Studying Philosophy, at moments it can feel like just memorizing names and opinions. Like a long list of "This is what Aristotle said", "This is what Descartes said" and so on. And then the advanced stage is just to go deeper into details; "This is what young Wittgenstein said, and this is what he said later on, let's see if and how his opinions changed", or "this is how old Husserl compares to Kant" etc. But, I always felt that hidden in that is the core of studying philosophy; ie. trying to follow the paths of the other thinkers, trying to make sense of their line of thought is a good way to expand ones own cognitive and conceptual horizons.

I hope it is the same with reading my writings. I'm not expecting the reader to agree on everything. This is more like fuel for the fire of thought. Sometimes trying to understand how an another person sees the world, also helps to clarify for oneself the ones own personal way of seeing the world. Sometimes interaction and exchange of thoughts sparks new ideas, opens up new pathways to explore.

Hehe, since I was recently asked also about the TaruPaja interactive story-engine, here I'm now bit kind of thinking that actually TaruPaja could also work for philosophical dialogue. Instead of a pre-defined linear dialogue, I could try writing a dialogue tree, where the reader could make different choices which then lead to different paths of the philosophical dialogue. That might be a lot of writing, but sounds like an interesting idea to me =)