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Get the dirt on my blog .My new research interest is the isolation inherent in consciousness and morality. Consciousness is fundamentally a first-person phenomenon, no one could know what it is like to be you, this information is private, ineffable, and as a result, isolating. At the same time, one's conscious experiences are severely disconnected from the outside world, with one's sensory input coming in rather narrow and sporadic bursts while consciousness flows on in an uninterrupted stream. This has the effect of creating a narrative of consciousness, a fiction that is liberally based on the external world yet contains enough peculiarities to act as a wall between conscious individuals, preventing the possibility of meaningful interpersonal connection in a society of solipsists.

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Climbing the Mastodon

Your gonna have to go to my real blog to read it though.http://alanclimbs.blogspot.com/2007/10/mastodon.html
Posted by on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 01:30:00 GMT

My blog has moved: alanclimbs.blogspot.com

I'm bloggen still, but it's no longer on myspace. Check it out at alanclimbs.blogspot.com, or just click here.
Posted by on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 08:26:00 GMT

The Hardest Climb in China

China is most likely the most irritating place in the world. Nothing works here, you can't imagine the frustration of not being able to count on anything not being shit. Yesterday I got a bike and aft...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:48:00 GMT

Life in China

See this video, this shit happens all the time here in China. I shot this lastnight while eating dinner, little teases like this are everywhere. It's official now that I'm living in China. J...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:06:00 GMT

Climbing and Communism

Things I've consumed: frog, snake, pigs penis, starfish, lizard, water buffalo, etc. They eat everything here. The worst is going to the dog section of a market and seeing them all in cages, and exper...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:17:00 GMT

Yangshuo

So yea, I'm in China right now. We made the plane ride sustained by shitty movies and rum. The train then got us to Hong Kong, we rode a bus to another train station, then rode as far as Shenzhen. Fro...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 06:37:00 GMT

MICKEY'S BEACH

Spent the day at Mickey's with John, Justin, and Peter. John's new uber rad lense has been kicking ass. The colors were muted because of the fog, but it made for some cool effects. Nude beaches might ...
Posted by on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:26:00 GMT

NORCAL PARTY

Back in Norcal, visiting old friends. Summer is the season for quitting jobs, apparently - there is certainly no harm in that. Those jobs, they suck the soul right out of your body, and the do it fast...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 10:07:00 GMT

TUOLUMNE

So I met my dad in Tuolumne for a few days of hardcore climbing. Age be damned. We did Hobbit Book (5.7) and Mathes Crest back to back. These photos are from mathes, how sweet. Only camera I had was m...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:06:00 GMT

TRIP IN A DAY

Who do Zulu we do. A trip in a day is what I had, lotsa luck because it was the last bit of time I had in the canyon. I did another 6:00 am morning (fuck that), got Zulu by 8:30 and then did Gayness (...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 01:44:00 GMT