metonymy4u

I think creativity is at least as important as science in human interaction. Creativity is what allows us to use science to help people. It is a combination of technique, joy and curiosity. The ability to control one’s attention, and yet still be surprised.

Read Full Post »

I believe words can be completely enthralling and completely unbelievable at the same time. That is language may be completely inadequate to beauty’s expression without it losing an ounce of fascination for me.

Read Full Post »

Need I state the obvious about the Martin-Zimmerman case? That if no one but sworn officers were allowed to legally carry guns in this country that either Martin would be alive or Zimmerman would (at least) be a convicted felon at this point?

Read Full Post »

Isn’t it interesting how humans tend to attack other humans for the things they say? Or do? Is there a single shred of evidence to suggest that attacking leads to any sort of sustainable long term solution?

Read Full Post »

Today I’m thinking about what it says about a community that feels the need to have “stand your ground” laws. Perhaps they would be better named: “we have no idea whatsoever how to decrease violence” laws…

Read Full Post »

Isn’t it interesting how an expression of hope can at times be an occasion for experiencing despair? Our emotional brains…sigh…

Read Full Post »

A few passing questions for you….who?

If every atom in your body is not really where it is, i.e is not a stable spacetime event, at least not in the Newtonian sense, then where and when are you, precisely?

If every molecule in your body gets replaced every few years (or decades, or centuries or whatever) then are you a new you every few (years, decades, etc)?

Is there some one molecule in your body that never gets replaced, or that can be precisely localized in spacetime, or is there some one idea about you that can be anchored in place by a set of words that once discovered never changes ever again?

And is that the you that you think you are?

Read Full Post »

A word on my last few posts: I’m currently reading Gregory Orr’s book Poetry as Survival in which he very nicely re-describes the Nietzschian aesthetic notion that (Dionysian) art is always already a confrontation of the subliminal sense, present perpetually at the edges of phenomena, of dis-integration and dis-order. That we (somewhat compulsively) remake events into experience through art, and thereby seek to get a handle hold on the double threats of death and irrelevancy that are always nipping at our heels. Our modern aesthetic being so Nietzschian (thanks to Freud!) it made me wonder if a different perspective might be embedded in our own pre-Nietzschian tradition?

Read Full Post »

In what context does it make sense to make sense?

Read Full Post »