By the time Milton visited Galileo, he was too old and blind to look through the astronomer’s telescope and marvel at its concrete revelations of other moons spinning around other worlds spinning around a shared star. Milton lived through a turning point in human thought - an era that cleared the inner lens into a discomposing glimpse of reality as Galileo turned the lens of his primitive telescope outward to dismantle our illusions of centrality, our puerile cosmic self-reference.
(Available as a print and as stationery cards.) Plate from An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe by Thomas Wright, 1750. Everything we see - ourselves, each other, the universe itself - is focused into meaning by that lens. In all of this, a paradox: A mind as complex and highly organized ours can perceive the fact of other minds, even more different from our own than the bodies they govern - an awareness haunted by Iris Murdoch’s reminder that the tragic freedom of our experience is the recognition that “others are, to an extent we never cease discovering, different from ourselves.” And yet the human mind is governed by a single organizing principle - self-reference, known often by its other names: memory, language, love.īecause it is its own place, it can only perceive the rest of reality from that place: Our entire view of the world, including the recognition of otherness, is lensed through our own particular mind, ground into shape by its particular genetic inheritance, smudged by its particular life-experience. One of William Blake’s rare illustrations for Paradise Lost The mind is its own place, and in it selfĬan make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n. A world rife with minds, as various as they are numerous.Įlsewhere in his seventeenth-century epic of philosophy in blank verse, Milton formulated the quintessence of human experience: On this world, space has produced “atoms with consciousness,” in the lovely phrase of the later poet Richard Feynman. Space may produce new Worlds whereof so rife. The first English use of the word space to connote the cosmic expanse appears in line 650 of Book I of Milton’s Paradise Lost: Pre-order my new sci-fi novel Herokiller, and read my first series, The Earthborn Trilogy, which is also on audiobook. And read the books too, for good measure.įollow me on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
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Now that The Expanse is on Amazon, it’s a no-brainer to catch up on it if you’re looking for cinema-quality TV sci-fi.
And it’s got a really big role for Amos next time too, so needless to say I’m looking forward to that. I think season 3 may have been a bit better, but that may just be because I like the book more, and season 5 (already greenlit) should prove to adapt some of my favorite source material of the lot. The Expanse season 4 retains its status as one of the best season on television. He reminds me of The Walking Dead’s Daryl Dixon, though with better comedic timing and uh, bigger arms.
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In my own personal head cannon, I kind of consider him the lead of the series over Holden, even if he’s operating as a sort of lieutenant most of the time. He’s funny, badass and often, terrifying.
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