Comments for >:] circuitBeta http://circuitbeta.com/blog Out of My Head and into Yours Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:53:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on significant Friend by circuitbeta http://circuitbeta.com/blog/2008/01/15/significant-friend/#comment-171 circuitbeta Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:20:48 +0000 http://circuitbeta.com/blog/2008/01/15/significant-friend/#comment-171 Your response makes me think of people as incomplete and filled with holes. Making different people complimentary to one another, having the ability to fill the holes. My head fills with images of crazy puzzle parts. Some of the holes there for everyone to see, others hidden in the shadow of ourselves. What if there is a part you don't have? Making it a part you cannot share. Worse yet its a part that can never be found in someone else? Maybe this is one of those problems in which insight can be achieved through the eyes another. Your response makes me think of people as incomplete and filled with holes. Making different people complimentary to one another, having the ability to fill the holes. My head fills with images of crazy puzzle parts. Some of the holes there for everyone to see, others hidden in the shadow of ourselves.

What if there is a part you don’t have? Making it a part you cannot share. Worse yet its a part that can never be found in someone else? Maybe this is one of those problems in which insight can be achieved through the eyes another.

]]> Comment on Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality by circuitbeta http://circuitbeta.com/blog/2007/03/15/time-traveler-a-scientists-personal-mission-to-make-time-travel-a-reality/#comment-7 circuitbeta Sat, 14 Apr 2007 18:47:41 +0000 http://circuitbeta.com/blog/2007/03/15/time-traveler-a-scientists-personal-mission-to-make-time-travel-a-reality/#comment-7 Thanks! You could have known me for years and probably said the same. I am rather private with most of the things that run through my noggin. People seem fine with knowing the me I show them. :) Thanks! You could have known me for years and probably said the same. I am rather private with most of the things that run through my noggin. People seem fine with knowing the me I show them. :)

]]> Comment on Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality by Kristina http://circuitbeta.com/blog/2007/03/15/time-traveler-a-scientists-personal-mission-to-make-time-travel-a-reality/#comment-6 Kristina Sat, 14 Apr 2007 04:20:19 +0000 http://circuitbeta.com/blog/2007/03/15/time-traveler-a-scientists-personal-mission-to-make-time-travel-a-reality/#comment-6 "Similar blocks can be found in you and I, when reading a book, meeting a friend, or smiling at a stranger. Its these shared blocks of knowledge that connects us to one another. If we couldn’t share these words there would be no meaning for you and no connection for us." Jeez, man. I know you a bit in real life and through a mutual friend here I am on your blog. Never knew there was so much interesting stuff going on in that brain of yours. Therefore, the quote above seems quite appropriate. “Similar blocks can be found in you and I, when reading a book, meeting a friend, or smiling at a stranger. Its these shared blocks of knowledge that connects us to one another. If we couldn’t share these words there would be no meaning for you and no connection for us.”

Jeez, man. I know you a bit in real life and through a mutual friend here I am on your blog. Never knew there was so much interesting stuff going on in that brain of yours. Therefore, the quote above seems quite appropriate.

]]> Comment on state Patrol by Chris Drummond http://circuitbeta.com/blog/2007/04/03/state-patrol/#comment-5 Chris Drummond Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:26:53 +0000 http://circuitbeta.com/blog/2007/04/03/state-patrol/#comment-5 Where does this reply go? Do you read it later, or does it post on your site automatically? I may just find out. What did the Aussie chess playing champion say when he finished his meal at the diner? ... ... ... ... "Check mate." A Chris Drummond original :-) Where does this reply go? Do you read it later, or does it post on your site automatically? I may just find out.

What did the Aussie chess playing champion say when he finished his meal at the diner? … … … … “Check mate.”

A Chris Drummond original :-)

]]> Comment on back Ta School by Judah http://circuitbeta.com/blog/2007/03/31/more-riding/#comment-4 Judah Mon, 02 Apr 2007 14:55:33 +0000 http://circuitbeta.com/blog/2007/03/31/more-riding/#comment-4 Phill schooled us on the flats. Dude's a Duracell. Keeps going and going. Phill schooled us on the flats. Dude’s a Duracell. Keeps going and going.

]]> Comment on The Portable Plato by circuitbeta http://circuitbeta.com/blog/2007/03/21/the-portable-plato/#comment-3 circuitbeta Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:01:04 +0000 http://circuitbeta.com/blog/2007/03/21/the-portable-plato/#comment-3 If you could get into someone else's mind in such a way would you want too? Your last question comes back to common ground (building blocks). If we do not share enough of it, how can we communicate effectively. Its something that Socrates touched upon in the Phaedo. He believed that once the soul was free from the body it would be released from the constraints put upon it and be able to attain knowledge that was previously unreachable. As if the soul could possess and learn knowledge, as if it could live with out the body. You bring up good points and I'm left thinking that it is more than understanding that I am looking for. I do not read things to just understand them, if that were so I would be happy reading fiction, I would understand that the sun is made of lollipops and never have a need to believe it at all. But this is not the case. If you could get into someone else’s mind in such a way would you want too?

Your last question comes back to common ground (building blocks). If we do not share enough of it, how can we communicate effectively. Its something that Socrates touched upon in the Phaedo. He believed that once the soul was free from the body it would be released from the constraints put upon it and be able to attain knowledge that was previously unreachable. As if the soul could possess and learn knowledge, as if it could live with out the body.

You bring up good points and I’m left thinking that it is more than understanding that I am looking for. I do not read things to just understand them, if that were so I would be happy reading fiction, I would understand that the sun is made of lollipops and never have a need to believe it at all. But this is not the case.

]]> Comment on The Portable Plato by meltown http://circuitbeta.com/blog/2007/03/21/the-portable-plato/#comment-2 meltown Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:18:59 +0000 http://circuitbeta.com/blog/2007/03/21/the-portable-plato/#comment-2 What an interesting question to ponder... By Wiki definition: Understanding is a psychological state in relation to an object or person whereby one is able to think about it and use concepts to be able to deal adequately with that object. By this definition I think the phrasing "deal adequately with that object" gives the leniency to not have to believe what you're hearing to imagine it or relate to it in some manner. If you know what a lollipop is, you can certainly *imagine* the sun being made out of lollipops, which allows you to "deal adequately with that object". I think it's different when you're talking about a person's feelings or interpretations though. How can you understand someone's belief that the sun is made of lollipops if you cannot believe it? I see it as though you can understand the concept, but not understand that person's feelings behind it. But then I read it again and interpret your question differently... How can I possibly understand what you're saying if I'm not in your mind and behind your eyes experiencing it as you do? My brain hurts. What an interesting question to ponder…
By Wiki definition: Understanding is a psychological state in relation to an object or person whereby one is able to think about it and use concepts to be able to deal adequately with that object.

By this definition I think the phrasing “deal adequately with that object” gives the leniency to not have to believe what you’re hearing to imagine it or relate to it in some manner.

If you know what a lollipop is, you can certainly *imagine* the sun being made out of lollipops, which allows you to “deal adequately with that object”. I think it’s different when you’re talking about a person’s feelings or interpretations though. How can you understand someone’s belief that the sun is made of lollipops if you cannot believe it? I see it as though you can understand the concept, but not understand that person’s feelings behind it.

But then I read it again and interpret your question differently… How can I possibly understand what you’re saying if I’m not in your mind and behind your eyes experiencing it as you do?

My brain hurts.

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