Status Updates From Matter and Memory

Sorry, I haven’t been checking my feed at all the past couple weeks. I’ll probably be able to get caught up soon. I had a really nice time in Vancouver. I met up with a friend I hadn’t seen in a while. We explored the UBC campus and took the bus downtown the next day. We went to the Vancouver Art Gallery and saw a Nan Goldin exhibit and explored Davie Street (Vancouver’s gay village). I also had a Japadog :)

“You define the present in an arbitrary manner as that which is, whereas the present is simply what is being made. Nothing is less than the present moment, if you understand by that the indivisible limit which divides the past from the future. When we think this present as going to be, it exists not yet, and when we think it as existing, it is already past. If, on the other hand, what you…”

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“To picture is not to remember. No doubt a recollection, as it becomes actual, tends to live in an image; however, the converse is not true, and the image, pure and simple, will not be referred to the past unless, indeed, it was in the past that I sought it, thus following the continuous progress which brought it from darkness into light. This is what psychologists too often forget when…”

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Really Good!!

Chapter 3 brings back the fire and magic of the first chapter, moving back from biology to philosophy!

Second chapter wasn't quite as engaging as first because I felt Bergson got bogged down in biological explanations that might be outdated by now with MRI and MEG imaging of brains. Curious to see where he goes next...

The first chapter of this detonated mind explosions on almost every page, both with ideas I have had before but could never quite find words for and also explanations for those ideas that were clearly written and fascinating to follow.