WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

mind

July 5, 2011

Thinking about thinking, the brain, mind, and consciousness

So. I've been on a brain binge lately, watching NOVA; NOVA scienceNOW; Closer to Truth; and Through the Wormhole. The magic of DVR's – I can rewind and watch, again, the challenging bits. There are a lot of those. I have an idea. It's an idea from an untrained mind, but it's still an idea. I'm going to… Continue reading

Digital Collage / Scrapbook / Art Journal, Science

Art, brain, collage, consciousness, digi, digiscrap, digital, journal, mind, scrapbooking, thought

DISCLAIMERS:

Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, writing is thinking, and I prefer to do my own. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

Poems

Please do not assume that I am the speaker/ subject of my poems.

In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

It is likely to be — it is best if it is — a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think — but it is not necessarily biographical.

mind

Thinking about thinking, the brain, mind, and consciousness