Fleeting sensations
Momentary thought patterns
Consciousness wisps.
Like smoke, nothing is
Apprehendable; like fog,
Insubstanteous.
The wisps come and go
With no quantum gap between;
I can’t find myself.
Psychologist Hume
Metaphysician Descartes
A Scottish triumph.
With no I to think
Or outreason the Frenchman
What ‘Hume’ really won?
This is a slice of my philosophical, lay scientific, musical, religious skepticism, and poetic musings. (All poems are my own.) The science and philosophy side meet in my study of cognitive philosophy; Dan Dennett was the first serious influence on me, but I've moved beyond him. The poems are somewhat related, as many are on philosophical or psychological themes. That includes existentialism and questions of selfhood, death, and more. Nature and other poems will also show up here on occasion.
Saturday, May 03, 2008
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