יום רביעי, 2 בינואר 2013

seeking a deeper communion

You say I am repeating my-self, But I can't.
How can I ?
No river can be crossed thrice!
This know-how won't be changed a bit,
even if you keep throwing that dice.

You and I, We both know that sad truth -
we know as much about the world as a little white mouse,
treading his wheel in the lab,
trusting his house,
not knowing that the path thru ignorance shall be
paved
thru his sacrifice.

Ignorance and knowledge, despite what a poet might say,
are two different roads, and one, at least,
is most definitely going astray.

property, location, education, have nothing with self identification.
You say I am repeating my self ?
Let it be so.


יום שלישי, 1 בינואר 2013

The vocabulary of missing feelings: a beginning

Every once in a while, one feels that he lacks a word for the accurate description of one's feelings. It might be an unbridgeable gap between the cognitive and the emotional, and yet, one has to make an effort...

What is a feeling ? A feeling is a generalizing term for a subjective, aware, experience which can be characterized by psychphysiological & biological expressions and mental states.

Feelings such as Love, Hate, Courage, Fear, Enjoyment, Sadness, Disgust, Happiness and others can be described both by physical terms and psychological terms.

For example:
A feeling can be described by a change in the beating rate of the heart, in the level of sweating, or in the extraction of facial muscles and the formation of facial expressions. 
A feeling can also be described by the changes it brings in a person's self-assesment of one's condition, and his pseudo-rational choices of action, upon that self assesment.

Different Researchers have proposed different lists of emotions and feelings.

Still wish for a more scientific disucssion ?
The Article "Emotion" in Wikipedia might be a good place to start the search for the fulfillment of that wish.

But let us move on to the nexus of this post: the beginning of a formation of new words, describing feelings which lack adequate verbal names.

let the first be Exinorance - The geeky excitement one feels when discovering an exciting new field of ignorance one possessed and a source of knowledge to start filling this hole in one's education. 

Example -
I've experience an orgasmic sense of exinorance as I viewed the following video -