Peaches & Cream

Alright, so I’m reading this book called “What Are You Optimistic About?”, it’s a collection of responses by scientists & thinkers on the question, edited by John Brockman, & I came across something that could be a reply to my previous post on EXISTENCE! Go Figure ;)

ANTON ZEILINGR

Physicist, University of Vienna, and scientific director of the Institute of Quantum Optics & Quantum information, Austrian Academy of Sciences

“I am optimistic about the future of science. Science as humanity’s systematic endeavor of understanding nature is only a few centuries old. To believe that we have discovered the essentials of nature in such a short time is a sign either of arrogance or lack of imagination. So far, science has been guided by the (in my eyes) fallacious Cartesian divide between res cogitans “thinking being” and res extensa “physical world”. It is wrong to believe that the world out there exists independent of our observation, but it is equally wrong to believe that it exists only because of our observation. We have to, and we will, find a completely new way of looking at the world which will transcend our present materialistic paradigm. After all, we have learned in quantum physics that all concepts of material existence evaporate. In the end, we are left with probability fields – probabilities of the results of observations. I am convinced that in science we have just started to scratch the surface. Our understanding of the world will be radically different from the understanding we have today.”

How exciting!! ;)

1- I want to be a working independent person
2- I want to experience first hand what I learn
3- I want to apply first hand what I lean
4- I want to learn more by experience
5- I want to feel the passion of the children again
6- I need to have a commitment
7- I want to set a corner stone in my life
8- I want to be serious about my career
9- I want to establish myself

10- I want to come into my own


Am I ready for a commitment?

I don’t know
I feel like I want to have it. I want to reach out & make it my own, love & cherish it. However, I fear my wayward, foolhardy nature, what if I suddenly decide I will not & should not be forced to have a commitment?
But would I do that if I personally “choose” to have this commitment?
Do I want a commitment in the first place out of conviction or coercion!

What do I really want to be doing?

I do want to go back to work. What scares me; is that I will have to meet & get personal with people; I’m scared of appearing out in public. Like a vampire with a phobia, afraid of the dark & light, this Bright remains hidden in the pages of her books & in fascinating folds of secret knowledge. Knowledge that is in truth, very public & available to those who would open their minds & take a peek, knowledge makes for appreciation, appreciation makes for understanding, respect & friendship. Alas, if I want to step out into the sun to view the world anew, see it through all my new paradigms, learn so much more & do my part, I will have to make a decision.

So what’ll it be peacha?

Let me sleep on that (^.^)