My Reflections on Uncertainty
I think it's pretty hilarious that Physics requires one go through a series of experiments to illustrate something as common sense as "uncertainty". I'm pretty sure my grandma could have told you that things are uncertain--whether that relates to physics or farming, it seems pretty silly. But the compelling thing is that this principle is actually used in physics, and later developed into an atomic bomb, which at this point makes it not so silly anymore and makes me worry when people start thinking a lot and then using it to their advantage what will become of us all.
My comments on Causality
Another one of those things--I'm not going to start quoting my grandma here--but the interesting thing about it is that while it seems impossible to deduce what was the original cause of something, I can see immediately the effects of an action I take. This leads me to feel that more immediately causality can be determined, but we really have to see ourselves as just a branch on this enormous trunk of the past from which all things have sprouted and find their origin in. Again, I personally don't find it too interesting to trying to dissect it, but I am concerned with carrying the ancestral memory of it alive.
Is the Universe Weird?
I think the word, "weird" is not a very beautiful way to describe something that is mysterious and vast, something that should be spoken of in delicious words. Of course, I think generally I see "weird" as one of those mean words that people shouldn't be labeled with.
Respond to another student's blog
I posted to Kimberly's blog.
Use your blog to develop your understanding of synchronicity
Synchronicity is cool and it basically enables my view of the whole "higher power" thing. I also have to mention that it's really synchronistic that the "What is Synchronicity" author mentioned, "Marco Polo" because he was an important subject of a class I'm taking that reveals a Mongol leader as the real source of the information Marco Polo "adopted" from to bring his "discoveries" to the Western world. I diverge...It makes me be even more interested in Jung, who's work has been cited in a book I'm reading on the Shen... and it also intrigues me that a so-called "Western" scientist has described this underlying interconnectedness. It's amazing anyone gives him any credit at all since he's so far out!
This also brings me to an important point--I don't really like the usage of "Western" or "Eastern" because the whole idea is "West of what? East of what?" Rome. And it's such a false dividing line. Many so-called Western people are not even Indo-European-there's so much mixing--Like the folks from the Caucasus mountains weren't even Indo-European.
Haha yeah I love mentioning grandma to prove a point. Some things in physics do fall under the "Philosophy of Duh" category. You're right- even grandma can tell you that life is uncertain, and then if she was on acid, she would say (in only the way grandma could), "Life is as uncertain as an electric kool aid acid test on a clear day in Georgia." She would then close her eyes, and God would come and douse her with kool-aid to wake her up so she wouldn't die right in front of you. You would see the beautiful synchronicity of the kool-aid. You would know in your heart of farts that life stinkronistic as grandma screams for a towel to wipe her face. And then- in the setting of the pink and orange sun against a blue and purple sky, grandma would see the spider webs of the present and angels in the clouds along with a photocopy of her immortal higher self and a carbon copy of the skin and bones about to die, musing aloud, "there ain't nothing like an electric acid kool-aid on a clear day in Georgia." She would die while laughing and you would become enlightened. Clearly that's what would happen if you visited Grandma Jean in Georgia.
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