How a Crash Put Me on Course

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About two years ago I had a fortuitous car crash -  if something exists of that sort.

I got what could be described as the equivalent of a Windows blue screen of death while driving on the motorway.

I lost consciousness while driving and was knocked around a bit by other vehicles. When I woke up I was stuck at the central reservation facing oncoming traffic. I wondered how I got there as I had and still have no memory of what happened when the lights went out.

I can't complain - my system rebooted and I had hardly a scratch on me. I recovered physically and no (hard) cause was ever found. My poor central computer took a bit longer though to find its mojo back. I had no functional damage but I seemed to be thinking in slow motion and was tired as hell. 

It rubbed my nose in it how much I valued thinking and studying and how important this type of mental activity is to me. I really got set on retraining my brain to its former glory ...

So I picked up my interest in philosophy again and decided to pursue studying it. I decided to refresh my foreign language knowledge and extend it so I could read works in their original language. I decided to strain my brain and hopefully make some more sense of what life is about. And in doing so it put me on course for this blog.

I don't know where this will lead to. I decided to put my journey in a blog and share whatever is produced from my endeavours. Let's hope it improves my writing skills at the same time :)

I have a clear idea on what I want to do. It will all center around the human brain.

How does the brain work?

How did life evolved from simple cells into beings with powerful brain functions?

How has the use of the brain, our (philosophical) thinking changed over the course of time? 

Evolution is also very much at the heart of this. What made me zoom in even more on evolution is how the way we exchange information has changed over time. First the development of language and writing then printing and now electronic information exchange, this exponential growth of information that our brains are subjected to can not be without consequences. Just think how we train our AI neural networks; by subjecting them to large data sets.

I may have a clear idea of what I want to do, but I still have to figure out how to tackle this in clear and understandable way. A lot of head scratching to do! 

The starting pistol has been fired, now I better get on with it.