Index 
Language Morality Souls Thought Process
Shibboleths: “Change is needed to make biomedical research support general health” then often redundantly, “of the nation (or the world).” “Help others” Often with “if we make a little profit for our help, so much the better.” the credo of capitalism Morals: We trade in “intellectual property”, as if anything is not, negotiated legal boundaries included. I suppose we recognize ambiguity at those boundaries. But why stop there? Why not prioritize morality as an emotional form of intellectual property. There could be a whole train load of money litigating endlessly. Or is it perhaps that morals do not have fuzzy boundaries, not REAL morals. Some claim we can’t see the real morals, only they can, so there is no need to litigate what is “good” and “perfect”, like a philosophy, Nirvana, the Chicago Bears, and Wall Street. Snowflakes, Physical Laws, and Mathematics: A freshly fallen snow delighted me this morning. I thought of the infinite textures of newly fallen snow, observing this is a pretty wet one. Then I thought of the infinite textures created by any infinite number of local histories until it, once again, becomes water. Some crystals last only an instant upon touching the ground while others persist in condensed form for millions or billions of years, the latter perhaps in lunar craters or Callisto’s crust. The ability of mathematics to describe such variability or even predict the existence of a single snowflake, let alone its history is impossible. Which leaf will fall next from the tree? Some say the anwser is in mathematics, some even claim to be near the “Theory of Everything”, a self-consistent merging of relavity and QED/QCD. But it seems a more accurate description would be, “Theory of Nothing” in that no particular “thing”, not one actual snowflake or falling leaf is predictable by math, only general classes or sets. Math lives in the other world, beyond the senses in the imagination of human minds. But doesn’t everything follow the laws? Well, yes, of course, at least approximately with some “measurement” errors and statistical variability. In that statistical uncertainty that lies the limit of mathematics and other “descriptive” procedures, including language. We generalize into “classes”, taxonomic reductionism, to permit communication about “agreed upon” similar things. There is too much in infinity to grasp. So thank you Apollo (or is it Prometheus) for math and other languages such as “morality”. Thank you for nothing from which we create everything, at least everything that matters to our consciousness. |
| Tensions in each of us, at least in me, and it seems in society at large; all illusions some say. | |
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| Get it while you can | Help Others |
| Selfishness | Sacrifice |
| Sexuality | Modesty |
| Me | Other than Me |
| Like Me | Unlike Me |
| Black | White |
| Up | Down |
| Light | Dark |
| In | Out |
| Yin | Yang |