New Spirits - Reading Deleuze in India
Consciousness only exists in connection with other consciousness
Posts on consciousness, thought, immanence, representation, and philosophical transformation in the Reading Deleuze in India project.
I've been waiting for a while. I actually enjoy waiting. Waiting is a space and a time in which there's nothing else to do but wait for time to pass. Usually, you can't do much else besides read or talk, or think. For me, waiting times are therefore always free spaces. I most enjoy waiting in community centers, for example; here, all people are equal. Together with others, I'm in a room where there's nothing...
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I live in a hypercomplex society. I notice this in political and social issues, which nobody can truly grasp in their complexity anymore. We can hold onto principles, for example, justice, equality, freedom, consideration, sustainability, etc. But when it comes to concrete actions, it gets difficult. Should I take one side or the other in a conflict, or is there a third way? Which of my own actions should I change, and how radical should I be…
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During meditation, I often observe my thinking, letting thoughts come and go, and try to slow down the thinking process. Thoughts come and go, and I often don't understand where they come from, or why they are eventually replaced by a completely different thought. What chain of association is at work there? These chains of thought seem random, triggered by experiences that are still resonating and being processed. This reminds me of a philosophical idea. It begins with an observation by Henri Bergson…
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I've always had stomachaches with an atomistic worldview. We learn in school that the smallest building blocks of the universe are atoms. Now, physics has advanced, and we talk about protons, electrons, positrons, quarks, and strings, etc. ... At its core, the idea remains the same: the world is composed of the smallest parts of matter. This is such a widespread idea that few people doubt it, meaning they doubt the exclusivity of this worldview. I explicitly do not want to [cover] physics, chemistry, or...
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Black holes pose puzzles for us. I am not a cosmologist and approach black holes through popular science with a philosophical interest. They mark a boundary of our imagination. Gravity influences space and time, science says. Concentrated to a point, it condenses matter to its pure substance, crushing atomic nuclei and electrons together into a mass (atoms essentially consist of emptiness). This mass, with its incredible gravitational force, attracts everything and bends and distorts space and time. The black...
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In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, people sit facing a wall where they see the shadows of real objects from the world. Since they have only seen shadows their entire lives, they believe these to be reality. The philosopher's task is to explain to people that they should turn around to see how the apparatus of light, which serves as a projection mechanism, creates an illusion. Once people recognize this, they will break free from their chains...
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The forest is a wonderful habitat. Recently, I heard a little story about a man who, whenever he entered the forest, would whistle a melody. After a while, the animals recognized him by it and accepted his presence. They no longer ran away, sometimes they even greeted him. We often don't see the forest as it is because we disturb it so much. Today I was in the forest. Instead of going for a walk as usual, I meditated a bit, and then a little...
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