Post by anja on Aug 20, 2016 19:14:26 GMT -5
Aug 20, 2016 17:53:50 GMT -5 @bakk said:
"Spend more time with your hands," I suggest to Karl.He stares at me blankly.
"Seriously, give your hands some serious thought. Make an effort to appreciate your hands; move them, observe them, feel their actual connectedness to you."
Karl is studying his hands like he's never really seen them before. Or maybe he's messing with me, I can't read people.
Whenever I want to settle down and remind myself that I have this experience of a body in a spacetime energymatter amusement park, I study my hands. I do this many times a day. They remind me of how awesome it is, and that it can all change at any moment.
"As you appreciate your hands," I tell Karl, "reflect on the fact that you do not and cannot experience your hands directly."
He holds them up to show me, directly, and exhibits smug remorse at having defeated my foolish statement so easily.
"You don't experience your hands directly," I say. "The only thing you perceive directly is consciousness, so you experience the perception of your hands directly, but you experience your hands themselves, and your brain and beer and the past indirectly."
"What's the difference between directly and indirectly?"
"The only thing you perceive directly is perception itself; consciousness."
"Like my hands."
"No, like your perception of your hands."
"But not my actual hands?"
"Not so actual, actually."
Some "peeps" are just far too dump to know what hands are good for.