I am interested in the structure of consciousness and have been reading some of the ideas of phenomenology, namely Gurwitsch, Husserl, and Sartre. My goal is to gain some insight into the components of consciousness and how they are related to the physical world and the structures that produce them. While phenomenology explicitly posits two ( Read more... )

I need a word that is similar to perspective but which is less physically oriented. It is supposed to communicate a change in the interpretation of an unchanging stimulus. This situation would occur when one is making a moral judgment of a situation. In this case, the stimulus may be an abstract representation of a situation or action (such as a ( Read more... )

Further exploring these topics should aid in my study of emergence:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condensed_matter_physics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasiparticle

The defining characteristic of a complex system is that some of its global behaviours, which are the result of interactions between a large number of relatively simple parts, cannot be predicted simply from the rules of those underlying interactions. (srcOne of the reasons I find this topic interesting--although perhaps naively so--is because it ( Read more... )

http://www.livejournal.com/users/twistedgreen/633449.html

Instead of taking the world as an existing totality that includes ourselves, we inquire into the grounds for our positing it. What evidence do we have for our belief that its various objects exist? What are the experiences and syntheses that result in the presence of such objects? The subject responsible for such presence is termed the “ ( Read more... )

Morality is simply a frivolous aesthetic.

Without ignorance, humanity could not exist.

An individual in a crowd is no more important than a cell in your body. If it dies, you will hardly miss it... as a part of the crowd ( Read more... )

I am very confused about what a person is.