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title: "The Key to Immortality"
date: 2018-03-31
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#### Perpetuation from a shattering?
![](/img/1*E-_3L9RFYDCe9wIS4mQfvA.jpeg)Photo by [Vincent Foret](https://unsplash.com/photos/3S_nePubrtw?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/search/photos/broken?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText)A broken heart never quite
heals
A broken heart never quite
forgets
A broken heart never quite
lets go
Lets go of the
soul that broke it
A heartbreaker lives on
in the souls they dismantled
And one that breaks a thousand hearts
never dies
Twist of fate?
Just Life

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title: "Is a human mind in a robot body still…human?"
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![](/img/1*g4r9o-a8brYBYv_ZefZ88g.jpeg)The question posed in the title is a particular example of a wider question: What makes us human? Are we nothing but the sum of our parts, or is there something more to it?
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The question posed in the title is a particular example of a wider question: What makes us human? Are we nothing but the sum of our parts, or is there something more to it?
I believe that consciousness and self-awareness is what defines a self. Put another way, to be you necessitates knowledge that you are you. Unlike some, I do not believe our physical bodies play any part in defining who or what we are.
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Certainly there is a part of me that likes to believe in a spark. Somewhat unscientific, but…pleasing.
*Originally published on *[*Blogger*](http://ift.tt/2cy04BR)
*Originally published on* [*Blogger*](http://ift.tt/2cy04BR)

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title = "*snkt*, *snkt*, *snkt*"
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#### Like metronomic and distorted cackling laughter
![](/img/1*aPhII8tpOj9XsXXQNngPzw.jpeg)
The idea-spiders skitter. Piercing clatter of a thousand million worming thoughts. Each one keens in its own way, hungry for freedom. Each one glibly promising sprawling webs of crystalline creativity. Each one truthful to a volatile degree.

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![](/img/1*O61o9mJWmPm4pxRint1HTw.jpeg)Photo by [Benjamin Blättler](https://unsplash.com/photos/J40eheaQ_OE?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/search/photos/path-night?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText)I stand, hesitant
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I stand, hesitant
Before me, the path splits
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There is no other

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![](/img/1*oZDxPDh3u6b9i2r6dIRUhg.jpeg)Photo by [Alex Iby](https://unsplash.com/photos/aU1cBKa3mJU?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/search/photos/mask?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText)That I honestly dont know is something I always kept close to my chest. But no more.
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That I honestly dont know is something I always kept close to my chest. But no more.
Because…I write. I write and write. I just *do* it. Only occasionally do I pause to search for the right word. Only some of my pieces are edited for more than a basic spelling and grammar check.
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Id urge you not to envy me, though. Yes, the writing flows. Flows easily, most days. And in that I am massively blessed and freely admit that.
*But, *I dont know what makes me tick. I dont know *how I flow. *Not the first clue. I know I have a wide vocabulary from reading voraciously. That makes sense. I dont know, though, how that translates to sentences that string themselves together seemingly without my help.
*But,* I dont know what makes me tick. I dont know *how I flow.* Not the first clue. I know I have a wide vocabulary from reading voraciously. That makes sense. I dont know, though, how that translates to sentences that string themselves together seemingly without my help.
Thats more than a little terrifying.
Because what if…oh what *if*…the words disappear? What if I suddenly lose my flow? Without it, Id be helpless. And I wouldnt know how to get it back.
Id no longer be *a* writer. Id no longer be *the* Frenetic Scribbler*.*
Id no longer be *a* writer. Id no longer be *the* Frenetic Scribbler.
Maybe they will, maybe they wont. I hope they dont. I need my words. Losing them would be like having my throat torn out. That makes me fearful.
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Perhaps one day Ill even understand how it happens.

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![](/img/1*0DIDOD40N1VpYI2W7pF6Lw.jpeg)Photo by [Khachik Simonian](https://unsplash.com/photos/G22cAfM7-tE?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText)4am is a magical time. Where the late-nighters have mostly drifted off to bed, and the early-risers havent well…risen.
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4am is a magical time. Where the late-nighters have mostly drifted off to bed, and the early-risers havent well…risen.
Its simultaneously eerie and relaxing in a most odd sort of way. Hearing birdcalls echo across a graveyard silence in a usually hectic city center is an…experience. The occasional twitters should feel out of place in the concrete jungle, normally masked by human noise as they are.
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Sitting there, watching the sky gradually lighten and listening to the calls is magical because you feel isolated. Despite being surrounded by thousands of people, you feel isolated because you are the near enough the only one awake and around.
A city at 4am feels like a graveyard. Except that -unlike a graveyardits inhabitants are only *temporarily* at rest.
A city at 4am feels like a graveyard. Except that unlike a graveyardits inhabitants are only *temporarily* at rest.
Passing through the airport close to my home earlier that night…well, morning, had a totally different feel. Even at the oddest hours, the place is together alive and dead. Alive because it is filled with people. And yet dead because those people are mostly waiting.
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They were long hours, but I almost dont regret them just because of the 4am insight.
> Thought for the day: The heavier the eyelids, the sincerer the words
> Thought for the day: The heavier the eyelids, the sincerer the words

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#### Perpetuation from a shattering?
A broken heart never quite
heals
A broken heart never quite
forgets
A broken heart never quite
lets go
Lets go of the
soul that broke it
A heartbreaker lives on
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And one that breaks a thousand hearts
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Like metronomic and distorted cackling laughter the idea-spiders skitter. Piercing clatter of a thousand million worming thoughts. Each one keens in its own way, hungry for freedom. Each one glibly promising sprawling webs of crystalline creativity. Each one truthful to a volatile degree.

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#### The edge of vision otherwise dark
![](/img/1*iApOUMOp3jumngLFj3RhYw.jpeg)Photo by [Paul Bulai](https://unsplash.com/photos/XOQJa4OC8P0?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/search/photos/candle?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText)[I have a blind minds eye.](https://medium.com/frenetic-scribblings/minds-eye-blind-93509e102fe)
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#### The edge of vision otherwise dark
[I have a blind minds eye.](https://medium.com/frenetic-scribblings/minds-eye-blind-93509e102fe)
> I dont see mental images. Its incredibly difficult to describe what I do see, but certainly not the vivid mental imagery that Im told others experience.[1]Ive also recently figured out I am a broadly visual learner. Which renders my memory next to useless. Since if I learn through imagery, and yet my image recall is short circuited…I cant very well learn *anything* can I!
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All I can do is…
> **[wring] every ounce of experience out of every damn moment that I breath.**Thats turning out to to be a pretty sweet way to live.[5]
> **[wring] every ounce of experience out of every damn moment that I breath.**
Thats turning out to to be a pretty sweet way to live.[5]
[1] Self-quoting wasnt…well..self-indulgent, was it? I feel uncomfortably like it was.
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![](/img/1*ellvvARbfEzEiKBCwvI7_g.jpeg)Photo by [Jarl Schmidt](https://unsplash.com/photos/WxEI0pKND_Q?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/search/photos/embers?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText)A spark
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A spark
*a million volts*
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*a star core pouring lightness into the world*