Interesting Thoughts (based on my biased vantage point)

There are some days where I can’t bring myself to focus on the content of some of my classes (I’m looking at you Spanish 202). On such days, I will often write out random thoughts in my notebook, which for the most part, are utterly meaningless. Every now and then, however, I write something that I find to be worth being rethought or revisited. Here are a few such passages from this week:

“So much so, that many people have used these observations to justify the belief in the existence of numbers, evolution, and God (among other things). That is, almost everything fits... Qualia sticks out like a sore, unexplainable, parakeet. Qualia as qualia doesn't fit into such theories as well as we'd hope. This observation has proved troublesome for scientists and believers in theories that can't explain them (behaviorism, physicalism, etc.), and have fueled many movements that challenge or disagree with such doctrines (many religions and spiritual movements for examples). In light of Russell's theory of logical atomism, it seems as though it is because "what there is" is qualia; everything else, on the other hand, we make up. Why does it all fit so logically together? Because our minds run, when we use them, logically.”

I believe that in order to want, desire, wish, hope, care, or love anything or anyone one must believe in Realism. To believe in that is to believe that where objectivity can be, it is and without contradiction. The priority of usefulness, even if false, is inescapable. To those that deny this, please PLEASE get out of the way.

As children, we are ingrained with a lot, A LOT, of very bad ideas. Youth is determining which ones are good and which ones bad.