What’s the difference?

Ok. I meant the term in the more traditional sense. It’s a very old term, like a million years old.

Why are you being so rude?

It seems presumptuous to make such a definitive statement about something so mysterious and deep.

Yeah but you replied to the question. Oh nevermind.

Also, I asked how this guy relates to my post.

Why can’t you just answer me?

I mean the space you enter at night when you sleep and dream.

How does this guy relate to my post?

I am not familiar. What’re you talking about?

Watch “The Exorcist 1973”. It’s pretty much what I’m referring to.

Nobody said anything about only observing. And understanding does not require that we manufacture hypothesis or model. You are thinking science, which is another thing. I am thinking mere empiricism. After that there are multiple options. But yes, empirical basis is key.

Telling me what you think about what somebody else thinks is basically the opposite of direct observation.

Doing it makes for a better observation than watching it, surely.

Or even EMPIRICISM, BITCHES.

Because you don’t even need to craft a model at this point. And you can employ all kinds of fuzzy judgements that don’t encode into language, like vibe and aesthetic.

Language really is a crude, shallow and convention-bound thing.

Yes it is

I don’t mean that it influences your thinking (but it does, of course), I mean that it alters the shape of your consciousness (or “awareness” if you like). Like a drug.

It gently compresses your consciousness into your head (your intellect, or the part of your intellect that turns text into thoughts) and gently prys you away from everything else.

Maybe you notice the first couple times but eventually, if you read a lot, you forget that there was ever a difference and the changes become somewhat permanent. You enter the apartment inside your head to stay and thereafter peer out at the world through its little windows.

Everybody who gets control without accountability goes fascist. We’ve all seen it. It’s an internet cliche. It’s gotta be built into our biology.

Weird in a bad way or weird in a good way?

Fetal Homicide is a great name for a band.

It’s a story told to keep the baby from crying.