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AHA beloved sibling! it is I
Aaron Freeman not a scientist but a
sciency optimist today thinking about
Arthur Eddington. Arthur Eddington was a
physicist and contemporary of Albert
Einstein, wrote one of these seminal
essays about the contradiction between
our ordinary world and the world of
physics you are looking at both right
now ordinary Aaron is solid solid good
muscle tone, mass, bone, blood, skin. Ordinary
Aaron is made of stuff. But the Aaron of
physics, "is a cloud man more than 99%
empty space" I say that in a kind of woo-woo
voice because it is just so frickin
strange but of course anyone who's spent
any time studying physics understands
the realities of the distance protons
and electrons which is  on the sub-atomic scale huge I've been thinking about the difference
between ordinary reality and the myriad
ways reality can't be perceived by
humans and others because I've just
finished listening to and I'm sure it's
fine check out the dead tree version,
Michael Pollan's wonderful new book,
" How to change your mind which is his love song - psychedelic drugs with which I
have some profound experience back when I was at high school at st. Michael's
Central High I took LSD and then
substantially more recently but back in
high school what I experienced that I
have never forgotten inch in my life
wasn't synesthesia
I heard colors, I smelled textures I saw
sounds it was a completely different way
to perceive the world I was in and I
also saw people as mouths I saw the
edges of the human forms and that they
were just tough little clouds that would
have clumped together out of the
surrounding molecules weird what true
and there are of course lots and lots
lots of ways to view the world lots of
ways to perceive reality when I try to
imagine what it was like for an octopus
shuttlepod whose brain is distributed
throughout eight legs and each leg has
its own sensory input that makes its own
individual independent decisions what up
with that or common honeybees for whom
the leaf of a plant can tell
electromagnetic tales about which bees
have been there before and whether or
not it worth spending time trying to
collect nectar they're from Michael
Pollan book which I'm curious as to
whether and I see grekes if you've not
read it I encourage you to do so because
it is a wonderful reminder of one of my
favorite scientific truisms. "The universe
is queerer than we know but queerer than we can know."
Thank you realistically and
metaphysically much for watching all the
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I am aaron freeman not a scientist but a
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time as you continue to science the day.
