Fresh Limericks for a New Creation Myth
The Legend of Bell: Meta-myth of heroic discovery
Cognitive science was once a field reserved for the most elitist of academics in their ivory towers. But thanks to democratizing institutions like NPR and a preponderance of Netflix documentaries, even the most isolated writer of limericks can now explore the recherche mysteries of behavior, intelligence and consciousness.
But that’s not all.
Limericks about cognitive science now bring the meat of the mind to the table of the many. Just as contemporary culture has reduced research-based science to the lowest of low brow, these limericks bring questions of neural function and the miracle of consciousness all the way down to earth.
Identity
Despite what the rational body observes
There’s a sense of the self that the memory preserves
While the urge for reducing
Is somewhat seducing
We’re more than the sum of a bundle of nerves
The Dragon
Our reptilian parents they fought and fled fast
Bear this in mind should suspicions be cast
Lest you be shamed
The beast must be tamed
Our consciousness bulges from out of the past
Inside Job
A chorus of voices may whisper and shout
From the back of your mind raising questions and doubt
But never give in
To the skeptics within
When you call them by name you can drive them all out
Schopenhauer’s Renunciation
Life is a struggle, a tale of resistance
Where being and becoming are held at a distance
Try and deny it
I dare you to try it
At bottom the Will is the ground of existence
Repentance
Conscience and consciousness both hand in hand
A penitent process that growth curves demand
There’s no use forgetting
We learn by regretting
Together awareness and fairness expand
Entre Vous
Open your doors and the whole world will enter
If sadness wants in then you cannot prevent her
You can’t pick and choose
Which feelings to use
The best you can do is make peace in your center
Passing Fancies
Psychic vicissitudes working cross purposes
One thought dissolves and another one surfaces
Feelings are fleeting
So watch as you’re greeting
The many sensations that consciousness furnishes
Deja Who
There’s a pattern that many detect
When a fresh fact or concept’s been checked
One day it’s rare
And the next everywhere
The bizarre Baader Meinhof Effect
Further Reading
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