- Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages)
- Open the book to page 123
- Find the fifth sentence on that page
- Post the next three sentences
- Tag five people
the nearest book is Jennan (J. T.) Ismael's "The Situated Self" which is a book I will be discussing at some point on this blog and am reviewing for Metapsychology.
Here's the three sentences: "I have been speaking as though the problem of establishing internal relations between properties exemplified by experience of different subjects is a purely epistemic one, that is, that there are facts about whether your green experiences are like mine, but it just happens that we have no way of ascertaining them. God could tell, as we might say, were he to look. That suggestion was supported by the examples" (pg. 123).
This passage, as you might infer from the examples mentioned is in a section on inverted spectra, which I have yet to read... so I will not comment on it.
But, it occurs to me that quoting passages out of context is a strange practice. And this type of practice is of a piece with strange fascinations with lexical pastiche, numerology, and hypertext connections. If I didn't think it would inspire a Pynchonesque paranoia in readers I probably wouldn't engage in it, but in the hopes that a strange emergent phenomena will spring from this...
The other books that might have been in the running, but I wasn't touching them at the time (ha... "the nearest book," as if there isn't always one in my hands...): Campbell's "past, space and self" (a must-read); Lycan's "consciousness and experience" (a don't-read); and Hurley's "Consciousness in Action" (an absolutely-must-read)...
Anyway, I hereby tag: duckrabbit; the space of reasons; grundlegung; a brood comb; and philosophy sucks.
1 comments:
Hey, thanks for the tag! But Daniel beat you to it (results here).
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