Facade Saccade

The saccade in psychology is the break between fixation points for sight.

For example, for reading, we can only read about 7 letters at a time. This is different for different languages, for example, Hebrew reads left to right, and Chinese characters have more information per character.

Take a load off!

Take off your shoes and relax your socks!

So I read Margaret Gullan-Whur's Within Reason, the Life of Spinoza, and in it there's a group of scholars who say, "Nil Volentibus Arduum."

This phrase is Latin and it means, "Nothing is Difficult for those who Show Will." Broken down, for those who care, it's Nil = Nothing, Volentibus = those who show will, and Arduum = which I'm guessing is like Arduous.


Now, with our philosophical tool of application, wouldn't it be cool if we created the world?

When I was younger my Dad used to talk about Lucid Dreaming, before or around the time when he would tell me stories before bed. The coolest part about these stories was that he would make them up on the spot. There was a new one, every night.

The answer that my dad gave was this: In a dream, you can do anything. You can fly. That was the big one that he posited, that I remember. He must have said something.

The question is: What could you do if you knew you were dreaming?

Now, let's go from a conservative standpoint of reality (as in, not asking too much of reality. Reality here being universal, objective, the most acceptable definition of reality possible; the most agreed-upon between a whole bunch of people).

In this case, it is still powerful to ask what you could do if you had the ability to do what you would want.

That was a great justification when I was doing the baloney of Logic 335. It's not always the point to argue for the existence of flight so much as what would we do if we were able to fly.

You might remember that until recent times, people did not have the ability to fly. Mechanical, analogue miracles (conservative in the sense that they do not bend the laws of reality), happen. No one questions the miracles of flight, say, the miracles of the Civil Rights Movement, or the miracles of modern technology.

So that's our conservative standpoint. We could apply this to other situations. Kant believed it was possible and necessary to postulate God and Free Will. Free Will and God come in when a person looks like she has no other options.


Message to everyone: I think We could postulate Love if we were not sure of its existence.


I think this is one place where Fichte comes in, as a predecessor to Existentialism (the philosophy of radical freedom, and the individual's creation of her reality).


So here's some pocket philosophy: you're living the dream. You're creating reality. You can fly (in a plane), you can postulate your own rules.

Question: Now what? Now what? Now what?