. Patterns of things are
related to the possible patterns of our perception
A philosophy is characterised more by its formulation of its
problems than by its solution of them
A point of view amongst points of view
A question as an imperfection in the pattern (the question is
in the discontinuity between the pattern and the area of
imperfection)
A recognised but unanalysable rightness of the sounds
A religion is needed (to hold things together) but it must be
the truest that it can be
A religion must deal with (account for) death, time,
eternity, sorrow, hope, desire, despair, love, good, evil,
meaning, purpose, community, sexuality -
A revised Epic: "Paradise Misdescribed"
A right or wrong course - leading towards coldness and apathy
- or towards clarity, calmness and order (love ?)
A rose is a rose is not a rose
A sample of myself
A single-female social pattern ?
A statement is the analysis of an internal perception
A straightforward physiological explanation (as a child with
its clenched hand caught in a jug or bottle)? (Something has to
change)?
A survey of my ignorance. How to tackle systematically my
ignorance?
A tap on the eardrum much like a tap on the shoulder (both
physical events)
A time to avoid pious words
A vocabulary of gestural elements
A way of preparation for total understanding
A withered view of life?
A wound to one's conceit
A wrong course? - brain operation rightly observed or an
illusion, an artefact, a learned pattern? what tests to apply?
Abandon history and live in the present
Absolutely corrupted?
Activating the seed-idea
Advantage in not having one's passion for achievement
diverted into only one channel, one direction (the pressure may
distort too much)
After a lifetime as a locomotive, I find I now can to some
extent exert an influence on the putting on of the brakes
Ainsi nous allons, inlassablement, chantant notre stanze du
poème et attendant la réponse d'une âme de même essence à travers
l'éspace [ ? and also across time ? ]
All cultures are genetic engineering - ?
All in freedom, avoiding conceit, with a bit of zest
All must die that enter here
All our emotions are elaborations of primitive bodily
feelings
All perception originated and operates as a derivation of, a
modulation of the motor system.
All religions seek to achieve something
Am I attached to I?
Am I too well adapted?
Ambition shackles
An achieved goal is also a successful prediction
An action is a reconfiguration
An anonymous, faceless gospel
An end of all this is coming
An excellent poem - like the evolutionary product of an
excellent species, one that will go on reproducing even though
the world changes
An eye opening on existence. A rocket travelling through the
emptiness of existence. A firework in the dark. A spark in the
night.
An implicit geography in our bones and bodies?
An insupportable revolution An insupportable revelation
An interesting experiment - an animal body (emotions,
sensations) with an advanced brain -
An onward-driving word? A source of energy, resolution,
direction-pursuing word? A strong, calm, word? A self-reinforcing
word? (ORLIZA)
Analogies of Action! Analogies for Action!
Analysing fire - because fire is an ongoing, ordered process,
with every moment in the process rigorously related to the
previous moment (so also (?) life, or thought, or reality)
Ancestor-worship ?
And live inside the brain
And now I die and now I was but made And now I live, and
now my life is done (Tichborne)
And perception (on the chameleon theory) as a direct
reflection, internal representation of reality, of internal
ordering guided by external ordering
And perhaps we, the human race, are learning to create our
own immortality - if it is immortality we want. And we ourselves,
in our own consciousness, the workings of our minds (minds
intermingled with bodies), we have a privileged, insider's view
of the working of matter, of the processes of the universe, of
the essence of the individual (atom or star, whale or tiger, man
or insect, flower or world).
And the experience can be the experience of words, so that we
reach higher level words
And the Messiah is not just a man or particularly a man.
And the universe itself may be subject to destruction in the
sense that its structure will be destroyed and replaced by
another? or not replaced? [Stoic ideas]
And we use the terminology of old religion so far as it is
valuable and demonstrates some imprecise insight into what has
been happening and will happen.
Anger is a very powerful state
Are not the windings of the ant-hill, to the ant, as
civilised as our cities?
Are poets right to be preoccupied with poetry?
Arid
Art production as cross-modal transfer e.g. from the neural
emotional patterning to music
Artefacts of personality (?)
At my back I always hear, Time's winged chariot hurrying near
Attention-movement as the transition/shift from the present
brain model in the brain to the projected/sketched-out changed
brain model in the brain
Avoiding the hideous tangles in your mind created by sexual
desire, conceit, fatigue - (?anger)-
Awareness of death - and of the passing of time
Balance of internal and external experience?
Became a light in the minds of others.
Before anger, go cold
Believing one has discovered a shining thing, when it is just
a trick of the light
Both states of unchangingness - boredom being the
unchangingness of absence, conceit the unchangingness of presence
Brainy days
But a society can change ?
But how should one react to complex, disturbing minds - that
injure yours?
But if the mind arrives at the truth of the physical world
because the mind itself is part of the physical world, and so has
a privileged view of the processes of the material world, why
should 'time' and 'space' be any the less features of the real
world than objects and anything else in physics?
But if words matter, how can we complacently listen to
harmful words?
By-products of action Hidden consequences Indirect
progression Contrived evolution of problems and situations
By those who know much, more than by those who know little,
is felt the need for explanation of the mystery of existence and
the world process. (Spencer)
Can poetry be more than exclamations or, say single burning
lines?
Can the mind start to make (precise?) allowance for the
temporarily imperfect functioning of the brain? (due to fatigue
etc other grossly physical conditions)?
Can there be anything good in conceit?
Can we abstain from altering injurious minds? injurious
people?
Can words (the verbal culture) directly affect the physical
basis of inheritance?
Can you explain, from moment to moment, how you do what is
done, how you function? (raise your head, speak,see?)
Can you put your finger on time?
Casual diamonds
Casting about for a new scent, a new trail, a new clue
Change of brain reference-centre?
Changing deliberately one's mind and body (?)
Circularity of our thought about time (?)
Civil wars are more dreadful because the opponents understand
one another
Clear-sighted experience is the foundation for the growth of
truth
Climbing a mountain only to find that everyone else has come
up by train ?
Combine: Chameleon perception theory The word as change in
external and internal physical state and you get the possibility
of thought transference between two persons looking at each other
Compacted ideas on the point of germination -
Conceit as self-contemplation, contemplation of one's self
(and so a halt or pause in the process of thought at that level -
accompanied by a feeling of pleasure)
Conceit that one has moved beyond conceit
Conflict of wills - dominance [leads to war?]
