Posted by zeugma on September 9, 2005, at 18:36:27
In reply to Re: feel like a zero-place predicate right now » zeugma, posted by Damos on September 7, 2005, at 23:00:09
thanks to a kind Babblemail from Damos :-)
and the effects of lots and lots of caffeine, in liquid and pill form.
I am very depersonalized, I don't really feel 'there' unless large quantities of some stimulating substance have been ingested, Provigil or Ritalin or caffeine (or combination thereof), which gets me off the floor where I experience absolute nothingness.
It was the verb 'to be' that got me into philosophy. (That and Descartes' Dream Argument- but that argument has a slightly different spin when you're narcoleptic...) Heidegger explains what 'Dasein' means, but I wish he would explain his explanation- he does, endlessly, but not in a form I can understand. Quine is a little more prosaic- "to be is to be the value of a variable." Well, I can understand that, sort of. And for someone who hardly feels 'there' it's a pressing question.
I do feel a little 'here' now. Philosophy is a very personal matter for me.
-z
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