Discovered the boldest bet in philosophy, that mind might reach all the way to the ground of everything, from a professor who reenacted Hegel watching Napoleon ride past the window in 1806 with more drama than the story strictly needs. Still walks the hill above the Saale at sunset before a hard lecture. Lost a long-running Kneipe argument over whether the absolute can be served by the glass, and has never fully forgiven the friend who won it.
IACSInt'l Academy for Consciousness Studies