LoL

I laughed out loud when I realized
that after being rejected
by an ultra religious but science's child
who preferred God's* love to mine,
making me once again wonder about man's mind,
I attracted a beautiful young guy
named.. Jesus!

*=community's

Surprise!

i guess there is no self consciousness after life
though, i surely know
if there is, it will be a happy surprise
and, if it is global, it will hyper excite

when i die

when i die, i wanna be burned and my ashes fly in the sky.

No, in the universe i prefer so that they spread

until where dragons live and i can now think

that they might feel what my mind can never reach.

Just the thought to be part of the cosmic microworld

makes me feel hope for an endless ideas' world.

one night in Les Flors

one night in Les Flors.. while preparing the presentation for next day's journal club.. saw her flatmate skyping about work with his manager, and said

-- you are working at 11 o'clock in the night??!!

-- you are also working.

-- my work is different, is science!

and suddenly she realized that she doesn't even concider it as work but as the most normal thing she could do at that time.

It is not working, but way of living! and mixed thoughts crossed her mind.. like.. yes that's nice, this is the way it should be! or like.. is this "healthy"? and went back on reading..

Wednesday 13 April 2011

questions

Let us suppose that there is a man in an isolated environment.*

There is nothing to see by vision, nothing to feel by tactition, nothing to hear by audition, nothing to smell by olfaction and nothing to taste by gustation.

Would this man be able to feel temperature, happiness, pain, hope, love, etc.? Would he be self-aware?

Certainly other senses and feelings are dependent of the so called the traditional five senses. But, could they exist independently?
Due to memory and the functional development of his brain until the moment we remove him from normal conditions, they could. As they do exist in normal conditions, during the so called resting state. But again, what is that makes us recall, think, imagine?
And, if he were in a such isolated system, without ever being exposed to any external stimulus, from the first moment of his existence, could they?

And, if they could, what would this mean?
That the stimulus is internal coming from the mind?
meaning that mind is beyond, although related to, the brain?

What is that would make the neurons fire?

*of course in order for the person to be alive, oxygen and nutrients are needed. Thus, the environment can not be totally isolated. But, let us suppose that we could provide these supplies in the most non-interactive way.

make your decisions and choose

Aiguablava, October 2010

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Μες της ζωής τη ζάλη

μόνος τριγυρνάς

και ανθρώπους πολλούς γνωρίζεις.

Άλλους πιο ελκυστικούς, άλλους απωθητικούς

Άλλους κατανοητούς, άλλους πάλι απαράδεκτους,

για σένα, γιατί για άλλους φυσιολογικούς.

Καθένας ξεχωριστός.

Μια εν δυνάμει χρυσή πηγή

ακόμη και αν την τροφοδοτείς εσύ.

Διάλεξε παρέα και ασ'την να σε διαλέξει και αυτή.

Και εάν θες κάποιον λίγο ακόμα πιο κοντά

θυμίσου

όσο και εάν νομίζεις ότι το θες,

χρειάζονται δύο για το ιδεατό ένα.

Και εάν αυτό σου είναι περίπλοκο,

αποδέξου την ταυτότητα ένα ίσον ένα.

16 Φεβρουαρίου 2011

In the dizziness of life

you wander alone

and many people you meet

Others more attractive, others repellent

Others understandable, others unacceptable,

for you, because for others normal

Each one special

A potential source of gold

even if you supply it

Choose companionship and let it choose you too.

And if you want someone a little bit closer to you

remember

no matter how much you think you want it

two are needed for the ideal one

and if this is complicated for you

accept the identity one equals one.

16 February 2011

(..if this makes any sense in English.. :))