Physical states of being
This summer may see a more active updating of this blog as I begin thinking more actively about the possible direction my dissertation would take as I will be ABD by Fall 2011. The entry below is a preliminary foray into thinking about some of the questions that came out during my exams. Of course, I have not forgotten that I promised to blog here about some of the thoughts and ideas that came up during my two-week stay in Germany. You see some of my rather haphazard notes below but I will have more to share later once this semester is over. At the moment, I am reading Edelman's Second Nature and a bunch of other stuff about brain, consciousness and the quantum world, just as an 'escape' from my usual research preoccupation(and also in fulfillment of other tasks). I will have more to say on this later. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When one thinks about the physical state, one usually view it as consisti...