Thank you SOOOOOO much dear Tara for your reply (cool name!). <img src="/images/graemlins/queen.gif" alt="" />
I have to say, of all the forums I visit, and there are a few... BellaOnline always seems.. rather INTELLIGENT! <img src="/images/graemlins/lovers.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/tut.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/angel.gif" alt="" />
I posted this same exact post into Michio Kaku's Einstein-like genius forums, and some admin cut it down to one paragraph and ... boy oh boy I got mad, and that is veeery difficult! Me, mad? <img src="/images/graemlins/wall.gif" alt="" /> I replied how reducing things to commercial sized, short attention span,
lowest common denominator sound-byte doesn't even allow one to communicate anything.. and he said "if you are going to get quippy.." so I give up! A brainy board like that, telling me to reduce intelligent posts to small bite-sized chunks.. well I'm sorry but one of the greatest use of discussions like this is... GETTING SOMETHING OUT! Phew! Thanks for the release, dear Bella.. he he.. <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/rolling.gif" alt="" />
Back on this topic: Every book of Lakoff's that I read transforms me immensely - for the better! I am a computer-database-nerd, and he posits that thoughts aren't some random floating thing (or think he he.. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />) but happen BECAUSE we have 2 arms, 2 legs, our social interactions and such. He has broadened my thinking about what philosophy means in the basic, and even global contexts!!! <img src="/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />
The part I quoted starts by saying that our conscious mind is only 5% of our total mind, he proves it logically, then goes on to state that we need to rethink philosophy considering that fact. I am from Berkeley Califunny and bizarelly, almost no-one there knows about Bishop Berkeley who the town is named after. His study was on PERCEPTIONS and how all that we know comes from our perceptual organs - and can we fully trust them? So you see, I have the strange ability to look into things, find out what Berkeley really means, and Lakoff's theories about CATEGORIZATION, and PHILOSOPHY IN THE FLESH really resonate with me.
I believe that the more we share and discuss this type of information: COGNATIVE SCIENCE instead of some mystic mumbo-jumbo (don't get me wrong, I am into chakras, total detachment, the now etc...), the more we advance our thinking based on well founded science, the more we advance as human beans and collectively as a civilization. Example: I talk about chakras as ENDOCRINE GLANDS because those, scientifically exist and have important functions. Rethinking esoterics, mystical things through logical and scientific filters. Yes! <img src="/images/graemlins/heart.gif" alt="" />
May our sharing and discussing of awareness expanding information be useful, enlightening, and fun! Amen and Awomen. And so it is. Love and light being, Teo Do (Re, Mi, Fa...) <img src="/images/graemlins/tut.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/king.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/computer.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue2.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
