October 21st, 2008
Dear diary,
21st of October 2008.
How time flies.
I’m sitting here on a padded chair that rocks back and forth everytime I shift a little bit of weight on both ends, thinking.
Thinking about what I just wrote for my Anthropology paper.
Epistemology, the question of how we come about to understand our state of being, our reality. Metaphorical reality? Literal reality? What is reality? How do know whether you are reading this in your real self, or you think you’re reading this but you’re actually not the person behind the pair of eyes behind the mind behind behind behind
What is in the mind? Do you know what is really inside you or who’s controlling what you think you actually have power over?
Dear diary,
I don’t understand anymore.
Am I really sitting here on this rocking chair?
Am I really churning some cryptic shit to a bunch of confused people?
Am I really here?
21st October 2008.
Epistemology. behind my eyes behind my mind behind behind behind
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This reminded me so much of Philosophy, a requisite subject I was once forced to take by my uni. Besides the disputes u’d mentioned, my lecturer also made us question stuffs such as why people walk in and out through doors instead of using the windows and why are we not cows.. or something like that la. Don’t know if you get what I mean. =,=”
So deep /boo
Yeah I have always been asking myself why am I me, why am I not me, why me and why not me
do you ever get the eerie feeling and endless questioning that ensues when you think: why am I me? Why do I exist as myself, when myself is actually the whole universe that I know of, is there some purpose in this solitary consciousness, will i wake up as somebody else someday or just extinguished then wouldnt that feel like the world no longer exist, how can the fabric of reality depend on on something so unreliable as perception of the living and dying, or can there be existence with no consciousness……*eyes roll back into head
this is the first time i heard of Epistemology! maybe it covers those qns that periodically haunts me for no apparent reason
lol i was so excited abt commenting that i didnt read jammie’s comment, yalor does everyone think like that every so often
these theories are confusing..:S
I m doing moral assignment..all sorts theories..deontology n utilitarian..hav to do it anyway
haha, so long din see your post filled with happiness
jia you..
omg this reminds me of a chinese sci-fi novel (wesley series) that i read ages ago. it was freaky cos the story reveals that the world we’re in is not what we think. that our whole world, our whole universe is contained in a box. and that box is a plaything for an alien being.
epistemology sounds hard. it’s like one of those subjects that you can spend hours thinking about and just end up hurting your brain. and i bet it’s one of those “there is no right answer, but there is a wrong answer” type of paper.
wow!!! so complicated this post…
am i really writing this comment??? @.@
sometimes when i zone out, i start thinking about all these too. am i really in existence? am i really touching this thing that i’m touching now? are these things that i’m seeing now really there? i thought it was just me
i like this post babe
deep indeed *sweat*
py, yeah i think it’s very much a philosophical question too. haha i get what you mean!
jammie, yeah i why? why? why? wtf
ap, so true! how can it rely on somthing as feeble as consciousness! yes i think there won’t be existence without consciousness. question: if a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it. does it still make a sound? what is the perception of reality?
ting, haha i did the same thing for my moral class in alevels! omg that was such a waste of time but i did enjoy the class though. my previous post very happy wht!
irene, this actually is also the concept of the movie matrix. epistemology is hard but it’s so interesting! my professor is really nice i hope he wont think there’s a wrong answer..
vincent, hahahah yeah are you? are you really who you think you are vincent? wtf
gwen, i think there are lots of people who question these things too. what is existence? how do you define existence? is it merely the concept of being alive in reality? does it have to do with consciousness?
jaysee, *sweat phew
answer this: If a tree falls in a forest, but no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Indeed, did it even fall?
If you exist in someone else’s memory, is that the same you as the real you? Does that you exist independently of you?
got it off Serial Experiments Lain, a very philosophical anime - unconventional, which is why I liked it.
of course a falling tree makes a sound! if you take it literally lah, but i guess philosophically, it might pose the question of whether we are the centers of our own universes, as opposed to being mere minor players in one whole universe. are sounds made just for us to hear?
mapot, so confusing, everyone just go back to the past post and talk about me and suet lah.
ohmy i just studied this today during my sociology class. too deep, too deep. arggh.
BS all the way baby!
There’s no right or wrong answer anyway, so why crack your pretty little skull worrying about understanding our way of being?
p.s. that’s my evil bimbotic alter ego speaking.
i have to talk to myself to determine whether i’m really myself… multi personality like Niki/Jessica in Heroes series lmao… Heroes addict…
“Why are u typing all this?”
“Coz i dont like!!!”
“But i dont like”
“WTF!!! i’m in control now!!!”
“no u’re not…”
“hey, dun punch my face, u r juz punching urself too..”
“WTF!!!”
P/S : the writer is now arguing and fighting with himself and unable to continue. Sorry for the inconvenience and the boring and lame me… -.-lll
spelling error de to multi personality lol
” But i LIKE!!!”
what a coincidence, i am very very emo today =.=
[...] reading Suet’s latest entry, I can’t help but be reminded of a philosophical question that was presented to the viewers [...]
…..assuming the tree is conscious of its falling, but it cannot hear and noone is to hear then sound has no meaning does, how can sound exist that is not heard? Sound no longer exist, but surely there is a knowledge of reality that relies not on the senses? so the tree did fall…..
that kind of makes me think of the things we classify as dead, do they know they exist? the way we see it, the existence of the dead hinges on the conscious living, yet the living passes but the dead supposedly exist forever…… does the rock know of itself like i do? does the computer feel me molesting its keyboard right now? *strokes the keys in a perverted way
lol tell me if u tire of this convo alrd
hahaha lets talk about the tangible reality of the love between suet and baz
Am I really here???
Am I really reading this???
Am I really sitting here, in front of my laptop, staring blankly at the terms you have here??
You know what??? Grab a Kit Kat and go look at beautiful pictures of u and Barry. If we are going to question everything, we’ll be confused, lost and stuck here forever.