Thursday, January 25, 2007

certain modular processes.

sigh. when it comes to homework, i am the worst procrastinator.

these are some notes i wrote in my psychology of thought & language class the other day in response to the lecture being given.
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we stutter and we stammer till You name us. we think we know and we do not. we are struggling to name the things you've given to us and decide what it all is for, but we struggle to even articulate anything beyond our grasp. "where is morality in the brain?", "what is culture for? to constrain us?" ,"would we sense morality or have accountability if there were no other humans?"

we would sense You. You would still stir us. You are not a social construct. it's too difficult for them to say. it's too difficult for them to think of what isn't physical, and so our mind must be an "emergent property," then, if it isn't physical. why do we want things to be able to be reduced to the smallest, most minute pieces? because we feel small? why must everything be an element only?

we have been made by You. i think we are smaller than we realize, in terms of the authority we have. we've been made by You. we don't give names to what you've made. we try but we don't even get it; it doesn't even work. we can't do it justice.

"access to certain modular processes...."

4 comments:

Timothy Dyk. said...

I love you anna. I love that you have a blog now. You are so talented. I think you are going to become a writer. Please keep blogging.

anna said...

ohh, thank you for taking the time, in mozambique, to leave a note. thank you for encouraging me. i love you, too, timmy. :)

Unknown said...

I love this Anna :) I love your thoughts, thanks for sharing.

pete said...

Dear A.B. (Anna Banana of course),
I read this and loved it. You are fabulous.