Monday, September 24, 2018

Philosophy Wire: Detecting earthquakes. Listen to that tree branch snapping…

Scientists try to detect earthquakes by analyzing the data before they happen. [1] There be always be patterns. There will always be data. There will always be chains of cause and effects. And we will somehow someday find them. But it does not matter. We will die one day. We know it. Not in an earthquake happening in the future. But in an earthquake which happened ages ago. There in the spark which ignited everything. In the cold expanding universe. In the womb of our mother. That day, death begun. The earthquake rumbles the earth. It roars and roars. But no one is afraid. Everybody is calm. Smiling silently. A tree branch snaps. And there is someone in the forest listening. He sees the branch. But he is not seeing it. He is dreaming of it…

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