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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/panpsychism/#4

I'm not a philosopher or even a particularly good thinker, but it's
a little disappointing that, at least in broad strokes (minus the use of
phrases like ontologically explanatorily), I covered the ground offered by
non-material theories of mind during my freshman year in college.
Namely, free-will arises from quantum indeterminancy, that consciousness
is some heretofore undiscovered particle or force of nature, like
quantum gravity, or that it is some fundamentally different "thing" from matter.

I start out reading these articles with such high hopes and am always
disappointed. Is it really the desire to have "something more" than
arid materialism that drives people to find such things plausible in the
absence of any explanation for how it is to exist or interact in a material
universe? Or am I really broken somehow in the head?

I saw Geoff working
as a McDonald's cashier
morphed into a woman

The following 3 "haikus" accurately capture a vignette from an extended dream sequence I had last night. Just in case you were wondering if I'm making this shit up.

Standing in a stalled
airport security line
with my pocketknife

it's all Samantha's
(from the show "Sex and the City")
fault because she stole

a dignitary's
stool sample and hid it in
a scone...hmm, good job!

Why was Ed in my
backyard, bitten by a rat?
Poor guy works too hard.

All the buzzing bees
Must symbolize something but
I do not know what

I had the alien invasion dream again last night.
This time they were disguised as human beings.
There's always the anticipation as I watch the space vehicles
swarming to earth, followed by the very bloody conflict.
I have to wonder what impact V had on my young psyche, given
the stereotypic nature of the alien invasion dreme.

This time there was the wrinkle that my children were with me.-----