So it’s been a minute. Whatever, I’ll have to get used to the new pace. Too much else going on for me to sit around blogging all the time, not to mention I got real hung up on some of my ideas from June.

The fun part about this blog is that I don’t just write anything down to see my own thoughts in print. What I’m writing about is pretty reflective of my mental state, but ideas I work out here also have an impact on that state. All posts are thus outputs of my particular state, and inputs into future states. So, when, for instance, the topics start turnin towards the folly of action and/or advance planning, or of the futility of flattening a compex idea into the confines of a few words, expect to see less posting.

Now there’s something to post about though. I pushed through the tough section of GEB and made it to a wonderful chapter called ant fugue, wherein the author compares the workings of the mind to the organization of an ant colony. Hoffstadter has given me some new terms to get comfortable with, but I think that once I do I’ll be able to get alot more traction from my thinking about Objects.

In this most recent chapter there has been alot of talk about where meaning can be stored, the importance of varying levels of analysis and organization. It’s almost been enough to make me feel I should hurry to grad school. Then I remember that I can read just as well for myself as for credit. Anyway I’m excited to get back to the book on such a cold day.