{"id":1417,"date":"2023-10-07T13:51:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T20:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2023-10-07T14:01:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T21:01:58","slug":"early-morning-of-october-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2023\/10\/07\/early-morning-of-october-1st\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Morning of October 1st"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most people can’t see beyond their own language, let alone language itself.\u00a0 <\/span>\/ La plupart des gens ne peuvent pas voir au-del\u00e0 de leur propre langue, encore moins de la langue elle-m\u00eame. \/ Die meisten Menschen k\u00f6nnen nicht \u00fcber ihre eigene Sprache hinaus sehen, geschweige denn \u00fcber die Sprache selbst.<\/p>\n

Language is a barrier to\u00a0 <\/span>… reality. But a permeable, sieve-like one. One analogy is the blood-brain barrier (BBB)5<\/p>\n

Speaking of hobbies, I just realized I gave up aikido for neuroscience<\/p>\n

I had slways looked at us as a species, certainly not a gift of (or to<\/i>) God.<\/p>\n

Rebels without a cause always appealed to me more than rebels with one .\u00a0 <\/span>I did try out causes, of course. Not surprisingly, they didn’t work out.<\/p>\n

Thr rightwing \/ the left a bunch of\u00a0 <\/span>swarmy wimps. Who do you think will win? \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“Swarmy” is not from Yiddish but I swear I’ve heard it yiddishized into “schwarmy”.<\/p>\n

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. [\ud835\udd4f’d on 25 Sep]\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 <\/span>normal. That is, Levadopa has not adversely affected my blood chemistry. Good news. [sms’d to nr 26 Sep] \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/headstone-2\/<\/a> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Was I more psycho- than sociopath?
\nHard to say. The twain do almost meet.
\nCautiously, I trod the strait path
\nbetween, kept my missteps discreet.<\/p>\n

Poetry is a tail trying to wag the dog of reality<\/p>\n

Love weighs its price<\/p>\n

I get vertigo when I think about my past life, and when I imagine the future lives\u00a0 <\/span>of those younger than I<\/p>\n

The jargon of science ….<\/p>\n

How much marijuana \/ cannabis \/ THC mangles elementary math.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Austria is a delightfully alcoholic country but this does have unfortunate consequences<\/p>\n

Ah age! When the seat of pleasure becomes source of pain.<\/p>\n

Using my return to Montr\u00e9al as a source of meditation abt my political stance then and now<\/p>\n

Once I got over his hippie-like attachment to the idea of beards, a moment which ironically coincided with the physiologicsl\u00a0 <\/span>capacity of growing one.<\/p>\n

What does it mean to be “born into”….<\/p>\n

Sometimes an almost religious sense\u00a0 <\/span>of awe settles over me when I contemplate the neurological complexity of the brain, in which electrochemical machine consciousness is truly a ghost.\u00a0 <\/span>https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ghost_in_the_machine<\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>[X’d 1 Oct]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most people can’t see beyond their own language, let alone language itself.\u00a0 \/ La plupart des gens ne peuvent pas voir au-del\u00e0 de leur propre langue, encore moins de la langue elle-m\u00eame. \/ Die meisten Menschen k\u00f6nnen nicht \u00fcber ihre eigene Sprache hinaus sehen, geschweige denn \u00fcber die Sprache selbst. Language is a barrier to\u00a0 … <\/p>\n

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