The above Latin phrase which I've adopted as a motto encapsulates as well as any phrase could the fundamental shift in my thinking that has occurred over the past couple of years. It was coined by Vico in a passage of the Scienza Nuova where he discusses the ubiquity of bodily metaphors in speech ("eye of a needle", "heart of the city", "head of ( Read more... )

There comes a point when a word is so overburdened with multiple connotations that don't have any necessary logical connection with each other that it becomes necessary for clear thinking to avoid the use of it altogether. Because of this, I intend to henceforth avoid using the word "conscious" and its derivatives in serious writing, with the ( Read more... )