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Shayna - I didn't quite understand what you meant in your last paragraph. I kind of see what you're saying - that 'good is just an agreement' - but I feel like I'm missing something somehow.

But that's not really what I want to write about. Just as I began this semester wondering about morality, I am finishing up wondering about morality. And then, of course, the question of the 'soul'. I truly want to believe that people have souls. Not because people will live on after dying (although it is very comforting to believe that someone you love has never left you, and that you will see them again one day), but because, despite everything we've talked about regarding the I-function, I just feel that there is 'something more'. Understanding the I-function has helped me a lot in understandign people and our realities, although I am still struggling with the idea that we make up our realities to some extent. I want there to be a 'truth', or a definitive reality, that we can experience somehow.

And somehow, that idea ties in with the idea of morality/the soul. Although, morality is, at least in my mind, quite separate from the soul. The soul is something that is not nervous, that is not voluntary or involuntary, is not constructed, but is just there - to me, that is. I'm just struggling to try and find a way to fit that in with what we've learned this semester.

I really like the idea of calling the I-function the story-teller, despite my misgivings about how I feel about this aspect of our perception. It seems to be a fitting way to term the I-function.

This post is a bit jumbled, but I'm just trying to tie some things together as we end the semester, and am a bit at a loss for some of hte question I have. :)