Saturday, September 19, 2009

our mutations

I wrote yesterday that the experience of the world has far surpassed the capabilities of my senses. Below are few quotations I enjoy.

"The body is not denied, but exacerbated, hypertrophied,
and the skin is not any more an element of covering, of protection, but like a reactive
surface to the environment. Functions and Bodies would thus have become the
physical attributes of an individual choice, not of an evolutionary adaptation from the
constraints, at the opposite of Darwin's ideas. And human being could be the first
animal species to organize [their] own conditions of mutations to quote one of the main
idea of Houelbeck in the elementary particle’s book."(Francois Roche)

From his work, Embracing the Wide Sky, Daniel Tammet writes, "Our brains can rewire themselves based on our experiences. This realisation raises an interesting question: can we use our brains' plasticity to enhance our senses and even create new ones?"