Broken Postcard

The Reality Game

Alexander Crockett — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 23:32:07 +0000

Of course we're very good at our own madness; just as much as we're all very good at being unaware that we each have a stake in The Reality Game.

Myth, Society and Consciousness

Alexander Crockett — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:29:37 +0000

meaning of a society is conveyed to itself, the meaning of a person to his or herself. They can both be rich in meaning or impoverished.

Mythology and ideas: The reality & the myth

Alexander Crockett — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 05:33:08 +0000

What is a culture? Underneath it again are people and artifacts. They are powerful things. In our lives we are faced with categories of things all of the time.

I remember me and bring myself together

Alexander Crockett — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:24:52 +0000

In a moment of reflection time and events compose me; would I have stood in relation to the light. Like me the world is 'becoming' in a moment like this one.

Am ‘I’ here?

Alexander Crockett — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:58:34 +0000

What is there? Am I there? What, is the 'I' that transacts? Light requires no perception. It doesn't require me. It radiates over the world filling it.

Welcome to My Universe

Alexander Crockett — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:32:32 +0000

Many of us wander why we have it. What is it for? What do we do with it? In a moment it disappears, and when it’s gone it never to returns. For a moment we experience, and what we experience within the context of our death is the essence and the meaning of life. We are [...]

Are there ideas in the world?

Alexander Crockett — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 06:16:07 +0000

Ideas have occupied our species. We have distinguished ourselves with them. We believe that culture shapes us, even if only implicitly.

Bookmark

Alexander Crockett — Thu, 20 May 2010 19:13:53 +0000

You’ve been my bookmark for years, Sat between poems, dog eared pages have been your friends, But this is no love poem, You’ve been a bookmark, placeholder, reminder of where I am, No closer to the begginning than the end You are careful ambivalence, hold my hand and keep my place, frustration sometimes. What a life you lead, keeping at my pace, my [...]

Structures in mind

Alexander Crockett — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:37:46 +0000

The structures of conscious facts, if they are to have a structure at all, have to resemble the structure of the physical body of which they are a part. In that sense discovering the structure of the kinds of conscious experience that exist between all of us has to be complimented

Invariance – A Problem for Emergence, Logic & Culture

Alexander Crockett — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:57:07 +0000

However we understand consciousness and the mind, there will be profound effects for both science and culture.But why? Why will the way that science and philosophy understand a fairly rarefied problem have an impact on culture in general?

Books, history, artifact and experience

Alexander Crockett — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:28:00 +0000

For me that difference is immense, it is a difference that demonstrates our cultural aptitude for change; change that goes against the grain of the kind of meaning that lasts. Happy is the innovation in my mind, but sad the loss.

Consciousness and Logic

Alexander Crockett — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:58:34 +0000

Among the most difficult issues faced by humans in science and in philosophy is consciousness. The problem with consciousness is that is has many sides to it. On the one hand there is the very difficult problem understanding what it is. Is is a stuff like say an electron is something i.e. matter, or is it it's own stuff? That is the problem of substance. Then there's another problem, that is: how is it that we are conscious?

Xenophanes, Wittgenstein and Meaning

Alexander Crockett — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:27:04 +0000

Wittgenstein remarked “If a lion could talk, we could not understand him”. It's worth noting that the insight was not Wittgenstein's alone. Xenophanes (approx 400 BC) stated “if oxen, horses.... had hands or could paint...

A visual identity

Alexander Crockett — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:28:33 +0000

my own exploring of my identity through sound and vision. I put these short videos together in 2009 as an experiment, trying aesthetically express my sensibilities. Each of the three depicts a different aspect of me. As usual I am always grateful for peoples views and ideas.