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Based on our discussion in class, I interpreted the I-function as perhaps the "reality" that is an inescapable ambiguity in whatever input we receive. I would say this in terms of dreams that sometimes they may seem very random and terrifying but when one remembers and tries to analyze it they are able to interpret it and perhaps rationalize what the dream actually meant or the purpose of the dream. I would say the fact that we are able to rationalize may be because our I-functions are ambiguously sending us a message in our sleep, or making us think about some previous thoughts in a different context.

I would be interested in what the I-functions role may be in certain instances of experiencing "deja vu". Deja vu is this sense of familiarity and can some times be accompanied by a sense of eeriness as one is put in a situation where they experience something that happened already in the past or perhaps in a previous dream. In terms of the certain experience being previously viewed in a dream can this be attributed to our I-function or of a higher power. Doesn't this issue bring about a clash between science and religion for circumstances like this?