(November 6, 2013 at 8:44 pm)ChildOfReason Wrote: Also, I just spent 20 minutes trying to figure out your profile picture.
It's an optical illusion in which there are only black circles with lines in them, but the brain constructs the image of a box. It's a representation of how the human brain is hardwired to see things that aren't actually there and how our senses aren't completely accurate reflections of reality.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell