Friday, November 5, 2010

Big Crazy System

Every time your heart beats, it's because your Sinoatrial Node is pumping electricity to other nodes and muscles within your heart. Every square inch of your skin is covered with nerves that send electrical impulse to your spine and up to your brain. Inside your brain is a storm of electrical activity that we have only recently begun to measure and understand.

Did you know that every electrical current induces a magnetic field? Furthermore, the hemoglobin in our blood is a metalloprotein and has a lot of iron it. So every pulse of electricity up our spine, every firing neuron, and every activated nerve applies a (very slight, perhaps insignificant) force on even the tiny blood cells in your body.

I'm not sure what to think or say. The System is unpredictable. How can modern man be surprised by anything? Life is crazy. How can anyone believe anything?

In order to even communicate meaning, you have to isolate. Choose a specific word, give me a time, supply context. Eventually, with enough chosen restrictions, you can start to create meaning with words. Maybe we can do the same thing with the Universe. In fact maybe we have been on our way ever since the days of Pythagoras. Maybe now we're just working our way up--or around--and as we understand more and more, one day we'll approach that inifinity of Universe understanding.

For now we can only choose to survive by feeling things out the best we can.

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