Author: ArtArt Date: Feb 24, 2008 08:30
All the talk in recent threads on consciousness and mentions
of "what it feels like" ... and other kinds of conscious entities ...
reminded me of a sudden realization that struck me when I was
about eight or nine years old. In my childs's mind it was a
"everything seems different now" impression. I vowed to
remember "what it used to be like" and the contrast to
"what it's like now" so that at any time in the future I could feel
that way again. I think I was a bit sorrowful that things weren't
as they were. Yet I knew instinctively that things would never
be the same as before.
In retrospect, the only thing I can figure out is that I
experienced a sudden loss of the "magic" of childhood.
The maturation process suddenly accented the
rational at the expense of the magical. My little plan
didn't work. I later on couldn't remember what is used
to be like at all ... although at the time I could remember.
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