18 Questions

Can material things pay attention to meaning? How many metaphysical keystones are just artefacts of a particular cognitive bias towards certain levels of analysis? Is spirituality really distnict from religion? Is it just a tendency to generalize and draw connections? Is the holistic/reductionist debate a keystone of modern philosophy? Should we overthrow all past distinctions in light of this? What role do we asign to history? Do we really wholeheartedly accept Darwin's theory--a theory of constraint? What is it about cherished assumptions that makes them get overthrown? Where do we fit my joy of making snowmen? When will they have appropriate secular crematoriums? Is it possible to choke on a snowflake? If so, would it not be more like drowning? What is it about the modern world that disposes one to non sequiturs? What reason is there to hope for the future? Can't we just say consciousness is global availability, nipping the tendentious debate in the bud? What are we going to do with our intuitions in a world of externalities and expertise? What's up with songs that take half their time to peter out, repeating a line or two from the chorus the entire time? What do you think?

Consider: "It's not the hatred or the fear that saddens me. Hatred burns our eventually; fear dissipates in the hedonic treadmil. What really makes me cry is the ignorance. It's here to stay."