Day 1: Front Matter

Title:

To Be or Not To Not-Be, That is the Question

Feb 5: Reconstructing a Totalist Reality by Deconstructing a Totalist Mind

Feb 7: An Exhaustive Search for Identity in an Alien Reality

Feb 12: The Mythology of a Mind Brain

Dedication:

To all of the travellers lost at sea

Somewhere betwixt and between

Mind and reality

Associate Quotes

Your goal should be to learn something about everything and everything about something.

-- G. Peschke

You should be able to defend your argument against the strongest possible counterargument.

-- J. Bradley

So what you're looking for is what Wittgenstein termed 'certainty'.

-- W. Okshevsky

Life is but a succession of awkward moments.

-- K. Elsner

We are all on our own path.

-- H. al-Junaidi

This is a learning planet.

-- J. Copley

You can always make more money, but you can't get your time back.

-- S. MacDonald

You know, you're really going to miss me.

-- Anonymous

Intro Quotes:

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

Friedrich Nietzsche, the writer

And would it have been worth it, after all,

After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,

Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me,

Would it have been worth while,

To have bitten off the matter with a smile,

To have squeezed the universe into a ball

To roll it towards some overwhelming question,

To say: “I am Lazarus, come from the dead,

Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all”—

If one, settling a pillow by her head

               Should say: “That is not what I meant at all;

               That is not it, at all.”

T. S. Eliot, "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Mutter, ich bin dumm.

Friedrich Nietzsche, the human being

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Other (body) quotes:

As a private citizen, I think that all this striving after greatness and domination is idiotic; and I would like my country not to take part in it.

A.J.P. Taylor, The Origins of the Second World War

I love mankind, he said, but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Table of Contents:

Introduction:

1. Why I wrote this book

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

Rabindranath Tagore

1. What this book is about

We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom. Where a beam is taken away a new one must at once be put there, and for this the rest of the ship is used as support. In this way, by using the old beams and driftwood the ship can be shaped entirely anew, but only by gradual reconstruction.

Otto Neurath, "Anti-Spengler"

1. Who should read this book

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.

Anaïs Nin

Part 1: Subjective (The Physical Mind / An Inspiring Reality)

1. Immaterial: An Extreme Mind / Reality or "What is True / Meaningful?"

2. Material: An Extreme Life / World or "What is Right / Real?"

Part 2: Objective

1. Space, Other, Self, Negation

2. The End of Ahistory

3. The Importance of Being Other

4. Reality and Its Discontents