The kinds of things that go through my mind on a Saturday morning.
For any of you who are philosophically minded (that includes all you dick joke types), I've got an idea rattling around in my head. I'd appreciate it if any of you could read it to see if I'm making sense. If it does make sense, what do you think?
( Does it do us any good to think of the world in terms of a subject/object dichotomy? )
( Does it do us any good to think of the world in terms of a subject/object dichotomy? )
Do you ever feel at one with your computer? Like, when you're playing a game? Do you stop thinking about what your fingers and hands are doing, and it seems that there is nothing between you and what is happening on the screen? Or perhaps playing the bass, I know I get it playing guitar.
When you feel like that, does it make sense to think of you and your bass as two separate, distinct entities? I'm trying to suggest that it doesn't, that at that moment, you have to consider yourself to be more than just your physical existence. You take on some of the essence of the bass, merging with it (on a metaphysical level). It no longer makes sense to think of yourself, or your bass, you have become your bass-self.
However, when you merge like that (ie the destruction of the subject/object dichotomy), you also have to consider all the manifold connections that exist; for example, the people who wrote the song you're playing, the other people in the band, the people who built your bass, the machines that built your bass. These are all included in your bass-self. Thus, when you become your bass-self, you're not only connected with your bass, but with all the things that connect to your bass.
Honestly, I can't think of any better suggestion than to try thinking about this without words. Try to imagine every separate entity as having a magical force field or energy in it/around it. When you become your bass-self, then these fields merge. Now, it doesn't happen whenever you pick up a bass, it only happens when you really get in the zone. Do you know the difference in the feelings when sometimes your fingers aren't doing what you tell them and a song you've played a million times sounds crap, and those times where you're not even thinking about it, but you're just listening to the music coming out and grooving along. These are the two separate states, and we can fall in and out of them. When we fall in to them, we also fall in to the connections carried by your bass.
Make any sense? :P (don't worry if it doesn't, only one person has kinda got it yet...)
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