People, make love not war, and now that I'm famous I'm outta here!

Earlier today I said this in conversation:
Learning is to education as courtship is to marriage.
This statement achieved its aim of making people laugh while provoking thought. My hope is that this flippant comment will begin a line of reasoning capable of uncovering a more holistic approach to teaching.

When children learn their brains are awash with neuromodulation chemicals, which is the almost constant state of the child brain. When adults learn, they do so because an intense moment of realisation or insight has provided a new way of experiencing, examining, or manipulating their world. This induces a flush of the same neuromodulators which allows new synaptic patterns to form and 'cement' into more permanent patterns of thought.

To make new synaptic connections in an adult brain, we must subject ourselves to experiences which force us to 'think' differently than we normally would, then further extend our capacity by learning to cope with the new experience so that we can continue to perform differently at the limits of our understanding. Young children have fewer problems doing this because their neural structures are extremely malleable (the terms 'plastic' or 'neuroplasticity' are often used to describe the fast-changing chaotic state of children's minds), but as adults we need to understand more about how our minds interact and deal with the world in order to change them.

Writer's Block: Proven by Science

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Everything has an explanation but science may not have all the answers. Of the many different forms of reasoning Marxist dialectics is easily my humourous favorite; to any question, simply give any answer!

Science provides us with a 'toolkit' for understanding the universe but the elegance of the scientific method lies in its ability to check itself for inconsistency, thereby eliminating the possibility of a failure in reasoning which leads us up the garden path (in tasks like attempting to answer open-ended questions such as "Can science explain everything?" or "Is there a god?" or "What will happen at the end of the universe?").

I like to view the universe as an ever-evolving chaotic system, its many properties entwining endlessly at scale, looping and branching into and out of itself. In such a complex universe, there will always be many inexplicable elements of many ill-understood systems at any point of technological progress.

What I'm trying to say is at any given stage of science, one person's sorcery is anothers chemistry.

At this time of night, all I see is fuzzy colours

I’m journaling in the live style again. Grooving to the internet vibes. Dancing to the beat of my own drum. Singing along to the music in my head. Mixing my metaphors with reflectaphores and going for gold in the Olympic internet acronym season. You know it makes sense, now pound it (I may need professional help to stop this madness)!

Seriously though, there’s not a lot going on and thats precisely why I’m typing away in the wee small hours, unable to sleep because I’m catching a flight to Canberra in 9 hours. My grandfather is out of his dotage and into the latter years of dementia and I’m going to see if there’s much I can do to help out. This will probably be less than fun and has left me unable to sleep very much at all.

If I were a doctor specialising in treatment of geriatric dementia patients I would totally have my name changed by deed poll to ‘Demento’. I suppose there’s still time. Also, I wouldn’t have to print new business cards when putting on different hats such as a fly-by-night DJ persona!