[FRIAM] quickening

[Steven A Smith]

Jon -

Congratulations on your fresh parentage...  the perfect (long) moment to
consider many issues around the meaning of life, consciousness, etc. (as
you are).

Of note it is interesting what you juxtapose:   Playing D&D with someone
who you are also (out of band from the game) discussing phenomenology
and mind.   I've never played D&D but have a vague sense of the culture
and experience and anecdotally know it to be incredibly immersive for
those who allow themselves to trance into it as it were.  

Interesting also perhaps is the implication of that in the light of the
Hoffman/Veridical thread?

- Steve

On 9/12/19 11:33 AM, Jon Zingale wrote:
> With few apologize, I have not been contributing very much as of late.
> The last few months have offered new opportunities for work, meditations
> on new life, and a whole lot of commutative ring theory / algebraic
> geometry.
>
> Sometime soon, I hope to meet with my friend Ashley (an ex-Johnnie)
> whom it seems has thought quite a bit about consciousness and embodiment.
> She and I are in a D&D campaign together and we spend our `smoke` break
> talking about phenomenology and mind. I would appreciate any `concise`
> thoughts that members of FRIAM have on the subject, as sometimes I see
> it as my job to pollinate my environment with the thoughtful ideas of
> others.
>
> For those that do not yet know, Sarah and I are going to have a baby in
> March. This experience has me wondering about how it is that we `come
> online`. This tiny organism begins as Sarah and slowly develops a heart
> and a nervous system. Is it an eventual critical mass of neurons and the
> like that brings this thing (otherwise indistinguishable from an organ)
> across the threshold and into a cognitive being? I muse that the first
> experiences are proto-painful as I am not sure what a growing pain is
> when what is growing are the very first sensory organs the thing has.
> What is it to experience and then to become aware of experiencing?
> Unfortunately, I cannot remember.
>
>
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