Breaking the Fourth Wall
December 6th, 2007 at 5:30 pm (Thought)
The term fourth wall is one used to describe the barrier that exists between a work of fiction and those that are observing it. Read the rest of this entry »
You ain’t no paradox.
September 7th, 2007 at 6:26 am (Thought)
Oftentimes paradoxes are more about the shortcomings of language than they are about anything else. Here’s a few of the common ones…
What does ‘convergence’ mean to you?
September 6th, 2007 at 1:08 pm (Thought)
To me it means being able to derive value, meaning, and understanding equally well using both brain hemispheres and modes of perception. In other words, the false dichotomies of things like “science VERSUS religion”, “matter VERSUS spirit”, “rationality and logic VERSUS irrationality and intuition”, et cetera… those things will be revealed and understood for what they really are: two sides of the same one coin.
If there’s anything you need to know about me it’s that I’m one of those cats out looking for the third proposition… neither the thesis nor the antithesis, but their synthesis.
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I now return you to your regularly-scheduled whatever-the-fuck.
Evolution, Involution, Adaptation
July 6th, 2007 at 11:57 am (Thought)
I’ve talked about some of these ideas elsewhere and was only considering giving it its own post… but after having just read this article a few minutes ago, I figured that now was the time to spit this stuff out.
“A close-up view of the human genome has revealed its innermost workings to be far more complex than first thought.”
Oh, you don’t say?
Yeah so, I’m no authority on evolutionary theory but I am familiar with a lot of the misconceptions that other people have regarding it. It’s one thing to judge a idea based on its merits but it’s another thing altogether to accept it whole-heartedly without really considering its implications and following them out to their logical end. I’ve noticed that a lot of people who believe that evolution is “the answer” haven’t really put that much thought into what the theory truly suggests.
First I’m going to pick apart what I believe are erroneous assumptions made about the process of evolution and then I’m going to suggest a couple alternate ideas with their own possible implications. Feel free to pick apart my ideas too, as you may feel I’m not following them to their logical end either.
Here we go…