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So much lately has been directing me towards, of all things, biology. (relatedly, why way back when and maybe again why I wanted to be a journalist--sanctioned dilettantism). But anyway, biology. Psychobiology in particular (but not only). For example:
1. Why does sitting very straight clarify thinking, help remove delusive veils of consciousness? It's a fascinating and well observed and phenomenon in the meditating world (don't believe me if you don't want to cocksuckers).
2. Every time I watch Empire of the Sun, I suddenly, bafflingly, start bawling my eyes out (on the inside..) at the point near the end when the entire ship has pretty much sunk and young Christian Bale says, "I learned a new word today: atom bomb". These convulsions are highly impersonal and come from beyond, or way down below near the root, nothing I had anything to do with anyway--an organism's despair for its species. It's palpable, and opaque.
3. K. says--telepathy. Why not? Transmitting entire sections of consciousness, beyond the chopped up semaphores, the glimpses, provided by utterances and postures. Telepathy might even be possible right now in a crude proto-prototypic way: GSR+MRI+PET+EEG+yadda yadda, add them up and you get more complete communication, at least. For what--to help alleviate the tremendous stress of solitary confinement within one's own skin.