Mid-morning. You left early for the blood
test and presently Carol is on her walk at the park. You are sitting in the
shade on the upper lot near the earth dam. The morning is sunny, cool and crisp
with a California blue sky. – Amorella
0940 hours. Feeling better this morning. We have a good amount of
bird chatter this morning and so far it is relatively quiet even though there
are a lot of cars in the lot. I am ready to work on Brothers 2.2.
You have documents better labeled and are
set up to work. You are unsure whether to cut selections first or to start
anew. Let’s go through and cut. I’ll direct. – Amorella
0958 hours. Thank you. I am at a lost – what is the chapter word?
Family. – Amorella
1013 hours. We have it down to 813 words in a much narrower focus. I
don’t see how family has anything to do with Socrates and Merlyn though.
They are ‘family’ deep in your head boy.
They respond like family friends – same Homo sapiens’ family, right? – Amorella
1016 hours. I didn’t reflect on the broader perspective of “family”.
This should not be surprising by now. You say things later that make sense in
the writing content but were clearly not consciously thought about by yours
truly.
You
don’t have to know everything but it helps to come to an understanding about one’s
plausible existential circumstance. You must be kept in a parallel light with
the story. It is a rule for a realistic and reasonable continuity, don’t you
think? – Amorella
1023 hours. It gives me a sense of personal authenticity even
though, ironically, I do not have much of a clue about the inner construction. I
see a slight humor hovering though – a soft blue kiddy blanket with a wry smile
to hold in my hand. Very comforting, Amorella. Odd, how a childhood memory
returns out of the blue – in a smile no less. It reminds me of a recent
article.
You are home. The article is on the body
working. Add and post. – Amorella
** **
Discover
Our Bodies' Velocities, By the Numbers
Neural signals zip through our brains. Cells produce proteins
faster than a blink. We are creatures of varying velocities.
“Sorry, I’m busy right
now,” you tell a friend. That’s so true. For its size, your body is as busy as
the galaxy.
Even when we’re resting
and daydreaming, internal activity is nonstop. The brain, of course, is the
crown jewel of our nervous system. It has 85 billion neural cells and 150
trillion synapses. These are its electrical connections, its possibilities.
This figure is nearly a thousand times as great as the number of stars in the
Milky Way.
The number of brain
neurons is impressive. To count them at the rate of one a second would require
3,200 years. But the brain’s synapses, or electrical connections, are beyond
belief. Those 150 trillion could be counted in 3 million years. And that’s
still not the end of the matter. What’s relevant is how many ways each cell can
connect with the others. For this we must use factorials. Let’s say we want to
know how many ways we can arrange four books on a shelf. It’s easy: You find
the possibilities by multiplying 4×3×2 — called “4 factorial” and written as 4!
— which is 24. But what if you have 10 books? Easy again: It’s 10! or 10×9×8×7×6×5×4×3×2,
which is — ready? — 3,628,800 different ways. Imagine: Going from four items to
10 increases the possible arrangements from 24 to 3.6 million.
Bottom line: Possibilities are
always wildly, insanely greater than the number of things around us. If each
neuron, or brain cell, could connect with any other in your skull, the number
of combinations would be 85 billion factorial. This winds up being a number
with more zeroes than would fit in all the books on Earth. And that’s just the
zeroes after the 1, the mere representation of the number, not the actual
count. The brain’s connection possibilities lie beyond that same brain’s
ability to comprehend it...
Selected from Discover,
July/August 2014
** **
2126 hours. I thought I would finish Brothers
2.2 tonight but did I run into a problem that goes back to book one. – Glad I
did not turn it in for publication. I have confusion as to who has whom for a
kid (grandchildren of the
brothers)– and on the present draft I have a daughter Diana who is not even in
book one. This is going to take some time to straighten out.
I mentioned to you to wait until after
chapter two. Let’s call it a night. – Amorella
2131 hours. I agree. I should be more organized with these kids and
grandkids – each of the brothers has one grown daughter and each daughter
has a husband and one child.
Before a light supper and watching this last
week’s “24” as well as ABC News you took off the mail box and cleaned up the
post for painting tomorrow as well as tacking on new black house numbers.
2138 hours. I’m just glad I followed your advice and waited to publish Amorella. I thought it was for another reason I waited, but it doesn’t make any
difference even if there is another reason for waiting to publish.
Post. - Amorella
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