We think of time as a forward movement, the past as gone forever, and the present moving ahead towards the future. If it were only that simple, time moving forward at a steady pace. But I consider time motionless, always present, silent, the medium in which events occur.
“ I see,” said the blind man. “Good,” responded his blind companion. “I too saw the light of day the moment I heard the explanation.” Never mind what the blind man “saw,” or what his blind companion heard. I know precisely what the two blind men meant: they “saw” – understood – “the light [...]
Oh, irony, what complexity! I love irony for its veneer covering insights beneath the surface. I know, with one stroke I’ve opened pandora’s box filled with more than anyone could cover in a lifetime. Never mind; I don’t need to be comprehensive or even consistent to explore ideas that strike me, such as I did [...]
Strange, isn’t it, that the highly evolved sense of smell has been disparaged by the metaphor of “being nosey.” Why drag the nose and smell down to the level of gossip instead of being appreciated as a marvel of evolution? Why suck curiosity to learn into dangerous, muddy quicksand? Elevate your thoughts on smell.
While not conceptually new, robots are rising from science fiction to an ambiguous reality. The latest frontier: Creativity! If an artist uses a robot to create art who is the creator? The artist? Programmer? Robot? All three?
Noise! So annoying. So prevalent. So important. Not always heard. The shrill noise we hear in our neck of the woods these days comes from the vibrating tymbal organs of male cicadas chorusing females – an invitation to mate. Tymbal organs are stretched across the space between the thorax and abdomen, which is hollow and [...]
