I have many things in my head at the moment that I would like to get out. Assertions which I would like to share, and questions which I would like to ask. Really, I would like to (as I here reference Plato’s Republic) pour my mind into your ear. I should like to do this in hopes that the essence of my thought, that which I cannot so easily put into words, may reach your understanding.

I shall try anyway. Consciousness, existence, infinity.

[illustration credit to Delivery_of_Rule_34 (reddit)]

Where does consciousness come from? What is the essence of existence? It seems to me that perspective is what is inexorably tied to the body. The perspective which we have is like the rod within a yo-yo, and with each passing day more and more sensory input and experience is wrapped around it. Moment after moment, day after day, year after year…