Consciously channel energy flow by blocking out tributary
energy through: (1) prefigured action (imaginative force) (2)
word-formulation of action () perceived action (eg. mimicry)
coupled with blanking out of all conscious mental forms
immediately after
Consciousness and content, consciousness with content,
consciousness-content.
Consciousness, a matter of sufficient delay in the circuit.
Consciousness and power
Consciousness as a problem reduced to perception as a problem
Consciousness as a sensation of a sensation - an elaboration,
for example, of the colour or touch sense.
Consciousness as elaborated feeling
Consciousness as the integration of sub-perceptions
Consciousness of time as a feedback process (involving delay
in circuit)
Consider the pulsation (regular variation in brightness) of
the Cepheids
Constant updating of the experience-map
Construct!!! It is bringing the cerebellum into the field of
conscious control?
Contemplate Reflect Speculate Theorise Now I see! You must
look into that! Intuition I perceive that you are wrong!
Content with the diamond of the mind
Continued value of the concept of Government?
Continuity as puzzling as change
Contrast - a motor horn that always remains silent and one
that cannot be silenced - both useless? both calling for
attention, repair?
Contrasting the different modes of sensation and perception.
What is the different feeling of seeing compared with the feeling
of hearing? (or the proprioceptive sense?)
Cosmological orthodoxy
Curdling ambition?
D'ou viennent ces mots?
Declension reflecting order in space (spatial relations of
meaning) and conjugation order in time (time and qualitative
relations of meaning)?
Depending on others rather than self-driving, truth-driven,
expression-driven, love-driven, action
Desire is not equivalent to Emotion. Emotions cannot all be
reduced to desire: Jealousy, Anger, Love, Dejection, Despair
Deviate
Difference between a brain and brain, a mind and mind
(analogous to difference between I feel and there is feeling)
Different questions lurk at different levels in your mind
Disappointment with life lies at the root of all religion
Distribution of the scientific and technological capability
across many countries
Do not seek or pretend to revive an out-dated self
Do poems really say something that cannot be said otherwise
or do they say compactly what can only be said with great
difficulty and perhaps at great length otherwise?
Do we move when we move - or when we are still?
Does the question define, determine, the answer?
Dominance relations among countries
Don't be greedy in brain-searching
Don't reject Wittgenstein but philosophy ought to move on
beyond him
Each thought yielding enough free energy to construct the
next thought - a chain-reaction of intellect -
Economic Man a fiction
Edgar Allen Poe: I stand amid the roar of a surf-tormented
shore and I hold with my hand grains of the golden sand. O God,
cannot I save one from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or
seem, but a dream within a dream?
Emily Dickinson: If I read a book and it makes my whole body
go cold, so cold that no fire can ever warm me, I know that is
poetry, if I feel sickly as if the top of my head were taken off,
I know that is poetry. Is there any other way
Emotions as feelings plus tendencies to action
Enough but not too much variety
Environment, so to speak, developing its own conundrums (its
own instructions for further development)- what is a puzzle from
one aspect is an instruction for a pattern of behaviour (a
process of thought) from another
Epicurus
Equilibration over time and space
Etiam sapientibus cupido gloriae novissima exuitus
(Tacitus)(the last infirmity of noble minds)
Even if the human race becomes extinct, analysis of its
origin, development and functioning will still be a contribution
to the history of the evolution of life
Even reading seems to come naturally to some children?
Even the subject is object
Every moment is the mid-point of eternity
Every popularisation of science is the creation of a myth
Every sentence implies other sentences that may be said or
may not be said
Evolution as a neural network analogue, a filter, moving
towards, arriving at, a stabilised physical system which
'understands' the physical system of 'nature'?
Evolution having as its practical effect the survival of a
particular pattern of DNA - or simply of a particular chain of
replication of DNA
Evolution in the collectivity? (not the individual/
Evolution not suspended or diverted but going ahead at full
speed ?
Evolution of life (and forming part of it)
Evolution produced pity, compassion, Bach, the choir, the
cathedral (Bern)
Evolution simply as a seed growing into a flower (interaction
between the given character of the seed and the environment in
which it finds itself)
Evolution works with death, pain and suffering
Extending human foresight into the indefinite future
Fabricate in my mind a hand that can grasp and manipulate
mind?
Feeling as unformulated calculation?
Feeling feel. Thought feel.
Feeling for (moving towards) a new direction
Feeling for, reaching out for, the thread, the thin line of
future development? Ariadne's thread?
Final cure -
Final sympathy for religious creeds which try to bridge a gap
that reason tries and has failed so far to fill
Finding a point of entry for the analysis of perception?
Fixed firmly in your rut- so that out of it you are alarmed,
disconcerted
Flies dancing in the sunlight
Fools can be more active than wise men because the number of
foolish things to be done is endless
For the history of the world, examine the individual man -
Founded on the most careful and clear-sighted observation, in
a calm, pure, unfearing (?loving), flexible mind?
Fountain of blood, the snowfall of gold in the autumn light
Freedom for locomotives is nearly achieved. Next we will
have to tackle the rails.
Freeing of Eastern Europe shows the shoddiness of Western
morality, objectives, behavioural system. Liberty for what?
Freud built his theories [mythical constructions] on the
experiences of the sick -
From Kant to Kantor
From language to social consciousness in the evolutionary
ascent of humanity
From not singing for so long becoming incapable of singing
From Sir Leslie Stephen: The last ten years of life, as
Jowett frequently remarked, are the best, freest from illusion.
Unluckily the illusions which have vanished generally include the
illusion that anything which you did at your best had any real
value and that anything you can do hereafter will ever reach the
moderate standard of the old work.
Functional self-questioning
Futurology ?
Geese recognise each other by their faces (Lorenz)
Generalisation by the migrating birds studying the stars?
Genuine artefacts?
Getting rid of things is most exhilarating!
Go beyond
God might set ticking the evolutionary universe, to allow
this complex to work out its own direction, its own future - of
which mankind would be one minute element, one possible line of
development. We need not be constrained by the chances of any
particular history or fable. We would come to recognise that this
universe is a choice, a selection out of an infinite number of
possibilities - the wonder is that it is this, and that we find
ourselves a part of it, looking at it as best we can.
