PelkeysPonderings

2012 07 21

Mentons are sub-atomic “particles” similar to photons. Like photons they are the product of dynamic interaction at the quantum level. Whereas a photon is characterized by visible light the menton exhibits no visible characteristics.* However, in the same way that photons stimulate activity in photo-receptive cells during the the process of photosynthesis, mentons stimulate activity in receptor cells in neural tissue initiating the process of thought.

2013 10 12

Given that the physical components that make up my body are fundamentally as old as the formation of the Earth, what is to say that the components that comprise my thoughts are not equally venerable? My body, after all is merely the temporarily arranged collection of nutrients and minerals extracted from the Earth's ancient soil. Those components have been here all along, waiting for me to be the unique configuration that is me. My thoughts may very well bear the same antiquity, likewise waiting to coalesce into coherence.

* "Eyes have evolved to receive and interpret photons and thereby see. In like fashion brains have evolved to receive and interpret mentons and thereby think." -------- Tom Doubter

Related musing: how do we “perceive” thought? How to recognize? How to identify a thought as a thought...