Perceptual Load and Meditation
One of the most astonishing results of a 10-day meditation retreat such as the two that I have done in the past two years is the flourishing of perceptual clarity […]
Panpsychism and the Grand Scheme of Things
Panpsychism is the view that posits that all physical objects have mental states associated with them. This is an attempt to explain our consciousness without invoking specific soul-substances that inhere […]
Zombies
In a discussion of consciousness, the ‘zombie’ argument almost always comes up and is used as a thought experiment in order to demonstrate the impossibility of either one view or […]
Journal Entry from March 28 2011
The birds of tumult flung their slow strung lyres at us in despair writhing in agony as they hurled their offspring from atop the tree tops in disgust and unthinking […]
Journal Entry from March 8 2011
In intrinsic notions of everlasting purity of the heart that the meek cherish without fascination upon the many layers of horrid muck that sucks the trucks away without molding mildly […]
Global Workspace Theory
Global Workspace Theory (GWT) is a conceptual framework proposed by Bernard Baars that rather elegantly explains consciousness, at least its functional aspect, leaving aside the phenomenal epistemically privileged sort, in […]
Reflections on 2010
Well well well, another year has come to its end and so it is again time to take a step back and look at my life from a distance in […]
Journal Entry from December 29, 2010
Dionysus the pathology, say they that seek the -ologies. The drumming on the edifice, the cracking of the cemented asphalts. The sleekness of the hypostasis is not to be shat […]
What do I want to do with my life?
This seems like a particularly urgent question at this time of growth and development. I am already in the midst of a graduate degree which is costing my father a […]
Journal Entry from December 8, 2010
The chimes of the fairy plots onward bound for the farthest realms of immaterial inquiries into vagaries of fantastical phantasm agoria phobia that ransacks all but the gentle-persons. To survive […]
Journal Entry from November 15, 2010
Let’s just express the rest of this express play for today, the windows stain. Hey hey, why so say? Have a look at the bumble juice that’s been oozing goons […]
Journal Entry from November 4 2010
How does the thing eat other things for breakfast looking like it is doing something noble and lofty worthy of the gods and their progeny. But this is too humbling […]
Tortured by Desire
I am either cursed or blessed, but at the moment I am leaning towards the former. Whatever is happening to me is certainly unpleasant and I keep on falling back […]
Journal Entry from October 13 2010
So, what to say today for this play. to say anything at all is to say enough for the tall. this technique of rambling ever onwards is like a giant […]
Journal Entry from April 20 2009
I just wanted to write but I don’t really know what it is exactly that I wish to write down. However, I have the notion that this topic will begin […]
The Problem of Indexicality
There is an issue which is very hard for me to talk clearly about and yet continues to plague and itch at me begging for clear resolution. This is what […]
Consciousness
Consciousness is the greatest mystery. Its most fundamental nature has yet to be uncovered and while many discoveries about the intricate workings of the brain have shed light on the […]
Journal Entry from March 13 2009
I wish to deposit things meaningless and pointless but relieving and believing that there’s a hidden purpose and a deeper force acting through me for me with me. Its helpful […]
On Resistance to Change
A weird phenomenon: childhood friends re-establishing contact with me and in particular wanting to have a conversation with me or see me again after not seeing me for so long. […]
Abdicate
Abdicate thy haughty loft, that cursed perch, imagined so tall, that to heaven one seems to fall. Relinquish thy will, that fear of what’s dark, thoughts thought to steer, that God becomes […]