brain amplifier

While contemplating the nature of mind, Lohbado thought about walking through the old port of Montreal and along Lachine Canal. He imagined mind to be like a warehouse filled with rooms containing entities. Windows were like the senses, open to the world. He had little control over what tumbled in and out of the windows, or which rooms he stumbled into.

dream of summer in winter

The start of winter in Montreal, Lohbado began dreaming of summer and of the arctic.

we might have to operate

As conditions intensify into winter, the body struggled to adapt His body felt visceral as winter took over. We might have to operate.

edge of sunrise

Montreal snow season began in November. Lohbado proposes a toast to winter.

pure silliness

During morning walk, Lohbado made another attempt to tell the story of his life.

what is philosophy

In a book called What is Philosophy, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari present philosophy as the activity of making concepts. Philosophical concepts are distinguished from concepts in art or science. A philosophical concept involves a process of teaching and learning. Concepts in the western tradition are played out by friends, or characters associated with concepts, for example Descartes and cogito, or Leibniz and monads.

Walk

Lohbado read a passage over breakfast from MIlle Plateaux by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari and reflected on it during morning walk. It's a poetic/philosophical text with images of the mind and thinking. The book begins with a famous section about rhizome image of knowledge, an open network of infinite exploration in contrast to the older tree model in which everything refers back to a central dominating reference point, a tree trunk, with branches of knowledge. The discussion of mind reflect a dynamic play of forces, for example, structure and form, material and expression.