I was first going to do a post about how I can't relate to wanting to be a person. It seems like all I really care about is the creative and the universal, but nothing in between. Of course I enjoy and loathe and enjoy loathing the regular everyday experiences - talking about other people, eating food, etc but only to the extent that I'm obligated ( Read more... )

I tried to read this article in Wired about vaccines not causing autism but I had to put it down. It just reminded me too much of some kind of Rush Limbaugh screed against the "Liberal Elite." I've always considered myself a science guy - even though my experiences over the years have encouraged me to extend the scope of reason to include aspects ( Read more... )

...it just reminds us so much of A that we can't tell the difference.

Each instance of a pattern is actually a separate event of a particular duration and character. Similarity itself is a property of memory, both our own neurological capacity for memory and the memory which makes up the Cosmos (makes up in every sense). I'm sure that a brain injury ( Read more... )

Imagine a peach. (pause)


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It's increasingly clear to me that political orientation is a hardwired set of neurological biases which shape our perceptions of the world. Rooted in powerfully visceral mammalian and reptilian identifications, the abstractions of idealized logics are superficial afterthoughts - a straw man demolition derby where naively engorged perspectives ( Read more... )

My favorite fivefold quadruplicity


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The internet is a telephone system for computers
computers are calculators attached to TV's
TV is radio with a fluorescent screen
radio is a wireless telegraph
telegraph with microphones is a telephone
A telephone network is an industrial scale calculator

Microelectronics are miniature suburbs.
Suburbs are transportation systems for cars.
Cars are personal ( Read more... )

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Sometimes I get a Wizard of Oz feeling when I think about how some physical realities are explained. In the model you always see, the curvature of space time depicted as a graphed sheet:


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Ideas don't have mass or velocity. Humor has no thermal dimension. If you had an inorganic cosmos of whirling debris and gravity, it would not be possible to invent subjectivity without some a priori framework for it's existence. It would be like algae developing the ability to travel through time in order to catch more hours of daylight as a ( Read more... )