I'm pretty sure that in a few hundred years, people will look at today's "pure rational scientists" and think they were idiots. Such is life
Yes, and if I may quote Captain Jack - "Everything changes". That's what history does. A sort of permanent ongoing escalating state of generation gap. So much so that the past becomes increasinly foreign and we will see strange to the future.
Which is why visions of the future from twenty or fifty or a hundred years ago look so strange.
I'll have to think about what it means that I have such a strong and immutable view of my 'self' when I still find it hard to define. I remember that this was once a yoga exercise we did in class - and I didn't do so well then, either.
Let me think about it for a day or so and get back to you. I want to try because it's interesting, and, I think, nicely life-affirming (horrible phrase - I can't think of a better). But coherence? Hah. I'll work on it.
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Date: 2008-02-15 05:36 pm (UTC)Yes, and if I may quote Captain Jack - "Everything changes". That's what history does. A sort of permanent ongoing escalating state of generation gap. So much so that the past becomes increasinly foreign and we will see strange to the future.
Which is why visions of the future from twenty or fifty or a hundred years ago look so strange.
I'll have to think about what it means that I have such a strong and immutable view of my 'self' when I still find it hard to define. I remember that this was once a yoga exercise we did in class - and I didn't do so well then, either.
Let me think about it for a day or so and get back to you. I want to try because it's interesting, and, I think, nicely life-affirming (horrible phrase - I can't think of a better). But coherence? Hah. I'll work on it.