'Going one up' - 'Getting your own back' 'teaching somebody a
lesson'
Gradually we lose the energy needed to give solidity to the
structures we glimpse growing in our minds
Greater and more intense consciousness
Has conceit even if only in the rare case a marginally useful
function? (I don't think so)
Having finished with conceit when you no longer need to think
about it.
He carries the weight of all the useless years
Head full of stars
Here am I - my brain spiralling upwards into the universe -
casting my eyes over wider and wider structures of space and
time, uniting with my high flying eye into an ordered picture all
the myriad aspects of existence so far below and far away - with
whole libraries of original works whirling round in my mind - and
content apparently with silence, with absorption and growth
Here we are in a world that is hurtling into the future
Seeing reality recede from us like a rocket into space The stab
of light left on our retina
History is nefaste
How can we ensure that the memory of the human race (its
achievements) are not lost for ever? [in the endless future of
the Universe]
How could God communicate his existence - except by
remarkable coincidences, the facilitation of progress and
discovery?
How empty life really is! Just a bubble bursting
How his will moved his arm was incomprehensible to Kant.
How long a way it is round the spiral
How much energy is required to arrive at a correct (or
appropriate?) (?fitting) thought?
How much joy?
How reluctant we are to reconsider formulations of our
thought in which we have once taken pride
How, starting from our body and our brain, do we arrive at
reliable knowledge about what is outside us, how do we become
able to predict the development of a process, the development of
the process of existence?
How uniquely adapted to the mammalian (primate, human) body
is the mammalian (primate, human) brain ?
However much we know , we know nothing
Hugh MacDiarmuid: Lament for the Great Music: The struggle
for truth and and that indescribable necessity, beauty.
Human nature hasn't changed yet
Humanity a dream drifting over history
Humanity as a great eye, a many-faceted eye (like the eye of
an insect) opening on existence
Hunger, thirst, sexual desire, patterns of action (at core of
emotional patterns?)
I am my sea
I am the living ghost of what I shall have been So my life is
parcelled up, ticketed, put away
I am two fools I know for loving and for saying so in whining
poetry
I begin to see room for ( ! ) the possibility of God in the
universe - but a future God or one without any of the trappings,
the rubbish, the childishness, attached to the historical God
[You see, I must be stern with God ! ]
I begin to see how people may just give up and die
I cannot bear to think of being no more, of losing myself -
it appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist [She
died in childbirth aged 36] (Mary Wollstonecraft)
I do not like this sample
I don't really need personal happiness, only growth, new
ideas, new thoughts
I dreamt that I could really give my friends something
wonderful but now I see that to them it isn't wonderful. (Ottoline)
I go wherever my life takes me
I have chosen (I suppose) one thing and not another
I have no thought on which death is not engraved
(Michelangelo)
I really want something new that happens to me, in me - a
good and interesting change (like my discovery of the nature of
language?). Say - I want to find my words enriched by joining
into my thoughts all the distances and wonders of existence, so
that lightning flashes over the mountains of intellect, and the
bright desert sun hangs over the rocks.
I remember well when the thought of the eye made me cold all
over. The sight of a feather in a peacock's tail whenever I gaze
at it, makes me sick(Darwin)
I sought my death and found it in the womb (Tichborne)
I want to free myself from my lack of understanding. I am
tired of being bound by merely tentative knowledge.
I wanted bread and you offered me a stone
I will be free - I must be free - I am going to be free
I would weep but the devil draws in my tears, Stand still,
you ever-moving sphere of heaven, that time may cease and
midnight never come, O lente, lente currite, noctis equi
Idealism looks forward, materialism looks backwards (perhaps
we should look into the present)
Ideas change behaviour and response to the environment.
Behaviour changes the possibilities and probabilities of physical
survival and multiplication, of physical change -
Ideas change the environment (directly and indirectly) and
change neural structure ? [the epigenetic process]
Ideas restructure brains
Ideas restructure minds
If 'blue', why not 'consciousness'?
If 'God' for some purpose spoke to us, how could we recognise
'God's' voice? Like our own voice, like no voice, like not-voice?
If faith is an expression, however simplified, of truth as it is,
even though it is not understood, then it can work, like poetry,
because the words and ideas are stronger than those using them
know.
If I reflect, consider now this pattern of ideas, answer to a
question, choice of action.
If it works for us, it may work for you
If the line is right, it is a theory, its application as
unlimited, as unpredictable as e=mc2
If the sinewy thread my brain lets fall through every part
can tie those parts and make me one of all
If the universe is infinite in time and space, then whatever
can happen must already have happened or be happening -
If there are no more books to read, you must write your own!
If there were 'God', 'God's' action would be subtle far
beyond all our speculation.
If we are not to be moved by desires, passions, affections,
ambitions, that have always moved men, then what else is there ?
If we could frame the question about consciousness properly
If we move beyond words, we arrive at the mystery of total
states of being- the ever-changing flux of the patterns which we,
as creatures with bodies and brains, form
Imagination - a reaching out mentally, patterned on a
reaching out physically - and so related to hunger and sexual
desire
Impassioned interest in life
In a Kingdom of fire
In a never-ending universe
In me, someone begins to watch the watcher
In our minds we operate with the shadows of words and the
shadows of perceptions
In our questions lie our principles of analysis. Most new
discoveries are suddenly seen things that were always there.
In the beginning was the word (?)
In the end the whole universe, the whole man is extended,
unfolded, strung out, into language
In the long run the exactly-adapted perish
Inaccessible terminologies are suspicious -
Insight into the objective nature of one's own body leads of
necessity to a new and deeper understanding of the inter-action
between one's own organism and the objects in one's environment.
As a separate entity, one's body becomes a measure for comparison
and thus makes it possible to assess the outside world in terms
of the self.
Institutions kill
Institutions que des champignons vénéneux, au bord de la
route.
Integrating, not replacing, the religions?
Inter-dependence of imagination and reality as equals (E.E.
Cummings)
Internal Dane-geld -
Internal weather
Into the beyond
Is poetry more than an attraction and entertainment an
amplification?
Is there any evidence that my ideas are advancing, have
advanced at all in the last year?
