Thoughts on Writing/Publishing
25.23 The Secret of Secrets
In Secrets, a key theme is a theory of consciousness, and, despite my reservations, I was interested in what Brown had to say about it.
2025-12-15
Travels with Myself
A Journal of Discovery and Transition
Doug Jordan, Author
Social/Societal Issues
25.12 The Soul of the New Machine
René Descartes in his treatise on dualism was examining the larger concept of reality/existence, but did he really think thinking was the equivalent of consciousness? (Would he say the same thing of computers?)
2025-06-30
Mental Health
21-16. Dreams 3
Do you recall Roy Orbison’s tier two hit song, In Dreams? (Probably not, but it’s a beautiful song.) It starts as a fantasy, of a lucid hopeful future; but true to form, it ends badly. I think that’s the main point of dreaming, to reconcile our internal conflicts. (Roy must have had a depressing life – almost all his hits are sad songs full of doubt.)
2021-08-29
Travels with Myself, Vol. 2 (2021)
20-7. Willpower
I mention all these metaphysics in this blog because I have been struggling with the problem of willpower for a while now, not the metaphysical problem but actual problem of overcoming stuckness. Inertia rules my days, I’m a little short of ‘ertia’.
2020-09-15
