Tuesday, December 05, 2023
Fungal States of Minds
Saturday, October 29, 2022
Consciousness
I regard matter as derivative from consciousness.
We cannot get behind consciousness.
Everything that we talk about,
everything that we regard as existing,
postulates consciousness."
Monday, August 08, 2022
Atoms with Consciousness
There are the rushing waves…
mountains of molecules, each stupidly
minding its own business… trillions apart…
yet forming white surf in unison.
before any eyes could see…
year after year…
thunderously pounding the shore as now.
For whom, for what?…
on a dead planet,
with no life to entertain.
tortured by energy…
wasted prodigiously by the sun…
poured into space.
A mite makes the sea roar.
repeat the patterns of one another
till complex new ones are formed.
They make others like themselves…
and a new dance starts.
masses of atoms, DNA, protein… dancing
a pattern ever more intricate.
here it is standing…
atoms with consciousness…
matter with curiosity.
wonders at wondering…
...I…
a universe of atoms…
an atom in the universe."
- Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
Untitled Ode to the Wonder of Life,
Quoted by Maria Popova (1984 - ), The Marginalian
Sunday, November 14, 2021
Hatching of Self
Friday, September 10, 2021
The Matrix of All Matter
- Max Planck (1858 - 1947)
Monday, April 26, 2021
Focal Points
- Bernardo Kastrup
Dreamed Up Reality
Postscript. As I alluded to a few blog posts ago, owing to this will-it-ever-end-pandemic, my photo-safari opportunities are - as for most of you - few-and-far-between. Thus, quality "photography time" nowadays amounts to either immersing myself in an unfathomably deep gorge of unprocessed raw files or looking to make this gorge even more unfathomably deep by saving an endless stream of impromptu "experiments" with light and form in my home studio (i.e., my day-job work desk after I clear it of my day-job notes and scribbles). The diptych above (as well as the one from yesterday) combines these two practices; i.e., they are "experiments in abstraction" captured a few years ago with my iPhone. Yesterday's images are of two ceilings, one in a local grocery store, the other at a local department of motor vehicles (where I sat, bored, one day in 2017, while waiting for one of my sons to test for his driver's permit). Today's images come courtesy of a local mall. There is appreciable comfort (from my otherwise omnipresent angst over few-and-far-between photo opportunities) in knowing that there are always wonders to be discovered, even if such "discoveries" are of discoveries made long ago!
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Mind at Large
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
Tuesday, December 01, 2020
Wonder about Wonder
- V. S. Ramachandran (1951 - )
The Tell-Tale Brain
Thursday, May 28, 2020
Creative Consciousness
Saturday, April 25, 2020
Self-Sustaining Agents
Friday, March 13, 2020
Ontological Autometamorphosis
Monday, December 03, 2018
Shadow World
Monday, February 12, 2018
The Content of Cognition
Thursday, April 28, 2016
Symbolic Images
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Tat Tvam Asi
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Complete Consciousness
Saturday, February 06, 2016
Interpenetrating Fragments and Divisions
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Synesthetic Noetics: Cognition vs. Intuition
Note: Volume II of my "Synesthetic Landscape" series is now available for purchase (softcover, hardbound with wrap-around cover, and pdf versions).
Thursday, February 02, 2012
Appearances and Consciousness
"The order and regularity