tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post2576743440167807678..comments2024-03-29T11:56:50.983+00:00Comments on A K Haart: A little pauseA K Haarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-59960803906952519202019-08-14T14:58:50.162+01:002019-08-14T14:58:50.162+01:00Sam - good point. Baruch Spinoza used dreaming as ...Sam - good point. Baruch Spinoza used dreaming as a similar metaphor but it isn't as powerful as the idea of switching off. To my mind it's one of the great attractions of modern language, it can be very powerful. <br /><br />Woodsy - I'm sure that's right. I don't know if it is connected, but in my limited experience people with advanced dementia seem to wake up immediately, there seems to be no pause while the personality is assembled.<br /><br />Sackers - yes and possibly a more basic reality, closer to our animal origins.A K Haarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-26718901755571326722019-08-14T14:49:34.639+01:002019-08-14T14:49:34.639+01:00A moment of seeing reality before you put on your ...A moment of seeing reality before you put on your personality.Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17284329249862764601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-91335004677412323852019-08-13T21:56:14.988+01:002019-08-13T21:56:14.988+01:00Maybe we have to assemble our own reality before w...Maybe we have to assemble our own reality before we can interact with anyone else's?Woodsy42https://www.blogger.com/profile/12355671210161625647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-76501666589153558332019-08-13T20:11:16.448+01:002019-08-13T20:11:16.448+01:00"Switching off – an old and perfectly familia..."Switching off – an old and perfectly familiar idea."<br /><br />Familiar to us, but I wonder how people described it before mass production of electrical equipment. Presumably they still experienced it; yet they would have had to put together a more creative and laborious description using a different metaphor. It doesn't seem to feature all that much in literature. My guess is that it was too difficult to write and talk about, and so it was largely ignored and unexplored.Sam Vegahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05978971199859845931noreply@blogger.com