What’s this all about?

What do I plan to have here, you’re probably asking yourself. (if you are - good; if not - pretend to be asking yourself. Are you doing that? No? Okay. I’m waiting. And NOW have you asked yourself? Good. Thank you. You can read on).

Well, everyone perceives reality in a different way, everyone sees things from their own point of view. This fact is widely known and much discussed, but it is such an amazing thing, it still blows my mind. When I face some situations, maybe when reading material - either online or offline, while I interact with people - anything I do really - it is all so subjective; that it is extremely hard for one person to grasp another’s perception. But we still try. All the time.

This is especially extreme when we think about it in the light of some empiricists (Hume, Locke) - in which views we are, in fact, merely these perceptions (in a simplified version of what they say). But the point is, what we have is our perceptions. And it is therefore almost impossible to grasp what other people are perceiving.

Well, despite these difficulties, you will probably get here a glimpse into a partial representation of my point of view. Mainly things I encounter online - you will probably see here some web applications I like to use, blogs I read; things I’m going through in my life - e.g. events I’m attending, people I meet etc. I’ll probably throw in some meta stuff too, just because I like it so much.

Feel free to spice things up a bit.

about life, the universe and everything

If this is the first time you are here, then you might think the blog’s subtitle is quite ambitious.

If that is the case, it means you haven’t read Douglas Adams. Your next steps are:

1. Go and do that.

2. Google: the answer to life, the universe and everything.

3. Come back and start reading me, now that you know the answer.

I randomly picked up Adams in the library when I was in junior-high. I can’t say it was life changing, but still - you just can’t not read it.

I started with Dirk Gently. You can start with the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Believe me, it will do you good.

The unofficial blog

Well, now that it is unofficial I can say much more. Right?

I read today Walter Benjamin about the philosophy of the language. He says (among other things) that because the meaning of things exists within the language itself, and that language is not used merely as means to represent something external, then the meaning - what we humans are trying to say - exists in the very language itself.

And because you can’t measure it, this makes the language infinite according to Benjamin. Tada. (get it? )

Anyhow that made me think of irrational numbers. They can’t be measured. I’ve always thought they were such a stupid concept, sorry all you mathematicians. I just can’t help it. At any rate they are infinite as well. But who cares?

So, bottom line, I decided I can say many irrational things as well. As much as I want. Infinitely in fact. And the meaning they will or will not have would all be in what I would say. And there need not be an outside meaning which it would have to represent outside of the very meaning of what I’m saying. Vwuala!

And if you didn’t get it, then tough.

Hello World!

This is my first post. Yey.

I think I am almost ready to start blogging. Or maybe I’ll never be.
Hello world, beware.