culture

Culture, we see the vague impressions of reflex in its recurring themes, its repetitive rituals.

The mind is an achievement, and epiphenomenal occurrence of self-awareness, stemming from fixing time in neural activity and using that as a baseline to judge change across time. There, fixed in the parapet of our vision we recognize the missing component, which accompanies our thought, us.

The mind is epiphenomenal to the stuff of its operation, the matter, the brain. The brain is a jumble of specialized motor neurons fixed into action networks existing in real space, operating in real time. That's the matter. Mind and its endless mystery is merely our own limit conditions of thinking of thinking. We set this problem up ourselves by basing the nature of thinking, the datum of thought, in a relationship of difference.

Our minds are merely an agglomeration of specialized motor nerve activity, operating in a resilient circuit. We've used that substantiation of mind, the action induced neural network, as the read-write condition for experience. And we shoehorn into this network-in-action the rhythm of recurrence, the steady beat of pattern with cycles. Upon this we narrate beginnings and ends. Yet we all know that our synthetic thought processes, owing to their own quasi-mathematical chemical-electrical nature, provide a substrate for experiencing. But this experience must happen according to its nature, and its nature is one defined by the neuron. The neuron's ability to both fluctuate frequency and amplitude of its activation furnishes a capacity to modulate energy. In doing so, within its limited time frame of activity before a refractory absence from operation it provides a structured essence of thought. Just as sound waves must be translated into a grooved surface to record them to vinyl, our minds require a world to concede to the requirements of this neuron to count as experience. It's nature emerges through the character of propagating a current across a nerve cell. That's an abject condition for activity, which doesn't provide an adequate 'thereness' to thinking as an outcome of that activity. In addition, the nerve cell's ability to operate in tandem with a vast network of like cells and do so repetitively suggests that the mind itself is a metaphor. It uses energy from the world, acquired by food, to conduct electricity continuously within specialized cells, which merely retain a sensory copy of that world. This is it? The world begets life literally through the fruits of spontaneous and incidental molecular interaction. Life begets the world metaphorically through a mind that uses a vast network of neurons to retain a personal copy of that world.

This is fascinating. The world in mind is the membrane through which a body learns to deal with the world. The price we pay for such a form of mediation is that we learn not necessarily of the world but the world as such. The as suchness of this world explains the effect of possessing this mind model of the world. That model is in fact artifactual, suggesting that the prior particulars that influenced this model become the germs of obsolesence.

To say that I study the mind is a conceit inherited from epistemology.

What I find fascinating is that we seek a rhythm in the world and fit it into the rhythm of thinking. Sometimes we're off rhythm and out of step, we fall, sometimes die. Some accidents are chance events. They befall those who are out of step.