shut-in

eXtreme dog walking in Tarrytown begins the day. So, I did get out. We parked in the shopping center owned by the animal lover. Surely two dog walkers can park there! (This lady kicked out a little gourmet grocer for selling meat and made the Texas French Bread go vegetarian. There is a dog adoption operation office there now, too. I wondered if Mike Adams Hardware got kicked out for selling barbeque grills. I made that up. But not the rest of it. Really.)

I have a higher energy level today and it's no time before we reach Mozart's and are having coffee. I do the hills and distance without complaining about needing caffeine. I have a big old chocolate croissant and café au lait. I try to engage SuRu in this real philosophical discussion wherein I suddenly claim that all intellect is merely pattern matching. I try to illustrate by talkng about what we assume from the dress, demeanor and possessions of the people walking by.

Then I explain my 'not entirely unexpected theory.' When you go outside, you might see a person you've never seen before in clothes that vary from anything you've exactly observed. You might see a car that you have never seen before, in fact a model car that is entirely new. You consume this information without dying of a heart attack over the surprising effect because you match the information to something 'not entirely unexpected' in this context. If you go outside your house and see an elephant or a 747 in the street, you will be MORE surprised even though it is the exact elephant you saw at the zoo or the exact 747 you saw at an airport.

My rambling philosophy discussion yielded only this from SuRu: "So how do we invent brand new things?" (Yeah, you guessed it...there are no brand new things in my tightly-woven philosophical system.) I don't know. I just felt philosophical today. I don't have the background for it.