Monday, 20 October 2008

Natural Enquiry

It is usually imagined a question like "Who am I" is a philosophical enquiry. In truth, it is a more a matter of linguistics: what is the agreed nature of this concept "I"?
It seems a simple truth that the idea of the fullness of the mind which produces thought being capable of being meaningfully encompassed within a form of this thought- "I am..." is a simple absurdity, comparable to the idea of the entire ocean being capable of containment within a bucket floating on that ocean.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I agree.
No wait...
Agreement is an emotion that a portion of me feels bound to express on receipt of the comment above.
Hang on.. How about:
So far as it can be said that..

Oh, forget it

Andrew said...

Perhaps