Busy week. I don't even want to bother saying what happened each day, but it was pretty much me being busy from 8 (or 8:30) to at least 5 or 8 pm every day, except for Wednesday when I start at 11:40.
I'm getting used to the insanity, I think.
Today Philosophy Club met again, and it was really fun. We read Thomas Nagel's "What is it like to be a bat?" It's one of those papers that truly influenced my personal philosophy. It's one of the reasons why I'm so attached to philosophy; why science can't answer all your questions. Nagel is just one fabulous philosopher. I don't think I've ever read anything he wrote that I disagree with.
I'm having some sort of an identity crisis. It's about me being both a biologist and a philosopher. I question whether I'm a biologist because I'm a philosopher or whether I'm a philosopher because I'm a biologist. I question whether it's possible to be both. I mean, I don't think there was ever a time in biology classes when I don't use my philosophical perspective, and vice versa.
But tonight it was difficult. There was philosophy club, and I really have to study for genetics. But I was in one of those state of minds when I feel like just doing nothing else but being a philosopher. Anyway, I looked through my genetics notes and make sure I would have less-enough material that I can cram tomorrow.
Since the semester started, biology has been taking over my life so much. To be honest, I don't love my philosophy classes too much; I've been so much more into biology.
But tonight's philosophy club meeting made me realize, once again, how much philosophy means to me.
On a side note, you know how they say success is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration? I think that's nonsense. I think that inspiration should get a 50%.
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