UniVerses
unumbered droplets fill the musty air.
the gloaming smothered by the stuffy fog.
dank odors, too, enveloped in the glare.
thoroughly the ether’s waterlogged.
invisibly groping seeds catalyze
the semblance of a shape to form around.
like inklings, senses, hints that tantalize
the gist of ideas unformed, still underground.
perceptibly moisture coalesces
and winks upon my windshield drizzly rain
each drop with light briefly opalesces
then in rivulets washes earthward again.
as the mist crystallizes upon the nucleon
thus our lives briefly twinkle and are gone
In the span of the universe our lives are infinitessimal. Yet we are part of a much larger process we cannot comprehend. An individual cell cannot conceive of an idea, yet sentience has evolved through something made up entirely of cells. How?
We have journeyed to the edge where classical science is just evolving. Earlier we showed there must be an energy minimum that induces cooperation between complex mixtures of macromolecules. Yet the laws of thermodynamics have not yet caught up to explain how.
The evolution of intelligence is another example of forces of integration that we cannot yet measure. We don't fully understand the components of the mind, never mind the mechanics of how they interact, but the places where the known rules of science break down are the most fascinating.
How does intuition work? or memory? How does he mind extrapolate? or deduce? How do we know one idea is right, another wrong? Science has not yet begun to address these questions, but the interface between imagination and reality is a wonderful place.
The behavior of light provides an interesting insight into transcendentalism.
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