Out of the Primordial Soup; Entities and Concepts.

*Not for no reason... there is some point in it all*

Just like the first amino acids and nucleotides came together in the primordial soup to form the thermodynamic miracle of life, words, sentences and punctuation come together in the medium of the Internet to form a much lesser entity. The small entity of a common Internet blog.

Another small entity, in a giant universe. Another forgettable entity that has flitted into brief existence. Life is terminal, and once sentient life dies out, who will enjoy the Internet? Who will be able to look up to the heavens and gaze in wonder, who will be able to appreciate the sheer complexity of Planet Earth... and then realise that the Earth is less than a small ball bearing in the vast expanse of the universe? In context, the human race and its history is not even a blink of an eye. We humans live for the moment. And the moment only exists because we need it to. We humans must categorise everything in order to make the world a place that is inhabitable. We are compelled to categorise that which isn't on our planet. We have categorised ancient quasars, black holes, red rocks on Mars. The curse of sentient life is it's very sentience. With that, we are aware of our own survival, we have fear, we have the urge to cling onto life at all cost. But that is the harsh reality of life.

Thoughts seem like such an abstract concept, yet they define our very being. I am writing this because of my thoughts. Our thoughts accompany us at all times. If we could not think, what would we be? Our eyes receive light on the retina, but it is our mind that makes sense of the data. Our eye would still function if we humans couldn't understand the concept of mathematics or the concept of survival. Our reptilian brain keeps us going, but our human brain lets us know that. For these reasons and many more, both similar and polar opposite, I chose neuroscience as the academic path to follow. It incorporates biology, chemistry, physics, philosophy, mathematics, psychology and much more. The brain is thought to be the most complex entity in the universe. This entity is the very basis of concepts and I wanted to understand the very basis of understanding itself.

These mind boggling thoughts, concepts and philosophies are the reasons why I am in Nottingham currently, away from my family, spending vast sums of money and trying (mainly in vain) to make new friends. Isn't it funny how these two worlds collide? MY world - and THE world.

Family, friends and money versus The Brain, thoughts, ideas, reality and science. It is a conflict, though it shouldn't be. Currently I would deem the dust to still be settling, being only a month in to university life. I will have to adapt; pick and choose and prune advantageous strategies and mannerisms in order to be successful Academically, Socially and Personally. I wonder what kind of man will emerge from Nottingham after it is all said and done? How will he have changed. What will have been discarded and what will have been taken on anew? What will have remained the same? One can try to predict, by analysing variables and what is to come in the university course, and what other events are to come, and what people are on the course and what people he shares his flat with and so on and on and and and..... and.

It is unpredictable. Life is a cruel game; it has played many cruel tricks, and they only get crueler with age. But for every change to a system, there is an equal and opposite change to the system. With life's cruel tricks, it also provides us with something to smile about. We may be specks in the vast universe, just like a rock of similar size and mass on Mars. We may have equal weighting to that rock on the grand scale, destined to remain in our forgotten corner of creation. But we are special because at least we know that we are in a forgotten corner of creation. And that rock doesn't.