The Elf Lays Down His Harp to Kill an Orc
A few notes on the Inklings, Iain McGilchrist, and Poetic Language
The Left Hemisphere is a Paradox Moron
It is very possible that "paradoxes are actually fundamental to reality. . . . We exist in a world, of not forms, but of paradoxes." Lex Fridman (Edward Frenkel, #370), 1:10:25
Blaise Pascal: The Mathematical and the Intuitive Mind
Nayeli Riano at the Imaginative Conservative
Preliminary Notes Re: Focus
I will be exploring the difference between the left hemisphere's method of focus and the right hemisphere's. For now, I only note that a cottage industry has risen around focus, concentration, meditation, and the desire to rid ourselves of distractions. It's a good thing,
We Don't Know What Consciousness is Because We Don't Know What the Tao Is
Your consciousness is what it’s like to be you. It’s your experiences of color and sound and smell; your feelings of pain, joy, excitement or tiredness. It’s what makes you a thinking, sentient being rather than an unfeeling mechanism. Philip Goff, Scientific American
Science is stumped: It
Miscellaneous: My First Written Words about McGilchrist. Plus: The Golden Hour and Abstinence
Written and published on December 19, 2021
The Three Ideals of the Enlightenment
Isaiah Berlin summarized the Enlightenment ideals in these three premises, which Enlightenment thinkers held with religious-like fervor (to David Hume's amusement and, later, to Dostoyevsky's disgust):
1. Every genuine question can be answered. If it can’t be answered, it’s not a genuine question.
2.
The Hemisphere Hypothesis Briefly Collection
Legislative Process, the Left Hemisphere, and Hayek
F.A. Hayek looking ahead 75 years to the world of COVID:
"[A] socialist government must not allow itself to be too much fettered by democratic procedure." F.A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom
The parallel to the Hemisphere Hypothesis is stunning. The left hemisphere hates to be