Category: Understanding life and the world

Big ideas and analysis related to life and the world. This is where I become philosophical and tend towards guru-ness.

Life is Movement [en]

In response to a remark from Steph.

I am sure I have said something about this last year in French, but I’m incapable of finding it.

Update, 11.2011: here is the original French post — Déséquilibre.

What characterises life is constant lack of stability. From a biological point of view, the basis for life can be said to be oscillating chemical reactions. They are not equilibriums, they oscillate from one state to another, back and forth, back and forth. Their existence makes the biochemical reactions upon which life relies possible.

Mind is not separate from its biochemical foundation. Even if it cannot (and will never be) totally explained in biochemical terms (hear Paul Ricoeur), without the biochemistry behind it there is no “thought”. So we might as well say that our interior lives oscillate in a way similar to these chemical reactions. We are a system in perpetual dis-equilibrium.

Things are stable and constant only when we are dead.

Procrastinons [en]

Il y a la fuite. Et il y a la fuite de la fuite.

C’est cette dernière qui empêche la fuite d’être productive.

Commencements [en]

Ce sont les petites choses qui me posent le plus de problèmes. Les grandes, vois-tu, je peux les commencer sans courir le risque de les finir.

Business [en]

Une entreprise n’est pas seulement une machine à  faire de l’argent. C’est aussi un endroit où vivent des gens – et peut-être que ça devrait l’être surtout…