Great post again, and great discussion from everyone! I'm really enjoying reading everyone's insight.

This week has been one where Marcus' attitude to himself and the world is something I'm leaning on quite a bit— those ebbs-and-flows of life that we sometimes take too seriously, as if life won't come to an abrupt end at any second.

On the topic of 'sight'— I feel like I come back to this often. It's hard to quantify how much of our belief of what is reality, or indeed what is real, outside of our vision. I feel fairly comfortable second guessing my other senses, but sight is something I feel like only ever presents truth to me— why is that?

I like to try a little experiment to give my ears the drivers seat once in a while. Sit on a park bench or somewhere quiet and close your eyes. The next bird you hear, place it in 3D space. You can pinpoint almost exactly where that bird is in 3D space without vision. It makes me wonder how heavily I believe I'm relying on sight when our other senses are filling in a lot of things for us.

What those passages make me think about is the separation between mind and body. The literal space between the physical biological being and the rational mind that inhabits it. Two separate beings feeding information back and forth across dimensions. I feel very acquainted with the senses of my physical self, so much so that using them feels effortless, but what about the mind?

If the mind is something separate, does it have it's own senses? I don't think my body is able to conceptualise the future, it may have some residue from the past but can it see the past? It feels like there more to pull on that thread— most of which I don't feel very capable of synthesising in to words, but a lifetime of journey ahead to explore.