Myth, Gods, and Video Games

Great little read on misaligned potential in gaming at Reality Sandwich.

There is an innate and real desire to see our dreams come to life before our eyes, and video games potentially lay the foundation for what we consciously have the ability to become: gods and myths of our own imagination, physically incorporating the balance between literal and mythical, among absolute endlessness.

Kooky article on Harmonic Structures in the Human Body

Reality Sandwich has a wonderfully crackpotted article on how the author, Richard Merrick, was lead to believe "entire body as a form of crystallized music." I don't exactly follow how he got there, but it's really wonderful anyways and would make for some amazing fiction fodder.


"As I pondered what this could mean, it occurred to me that the circle implied an inside-out resonance of cells in the body while the square represented an outside-in damping effect to contain the outward push of cellular resonance. Like the standing wave and ring models in my interference theory, it dawned on me that all organic life could be defined as energy exploding outward into space that is then pushed back inward into specific shapes, presumably depending on which harmonic proportions are emphasized by the DNA. Looking back on it, this was a very difficult thing for me to accept at first. Like every student, I had been taught from the earliest age that space was a complete and utter void. Yet, I simply could not resist the logic of life as a form of resonance and space as a kind of damping container."

Read Building a Religion.