You: Yea, verily, for how often do words escape from my mouth without any preceding conscious thought!
Me: Indeed, and how often do words escape into your thoughts without any preceding conscious thought!!
Some reflections following an experimental session exploring the idea of Fundamental Freedom with Malcolm Ocean.
Core idea: When we consider something to be “not allowed/not an option”, we insulate it from our full, honest, participatory consideration.
“I am God, and I have no need to think. Up to now I’ve never thought, and I’ve never felt the need, not in the slightest. The reason human beings are in such a bad way is because they think; thought is by definition sketchy and imperfect—and misleading. To any thought one can oppose another, obverse thought, and to that yet another, and so forth and so on; and this inane cerebral yakety-yak is about as far from divine as you can get.”
“A neat desk is a sign of a sick mind.”
“How does the brain create consciousness?”
What Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel has to say about the predicaments of modern democracy.