Category: Life and Death
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Coronavirus, Christianity, Death, "sissies"...
There is a lot of discussion about the new coronavirus affecting the world as we speak. Harmonia Philosophica usually does not deal with such news since our focus is philosophy and not everyday matters. Our subject is the eternal, not the ephemeral. And yet, as we have said many times here, the ephemeral is sometimes…
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Mirror mirror...
What is life? But all those things we say it is not? Mirrors we are. Reflecting all those things we do not see. Look around. Can you see your face crying?
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Noli timere...
Someone once said that all magnificent things are terrifying. If that is true then death must be glorious. And yet, we are all afraid of it. Those last words that will never get off your mind... Those last moments you never knew were the last... The anguish of the lost loved one you can never…
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Forgetting who you are… One experience at a time…
Researchers have revealed that infants aged 4- to 5-months already hold a primary cerebral representation of audiovisual integration of material information in their right hemisphere, and the number of types of material which can be processed by infants' brain increases with the experience of the materials. This finding may lead to understand the trajectory of…
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Deadly life…
A once-maligned genetic parasite may actually be essential for survival. Mouse embryos need that genetic freeloader — a type of jumping gene causing mutations, or transposon, called LINE-1 — to continue developing past the two-cell stage, researchers reported in Cell. Transposons certainly can hop into and break genes, and cells deploy numerous tools to prevent…
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