History, Embodiment, and Intention: Action (Karma) and Experience

Welcome It is my wish that the material in this blog, and other as well ("The Ulterior Dimension), will serve to alleviate some of life's dificulties No matter what is said in this blog, it is meant indexically, i.e., to point. Please do not confuse what is said here with what is true. The goal here is to help us to understand the nature and movement of experience and lessen suffering. That's all, no more than that is intended. All blog posts are subject to revision. Please keep that in mind.

Jun 16, 2016

Evan Thompson - "Waking, Dreaming, Being" at CIIS

Gene Kelly, YAV

This blog is essentially about two narrative topics that are or will be more important to us in the near future, chaos and determinism. To quote Edward Lorenz, "Chaos: When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future.” and, oddly, William Faulkner, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." Strangely, both succinctly declare what this blog is all about and how chaos, determinism, and the past along with sentience or awareness are in process of generating human subjective experience--again, the life of each one of us as it is lived. This blog seeks to humanize our language of experience and to help us focus on experience at the expense of an undue prioritizing of theory over experience.