The Book of the Dead functions as a manual for traversing the post-mortem vacuum: a set of boundary conditions and selection rules for the soul-field’s passage through the underworld. Each spell is a local operator altering the probability amplitude of safe passage—preserving identity-mass against decay. The heart-weighing scene is a literal measurement device: the scales … Continue reading 4. The Book of the Dead (Ancient Egypt)
3. The Instruction of Ptahhotep (Ancient Egypt)
The Instruction of Ptahhotep is a low-energy effective theory: a compact Lagrangian of social rules that regulate interaction in an Egyptian legal-gauge. Its aphorisms act like conserved currents—protocols that minimize conflict and stabilize the civic vacuum. Each proverb functions as a mediated interaction (gauge boson) transmitting authority from elder to younger generations. The "mass" these … Continue reading 3. The Instruction of Ptahhotep (Ancient Egypt)
2. The Tale of Sinuhe (Ancient Egypt)
The Tale of Sinuhe reads as an early field-theory experiment in identity and exile. Sinuhe is a fermionic excitation displaced from the Egyptian vacuum by war and rumor; his wandering through Levantine courts resembles a particle propagating through different media with varying coupling constants—hospitality, dishonor, foreign custom. Egypt itself functions as a dominant Higgs-like background … Continue reading 2. The Tale of Sinuhe (Ancient Egypt)
1. The Epic of Gilgamesh (Mesopotamia)
Gilgamesh is a prototypical heavy excitation resisting mortality. Enkidu’s entrance turns the two into a bound pair, like a baryonic composite stabilized by intense mutual coupling. Enkidu’s death is a perturbation that shifts Gilgamesh’s vacuum: the hero gains existential mass—grief, wisdom—forcing a search for permanence (immortality) that results in a renormalized appreciation of the communal … Continue reading 1. The Epic of Gilgamesh (Mesopotamia)
Toward a Standard Literary Model
This post proposes a speculative yet disciplined framework for reimagining world literature: the Standard Literary Model (SLM). Inspired by the elegance of the Standard Model of particle physics, the SLM treats stories not as static cultural objects but as fields, forces, and interacting particles within a vast narrative cosmos.The goal is not to collapse literature … Continue reading Toward a Standard Literary Model
Whistling in the Dark
This canvas wants to bring forward the theme music in my series Arts in the Dark. The third installation features a singing tree at the center of a wind hose that makes it produce a slightly discordant and penetrating choral sound covering a range of several octaves. The theme has also inspired different musicians like … Continue reading Whistling in the Dark
The Philosopher’s Chicken.
In search for a contemporary philosopher´s egg, I came to wonder if one of those previous eggs didn’t hatch a philosopher’s chicken. That would make my task lots easier than having to go through the laborious process of producing a philosopher´s egg out of thin air (and whatever other substances). The philosopher’s egg is a … Continue reading The Philosopher’s Chicken.
Cryptomathics: the complexity of simplicity.
Ours is the Age of Science; but from a study of most contemporary art, one would find it difficult to infer this most obvious of facts. Contemporary literature, graphic arts, and music, contain remarkably few references to contemporary science—few references even to the metaphysical and ethical problems which contemporary science has raised.A survey showed that … Continue reading Cryptomathics: the complexity of simplicity.
The Maharajagar 