Is there anything beautiful in the world? Is there anything
gentle? Is there anything to die loving?
It is an extraordinarily perfect mountain which has only one
route by which it can be climbed
It is not possible that you are strange in the world, since
you are in the world
It's a crowded world and you have to fight for your space
Kant's moral error
Kingdoms sink in the dreadful wind of change
L'homme n'est que le point où je suis placé et, de là, la vue
est infinie.
La Nature entière est ma fiancée
Labelling particular states of mind e.g. the A state
Language as fossilised images
Life is very much like a dream
Language is a transformed derivative of the real
Language is not an accidental feature of science
Language screens our (common) animality
Leave your brain alone: it wants to work
Less trouble than checking-out of a hotel ?
Let the tone find the words ?
Life is a work of art we never see completed
Like a geometric construction to solve a problem)
Literally directions of Attention- within the head.
Literary distinction, the game is not worth the candle ... as
contrasted with the aggregate of preceding pains, the achieved
pleasure is insignificant. (Spencer)
Living in accordance with the pattern of what is, and the way
it is developing
Living in reality
Living in the interim -
Living in the perpetual present (?)
Living mirrors
Loneliness in infinite emptiness
Look to the future and not to the past
Looking for a needle in a haystack? looking for the needle in
the wrong haystack? Perhaps there is no haystack? Perhaps there
are several needles?
Love and Language
Love is the pearl of life (Wittgenstein).
Love is what we are capable of
Love, suicide and laughter - three very human things
Love, as a principle of human existence, was a great
discovery, a great gift. Not sexual love - which often is not
love - but love as going beyond ourselves, overleaping body,
brain, mind, reaching a Here-Now which is not our private
Here-Now, a new dimension in which we can travel.
Lucien Price saw William James in 1903 - like an affable
archangel.
Lucretius
LUT SUL (H)iki (Sisa) Isla Akina Algu Parl Omoide Seisin
Alla Dowsing Orliza Consciousness Zill Urlu Albu Arbolu Ghilghila
Muzu-Wuzu Zubie Alika-zuka Salamana Keito Suuuu Ozala Sula Su
Kala
Man, humanity as a whole, also is an eye opening on
existence, a firework in the dark, a spark in the night.
Man is what it is Sink mines into it Minds sink into it
Towards the centre it gets hotter and heavier Things start to
change The pressure compels novelty
Mantra, mandala and melody?
Mathematical truth deriving from brain operation and
specifically from the implications of reflected activities of the
brain, spaced out by the lapse of time between reflections
Maybe the structure of language the specific key to
brain-function and brain- organisation: so "I will" indicates the
operation of 'The Will' - a prefiguring of proposed action, to
which the organism seeks to conform
Meaning of a word 'yet'?
Meaning of mental friction?
Mechanical analogues of sentiments (?)
Melodies have shapes in time (Wertheimer)
Mes pensées forment ma société.
Messiahs -new heavens on earth - in a sense are coming.
Metaphor is the essence of religion and poetry
Mind is elaborated feeling
Mind only knows where mind is going
Mind swimming in the sea of existence ?
Minsky and the intelligent computer of the next century -
Minute as you are you can resonate with the universe ! (?)
Mirrors reflecting each other and changing as a consequence
of the reflection (eg. the two-party system, the
double-hemispheric brain system, the United States and Russia)
Models and analogies
Moral code as an evolutionary development in the group
More powerful and less powerful intellectual instruments,
intellectual aids?
Mountains breed languages
Movement - gesture - word - gestural equivalents ?
Multiplicity! Simultaneous experience! Attacking reality on
every front!
Music may symbolise all the modes of existence in the world
(according to Schopenhauer)
Must you sacrifice your body to your mind?
My extended firefly delusion - or misperception [a flashing
light]
My feast of joy is but a dish of pain
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense as if of
hemlock I had drunk
My life seems wasted
My structure, the structure of the solar system, are the
memory of the innumerable vicissitudes that matter, in organising
itself over the endless past, has undergone. Just as much as the
concept remembers the infinity of events, so my constant
structure remembers every success in survival of the organism
from the beginning of the world.
Mysticism, yoga, meditation, Zen, mantra, mandala, as direct
exploration and manipulation of the brain - ?
Naked thinking heart
Necessary bodily processes:
Neural structure evolves - ?
New directions, new dimensions, new forms of existence (new
forms of perception?)
Nicolas of Cusa
NMRI - self-perception?
No doubt I am puzzled by the problem of my new 'freedom'
No doubt the wind knows what it is doing No doubt the word
knows what it is doing
No isolated action without context
No politically organised desirable Europe to be found in the
past, unless perhaps one goes back to Charlemagne or to Marcus
Aurelius and the Antonines
Nor does all scientific knowledge and scientific advance
suddenly become irrelevant. The scientific structure of thought
has been part of the right development, partial but valuable -
and is strengthened by and strengthens the new perception of the
direction of development of the universe.
Nor is this new perception a narrowly human feeling. All
creatures, all organisms, have contributed, are contributing to
the forward movement. History is continuous with pre-history and
with post-history. 'God' has come into being.
Not being intimidated by the traditional structures and
analyses of language - or of any particular language
Not hedonism but anodynism, the principle of least pain
Not purpose but direction
Not pursuing truth but something more interesting - of which
truth is a part, an aspect?
Not - science or history or economics but - understanding
Not too fast and not too slow
Nothing but the future calls me.
Nothing is simply words-
Nothing that angers you is acceptable
Novelty is not irrupting (?)
Now is the time for the slaughtering of trees
Now we see we have grasped only a fragment Tunnel-vision of a
universe Robbed by our finity and minuteness
Nunc fluens
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, how can we know
the dancer from the dance?
O soul be changed into little water-drops and fall into the
ocean, ne'er be found, My God, my God, look not so fierce on me
O thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature
O woman shapely as a swan, on your account I shall not die
Of course, the poet and poem never reach the end, or even an
end
Of course, we could be knocked down and killed tomorrow by a
bus - a cosmic bus - but ....
Old enough to die respectably
On wickedness
Once and a million times we acquired language to master our
world
One approach is to examine closely the terms used in the
question:
One cannot lead a happy life without thinking ?
One comes back to the old question - why should one write?
