tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8807685073027188764.post256139223545444982..comments2024-03-14T08:38:46.219-07:00Comments on Biophilia: Introspection... happens in the brain!Burkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08135758421220520531noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8807685073027188764.post-26942503447697374112010-10-24T22:40:43.133-07:002010-10-24T22:40:43.133-07:00I’ve always thought of myself (ha!) as an introspe...I’ve always thought of myself (ha!) as an introspective person if it means really thinking about what I think and feel. As I recently wrote: “I trust no one in general, in particular, myself.” Some artificial propellants accelerate my thinking whereas others accelerate my emotional state. Alas, I have not found within me the ability to arrive at logical conclusions, (at least I know this) perhaps largely due to a lack of education, nor have I achieved such a profound unexplainable emotional union with the otherlies that causes me to (a) resort to blind faith as my reason or (b) insist that I have had a divine revelation. I am comfortable with “Could be wrong, could be right.” within the confines of my various thoughts or feelings. <br /><br />Sadly the high branch on the tree of knowledge is inaccessible to me at my age. On the other hand, life has afforded me a vast array of experiences from I have derived enough emotional content in which to drown. But even this is not enough. Therefore, I further explore my feelings with the imagination drawn out in me only by creative writing. I willfully place myself in scenarios that will afford me greater introspection. Often the conclusions I come to in my writings are simply those that any other man in a helpless state might arrive. And after such a laborious exercise, being satisfied with the process itself, I dismiss the results I have just declared. I think the term for this is heteropheonmenology, but I couldn’t swear to it. I would agree that the brain is both finite and accessible. But as for me – the me I am and the me that I want to be – well, that still feels both infinite and largely inaccessible. For all my introspection.Going Bygonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09033546787365882189noreply@blogger.com