Neurophilosophy has posted a tremendously ghoulish and thoroughly fascinating interview with Heather Perry, the Gloucester woman who in 2000 decided to trepan herself in order to attain “more mental energy and clarity.” She denies a suggestion made by the BBC that the bathroom surgery, performed with local anaesthetic and an electric drill, was nearly fatal. …
Patterns: body
Substance and form, forces and differences
The explanatory world of substance can invoke no differences and no ideas but only forces and impacts. And, per contra, the world of form and communication invokes no things, forces, or impacts but only differences and ideas. (A difference which makes a difference is an idea. It is a “bit,” a unit of information.) Gregory …
All the way down
As my professor spoke today, something sparkling flew out of her mouth and crashed onto the table in front of me. As I stared at the glimmering shards of the something lying in front of me, bewildered that such a thing could happen in the absence of psychedelic assistance, I began to piece them together …
