Sunday, July 20, 2008
Rainmaker
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Libertas
Sunday, June 15, 2008
The Aleph and the lucid dreaming
About once a week when I'm dreaming, I'm aware I'm lucid dreaming, and when I do, I then start gazing my hands and walk around in the dream looking at art on the walls, books, paintings, people, artworks, creatures... and odd things ... like the Aleph ... depicted by the great Jorge Luis Borges"Each thing was infinite things, because I could clearly see it from every point in the cosmos.
I saw the populous sea, saw dawn and dusk, saw the multitudes of the Americas, saw a silvery spider web at the center of a black pyramid, saw a broken labyrinth, saw endless eyes, all very close, studying themselves in me as though in a mirror, saw all the mirrors on the planet (and none of them reflecting me) [...] saw the circulation of my dark blood, saw the coils and springs of love and the alterations of death, saw the Aleph from everywhere at once, saw the earth in the Aleph, and the Aleph once more in the earth and the earth in the Aleph, saw my face and my viscera, saw your face, and I felt dizzy, and I wept, because my eyes had seen that secret, hypothetical object whose name has been usurped by men but which no man has ever truly looked upon: the inconceivable universe."
Saturday, June 14, 2008
What else is there?
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Serendipity
Sometimes, also he who does NOT seek, finds accidentally something curious, desirable, interesting though unexpected or out of place
especially while looking for something else.
Serendipity is the engine for a lot of discoveries.
Many discoveries continue indeed to be made by
- chance
- observation
- sagacity
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Infinite monkeys and aeons ...
Would anybody appreciate random fluctuations of vacuum?

From "The Library Of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges:
"The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries [...] all permutations of the twenty-two letters are provided in the countless but not infinite number of books [...] If an eternal traveler were to cross it in any direction, after centuries he would see that the same volumes were repeated in the same disorder."
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Gnosis

Knowledge cannot be consumed
but it increases, spreads and improves through its rational use, as its use by adopters does not diminish the extent of the resource available to others.
We shall feed, encourage, exercise and diffuse Knowledge.
We cannot expect anything from nothing.
And Knowledge does not start from nothing, as well , but it is a progressive construction of preexisting structures.
Even vacuum or tabula rasa is not nothing, as there is at least a structure and a plot, on which positive minds may start working.

"Many men give themselves up to the first anticipations of their minds." Locke
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Alba
Chimeras
About Genius

But, in my opinion, Genius, like Beauty, is in the eye of the beholder as it cannot exist without any observer.
I would say that the genius is a person who is recognized as a genius by a human society, not necessarily a contemporary society, after having been observed by other men and remembered by them while in the acts of ...
- discovering an isolated tree with a new kind of fruits, in an unexpected place reached after running through unexplored paths,
- picking and sharing only the good fruits of that tree
- selecting and using some of those fruits to generate new trees.
the object of discovery may be also a trivial and known tree observed by the genius through a completely different point of view.




