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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448638" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Physical Poetry</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The physics of poetry<br>is best explained in a mind experiment<br>in the construction of this very poem.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As I write the question becomes<br>what is the word-next and its origins? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now what word-next can be <br>is a question of probabilities; <br>since if I choose rhyme as my scheme<br>and since the words which will rhyme are finite<br>and not infinite<br>the only question then becomes<br>which one of these will I choose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now if I choose a word-next outside<br>rhyming<br>then I risk not making poetic sense<br>since writing a gibberish word, <br>or one not related to the whole, <br>would be judged word-next nonsense.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now we ask who or what in the brain<br>is making these two decisions<br>is it me or is it something mysterious; <br>is it drawing upon the past and memory<br>or from an instantaneous present<br>or even perhaps from my future? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or is it just random choices I make<br>without even understanding them? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But suppose it is something we call<br>consciousness which exists <br>in the brain-cloud of cells which<br>can with millions of possibilities<br>produce a entirely new idea<br>which by definition<br>can come to exist<br>like language itself<br>and produce something never before said; <br>and now is being compiled in the brain<br>in this very instant and brought into existence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That is humans have with language<br>the ability to create sentences<br>which have never before existed, <br>spoken or written because some languages have<br>enough words in them to make these permutations<br>near infinite and hence new ideas possible therewith.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Suppose the same is true of the human mind<br>and human senses make possible from this<br>this exercise we call<br>the idea.<br>So beyond the physical aspects of the brain<br>there must be a non-physical aspect we call<br>consciousness, the spiritual, or whatever<br>word we choose as its name.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now the other half of the transaction<br>is even more amazing: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I just made up a new idea<br>never been expressed before<br>and can talk to you about it<br>and given enough clues<br>it becomes something you understand<br>and you yourself can write<br>a poem about.<br>This must be trans-consciousness<br>which is now a double miracle<br>nobody understands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</a><div class=q>
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is best explained in a mind experiment
in the construction of this very poem.

As I write the question becomes
what is the word-next and its origins? 

Now what word-next can be 
is a question of probabilities; 
since if I ch..."></div>
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