science and your soul
i watched the sky grow dark on paper via the light beams reflecting and shooting through my eyes, growing dimmer by the second. i looked up and out to a white whip of lightning and cirrus being hurled away by angry winds. i think about which brain hemisphere registered the lightning in my right visual field, the speed at which everything is being translated into chemical impulses governed by ion movements, how the right and left hemispheres share all information through fiber bundles. yesterday sam said in fifty years we will all be robots, but the way my bio textbook puts it, we are robots now. how much of your life and soul is left when everything around you is just stimuli?
we have built a life out of the periodic table and its elements. the building process is magical - we can create life substances out of C, H and O. but when everything is decoded back into constituents and neatly shelved away, i wonder where the life goes.
in my living room i have my study belongings - books, papers, coffee tumbler and strawberry pocky - sprawled all over the new coffee table my parents picked up at an office giveaway. having shoved my nose into biological psychology for the past 3 days, i now think in terms of science-speak: life and thoughts are made out of opposing forces and impulses, excitatory and inhibitory. start an action potential, bring on the focus, bring on the salvation. suppress distractions and inhibit self-defeating thoughts. it's been a difficult night and morning though. i've spent the afternoon trying to set the right pattern of thoughts in motion, but i still haven't found the key.
we have built a life out of the periodic table and its elements. the building process is magical - we can create life substances out of C, H and O. but when everything is decoded back into constituents and neatly shelved away, i wonder where the life goes.
in my living room i have my study belongings - books, papers, coffee tumbler and strawberry pocky - sprawled all over the new coffee table my parents picked up at an office giveaway. having shoved my nose into biological psychology for the past 3 days, i now think in terms of science-speak: life and thoughts are made out of opposing forces and impulses, excitatory and inhibitory. start an action potential, bring on the focus, bring on the salvation. suppress distractions and inhibit self-defeating thoughts. it's been a difficult night and morning though. i've spent the afternoon trying to set the right pattern of thoughts in motion, but i still haven't found the key.