I Don't Think, Therefore I Am Not
October 19th 2006 12:15
I wonder if too much has been made of being a mindful, thinking, and cogent person of reason. I mean, this abstracting brain that we have been blessed/cursed with seems quite the infant in the overall evolution of things.
We think on this, and over-think that. We rationalize one behavior, while justifying another. We (mis)interpret others motives relative to our own capacity for meta-think. And, contrary to our seeming self importance, we get it wrong at least as often as we get it right.
And, bottom line, who really gives a turtle fece? (Turtles are cool. I don't think they have an abstracting brain).
I make a living out of being a sentient and presumably rational and reasonable individual. I distance myself from my personal biases, you know. It's a professional thing. Boundaries, suspended judgement, non-judgementalism, and the like. Good qualities for therapists and robots.
Thusly, I take every opportunity I can to be mindless and engaged in reverie. A sort of 'being in' experience rather than creating experience. I seem to spend much less energy when I surf the larger wave than when I try to create my own.
Surfing is cool too, if you don't get malignant melanoma. I suppose I got that because I was a touch too mindless.
So, when I am choosing to be mindless, I wonder if I am or am not.
ARE YOU, OR ARE YOU NOT?
deorre
We think on this, and over-think that. We rationalize one behavior, while justifying another. We (mis)interpret others motives relative to our own capacity for meta-think. And, contrary to our seeming self importance, we get it wrong at least as often as we get it right.
And, bottom line, who really gives a turtle fece? (Turtles are cool. I don't think they have an abstracting brain).
I make a living out of being a sentient and presumably rational and reasonable individual. I distance myself from my personal biases, you know. It's a professional thing. Boundaries, suspended judgement, non-judgementalism, and the like. Good qualities for therapists and robots.
Thusly, I take every opportunity I can to be mindless and engaged in reverie. A sort of 'being in' experience rather than creating experience. I seem to spend much less energy when I surf the larger wave than when I try to create my own.
Surfing is cool too, if you don't get malignant melanoma. I suppose I got that because I was a touch too mindless.
So, when I am choosing to be mindless, I wonder if I am or am not.
ARE YOU, OR ARE YOU NOT?
deorre
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