posted by
wonder at 12:46am on 25/10/2010 under actually i lol'd, cognition, college shit, double posting, irl, this will not be funny anymore tomorrow
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"Only connect"--but how could he connect, and how could we help him to connect? What was life without connection? "I may venture to affirm," Hume wrote, "that we are nothing but a bundle or collection of different sensations, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement." In some sense, he had been reduced to a "Humean" being--I could not help thinking how fascinated Hume would have been at seeing in Jimmie his own philosophical "chimaera" incarnate, a gruesome reduction of a man to mere disconnected, incoherent flux and change.
oliver sacks what are you doing
you can't make puns
this is an academic essay, they're not even funny
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