Day 2 +3

Sat. Jan 22. 2011
- Seeing my relatives, it's a funny feeling.
- Already I feel like my enligsh is slowly deteriorating, I can't lose it. how can I keep it up?
- Saturday flew by pretty quickly..
- I need to find a peace of mind, a place where I can make new friends.
- I need to have a schedule, somewhat of an order.
- magnetism: strong attractive power or charm
- tabula rasa: 1. a mind not yet affected by experiences, impressions, etc.
2. anything existing undisturbed in its original pure state.
- ethereal: extremely delicate or refined; heavenly or celestial
- avant garde: the advance group in any field, esp. in the visual, literary, or musical arts, whose works are characterized chiefly by unorthodox and experimental methods
- raison d'etre: reason or justification for being or existence: Art is the artist's raison d'être.
- Neil Young
- Tom n Toms coffee shop 4000 won, rice cake: 2000 won
- All the songs on the playlist at the coffee shop are in english! whoa, one of them = avril lavigne's skater boy! hahaha
- Revisitation of the argument from the physical gap:
- I use to think that the argument for the physical was sufficient to stand as a dualist(that the soul exists distinct from the body/brain), now I'm beginning to wonder. The argument from the physical gap is that there is a physical gap between the actual neurons and the experience that we experience. For example, the memory we may conjure up is distinctively different(super physical) than the neurons that are firing in our nervous system (physical). Not just memories, but pain, joy, pictures, logic etc... However, I wonder if a completely physical being can experience super-physical experience. Just because someone's experience is not physical, does not mean that the agent himself has to be not physical. I.E, The physical me experiences the super-physical experience. This sounds really abstract and absurd, but not really. It's like how people say they experience God. Think of a computer. It's made up of bunch of programming parts and hardware. These programs function together to perform a specific function. But these functions aren't necessarily physical. A computer may solve mathematical problems, or draw a picture, but the logical equation it solves is distinctively different from the actual electrical signals and the hardware. hmmm.
It's too bad I don't understand computers very well. I'm going to have to find out though. I need to find someone who knows computers well and ask:
1. how do computers perform a specific function? via alphanumeric codes? if so how are these codes transformed into logic?
2. how do computers make distinctions between different inputs? for example, pictures vs words?
Now let's learn about computers!!!

But the argument for the self-consciousness is still legitimate. the idea that I am aware of what I am doing. Computer is not aware that it is making such functions, it just does it. but humans, we are conscious of our actions.

January 23. 2011 Church day.
Church was aiight. seriously.
- But went to a department store today, whoaaa SOOOO NICEEE!!!!!
- too bad I was so full, I couldn't enjoy the samples at the market. boooo
- seriously though, so nice.
- One thing I noticed is that people don't smile as much here than in Canada.
- small box of Kiwi = 8000Won = 8 dollars. some things are just REALLY expansive here.
- proclivity: natural or habitual inclination or tendency
- confabulating: to converse informally; chat
- obsequiousness: characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning:
- palatable: acceptable or agreeable to the palate, taste, mind or feelings.