{"id":145,"date":"2011-01-06T15:42:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T23:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=145"},"modified":"2011-01-06T15:42:03","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T23:42:03","slug":"foolin-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"Foolin&rsquo; Around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my website under \u201cpapers\u201d at the bottom is a section titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blatner.com\/adam\/papers.html#Foolin_Around\">Foolin\u2019 Around<\/a>, and there I have posted some&#160; links&#160; to&#160; webpages that might be amusing to you. They have odd cartoon-doodles I\u2019ve drawn, too. They are bits of fluff that in a sense illustrate my doodles. No, they\u2019re really profound and mysteriously exotic diagrams akin to the alchemists of old. No they\u2019re postmodern texts onto which you project your own interpretations.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m serious about provoking a discussion about whether mind is a valid ontological category, to be considered as \u201creal\u201d as matter, time, space, and energy. I\u2019m very playful in speculating on what the implications of such a thesis might be.&#160; I\u2019m serious in affirming that we can not be serious or pretend we know much about mind in its many-faceted nature, neither in ourselves nor in the Cosmos. Can mind exist outside of our craniums? Does it require physical brains?&#160; Might there be other complex resonating systems that can \u201cpick up\u201d on the reflections of Cosmic or Divine Mind?&#160; Well, I fool around with these, I dare to ask the questions, and confess to you&#8212;-shhh! Don\u2019t tell anyone!&#8212;I don\u2019t know. Not a clue. But I can speculate, can\u2019t I?&#160; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my website under \u201cpapers\u201d at the bottom is a section titled \u201cFoolin\u2019 Around, and there I have posted some&#160; links&#160; to&#160; webpages that might be amusing to you. They have odd cartoon-doodles I\u2019ve drawn, too. They are bits of fluff that in a sense illustrate my doodles. No, they\u2019re really profound and mysteriously exotic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foolin","category-spirituality-and-philosophy","category-zordaks-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}