always presents one with a box preceded by a seriously annoying prompt:
What's on your mind?
There are so many things wrong with this question, existentially, ontologically, epistemologically, and neurochemically, that even to proclaim the obvious answer that it has to be cerebrospinal fluid combined with vague and traumatic memories of cereal commercials from early childhood, and possibly a diversity of amyloid plaques, fails tragically to divert attention from my inability to enumerate them.
Have we forgotten what ‘mind’ means?
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There is an obvious rejoinder to this, which is, did we ever know what
‘mind’ means? Maybe that’s the real question I wanted to ask, but I think
it’s be...
6 days ago
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