Centric

[hobozeller]

My favorite writers write about mind and body, more specifically about the paradox of body and mind. I love reading paradox, especially Rushdie's parallel paradoxes, as well as Kundera's neatly discussed-but-not-entirely-explained paradoxes. I love them so much that a fantasy I've had about the results of an imaginary philosophy paper worries me

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[hobozeller]

I'm beginning to think looking to biology to explain emotion and consciousness might be looking in the entirely wrong direction. These things are, again, based on empirical observations, right? This seems a lot like trying to experience what color looks like to other peoples' brains - wavelengths that are consistent but beyond electircal signals, not a clue.
This reminds me of flatland: a square from a 2-dimensional world visits 1-dimensional objects (lines) in a 1-dimensional world, which see eachother only as points and move back and forth in their set positions. The square talks to them, and moves around them, behind them, and the lines can't understand where he is. They are convinced that he is inside them, because he is, on that axis. This is difficult to explain without pen and paper.
Thought and emotion are inside us, as it is part of us, and we can define where we are in three dimensions, but maybe it's completely inaccessible by taking ourselves apart, as it exists on a different axis, and all we are capable of seeing is an electrical signal.