For whom? For what gratification or use? Certainly the interim
stages in turning into a flower or a great tree, in becoming
something other than human, are not to be recorded - but will I
reach the terminus, a flower open, the great tree swaying in the
winds of time - before I die? before my hand starts to shake and
the little thoughts start slipping like fish through the torn net
of my brain? Decay, corruption, degeneration, weariness,
despondency, may overtake me before I have got as far as I feel I
must get, before I start to consolidate, record, systematise.
One who devotes himself to grave literature must be content
to remain celibate [Had he married, there would have been no
system of philosophy](Spencer)
Opium (drugs) the religion of the people
Or it may be that it is a necessary subject, for human beings
who are puzzled by the fact that they are born, live for a
limited period and then all die.
Or the universe must be cyclical or oscillatory?
Or towards complexity adequate to the complexity of the
circumexisting structures and systems?
Or, we think because we are changing or live in a changing
environment - and change makes imperfect what we previously
thought perfect
Or what ever can happen is also infinite?
Order is the ability to predict the part from the whole, or
one part from another part, or the whole from the part (both a
present and a future aspect of prediction)
Our bitter struggle to seize from the cold wastes of Time a
small warmth and companionship
Our bodies are traitors to us (?)
Our cognitive apparatus is itself an objective reality, which
has acquired its present form in contact with and adaptation to
equally real things in the outer world. A neuro-sensory
organisation that has evolved in the service of survival.(Lorenz)
Our perceived environment as a language to express the
structure of things - but not being itself the structure or the
environment?
Out of every hour of thought, of consciousness, 1 second of
newness, of originality?
Paradoxes of verbal logic analogous to the paradoxes of
perception eg. the ambiguity of a cube (which may recede from or
project towards the perceiver)?
Patience (let ripen)
Patterns of music - patterns of brain operation
People adhere to religions for some reason
Perception is interpenetrated with action (?)
Perception (on the chameleon theory) as a direct reflection,
internal representation of reality, of internal ordering guided
by external ordering
Perception of a thought is memory of the thought
Perception-triggered action
Perhaps a new word is needed?
Perhaps many centuries further on (but not now)
Perhaps moving beyond Kant's categories
Perhaps the fatal weakness in life is to be unable to be
dependent only on oneself
Perhaps there is a very hard course to follow
Personalising, individualising religion?
Perspective not as an arid artistic technique but as the
reality of human vision
Philosophers wrongly take for granted the functioning of the
language they use, their only medium.
Philosophy and science as the great obstacles to freedom
which must be overcome.
Philosophy as the prolegomena to the elucidation of brain
function
Physiological Symphony
Please God, never let anyone really understand me - it would
be too painful
Pluck the fruit from the tree of your life
Poems are what they are talking about
Poetry as a manipulation of the real?
Poetry is real if it moves mountains
Poseidon Okeanos Neptune
Possibilities opening up for future human evolution ?
Preparing, protecting against the irruption of the
unpredictable (from within or without the human system),
preserving the science, the technology, the unified understanding
required to create and maintain the adequate neural complexity,
preserving the human 'social' system on which the science etc.
depend?
Puissance - connaissance
Purposeful action as frictionless mental functioning
Racked by such passions (?)
Rapid recall due to the relation between the way items are
structured in memory and the structuring of the query -
Rational religion - religion as rational
re-pre-sent
Reaching out
Reading the brain from the body?
Reflection altering the biochemical environment of neurones,
producing changes in the physical organisation?
Religio - religion - is the binding together of all our
knowledge of the Universe, and with it all our life and cultures.
Religion and the world/life model (?)
Religion as a factor in group survival and success
Religion as an instrument of evolution?
Religion as an ordering system
Religion as part of the evolutionary predisposition of the
human mind satisfying the ache of not understanding
Religion costs a lot less than drugs or psychotherapy -
Religion is a music of the mind
Religion's concerns: death, sexuality, the `meaning' of life,
the group
Remembering a person (their name, their appearance) changing
your face into theirs
Remembering specifically the class of forgotten things
Repeated specific input - Constant specific output from brain
Resurgam!
Ritual makes time real, brings the past into the present -
Roots grasp their future
Sad weariness
Saetas
Samples of my self
Say, the thought is the answer to a question - a filling of a
gap in the pattern, the correction of an imperfection in the
pattern?
Science becoming valid as we come to know ourselves?
Science - the brain's demand for consistency, for relatedness
in phenomena?
Science is a work of imagination and the poet is the
practical man, laying hands on reality -
Seeing an object as an object is as mysterious as seeing the
physically-defined colour red as the sensation 'red'
Seeing the future as a reality?
Seeing through seeing
Self-generating zest? Self-reinforcing zest?
Self-satisfaction is no satisfaction
Self-congratulation
Self-depreciation
Self-detachment
Sex a displacement activity in the absence of any other
purposeful activity [so Jung's patients not neurotic but aimless]
Shinto and the Church of England
Shortcuts to changed mental states ?
Shun the ephemeral, pursue the durable
Similarity (or even coincidence) of perceived external
structure and perceived internal structure (?)
Similarity is as puzzling as diversity
Simplex sigillum veritatis - the word 'truth'? the word
'veritas'?
Single-circuit brain formation by processes analogous to
routing of current flow in electrical circuits (switching
devices, closing gates, increasing resistance to subsidiary
current flow)
Skating on the hardened scum of my mind
Sketches of the possibilities of humanity? life lived in
blinkers
Skin is very comfortable clothing
Social propagation - as opposed to individual propagation
Social vicious circles
Some possible dream encoiled in the ammonite's slumber is
uncurling
Space now Time here (what large words)
Space-Time Here-Now.
Spectators of all time and all being (Plato)
Star-point brain concentration and elimination)
Still, 'musical' is not a bad word
Still within the limits of what is not inconceivable, what is
not altogether unexpected -(?)
Struggle against pain is a path to knowledge and power
Struggle only towards what is intelligent, useful,
constructive - and struggle simply for the sake of struggle,
however attractive and amusing it may seem
Sublimation as evolutionary turning point (still turning?)
Sunburst?
Superimposition of memories - Preservation of memories -
Access to superimposed memories?
Superseding poetry? Or if not, what will poetry become?
Survival of the fittest universe -
Survival of the fittest religion?
