Expanding these horizons

As a gift of my old friend Jen, I've scraped the online acquaintanceship of a very lively group of secularists... And it says a lot that many will shoot down that collective noun; these are the intellectual equivalents of the clan of Asterix the Gaul, who will cheerfully scrap with each other when there's no one else around to scrap with, and woe betide anyone silly enough to try and conquer them.

I love it. Oink heaven. My memory still has Swiss-cheese holes in it, but my reasoning is not completely shot.

I was mulling a blog entry on "trying to remember there's a forest among the trees", given the way that we tend to get fixated on a tiny handful of things which, if we had 'em, would surely fix everything. Surely.

These thoughts have been rather derailed by an online conversation I got into about the mind/brain issue. It touches on neurology, history, philosophy and theology, with logic and info architecture as palette-cleansing interjections (or so my thoughts are trending.) Naturally, I'm knawing it like a rawhide bone, tail thumping.

In fairness, not everyone wants the erudite stuff; nor does everyone want the why-what-works pragmatism. Both are so closely linked for me (the blogger, here) that I've decided not to break out a different blog. I'll get better about tagging, and I'll use indicative titles.

Please come along and play. I hope this works out well.