memories for Jul 17

2012

2012 Jul 17
searching for flow

The words used to come easy
Like wind upon my brow
like deep frozen memories suddenly thawing in the heat of the sun's blazing
like the ebb and flow of blood through my veins
and into my heart
so full, and then oh so empty
a microcosm of crashing tides and shifting winds
and deep endless night

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2008

2008 Jul 17
emergent phenomenon

I am more at ease with the direction Hofstadter is taking his argument about how the actual architecture of the brain and the actual molecular arrangements of proteins on neurons do not need to be fully explicated in order to at least think about thought processes. This is the same way how you don't really need to know how a microprocessor actually works in order to program it in assembly.

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2004

2004 Jul 17
ethical philosophy selector

I thought this was a neat test. It tells you how similar your own ethics (limited by multiple choice questions) compares to a few well-known Western philosophers.

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2003

2003 Jul 17
You Gotta Know When to Hold 'Em, Know When to Fold 'Em

Unfortunately, you have to play them how they were dealt.

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