[FRIAM] Subjective experience & free will

[Prof David West]

List? Singular?

I have a list of FRIAMers that I would like to share a week of conversation, beer, coffee, [hallucinogens] and music while exploring Lake Powell on a houseboat or floating the Colorado through the Grand Canyon.

A list of people I suspect are assholes, but whose image I am enthralled by, e.g. Timothy Leary.

A topical list: e.g. Genghis Kahn on social order and governance.

People who have shaped my own thoughts and ideas the most, e.g. Brigham Young, Alfred Korzibski, Carl Jung.

Probably semi-fictional folk like Hermes Trismegistus. 

So many folk, so little time. And yes, there are a lot of women on my various lists.

And yes, T.A.D.I.S. or holodeck or universal translator absolutely essential.

davew


On Tue, Mar 9, 2021, at 10:47 AM, jon zingale wrote:
> "Who would be on your list?"
> 
> I put more thought into this question over the last week than I thought
> I would. It is funny what questions bite us. The sad reality is that
> given a time machine (or better a T.A.R.D.I.S so that I can rely on its
> translator and mobility in space) I would very quickly realize that
> history has forgotten exactly those I would wish to meet. I would need
> a methodology for searching the past and updating what it is I value in
> meeting new people. I am unsure whether I would want to find those
> thinkers for whom I am simply a poor repetition or those whose ideas
> would move me closer to some as-of-yet undefined way of being. Maybe,
> I would seek those individuals so different from myself that I am
> inevitably executed only to regenerate back in the warm bosom of my
> T.A.R.D.I.S. What is funniest of all is that I could probably scrap
> the whole time thing altogether if I could find who here on Earth today
> I would want to meet. So far I am thinking Yo-Yo Ma or Katya Clover.
> 
> 
> 
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