I'm Mik. Model, mother, moron. Future meta-magician. Former logic clinician.
My better half and I own Brainfood Bookstore in Longmont, Colorado. It is the only exclusively indie- and local-lit bookstore in the nation. We meet a lot of crazy folks.
Testimonial from a former roommate:
"Living with you was like living with a quiet little opinionated deer person who floated around like a ghost and said smart/nutso things and ate seaweed. "
I love Colorado. I love mountains. I love hiking. I read and write. I raise my children to the best of my ability. I have lupus and have defeated early-stage cancer twice, so I pretty much fully support the use of medical marijuana.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Qualia : From the Latin, meaning “what kind”, qualia is a philosophical term that refers to the subjective qualities of sensory perception and the feeling they generate. Qualia is not only the “redness” of red, but the way that redness makes us feel. It is not just the smell of a spring morning, it is the memory it recalls. Qualia are, in essence, our own unique and personal perceptions of our environment.
My Grand Graduate Seminar Entry Thesis (so far):
- Experience is the root of knowledge. (Hume etc)
- Experience is phenomenal (not physical).
- Eg. black-and-white Mary (Jackson, Lewis)
- Eg. zombies (Chalmers)
omg halp
Anyone feel like helping me develop a position for a paper on qualia?
I can’t decide whether to agree with Lewis and reiterate that there is a difference between knowledge and ability, or whether to try to argue that phenomenal information is new knowledge, rather than new ability. Jackson’s Knowledge Argument really intrigues me, and it’s a topic that I feel strongly about (that physical information is absolutely no substitute for experience). I’m writing this paper as part of an admissions packet for a graduate seminar in Limits of Knowledge, and I want a thesis and basic outline by tonight, but… I’m just so confused. I don’t know what position to take at all. t.t Does anyone who feels strongly about this want to try to sway me to their side of the issue?
If God were a libertarian, there’d be no morality.
Stuff I take out of context from my Moral Issues class
Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man’s?
Friedrich Nietzsche (via philosophy-quotes)
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand Russel (via philosophy-quotes)
i just saw a quote from The Matrix on the #philosophy tag on Tumblr.
No wonder people don’t take my major seriously.
vakk:
πάθει μάθος (pathei-mathos)
— personal experience is the genesis of true learning.
people are always like um wtf are you gonna do with a major in philosophy
and i’m like um i already have a job, bro
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (via philosophixia)
