Living – Harmonia Philosophica

Infants. Predictions. Gods.

Infant temperament predicts personality more than 20 years later: Researchers investigating how temperament shapes adult life-course outcomes have found that behavioral inhibition in infancy predicts a reserved, introverted personality at age 26. For those individuals who show sensitivity to making errors in adolescence, the findings indicated a higher risk for internalizing disorders (such as anxiety and depression) in adulthood. The study provides robust evidence of the impact of infant temperament on adult outcomes. (1)

Small children. In adult bodies.

Small gods. In ephemeral shells.

You believe that you progress. You believe that you get improved day by day. And yet what you were is what you will be. Unless you decide not to.

Don’t you see?

Not doing that is the only thing you can do…

Going home…

New research indicates mantis shrimp use path integration to find their way back to their burrows after leaving to seek food or mates. That means they can track their distance and direction from their starting point. A series of creative experiments revealed that to do that, they rely on a hierarchy of cues from the sun, polarized light patterns, and their internal senses. (1)

Going home.

From a place far far away.

Not because you understand what home is.

But because you feel it.

And you know that you do not belong there.

But that home belongs to you.

How can you ever leave the cradle?

If you are still feeling its love?

A shrimp can get it.

But you must do more.

And forget about home.

And live alone.

And some day.

Maybe.

You will remember.

And you will know again.

And only then, home will be home.

And you will go back.

Crying.

Not because you saw home again.

But because you will realize…

That you never left.

True… False…

People are no better than chance at identifying when someone else is recounting a false or real memory of a crime, according to a new UCL study.

Study author Dr Julia Shaw (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) said: “Everyone thinks that they couldn’t be tricked into believing they have done something they never did, and that if someone were telling them about a false memory, they would be able to spot it. But we found that actually, people tend to be quite susceptible to having false memories, and they sound just like real memories.” (1)

Lies disguised as truth.

Truth disguised as lies.

Funny.

At the end, what is true makes no difference.

As long as you believe it.

The power of the cosmos is raw.

And it is there.

To kill everything you love.

Accept it.

Suffer.

Walk. Just walk.

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.

Listen.

One drone, four microphones and a loudspeaker: nothing more is needed to determine the position of walls and other flat surfaces within a room. This has been mathematically proved by Prof. Gregor Kemper of the Technical University of Munich and Prof. Mireille Boutin of Purdue University in Indiana, USA. (1)

The only way to see is to speak.

The only way to hear is to see.

The only way to taste is to cook.

Don’t you see?

There is nothing to see…

There is everything to create.

Your senses do not connect you with the cosmos.

They connect the cosmos with you!