Saturday, March 23, 2019

Philosophy Wire: Balance and Sour. Memento mori.

Scientists at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences have discovered an entirely new class of ion channels. These channels let protons (H+ ions) into cells, are important in the inner ear for balance and are present in the taste cells that respond to sour flavors. [1] Life is sweet. But you can never appreciate that if you haven’t experienced the sour. Appreciation of light comes only from the realization that light is made up of darkness as well. Balance comes only from the realization that “lack of balance” is what we must seek. Life is based on the realization that we have to die. Memento mori…

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