Take it easy
Taking for granted the normal attitude to society
Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum
That curious engine, your white hand
That is to say, we can perceive obscurely positions and
directions in the functioning of our minds - which can be related
to the physical constitution of the brain. So, for example, the
sense of my identity: `I' as some area of location, most probably
behind the centre of the forehead (see various research papers on
this). And of course one can imagine directions in one's mind.
That is what writing means to me - to enrich, to give. I
want to do it in life too. (Katherine Mansfield)
That most demanding of prescriptions: [gnothi seauton] Know
thyself
The body is always with us
The 'culture' modifies the determination of the fitness to
survive - it produces real changes, thus in the genetic pool of a
population
The 'flower' of culture (exactly?) like the flower of the
garden
The acceleration must(?) come from the growth in the excess
energy released by every correct (appropriate) thought in the
series - perhaps by the area of the thought-pattern over which a
change is made
The advent of consciousness, the world's coming to a
knowledge of itself
The algebra of human relations [equalities and inequalities]
The all-commanding subject-matter of poetry is life, the
never-ceasing circus
The analysis of an enigma, any enigma
The ants or the birds (or the apes) ?
The baby at the bottom of the stairs, looking up in
anticipation
The barren mountains of the moon
The binding energy of ideas- or rather the energy released by
the (?correct) thought, which allows a more natural (less
energy-consuming) pattern to be established
The blankness of consciousness and the multiplicity of
existence defining and constituting each other
The blessedness of harmoniously developing mental activity
The blind man rubs his eyes. No doubt the wind knows what it
is doing, no doubt the word knows what it is doing
The boundary between self and not-self? The petty little
world of oneself ?
The breaking wave of time
The chameleon theory of perception - again -
The claims by poets for poetry have been large, loud and
persistent, but they are selling their own product, as the
priests have sold religion, and few poems, little poetry, reaches
the ideal level of poetry, which would begin to justify the
claims but the poem as a method and not necessarily an
achievement(Laura Riding)
The clocks go about their business so seriously
The cold mountains of the North. The grey seas of the East.
The soft lands of the West. The warm lands of the South.
The collapse of Communism has left us free to examine
ourselves
The compacting phrase
The components of consciousness
The continuing cube of the mind
The Cosmos 'a vast and complex web of life' (cf. Giordano
Bruno)
The creature with the analysing and predicting brain, the
Prometheus - genus.
The death of the past
The delusion of the would-be saint
The Descent of Man - the Ascent of the Animal
The diamond-flame of the mind
The difference between feeling-feel and thought-feel
The differences between the Question and the Answer?
The differing ordering power of a form, of a system of ideas-
The earth destined for extinction as a vehicle for life - and
all other vehicles for life in the universe either already
destroyed or destined for destruction.
The ebb and flow of the biochemical tides
The emotionless computer
The environment of the evolutionary process is incessant
change
The estimation of probability is a measure of our ignorance
The eternal scarlet fountain of the blood
The evolution of sex and the evolution of the brain are part
of the same story: the evolution of variability (of behaviour) in
response to a constantly changing environment
The extent of the apparent patterning of reality depends on
the pattern-forming ability of our perceptual apparatus
The feeling how pleasant death will be
The feeling that this is only one, out of many possible
lives, that we have lived
The first poem was a helium atom formed from two hydrogen
atoms - the neatness, the economy, the rightness, the permanence
of the thing, the essential symmetry
The first step in philosophy is to open your eyes.
The fittest of all type of community to survive would be that
which could best forecast the future, the changes the world and
Universe would undergo - the creature with the analysing and
predicting brain, the Prometheus - genus.
The force of an analogy as an instrument of discovery?
The force of the letters of which a word is composed
The freedom not to seek, not to understand
The frisson of reality
The functions of ritual and the structure of beliefs
The future is something that is going to happen, that is
going to be. Something definite, something real. We are the real
future of those who lived before us.
The future of the human race depends greatly on the human
race
The gain in knowledge achieved by trial and error by the
genome results in the formation of an image of the material world
within the living system
The gipsy-looking woman with the dead baby in her arms on the
Promenade des Anglais in Nice
The gleaming, quivering ideas, newly landed
The golden gates of the far past. The silver gates of the far
future.
The great mosaic eye of humanity
The great trumpet-call sounds across the world
The habit is the product of the particular context
The hateful, resurgent, I
The human animal snarls at time
The imagined richness of all future history
The improbability of anything happening by sheer chance
The incompatible in space so to speak bulges out into time -
the only dimension that can accommodate contradictions
The inevitable(?) logic of perception? What am I doing it
for?
The infective power of ideas
The inner universe
The interaction (? interface) between concept and number -
between the word and number ?
The interplay of words and silent thought - the poetic phrase
is continued in the silence. The silent thought continued in the
phrase.
The irreversibility of time?
The irruption of the unforeseen, the unexpected, the
unpredicted ?
The Itness of I. The Itness of all I's. The Iness of It. The
Iness of all Its.
The key to human functioning is in the mode of integration of
language, perception and action
The last poem is the molecular man, the diamond human being,
scintillating, moulding the circumambient reality into an
unpredictable unity -
The life of an organism as the working out in time of a
complex interaction
The linguistic formulation of the scientific hypothesis is
essential
The literal force of words
The location and spatial organisation of mind (my mind) !
The logic of perception deriving from the singleness of the
brain and body
The logic of the melody ?
The mapping of the environment in the brain and body?
The marble index of a mind for ever voyaging through strange
seas of thought alone
The Messiah is the new mind, not just an individual mind, not
just a human mind, but a capacity to comprehend and interact with
the material universe, formed itself out of the material universe
and moving towards a more complete union with, identification
with, the material universe.
The mind may have an infinite capacity for expansion.
The mind models change far faster than the process of change
The miraculous arises when the poet discovers by analogy an
identity between objects which is partial and proceeds to an
identification which is complete
The model of computer look-ahead (program look-ahead)
The model of the brain in the brain
The model of the body in the brain
The motives for goodness ?
The natural purposelessness (unfulfilment) of the life of the
male individual has been the principal driving force of human
progress ?
The nature of fear?
