An odyssey of the zephyr and the pebble

Cascades of thoughts, journeys and patience there were, As, like a pebble, I incessantly kept rolling and rolling. Instinct told me these wouldn’t be forever. First the petrichor. Then a zephyr. I started going Thither it went. Through webs and vicissitudes, The zephyr and the pebble. And my, did those cascades Find their ocean, arriving …

Musings on some versatile transformations

"The information is available. It would not seem to be a difficult evolutionary transition for the animal to put this information to use."Peter Godfrey-Smith in his book Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness It really intrigues me, how, when sitting down to work, the environment one is in plays …