I Cannot Listen To Beethoven Or Mahler

There Are Things In Our Lives That Take Up An Enormous Importance And That Become Very Dominant Effects In Our Biography. And That Comes Out Of A Variety Of Reasons, But Fundamentally Comes Out Of How That Particular Experience Connects With Your Effective Systems Of Response.

Writing Long Hand Is The Last Refuge. One Needs The Time It Takes To Put Pencil To Paper And Let It Run Along The Ruled Line.

In 'self Comes To Mind' I Pay A Lot Of Attention To Simple Creatures Without Brains Or Minds, Because Those 'cartooned Abstractions Of Who We Are' Operate On Precisely The Same Principles That We Do.

In The Heart Of Consciousness Is Subjectivity, This Sense Of Having A Self That Observes One's Own Organism And The World Around That Organism. That Is Really The Heart Of Consciousness.

It's Very Interesting To Think About The Distinction With Mind, Which I Just Made In Very General Terms, But It Can Be Made More Profound When We Think That There Are Many Species, Many Creatures On Earth That Are Very Likely To Have A Mind, But Are Very Unlikely To Have A Consciousness In The Sense That You And I Have.