Tag: existence
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Dead butterfly... [Poem]
See that butterfly. Flying… One day to live. Trying to find a mate. Watch it after it stopped flying. Dead in the forest. And yet, that butterfly is still there. Making the world beautiful. Even for that one moment… Still there… Flying… Are you there to see?
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Icy day... ["Ice" poem collection]
In an icy day Sitting in the back of the car Watching people go by Sinking in the depths of the abyss. Watching darkness come by. In a warm day. Feeling so alive. Watch that butterfly. It is dead now. Why don't I cry? Fool! At the moment a tear goes down. I could swear……
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Boltzmann's idea of entropy and the Creator: An unexpected end…
While reading a scientific paper for thermodynamics (Ted Jacobson, Entropy from Carnot to Bekenstein, arXiv:1810.07839 [physics.hist-ph]) I came up to a reference of Boltzmann’s (and later on Planck’s) notion that entropy corresponds to the logarithm of the number of microstates compatible with a macrostate, and that entropy is maximized in equilibrium. Given that, one can…
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Replication and cell identity. The birth of death.
The set of genes a cell expresses determines if it's a skin cell, nerve cell or a heart muscle cell, among the 200 or so different cell types found in the human body". Prior to cell division, chromosomes are seemingly a jumbled mess. During cell division, parent cell chromosomes and their duplicates sort themselves out…
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Remembering. Not from where you stored the memory…
When we have a new experience, the memory of that event is stored in a neural circuit that connects several parts of the hippocampus and other brain structures. Each cluster of neurons may store different aspects of the memory, such as the location where the event occurred or the emotions associated with it. Neuroscientists who…
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