There was a point in time where the thought of people even talking about me made me anxious. Physically.
We know to much to command ourselves very far.
Conscious mind is a spatial analog of the world and mental acts are analogs of bodily acts. Consciousness operates only on objectively observable things. Or, to say it another way with echoes of John Locke, there is nothing in consciousness that is not an analog of something that was in behavior first.
And when it is suggested that the inward feelings of power or inward monitions or losses of judgement are the germs out of which the divine machinery developed, I return that truth is just the reverse, that the presence of voices which had to be obeyed were the absolute prerequisite to the conscious stage of mind in which it is the self that is responsible and can debate within itself, can order and direct, and that the creation of such a self is the product of culture. In a sense, we have become our own gods.
We are greatly in need of specific research in this area of schizophrenic experience to help us understand Mesolithic man.
Include the knower in the known.
Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial succession is its very essence. And this is possible only in a spatial metaphor of time.
An argument can be logically valid, but unsound in that it contains a false premise and, therefore, leads to a false conclusion (e. g. , Scientists are smart; smart people do not make mistakes; therefore, scientists do not make mistakes).
Our children are not going to be just "our children"
Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.
The Schools ain't what they used to be and never was.