At one of my #Easter singing gigs, the message used the humble #egg as a symbolic #metaphor. Part of the discourse made reference to a shattering egg and I thought immediately of Humpty Dumpty.
Then I began to wonder why #HumptyDumpty became an anthropomorphic egg when the #MotherGoose nursery rhyme doesn’t mention calcium carbonate ovoids at all. 🤔
And now I will always associate a children’s poem and #entropy and #horses and #men failing to assemble a #puzzle with a Christian festival day. 🥚
"I've got it!"
"What? What's going on?"
"I was taking my shower when it hit me right in the face!"
"Are you okay?"
"What? Yes. I am. Why do you ask?"
"You just said that your shower hit you right in the face."
"You misunderstood. It wasn't the shower that hit me in the face."
"Oh. Did you hit yourself in the face? You should know better than do this."
"No, I did not hit myself in the face."
"Well, you only mentioned the shower and you, so..."
"It is a metaphorical 'it' that hit me in the face. There was no physical impact. [Slap] Ouch! Why did you do this???"
"I'm not fond of metaphor and wanted to make the situation concrete."
I use music and a ProTools example to illustrate the difference between duration and time. I even invoked the debate between Bergson and Einstein in 1922.
Time doesn't exist. It's merely a useful heuristic that humans use for social structure. Duration is more intrinsic. Physics has created a space-time map and confused it with the underlying terrain.
#philosophy #physics #time #duration #blog #podcast #Einstein #Bergson #debate #music #metaphor #social #ClaudeAI
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I'm considering a new essay on Parsifal, Cassandra, and The Emperor (and his new clothes) as a metaphor for institutional silence.
I've got a working thesis and an abstract. This started as a commentary on The Fisher King, but it's expanded to all three
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In my conversation with my daughter about Germanophone literary history last night, I recalled a remark by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) in an 1829 conversation with Johann Peter Eckermann (1792-1854): "Das Klassische nenne ich das Gesunde und das Romantische das Kranke" ("For me, the classic is healthy and the
A quotation from Douglas Adams
“Life,” he said, “is like a grapefruit.”Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide No. 4, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, ch. 23 (1984)
More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/82816/
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"Life," he said, "is like a grapefruit." "Er, how so?" "Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast." Ford Prefect speaking with a creature in his dreams.
I will continue to use the slippery slope arguments, for example against AI, as a metaphor.
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