Senses deceive

During the period that I meditated, I was able to make so many connections to Descartes. I didn't lose my senses, but they definitely were limited. I couldn't hear that well and I couldn't see so it really was left to my conscious mind to understand that I never left. Although my senses deceived me to thinking I was in some kind of sanctuary and not just above the highway. When I felt the moss underneath me I felt that I was in atop of a hill or in the woods. It was my conscious mind that told me that I hadn't moved. Also at points I felt that I had lost balance or that I was slowly falling, my logic told me that it was because I was seated at an angle. Without that logic I my senses would have tricked me into thinking outrageous things.    

Meditation

When we come across the word meditation, for the most part we think yoga or some other calming activity. I myself haven't really thought of meditation in other terms. I meditated once for my anthropology class, but other than that never put much effort into trying again. I'll admit that when we went outside for philosophy to meditate it was amazing. The fact that we were meditating in philosophy was like ice cream on a hot sunny day. I remember when we started, I was trying to focus on my surrounding. Slowly I started to drift and let my consciousness take me into a different realm. It was unbelievable that I felt as if I was in some distant place when in reality I was in the midst of arlington a suburb. It was a unique experience that you really have to go through in order to understand.

Debate

The argument of whether senses come first or logic was intense. Hume brought up very good points. Descartes defense was strong bringing up point like, you don't have to experience something to know it's harmful. Logic aids in that, he also brought up other points such as time, that it's something that is innate in every human being. Hume counter attacks were very strong bringing the blank slate where you fill everything from experience. A point that would defend Descartes theory of a higher being would be that god existed at a certain time period, whether he still does or not, he did and he was the divine force that then created what is.

Music

Hearing New Soul by Yael Naim five times put me in a good mood, because it's an upbeat song and it has a positive undertone. It's a song you would listen to when you are upset or having a bad day. The lyrics after the second time started to process through my mind. I started to get an idea of what the artist was trying to communicate. The first line to her song is, "I am a new soul..." it was a comforting line. This is true for the whole song, it has that feeling. Personally after hearing it five times, I was in a much better mood. It also helped that the song's "theme" is talking about how making mistakes is okay and you live and you learn.