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Reflection 206: Book Synopsis Part 4/5
Copyright © 2011 Here is the next installment of the synopsis of my upcoming book, KNOW THYSELF: Adventures in Getting to Know My Own Mind. –Steve Perrin Chapter 10, Values. I wrote most of this...
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Reflection 251: Education!
Copyright © 2012 by Steve Perrin Last week I showed a PowerPoint featuring eagles, herons, harbor seals, and sandpipers to the afternoon program at a local grammar school. All the photos of wildlife I...
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Reflection 275: A Day in the Life
Copyright © 2012 by Steve Perrin Life of whom or what? Life of the Quaker Institute for the Future summer seminar 2012 held at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. In particular, signs of that...
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Reflection 286: Layout
Copyright 2012 by Steve Perrin Like the lay of the land, here’s how I see the lay of my mind. I picture the basic layout of my mind (distinct from my brain) as consisting of two areas, an incoming,...
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Reflection 297: Where the Day Goes
Copyright 2012 by Steve Perrin.Our minds hop from one to the next, situation-to-situation, like islands in an archipelago. From one instant of focus and feeling to another, that is our grand adventure,...
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Reflection 299: Born to Engage
Copyright 2012 by Steve Perrin.Actions (including speech) are how we get out of our heads and make ourselves known to the world. To reach the point where considered action becomes possible, we must...
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Reflection 300: I Rest My Case
Copyright 2012 by Steve Perrin.In Reflections 281–299, I have laid out my thoughts on consciousness as I live it every day. Or it lives me. I am a dutiful scribe doing his best to keep up with the flow...
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Reflection 316: Self-Awareness
Copyright 2012 by Steve Perrin.As I see it, phenomenology applies the powers of mind to understanding the self. Fundamentally, it is self-reflection taken to an extreme degree in discovering not the...
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Reflection 317: Self-Reflection
Copyright © 2012 by Steve Perrin. Self-reflection is a process you go through to understand yourself better than you do now. In CONSCIOUSNESS: The Book, I call it introspection—looking inward....
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Reflection 317: Self-Reflection
Copyright © 2012 by Steve Perrin. Self-reflection is a process you go through to understand yourself better than you do now. In CONSCIOUSNESS: The Book, I call it introspection—looking inward....
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366. The Other AI (Authentic Intelligence)
Darwin’s interest 140 years ago was in comparing human minds to animal minds from the point of view of evolution. I devoted my last post to a brief treatment of his findings. My interest today is in...
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369. So Do We Invent Ourselves
We live by setting goals and striving to achieve them. Roughly speaking, our first life goal is to grow into competent human beings. Our second is to discover who we are and what we hope to accomplish....
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370. Do We Make it or Not?
Setting goals is how we guide ourselves in getting ahead, how we navigate this life of ours day-by-day. But gauging how close we come to attaining those goals is another matter entirely. To head off in...
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371. The Olympic Event We Call Life
Questions, always questions. Setting goals is absolutely no guarantee that we will fulfill our dreams. Hopes, wishes, desires, and all the rest are states of mind that spur us to action. Achieving...
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378. Wayfaring Day and Night
In the terminal moments of a dream I had on the morning of March 10, 2014, I found myself loaded with gear in both hands, struggling up a crowded escalator. I met a series of obstacles at every level,...
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391. Darwin Had It Almost Right
I see comparison as the common feature of a great many of our mental operations. In fact, it looms in my mind as the essential function of the brain in leading to consciousness. It is not any...
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400. Men Build Bridges; Women Build Relationships
Many of my projects are based on a close relationship to the natural history of the region in Maine where I live. Projects, in fact, establish a kind of intimate relationship, very much like building a...
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453. Families Give Us Room to Fall on Our Face
Memory is at the heart of learning through trial and error. We are born knowing very little; it’s all uphill from there. Families give us a leg-up by not having to be feral children dependent on...
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483. Summary in a Word: Consciousness
Engagements between self and other have been around since the early days of one-celled lifeforms drifting about in their aqueous environments. Which-was-which depended on your perspective, that of cell...
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