Gorilla: What's up readers? I should be writing my philosophy paper but I have a problem staying focused long enough to get a solid train of thought going. I thought I would exert some negative energy into a post on this blog. This post will briefly unearth some of my feelings on the subject of philosophy.
Because I can't focus I will begin my little rant with something good about philosophy. Philosophy has philosophers. The philosophers have names. The names of the philosphers are used in the best drama series on television, LOST. John Locke/ Bentham, Hume, Rousseau, and others. LOST returns January 21st with back to back episodes. I'm going to need like 3 pairs of undergarments.
Anyway, philosophy is people talking about the deep meanings of things. If you want to be a philosopher, you need to have a lot of time on your hands. If you have no interest in philosophy, it can be a waste of time. Sure its nice to have profound thoughts, but you dont have to write four inch thick books with tiny font.
Jumping to another point (for I have to finish my paper), one philosopher whose work I recently read is Robert Nozick. He described and experience machine that would cause you to experience anything you wanted and it would appear to be real. Anything you want. So Nozick comments, "you would think and feel that you were writing a great novel, or making a new friend, or reading an interesting book." No joke, that is what Nozick said he would experience in this machine that could project ANYTHING. I don't even think people who enjoy reading would use this machine to produce the experience of reading an interesting book. I could think of a vast number of different things I would experience before doing anything involving a book. If I were to make a list of top ten things I would experience, half of them would be too dirty to include on this wholesome blog.
Hitherto, I dont know if I made sense I just had to diffuse some of my energy.
Seriously, reading a book?
