My Lexapro (SSRI) is starting to rear its evil head. I'm having a beer for lunch to cope with it. What it does to my consciousness is takes away emotion and I think this post belongs in this thread because we're all like fish in water. That water being consciousness. Does the fish know what water is like? That it is wet? What is consciousness like, is it wet? Can we step outside of consciousness to judge it? I don't think we can, because consciousness gives us the very means to judge anything and everything.

This makes me question just what a soul is. Is it eternal and indestructible or mortal. Either way, I think it's our duty to harmonize the chaos within the soul. To realize our drives and instincts, harness those to our reason and live a conscious life. Plato in the Phaedrus talks about a charioteer driving two horses. A good white horse. one of reason and another one, a dark one of passion. We're going to move in some direction, but to live a conscious life it's our duty to give the reins to the white horse of reason. The whole point of education is to make a rational person ever more rational. I think this is what philosophy class is for. It teaches the best things ever said and thought by the human race, and by doing so gives the grist for thought to deliberate on life. Socrates says the examined life isn't worth living, well, philosophy and literature, science, psychology gives the very means to examine life. The emotions play a bigger role than what I've just mentioned but I'd love to talk about that at another time.

Just my thoughts at the moment.