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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica

Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.

Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors


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19.5.02

Our Conscious Mind Could Be An Electromagnetic Field But where, in all this movement of ions and chemicals, is consciousness? Scientists can find no region or structure in the brain that specializes in conscious thinking. Consciousness remains a mystery.
�Consciousness is what makes us 'human,' Professor McFadden said. �Language, creativity, emotions, spirituality, logical deduction, mental arithmetic, our sense of fairness, truth, ethics, are all inconceivable without consciousness.� But what�s it made of?

{there's a meditation diving board I used to use a lot. it's about infinities. not the out there all around every point regressing all the way space unlimited kind of infinities, but the little ones. Xeno's infinities. the ones you get if you go halfway to something and then halfway to it again. and again. and then ramp up and go. everybody can do one or two of those, sort of adjacent to each other. like fractals, or paisleys in the old days, but NOBODY can do em all. and why is that?
BECAUSE THERE'S AN INFINITE AMOUNT OF THEM, THAT'S WHY!
there's an infinite amount of them on the head of a pin. in the point you come to when you go halfway between two other points. in your teeth. in your toothbrush. they're everywhere.
so I used to start there and just... well I dunno. I'd end up somewhere else is all.
the consciousness puzzle is like that too. it's all well and good to diagram the mechanical parts of it, whatever they are. but the MEness, the YOUness of consciousness is not so easy to get on graph paper. and it is my humble opinion that it partakes of those 'micro' (do they own that yet?) infinities. that there's some connection we're mostly unaware of, I don't know what to call it. but it's opposed to the idea of everything being sort of hollow down there past Quark Junction.}

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