Comments on: Heaven

By: Casey

Casey — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:14:39 +0000

I sometimes wish I was one of those people that sticks to eating, sleeping, fucking and the things that one can do to directly influence the quantity and quality of all of those. I don’t think though, that we are aberrant in nature. I concluded a while back that every single person in a society, dreamers, workers, the less than intelligent, the perverts, all have to be here for some reason. Not to say I believe that there is some master plan to their existence. More along the lines of, if they are here, and there’s more than just a couple that could be written off to mutation, then there must be an evolutionary reason they are part of society.

While evolution doesn’t command that everything has a purpose, it does do away with the purposeless.

By: anaglyph

anaglyph — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:10:38 +0000

Consciousness must be the central mystery of the human condition. Without it we would just be automatons. In a way, you can see the great scope of it in the general population – all those on automatic are basically just eating, sleeping and fucking and never going anywhere else. And never even thinking about whether there is anything else. Which makes them exactly the same as animals. Not that I’m making a judgement call – maybe that’s the way it’s meant to be, and the rest of us who wonder are just aberrations.

By: Casey

Casey — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:36:48 +0000

I came to the exact same shudder. If a person died by something like falling, would his last forever thought be vertigo and terror?

Good work on the “event horizon” analogy, that’s what I was searching for.

That also opened up the question, is there consciousness antimatter? I guess what I mean is, is there a place where your conscious mind basically inverts in on itself? And does this only happen at death? I mean, I’ve seen and felt demons and monsters and ghosts and all kinds of stuff when I wake up in one of those dream hiccups. How much does your consciousness act like the universe that created it?

By: anaglyph

anaglyph — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:07:19 +0000

I’ve wondered something similar myself; whether there is some kind of consciousness ‘event horizon’ where your awareness slows down to imperceptibility. I hope not, because it means people who die in horrible ways are doomed to an eternal experience of the End.

Actually, that’s really creeped me out.

By: Casey

Casey — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:03:01 +0000

Cléa: You have a small extension, provided it was a good drink.

1. Euphoria in this sense is just the chemical haze of your brain as it shuts off. Or as it gets washed in hot peppers or choked. Have you ever run until you passed out?

2. The Tai Chi would be a little difficult for me. I’m not blessed with the lithe and flexible build that practitioners usually have. Bull in a china shop comes to mind.

4. Just like home, I can only be still with her so long before I start wanting to wander off.

Anaglyph: I wonder how much how you die has to do with it. I mean, your brain is finite, but the perceptions might stretch out into some approximation of forever. I’ve never seen a person losing air or blood not get loopy, but maybe that’s different if it’s from something painful.

By: anaglyph

anaglyph — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:13:58 +0000

>>is it possible that as you die and your brain loses its fuel, that you spend all of perceived eternity in euphoria

Or agony & terror.

By: Cléa

Cléa — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:39:36 +0000

First, my brain hurts reading these plus I’ve just had a strong drink. Second, I feel like I’ve been given a homework assignment that’s due this evening and I should ask for an extension.

1. Possibly. If you believe in euphoria.
2. I’m smiling re the emphasis on the art. Don’t ask… I think you’ve expressed it very well and you should do it.
3. Would like me to make you a Martini?
4. Ah, but in those moments of connection, you’ve both found… home.