Friday, January 8, 2010

On Superpowers

So I'm fairly sure I am in possession of superpowers. In fact, multiple superpowers. For starters, I'm partially immortal. I'm mostly invulnerable, for example, I will remain unharmed when subjected to, lets say, puppies, or linoleum tiles, or evenings in late Autumn. I can create life given food. I transmute oxygen into carbon dioxide via alchemy. I'm a psychokinetic. I can transform will and thought into changes in the physical world. When I so will it, I can make this fleshy, lumpy, limb thing attached to a fleshy, lumpy body, located somewhere in space move in a myriad of ways. Through a chain of events, I can even influence the physical world far beyond the grasp of my arm. For example, by forcing air through some fleshy bladders and tubes and such, I can create sonic phenomena, which can psychically be interpreted as my thoughts and will by others. I can then, by sheer force of will, cause these other bodies to carry out various tasks via psychic persuasion.

Thought is a funny thing you know? Humans have long concerned themselves with how and why people think, and the consequences of thought. But I'm really curious as to where I'm thinking. Am I thinking inside my brain, or am I thinking in some non-physically defined space which receives input through my brain, which is located where my head is, which is located where the rest of my body is, most of the time. Can we really be said to be thinking somewhere? As an entire being, where am I? Can you give me the coordinates of my being? What is my location. Where is my body, and where is my soul? Even just my physical body's location can't be pinpointed. It can be here, but it can also be there. My left index finger is on the "f" key, but my right index finger is on the "j", meanwhile, my butt remains in a chair, and my feet on the floor. They are in many places, and they are all my body. My body is in a range of places. My body is at a desk. It is in a room. It is in a building. In a neighbourhood. City. Province. Country. Planet. Hurtling zillions of kilometers and hour in who knows what direction? At any given time, I am here, I am here, I am here... At any given time? 2 seconds ago, I was a zillion kilometers away in some unknown direction. Where am I know? More like, what is my location is the average location of my body over a given time period. Or more precisely, the average location of my body as delta tee approaches zero. Then there's my thoughts. Where are they? In that brain of mine, whipping around the universe, which doesn't have a location either. Where is the universe? Is it here, or is it somewhere else? Is my soul somewhere in all of that? Probably. But maybe not.

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