Pity to see Frank apparently putting his bread and cheese in his spotted handkerchief and about to resume his search for the blogging Holy Grail.
Me? I found my blogging Holy Grail when I happened upon good old ET a couple of years ago - as I recall as a result of Jerome monstering the now mythical "Iran Oil Bourse".
ET is the original on-line Groucho Club. And I'm proud to say therefore that I'm not a member (or maybe am an UnMember ? Please tellme, rg ), but come here anyway.
I just enjoy putting up my stuff to be shot at. Apologies to those of you bored to death with it, but I reckon I've managed to refine my thinking enormously in a way that would have been impossible any other way.
Big thanks to Jerome in particular, and above all to Migeru and the other front pagers.
I can't think of any changes I would like to see - but I'm sure I'll have an opinion on changes people actually do put forward.... "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
LOL. The story of my life, I'm afraid. Change is the only constant (Heraclitus). I once dreamt of Heraclitus before I was even conscious of knowing his name. Who knows what tomorrow brings, let's hope it is both a discovery and a surprise. "It's a mystery to me - the game commences, For the usual fee - plus expenses, Confidential information - it's in my diary..."
Perhaps one of the reasons for this silence is that you have to know how to read the music. For instance, the scientific article may say, "The radioactive phosphorus content of the cerebrum of the rat decreases to one-half in a period of two weeks." Now what does that mean? It means that phosphorous that is in the brain of a rat - and also in mine, and yours - is not the same phosphorus as it was two weeks ago. It means the atoms that are in the brain are being replaced: the ones that were there before have gone away. So what is this mind of ours: what are these atoms with consciousness? Last week's potatoes! They now can remember what was going on in my mind a year ago - a mind which has long ago been replaced. To note that the thing I call my individuality is only a pattern or dance, that is what it means when one discovers how long it takes for the atoms of the brain to be replaced by other atoms. The atoms come into my brain, dance a dance, and then go out - there are always new atoms, but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday.
It means that phosphorous that is in the brain of a rat - and also in mine, and yours - is not the same phosphorus as it was two weeks ago. It means the atoms that are in the brain are being replaced: the ones that were there before have gone away.
So what is this mind of ours: what are these atoms with consciousness? Last week's potatoes! They now can remember what was going on in my mind a year ago - a mind which has long ago been replaced.
To note that the thing I call my individuality is only a pattern or dance, that is what it means when one discovers how long it takes for the atoms of the brain to be replaced by other atoms. The atoms come into my brain, dance a dance, and then go out - there are always new atoms, but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday.
And a different Frank, too.
Any requests/recommendations for change on a postcard please..... "It's a mystery to me - the game commences, For the usual fee - plus expenses, Confidential information - it's in my diary..."
