Most people can’t see beyond their own language, let alone language itself. / La plupart des gens ne peuvent pas voir au-delà de leur propre langue, encore moins de la langue elle-même. / Die meisten Menschen können nicht über ihre eigene Sprache hinaus sehen, geschweige denn über die Sprache selbst.
Language is a barrier to … reality. But a permeable, sieve-like one. One analogy is the blood-brain barrier (BBB)5
Speaking of hobbies, I just realized I gave up aikido for neuroscience
I had slways looked at us as a species, certainly not a gift of (or to) God.
Rebels without a cause always appealed to me more than rebels with one . I did try out causes, of course. Not surprisingly, they didn’t work out.
Thr rightwing / the left a bunch of swarmy wimps. Who do you think will win?
“Swarmy” is not from Yiddish but I swear I’ve heard it yiddishized into “schwarmy”.
Reading neuroscience is like reading a foreign language I’m not proficient at. I tend get the drift but miss words, esp the acronyms and names of chemicals. When these lapses accumulate to the point I don’t follow anymore, I have go back and work on my vocabulary. Practice makes perfect. [?’d on 25 Sep]
Just as I was reading about the important roles sodium and potassium play in neurotransmission, I got a message from Kaiser showing that my test results for both of them, liver related, plus creatinine which is kidney related, are resolutely normal. That is, Levadopa has not adversely affected my blood chemistry. Good news. [sms’d to nr 26 Sep]
https://alteritas.net/pastis/headstone-2/
Was I more psycho- than sociopath?
Hard to say. The twain do almost meet.
Cautiously, I trod the strait path
between, kept my missteps discreet.
Poetry is a tail trying to wag the dog of reality
Love weighs its price
I get vertigo when I think about my past life, and when I imagine the future lives of those younger than I
The jargon of science ….
How much marijuana / cannabis / THC mangles elementary math.
Austria is a delightfully alcoholic country but this does have unfortunate consequences
Ah age! When the seat of pleasure becomes source of pain.
Using my return to Montréal as a source of meditation abt my political stance then and now
Once I got over his hippie-like attachment to the idea of beards, a moment which ironically coincided with the physiologicsl capacity of growing one.
What does it mean to be “born into”….
Sometimes an almost religious sense of awe settles over me when I contemplate the neurological complexity of the brain, in which electrochemical machine consciousness is truly a ghost. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_machine [X’d 1 Oct]