Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Sentience

  • The Mystery of Sentience

    The wonder of it. I stroke the cat. His pleasure is apparent. But where in a physical thing, even a living physical thing, is its pleasure, its surprise, its fear, and the rest of its sentient states? A philosopher is one who is open to the strangeness of the ordinary. The strangeness elicits his lust…

  • I Kill a Bug

    And when I do, I apologize to him: "Sorry, man, nothing personal; but just one of my thoughts is worth more than your entire life." But if the insect is no distraction and can be easily dispatched to the outdoors, that is where he goes, or is sent. Sentience as such, no matter how low…