cell sufficient: each a universe unto ourselves
CELL-SUFFICIENT — In terms of numbers: Our human body consists of about 30 trillion human cells and alongside almost 40 trillion bacterial cells. While humans have roughly 20,000 genes (of which we only understand the role of about 30% of them), the microorganisms (bacterial cells) that also inhabit our body possess at least 2 million […]
thoughtless gods | when our intelligence exceeds our wisdom (again)
Inspired by a Youtube link to some thoughts about AI from one of Google’s former senior execs. and author of ‘Scary Smart:The Future of Artificial intelligence’ — Mo Gawdat:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I39UoIGTptc Thoughtless gods We humans are so good at proudly inventingThings that might well kill us allFor our intelligence exceeds our wisdomAnd we forget ‘pride comes before […]
some of all things
some think this, others that: it is the foundation of human individuality, but also of division… and yet no one truly knows who if anyone is right and who wrong… except in some obvious cases 🙂
what’s the point and what happens next?
jotted in response to a social media post — namely (screenshot): In all probability we all simply play a cosmically short and intrinsically minor role in the process of the One Source of everything, the Supreme Consciousness (the thing that some people like to refer to as God) experiencing itself through the billions of explicit […]
Christmas 2024
Just a quick thought, essentially a response to a facebook post trying to logically (but erroneously) argue that ‘God cannot exist’, but the short thesis below is perhaps apposite to the season:Many good wishes to all who stumble on this blog and may 2025 be a blessed year for you all… especially given the various […]
string theory (a poem)
a poem I wrote in 2022, still consider it to be a work in progress but I thought i’d add it to the archive here ‘for the record’: string theory Puppets all, we dance in response to the Master’s mightWho pulls the theoretical strings so tightHis Piper’s tune makes us gyrate and cavortBut His efforts […]