My Philosophy Corner
 

Wellesley in the Rain (Fall '98)
The author writes in order to address himself to the freedom of readers, and he requires it in order to make his work exist...
he also requires that they return this confidence which he has given them,
that they recognize his creative freedom."


        - Jean-Paul Sartre
(Literature and Existentialism)


 
   
 

 

My Random Musings and Commentaries:

  • There are mythical angels in life, they say, that cause miracles and change lives, but i find that angels change NOT events, but people... they inspire changes in people... They mark a turning point in a life.

  • At Point A, it doesn't matter whether we can forsee the factual, destined Point B, we still must experience the actual distance between Point A to Point B, in order to understand the person we have become at Point B. Within the experience of a moment, we have embraced free will.

  • The recreation of time is an art form. Events are the malleable clay. We are the sculptors of our own history. There are no chapters to a book in life. We continue to categorize events in different arrangements, finding our own poetry in these creations.

  • I recently watched a Japanese movie "AfterLife" in which the story focused on the central question: If you were to select only one moment in your life to experience for all eternity, what moment would you pick, knowing that you would forget all else but that of which belongs to that moment?

Thoughts on Cyberspace:

  • "Cyberspace is a consensual hallucination that these people have created. It's like, with this equipment, you can agree to share the same hallucinations. In effect, they're creating a world. It's not really space. It's notional space... a graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights receding"
    - William Gibson (coined term "Cyberspace" in Neuromancer)

  • "Cyberspace is where you are when you're talking on the telephone" - John Barlow

Albert Einstein's Quotes:

  • "Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom."

  • "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

  • "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."

  • "I want to know God's thoughts."

  • "Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."

Mother Teresa

  • "We can do no great things- only small things with great love."
 

Janet Si-Ming Lee's Cyberspace Cinema. Email: jlee6_98@alum.wellesley.edu