The world is messy. Nature is messy. Not in the sense of chaotic, there are huge amounts of order, but in terms of the admixture of characteristics and outcomes. Shapes and types of emotions. Expectations and some downright luck. And into the messy nature we think we can parachute absolutes and have them make sense….
Tag: cosmos
Ancient And Modern
We live in interesting times. A sentiment that can be justifiably expressed by every human being all over the world throughout history. As if we are impressed that anything should be happening whilst we are alive. But we are all living history and not just in the political and nation-state senses. Physicists test out their…
Language Is Not Always Meaning
Of course the creation of languages by animals is one of the immense evolutionary steps in the development of the earth-bound brain. I recall reading a bit about what it is for a sentence to be ‘true’ (correct) and how truth and meaning go hand-in-hand and have noted where people think we limit our understanding…
Reaching Out
When I was eleven we lived in a village that had a seriously lovely, if small, beach. Strewn with coloured shells that still today glisten on the shell box my mother made. It was whilst there that I went swimming in the sea for the first time and letting go of a rock kicked out…