Profound thoughts have crossed me at different times, because of different influences. It has been a while since I have found in myself the creative zest for the persistent ideation required for poetry, followed by a concerted effort to record the essential points of these ideas into verse. Part of the reason is that with [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Art’
November 17, 2008
Temporally Tardy Thirty Six
Over the last weekend, I got myself a Digitech RP50, which is a guitar effects processor. Essentially, it takes the sound produced by the electric guitar and does fancy things to it, in predictable (although sometimes unpredictable) ways. The model I own is not the best in the business, being a modest entry-level version by [...]
October 9, 2008
Music, Intelligence and Abstraction: Three Themes
Music as an extension of one’s intellectual process
The network of neurons that is the human brain has given rise to many logical manifestations which seem more intriguing than the construction of the brain itself. From the standpoint of a psychologist, or more interestingly, a scientist-rationalist-philosopher, it is possible to understand the brain as a creative [...]
September 17, 2008
Bhartrhari on Renunciation – 1
I have been reading Bhartrhari’s Vairagyashatakam (One hundred verses on renunciation) wide eyed, because of the beautiful language used in it as well as the lofty thoughts present in it. At the same time, I am disappointed that attributes typically associated with great thinkers such as consistency of thought, were not valued in his time, [...]
September 9, 2008
Certainty
Certainty is a very loose term, perhaps one of those heterological terms which is so, because it is all encompassing about one’s knowledge about everything, which in itself is a contradiction. I wonder if all certainty is owing to one’s assumptions about a priori knowledge. As Voltaire said, although doubt is admittedly an unpleasant condition, [...]
