February 2012
117 posts
“It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order...”
– Douglas R. Hofstadter, Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern
“Frustrated? Yes. Why? Because it is impossible for me to be God.”
– Sylvia Plath, Journals (via human-voices)
“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the...”
– Alan WattsÂ
“The main problem is the discrepancy between our belief that we can handle...”
– Kenneth S. Leong
Your Storytelling Brain: Michael S. Gazzaniga →
“The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things...”
– Albert Camus
“A living animal can orient itself in many ways. All of these are orientations to the environment, but to different features of the environment, such as gravity, or the sun in the sky, or a sudden noise, or a mate… we will consider the simplest kind of orientation, to the direction up-down and to the plane of the ground. Along with this goes a basic type of perception on which other...
