To avoid being confused as someone who pretends to be a professional interpreter of the great names in philosophy, let me emphasize that while I have cherished influences, I ultimately present this fusion as just that, a personal synthesis of my impassioned but limited exposure not only to Western Foolosophy but also to this strange bird known as Life On Earth Among Humans.


1. I think that enough self-consciousness leads to the realization that there is no real border between the self and the world.
2. We live in our thoughts, which are made of language, as much as we live in our sensations.
3. So the world as we experience is largely made of thought.
4. And the intelligible structure of the word, seems to me, to be nothing but these thoughts we have of the world.
5. As our thoughts are changeable, so is the world as we know it.
6. Most of us think of ourselves as living upon a large ball, and yet few of us have taken the necessary spaceship ride to validate this.
7. Of course we have the pictures and science book and the consensus of those around us --and these are sufficiently convincing.
8. This is an example of intelligible structure. We have constructed our notion of the very planet we call home from pictures and words provided for us by others.
9. We are given a name at birth that we did not choose. Before long this name is used to hold together various thoughts we have about this thing we learn to call the "self."
10. We use the pronoun "I."
11. Who or what is this "I"?
12. Can we point to this "I" by pointing to our body?
13. But this "I" is always claiming to have "feelings" and "thoughts."
14. Where are these feelings and thoughts?
15. Can we answer this question by pointing to our skull?
16. If we cut this skull open, will thoughts and feelings spill out?
17. Obviously the brain is related to these thoughts and feelings.
18. Just as obviously the brain is not as brain these thoughts and feelings.
19. "Brain" is a concept, a way of organizing our thoughts and sensations as well as a way to refer to this organization.
20. All this is no doubt obvious to many.
21. Others are perhaps so enamored of science, that they mistake an association of thoughts with the brain for an explanation.
22. Is causal relationship all there is to explanation?
23. If so, why is a question like that so natural?
24. Even if certain philosophers have a point about the futility of such questions, are we so easily satisfied by that?