Having drastically de-theist-ed myself, I am in the process of re-theist-ing anew, and the puzzle of defining consciousness comes up frequently. I feel that the creation of meaning is an exercise in applying constraints & drawing boundaries. Doing this for art here requires then doing it for consciousness and nature and humans, or any other subject in the definition.
So I guess it comes down to which definition I think is most useful. But how do I determine that, with only ONE LIFE?!
I am deeply familiar with the intellectual knot-tying I see here. Reality, I'm convinced, is both much simpler and much more complicated than we can hope to understand in a comprehensive way.
One of the purposes of art is to get us out of those head mazes and into our hearts, which can feel the warmth of truth like the light of the Sun. Not something to be deconstructed and explained, but experienced in a way that is both immediate and timeless.
You can't think your way to the answers. You have to live your way to them.
Having drastically de-theist-ed myself, I am in the process of re-theist-ing anew, and the puzzle of defining consciousness comes up frequently. I feel that the creation of meaning is an exercise in applying constraints & drawing boundaries. Doing this for art here requires then doing it for consciousness and nature and humans, or any other subject in the definition.
So I guess it comes down to which definition I think is most useful. But how do I determine that, with only ONE LIFE?!
I am deeply familiar with the intellectual knot-tying I see here. Reality, I'm convinced, is both much simpler and much more complicated than we can hope to understand in a comprehensive way.
One of the purposes of art is to get us out of those head mazes and into our hearts, which can feel the warmth of truth like the light of the Sun. Not something to be deconstructed and explained, but experienced in a way that is both immediate and timeless.
You can't think your way to the answers. You have to live your way to them.