The necessary stultification of an element that has become
part of a higher entity ('will' as the removal of an obstacle to
the expression of the action-pattern in action)
The neural equivalents of: Am convinced / that u
Assume / that x Believe / y / that y Feel / that v
Guess / that r Imagine / t / that t Know / x / that
x / how to x Suppose / that q Surmise / that w
Suspect / that s Think / z / that z
The neural substructure of language
The objective in the management of the brain being economy of
energy (truth economises energy, avoids frictional losses between
half-truths or partial truth and untruth) - achieved by a cool,
clear, mind, not being pressed to operate at greater than its
natural speed
The objective universal present
The only Roman author I find at all comparable with the
Greeks for vital and original ideas is Lucretius (Whitehead)
The organism may change the chances of the gene surviving
e.g. by creating a desert, by facilitating the development of a
superseding species?
The pampas grass gives reality to the wind
The pariah dogs of society
The past, of which we are the future, was as real and
definite as we are
The physical structure of a sentence, (physiological
structure)
The poet is the one who must not be comforted Because there
is no comfort
The poetic impulse means to reconstitute the world of
perceptions (Wallace Stevens)
The point of balance, of resolution in an organism which is,
so to say, its identity, its consciousness, its self
The possibilities of (neurologically-conscious) oratory
The post-human colonial organism
The present can recapture the past, can contain and
comprehend the future - and the timelessness of eternity, of the
eternal now, can be created by the universe for itself. And our
meaning, the meaning of us, of each of us and all of us, is that
we are participating in this evolution of the universe out of
time into eternity.
The question posed by the absence of a piece from a jig-saw
indicates the shape of the answer, but does not itself show where
the missing piece is to be found - or what in detail the missing
piece will bear on it, apart from an outline which matches it
The rags of time
The rate at which light deforms the medium it travels in far
faster than the speed of light
The re-birth of introspection -
The religion of the wolf-pack
The repeated attempt to explain philosophically the power,
validity and continued growth of mathematics.
The reservoir, repository or safe-deposit for the scientific
and technological system offered and constituted by language -
The reverberation of perception between two perceivers
The right attitude for a being in this situation
The sea and the fish forming one system, one structure, one
organisation (?) organism
The sea has no master
The sea of tissue-fluid in which cells swim
The self is a construct (of the internal) as God is a
construct (of the external)
The significance of body-image for thought or for language?
The significance of human lives - looking ahead to an
indefinite future
The skull beneath the skin
The source of the validity (or near-validity) of science
The structure of analogies
The structure of our minds condemns us to insatiable hunger
We reach only for what is out of reach
The syntax taking a sweep, a plane through the
multidimensional array of word-equivalents
The temptation to believe that what one has to say is
original [in fact most has been said a thousand times or
thousands of years ago]
The thought that beyond the limits of our most profound
scientific knowledge (nuclear physics, molecular biology) there
may be unending further complexity - as the universe may be
infinite in extent
The time is at hand when we may quit the harbour and sail for
the open sea (Swedenborg)
The total explanation of the individual
The total explanation of society
The total explanation of the universe
The transparent face
The trophic function of activity of the central nervous
system
The ultimate (neural) 'attractor' - the one you love
The unity and calm of the good. The simplicity of the true,
the energy and directedness of love.
The universe is moving through us, through all life, the
endless past with the endless future, the point and minute
fragment of existence with the great structures of the galaxies
and the super galaxies, so that the Universe will conquer for
itself, in consciousness, the unity of all time and all space.
The universe is not alien organisation; it is the society of
which we form a part and to which we contribute.
The vice of ignoring complexity (e.g. democracy)
The Viking and the Stoic, not opposed but allies, joined in
struggle
The visible and the intelligible are virtually synonymous
terms
The vocabulary of introspection
The wind of time and space blows
The world a living society
The world managed without man for 99.975% of its time The
universe for 99.995% of its time
The years go past so quickly
There are no poets but only poems
There are poems which dominate one, and haunt one, which once
admitted sting and cling to one. Such poetry has the
characteristic of being inevitable.
There can be a certain poetry in philosophy - when the exact
words present themselves to fill an ache, to take their place in
a structure.
There is light at the centre of the mind
There is no radically different truth to be expected
There is nothing `sacred' or irrefutable about the
perceptions and interpretations of psycho-therapists or psycho-
analysts. They are as human as we are.
There is so much in the sea
There is some bigger issue waiting for me. Some Mount Everest
to assault before I die?
There may be, must be, more truth than we know, but what we
know is a beginning, a foundation -
There was a black hole in my mind Everything rushed into it
Nothing escaped from it Did anything new happen in it?
These grey December days
Things have significance only in a structure, not in
isolation
Think of oneself as a sailor bending over the map of one's
mind and deciding where to go and how to go.(Katherine Mansfield)
Thinking as continued re-organisation - rationalisation-
Those thoughts that wander through eternity
Thought being the working out of the instability between the
given structure of the individual and the given state of the
environment
Thought proceeds like a subterranean stream in its unruffled
course.
Thoughts that breathe and words that burn
Time and space as the constraints on (the form of) the logic
of perception
Time and space provide the setting for our little life and in
this horizonless expanse, the whole history of mankind shrivels
to nothingness, becomes a mere flicker, a momentary flash of
lightning in an unfathomable night.
Time as the impossibility of the co-existence of certain
patterns and as the intermediate (transitional) patterns between
these
Time bites off our heads as we fecundate
Time feel Innerness of space
Time for a change
Time is always of the essence
Time leaks away
Time-need for thought-formation Time - we have an inferred
or constructed past, a real present (?) - is it possible to have
an inferred or constructed future?
Time' and 'space' are as real as we are, and we are as real
as what we perceive and interact with; we are as real as the
world. So 'space' and 'time' are no more mere forms of human
perception without any reality in themselves than the eye is just
a part of the human mechanism of perception and not a material
structure in itself in the external world]
To a hungry people, science offers only stones
To extricate oneself from, rise above the current movement of
human history, the temporary forms of present society?
To find the road ahead - Not here
To have emerged from darkness and silence to be here today is
certainly incredible.(Macneile-Dixon)
To identify, categorise and measure (assess?) feelings -
To leave an imprint (a student on television).
To lose oneself among the endless galleries and perspectives
of time.
