20130105 (J)
January 5, 2013
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Appearance and Reality                                Death                                Science (Turbulence)

Some would say, like my grandfather, Bobby, “We’re getting too big for our britches.”

Snowflakes: An interesting observation to me would be “What movements of other snowflakes would a falling snow see?” It depends on the falling speed relative to the others. One average falling snowflake could see from above half falling faster appearing rushing toward; the slow half “falling away”: the opposite below, and various speeds to the sides. The slowest moving snowflake would see all rushing toward it, as we can see out a car window in a snow storm. The opposite of course for the fastest. The ends can see direction, the middle can’t.

Dying: I am dying as I think all life is. Dying started and conception, got a big boost by being born, then progressively more through growth and adulthood. I grow and live also; the nexus is my life. ISTMRN life with its embedded semi-permeable membranes stumbled upon a deep series of backup systems (membranes) to just maintain those membranes, all protecting the “fire in the ocean”. Most backup systems are never needed, some or most are always activated by the internal or external environment. It is these backup system that fail for random or programmed reasons throughout life. The backup systems fail is the “dying. I think the net of “strengthening” vrs “weakening” the system of interwoven backup follows a zero pegged normal curve. The X axis is death.

Generalization: ISTMRN I am often guilty of the general unsupportable generalization, “I think therefore I am.” Then even further from inductive legitimacy when I generalize, “You think too, so you ‘are’ also;”

but alas

I can never know who you are, nor you I. Though perhaps I can know rather than assume you “are” too (Chung Tzu’s butterfly be damned).