i love a good humbling -

wired magazine - which is kind of like my farmers almanac if it were written by a smarter version of my subconscious brain - had a cover story last physical issue (just hit the virtual shelves) - that is through da roof... stuff i love - a much more comprehensive list of things we don't know than i have ever been guilty of trying to assemble.

my favorites?
- time, kind of a gimme, almost a cliche, if you know me
- consciousness, like my all time fav
- gravity, good clean fun stuff
- turbulence, yeah baby! delightfully lovely chaos
- entanglement - my idea of romance. no really

i also thought the "is the Universe actually made of information" bit was pretty cool - and pretty postmodern too -

I'm feeling slightly vindicated because I asked a medical doctor friend this quandary once - and got a very unsatisfactory response... seriously, look at the math predators like cheetahs are doing on the fly to intercept their accelerating dodging prey - and it would suck to solve those problems by hand. how do their lightweight "inferior" brains do that stuff so stinkin quick.

also - if i haven't mentioned this before, i really want to live for a thousand years (and live on Mars to maybe help terraform it to learn more about complexity and chaos) so i'd like us to make some progress on understanding this one.

i was a little surprised they didn't mention the astounding gap of knowledge in how many species are on the planet. dudes...

although, they did add the catchall - which does raise the killer question - how deep does the rabit hole go?

i'm thinkin - pretty deep

sweet dreams -