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Just Back...
Dec. 21st, 2001 11:34 pm... from a week's vacation in Michigan, with my family--the "holiday" trip. It was good to be with them again.
I got to spend significant time with my year-old niece Aja. She is truly a bundle of joyous energy. She is naturally equipped with Kung-Fu grip. When she grabs onto your shirt, you will spend minutes prying her fingers from you. She wants to get into everything. She's a very determined soul--if she wants something, she'll put her entire body action towards it. She's a wonderful girl, and I love her to death. It will be so interesting to see what kind of personality she will have.
For twenty-three more minutes, it's still the solstice. Happy Yule, all.
For the occasion, I wish I had some hot cider. But I do not. I'll have to make due with hot tea (and fresh banana-walnut bread).
While at home, I had the opportunity to make it through much of Julian Jayne's Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. I can't say I agree with every part of the author's hypothesis, but I find the greater part of his ideas entirely fascinating, ideas I can easily fit into my own cosmology. A short example of part of its argument:
Oh, and more interesting to me than probably anyone else...
I spent several hours this week scribbling snippets of this book into my personal journal. Some of it, I want to be able to easily refer to it.
The drive back from Michigan was long, and now I am tired. My crisply cool pillows sound really good right now.
I got to spend significant time with my year-old niece Aja. She is truly a bundle of joyous energy. She is naturally equipped with Kung-Fu grip. When she grabs onto your shirt, you will spend minutes prying her fingers from you. She wants to get into everything. She's a very determined soul--if she wants something, she'll put her entire body action towards it. She's a wonderful girl, and I love her to death. It will be so interesting to see what kind of personality she will have.
For twenty-three more minutes, it's still the solstice. Happy Yule, all.
For the occasion, I wish I had some hot cider. But I do not. I'll have to make due with hot tea (and fresh banana-walnut bread).
While at home, I had the opportunity to make it through much of Julian Jayne's Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. I can't say I agree with every part of the author's hypothesis, but I find the greater part of his ideas entirely fascinating, ideas I can easily fit into my own cosmology. A short example of part of its argument:
Subjective conscious mind is an analog [defined as "an experientially generated model"] of what is called the real world. Its reality is of the same order as mathematics. It allows us to shortcut behavioral processes and arrive at more adequate decisions. Like mathematics, it is an operator rather than a thing or repository. And it is intimately bound up with volition and decision (p. 55).
Oh, and more interesting to me than probably anyone else...
Even such an unmetaphorical-sounding word as the verb 'to be' was generated from a metaphor. It comes from the Sanskrit bhu, 'to grow, or make grow,' while the English forms 'am' and 'is' have evolved from the same root as the Sanskrit asmi, 'to breathe'" (p. 51).
I spent several hours this week scribbling snippets of this book into my personal journal. Some of it, I want to be able to easily refer to it.
The drive back from Michigan was long, and now I am tired. My crisply cool pillows sound really good right now.