Saturday, June 28, 2008

Libertas



Ognuno è nudo, solo, inerme sulla nuda Terra
sotto l'incombere del più vasto Essere
sotto il continuo scalpellio del Tempo.

Ognuno è il più indivisibile degli atomi.
Nulla può frangere la tua più intima essenza
nulla ti può legare o schiacciare
nessuna legge umana, religione, superstizione o dottrina.

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?


What else is there, beyond the gate, beyond the fog of our models, senses and anticipations of our minds?
It does not matter as we'll never be able to break the veil of Maya! Let's go on creating our models, engineering their reifications and validating them towards our needs and intended use...

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Serendipity

He who seeks, finds.
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
these are the three fundamental elements of Serendipity that can be considered not only a method of research, but also a lifestyle.