Some worms are genetically predisposed to die before reaching old age, which appears to benefit the colony by reducing food demand, finds a new study. (1)
Dying.
For the sake of others.
Why don’t you die?
Do you wish to live?
Unknown darkness.
Dictating light.
Unknown terror.
Dictating pleasure.
Petty humans.
Living.
For the sake of others…
It’s almost impossible to imagine biology without individuals — individual organisms, individual cells, and individual genes, for example. But what about a worker ant that never reproduces, and could never survive apart from the colony? Are the trillions of microorganisms in our microbiomes, which vastly outnumber our human cells, part of our individuality?
The authors of a work published in the journal Theory in Biosciences suggest that one way to solve the puzzle comes from information theory. Instead of focusing on anatomical traits, David Krakauer, Nils Bertschinger, Eckehard Olbrich, Jessica Flack, and Nihat Ay suggest that the individual must be seen as a verb: what processes produce distinct identity? The authors’ information theory of individuality (or ITI) indicate that individuality relates to a blend of self-regulation and environmental influence. (1)
Processing information.
Processing food.
Processing data.
Processing others.
We are all about processing.
And yet at the end, we end up being processed.
And this is what defines us.
That we are part of everything.
And we know it.
And we accept it.
And even though we may process information.
We choose not to.
And even though we could be apart from God.
We chose to return to Him…
And be able to process everything.
To know it all.
To control our self.
To live. To die.
To be human once more…
A team has developed a new method to date archaeological pottery using fat residues remaining in the pot wall from cooking. The method means prehistoric pottery can be dated with remarkable accuracy, sometimes to the window of a human life span. Pottery found in Shoreditch, London proven to be 5,500 years old and shows the vibrant urban area was once used by established farmers who ate cow, sheep and goat dairy products as a central part of their diet. (1)
Cooking.
Eating.
Dead men.
Laughters echoing in the night.
Full lives.
Hungry people.
Dust.
Silence.
Steaks smelling great.
Crying…
Who is crying?
Ask.
Who is really cooking?
(I am not afraid)
(You should be)
Researchers have developed an AI-powered, smart insole that instantly turns any shoe into a portable gait-analysis laboratory. (1)
Walk.
There is no point in analyzing your gait.
For that would need you to stop walking.
Walk.
At the end you will reach the end.
And at the end you will stop and die.
(Like Olson did. Do you understand now Garati?)
Walk
And right after the finish line, keep on walking.
Do you see?
Just walk.
It is the only way to question why you started…
And decide not to start walking in the first place…
PS. Tribute to the Long Walk by Backman.
In a lab at Columbia University, engineers have developed a strange yet clever way for robots to feel: Let’s call it the finger of light. It’s got a 3D-printed skeleton embedded with 32 photodiodes and 30 adjacent LEDs, over which is laid a squishy skin of reflective silicone, which keeps the device’s own light in and outside light out. When the robot finger touches an object, its soft exterior deforms, and the photodiodes in the skeleton detect changing light levels from the LEDs. This allows the system to determine where contact is being made with the finger, and the intensity of that pressure. In other words, if you shook this robot’s hand, it wouldn’t feel it, in a traditional sense; it would see it. (1)
So delicate. So soft.
Feeling without feeling.
Touching with light.
Knowing without knowing.
Living without life.
Let the robots touch you.
Underneath the cold light.
Your grandmother’s hands holding tight…
