{"id":2583,"date":"2013-08-26T02:58:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T02:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/?p=2583"},"modified":"2019-07-16T12:18:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T12:18:12","slug":"monday-august-26-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/08\/26\/monday-august-26-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday August 26, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meta: Today&#8217;s entry begins as a diary&#8217;s; recanting previous efforts, describing occupying thoughts and intentions, as sitting on this higher perch with the hope of gaining a more accurate perspective of these written fields.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Why not begin where yesterday ended. I had been in the process of exploring the sensation of a mental switch whose activation I&#8217;ve come to associate with a higher level of will and consciousness. Yesterday I had approached the issue by characterising mind in a manner I hope will be useful for situating the focus, as best possibly comprehensible.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve used this space for note taking during auto-didactic studies, so far limited to journal-club stylised scientific readings. An obvious expansion to this (after simply doing more) is to add a field of study, most probably in philosophy. I am currently making headway in my readings on Reid, but it would also make sense to revisit personalities whose notes I have already &#8220;completed&#8221;. In doing so my hopes are (1) studious &#8211; I&#8217;d expect that after doing so, my understanding and memory of any subject matter will be improved; (2) intellectually creative &#8211; since this is medium is different (though I won&#8217;t hazard any attempt at predicting how it is different) I hope that it will allow and encourage a writing outcome that is more synthetic and less analytical-summaries,.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/li>\n<li>This space is virtually infinite, implications to this include that there is an option to include\/add as many sections as I desire to any piece of writing. These are but one option. Thus I can use something akin to the incorporation of regular features that I&#8217;ve been looking to establish (even though those intents were not focused on this place). I could begin something like that to consider and record their progress.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta: Today&#8217;s entry begins as a diary&#8217;s; recanting previous efforts, describing occupying thoughts and intentions, as sitting on this higher perch with the hope of gaining a more accurate perspective of these written fields. Why not begin where yesterday ended. I had been in the process of exploring the sensation of a mental switch whose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[159,242,128,249],"tags":[],"metadata":[282],"class_list":["post-2583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-evernote-entries","category-journal","category-writing","metadata-meta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2809,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/09\/25\/wednesday-september-25-2013\/","url_meta":{"origin":2583,"position":0},"title":"Wednesday September 25, 2013","author":"Pala","date":"September 25, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Meta: There were some intentions I'd developed half-heartedly, though their outcomes were deserving of all that much more. 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