Thoughts and insights

[Jannes]

'The edge of your consciousness' 

Found this in the first manga of Blame and it triggered an interesting idea. This serves as an analogy to the 'edge of your consciousness'. Basically everything that is still visible is within your field of consciousness and everything outside of it is not. Similiar to the analogy of consiousness like a lightbulb in the dark. 

What I find really fascinating is understanding the edge and making a difference between the edge and not the edge. Describing it phenomenological. What is happening when we go to the edge or come back 'home' ? For me it feels like expansion and contraction. 

And how well do these analogies come to describing consciousness actually, as these analogies kind of suggests consciousness as a field of something, but is that really so? 

[Jannes]

marine life in sunken ships

 

 

Human beings build structures informed by long-term intelligent thinking. Few other structures on Earth are built like that. Most things in nature are means in and of themselves.

So in a way, the gain and flourishing of marine life, after a ship sinks to the ocean floor, comes from primitive intelligence polluting the intelligence of the environement that humans built. It flurishes as long as these structures—originally shaped by long-term intelligence—slowly transform into means in and of themselves.

Edited 7 hours ago by Jannes