What do you Listen to on the Road?

For me it was philosophy, not science. Was in a psychology class learning about the human eye and how it processes information. Asked the professor, so what does the world look like outside of our heads? She answered, that’s a question for philosophers. Those are fun questions, though. The class thought I was crazy.

Went down and bought a book on modern philosophy, and so began existentional roller coaster.

Something here you might enjoy. Color is a topic philosophers love to discuss. Have you ever tried to describe color? It’s hard isn’t it. So, I can show you a green and yellow road sign. How can you and I confirm we see the color the same way? We have been taught since childhood to identify color with a word and that’s it. So that lead me to think of the world internally in my mind (my reality), then there is the external world, it’s existence outside of my mind. Think about that on your next road trip, how do you think it “looks”? Can we even describe it or understand it? If we can’t how can we even be sure it exists at all? The logic there sort of breaks down. It goes with that tree in a forest falls over, does it make a sound question. Most know that question but don’t take the time to think about it and appreciate its depth.

You can apply that skepticism to almost anything. You come to realize that we aren’t really sure about anything. In all our existence and pursuit of truth we haven’t definitely answered any questions.

Taking the time to think about in my younger years had a way reprogramming the way I think about things. It made me more open to opposing view points and made me understand pretty quickly I don’t really know much of anything. It’s more accurate to say I think I know.

 

Alexander Scourby reads the Holy Bible, my absolute favorite thing to listen to, even while I sleep sometimes.

 

It would be mighty arrogant to think it doesn't make a sound just because you don't happen to be there to witness the event, or that sounds ONLY occur in the presence of a human.

Your post made me chuckle a little, though, when talking about how we describe the world. I amuse myself every time somebody says "This tastes like $#!+". My usual reply is simply "I don't know what $#!+ tastes like...never tried it myself, but whatever floats your boat!"

 

That train experiment is a good one for understanding relativity in a basic form. Someone in a train moving at 70 mph drops a pen and observes it falling straight down. A person outside of the train, if they could see the pen, would observe the pen falling down, but also traveling in the direction of the train at 70 mph, or slightly less. Time as well. Go stand next to the pyramids in Egypt and time passes slightly less due to the pyramids mass. Also computer programmers know they have to program software in satellites to tell time slightly slower because it’s farther way from the Earth’s mass. Travel at just under the speed of light and will theoretically almost stop. Go next to a black hole, same thing. Weird ####.

Look a particle behavior how it moves about randomly, disappearing and reappearing, and existing in multiple places at the same time. Weird ####. Makes you think about how at that size thinks behave completely differently. So what happens if we observe our universe though eyes so large it needs a microscope. What would be the nature of its existence at that perspective? What system of what larger thing would it be a part of? And zoom out again and again? Makes you contemplate infinity. Does it even exist.. how radically different would things be

 

That’s obviosly how nature intended us to exist, thinking that way and trusting our senses. There is really no alternative.

I have read a lot of convincing arguments that can make you wonder, though. Read guys like David Hume, Immanuel Kant, john Locke and others that attempted to explain stuff like this. Smart guys, a lot smarter than me, they respected the question.

Your response is normal most think and respond to the question just like that... “get the hell out of here you #######!”

 

I drive, therefore I am.

 

Sometimes I listen to old time truckin tunes.
Long before fast food when everyone had a cafe.

 

For some of the more elder among us who remember Paul Harvey. I found this archive site on my laptop with A LOT of Paul Harvey's "The Rest Of The Story" broadcasts. I can't vouch for how the mobile web site may work to play via your smartphone and to your truck radio, but I suspect it will work okay. Each broadcast is in it's own small audio file that will play to your device being used.

Paul Harvey The Rest Of The Story ....
Paul Harvey ~ The Rest of the Story : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

 

I loved Paul Harvey. Thank you.

 

Paul Harvey ~ The Rest of the Story : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Seems to work fine for mobile use. I clicked on the link from my iPhone, and hit play on the first title and it played bluetooth out to the radio