To recognise as objective what are felt as the subjective
aspects of "I" - of "my" identity "my" thought, "my" truth, "my"
love
To struggle with them changes you into them - to withdraw
from them has the air of a defeat, a cowardice, a diminution -
To think that we could grasp the plan or system if 'God' had
a plan or system is the delusion of primitive minds. We can plant
seeds or grow crystals. 'God's' seed or crystal is unfathomable -
if there is 'God'
Too busy to escape from the squirrel cage
Transmitted culture - words and patterns of words, -musical
sounds and patterns of sounds, -shapes, colours and patterns of
shapes and colours.
Trapped by words Lost amongst too powerful words In a
labyrinth of words
Tree-flesh and tree-bones
Trial orderings
Truth being generated by the reality (the givenness) of brain
and body and their unity -
Truth, for us, being obvious?
Truth simply being the physical (physiological)
incompatibility of two concepts, two words ?
Turn away
Two unreliable clocks can correct each other -
Uncoupling the engine from the train ? [in evolution]
Unselfish intellect
Until you jump off the cliff, you do not know how high it is
Unwise action is so uncomfortable and rarely brings joy
Using the Human Brain: The Next Steps
Utility merely a reification of the fact that choices are
made
Vanity cut-off
Variations of musical themes as analogous transformations of
brain patterns
Verbal logic as an analogue of the logic of perception
We all want to be rapt - out of our selves
We are enslaved by ourselves, by our desires, by our fears,
by our affections
We are going to be extinguished but must our existence and
works be lost for ever?
We are in no cul-de-sac
What union of number, music, word, What new mingling, of eye,
hand and brain, Is slowly finding out its possibility?
We should have done with all the eternal questioning
We
are learning merely the alphabet of reality.
We are tapers too and at our own cost die
We are the universe, in every fibre of our body and being.
We ascribe personhood, intelligence and goodness to 'God' to
flatter ourselves, to make 'God' in what we believe to be our own
likeness. But we do not understand even our own awareness, our
own feeling of self, our own intelligence, our own aspiration to
goodness and 'God' if there is 'God' would be so much more, so
much beyond us. We could only say 'O altitudo'.
We burn to find some firm foundation on which we may build
the tower which reaches us to infinity (Pascal)
We can hypothesise structures, atoms, neurones, complexes of
matter, because we are atoms, neurones and complexes of matter.
We may consider the future as well as the past of the
evolutionary process
We must not take the ordinary for granted
We occupy different levels at different times
We regret our future non-existence Our absence from that
distant galaxy Not comforted by any fantasy Nothing would content
us but presence
We should have done with all the eternal questioning
We spend our lives preparing our tombstones
We take for granted this moment
We think because we are imperfect?
We unite the past and future into a single eternal present -
an ever moving stillness.
We will come to understand the Universe by coming to
understand our own minds - and we shall come to understand our
own minds by coming to understand the Universe, the material
world.
WE are not the past (Croats/Serbs etc).
What after all were the consequences of Alexander?
What are we not foreseeing?
What concern in any sense for the universe is it that there
should be life, or consciousness, or the perception of the
universe?
What else do you take for granted?
What holds me back?
What if even our wildest ambitions are pitiful in their
insignificance?
What if the Platonic ideas (patterns) to some extent can be
identified with the specific perceptual pre-dispositions of the
brain (the neurones identifying lines, angles, slopes etc.)??
What image do we each form of ourself?
What impresses our senses as matter is really a great
concentration of energy into a comparatively small space.
What interest could God have in creating a human race? - or
setting in train the process of evolution of life and beyond?
What is beyond?
What is to be gone beyond?
What is the origin of the question? (or what is the origin of
any question?)
What makes science unsuitable as a religion?
What morality is taught by nature?
What must a community do to save its soul?
What new gift waits for us, grows in us?
What shelters the genetic structure against change?
What sort of pessimist is this who plays the flute?
(Nietzsche)
What will consolidate in time we cannot guess Our predictions
prove our limitations We hanker after the future The structure of
our minds condemns us to insatiable hunger We reach only for what
is out of reach What we have we no longer want Where we are is
where we do not wish to be We float up on a wave which breaks us
before we even see it break
What would be the nature of a greatly accelerated process of
perception or thought?
What would it mean for poetry, a poem, to survive the
perishing of the human race? How could poetry, a poem, be for
ever?
What! Are the clouds no longer magnificent?
Whatever is possible will be done
When love has been analysed, displayed, dissected Time has to
design a new engine to keep man moving
When the children know more than their fathers ...
When their leaves have fallen, the trees do not look so big
Where does a question come from? From perception of the
discontinuity
Where in the brain, what in the brain is the pattern we
unwind into words? Where in the brain, what in the brain is the
pattern we unravel into music?
Where in the universe can our works be recorded?
Which of these will I never need again?
Who could bear unbroken consciousness ?
Why does this word survive and that perish?
Why is Hobbes so much under-rated?
Why should 'causation' be any more explicable than the colour
'red'?
Why should we not be eloquent for truth, goodness and love?
With a view of the whole of individual life, from conception
to death (?)
With Huxley at St. Andrews, he played the only game of golf
he ever played (what a scene) and sitting on the cliff watching
some boys bathing: 'We marvelled over the fact, seeming
especially strange when they are no longer disguised by clothes,
that human beings should dominate over all other creatures and
play the wonderful part they do on earth.' (Spencer)
With no effort she destroys my self. She wounds me
delightfully, with no wish to hurt.
Without a motor system, perception, in all its forms, is
functionlesss, pointless, superfluous - phylogentically and
ontogenetically.
Wittgenstein dabbling - he made no real effort to take
account of history, science, evolution etc.
Wittgenstein - the man isn't insane. He's doing philosophy.
Word/thing gradient
Word-to-state transition period
Word-triggered action
Words are literally operations on the brain - thoughts are
literally operations on the body (words are literally also
operations on the body
Words are the quintessence of experience
Words can change us (in limited ways)?
Yogic control of the location of attention in the body as
pseudo-movement from the present brain model to a projected brain
model
You can never step in the same time twice
You cannot think out a poem - it can only be released
You must yearn after truth, you must be good, you must love
You take for granted the continued proceeding of thought
You take for granted the continuity of your self
You take for granted the seriousness of life
You take for granted the particular flavour of yourself