Chronological record of essays, critical observations, and notes on cinema and technology.
The universe has been here for roughly 13.8 billion years. It will continue long after you are gone. Yet somehow, a single human being can become more important to you than almost anything else in existence. How does that make sense?
Some stories entertain us. Others change the way we understand the characters we thought we knew. The Chimera Ant arc does both, questioning humanity, morality, grief, and the meaning of being alive before ending with one of the most devastating scenes in anime.
just-a-thoughtIf consciousness emerges from the brain, can the brain ever fully understand the person it creates? What happens when the observer and the thing being observed are the same system? Imagine sitting alone in a quiet room and asking yourself a deceptively simple question: Who am I?
Perhaps the universe has no story to tell about us. The unsettling possibility is that this does not make our lives meaningless. It makes the question of meaning ours to confront.
just-a-thoughtPerhaps consciousness is not merely something that appeared inside the universe. Perhaps, in some sense we do not yet understand, the universe is what consciousness looks like from the inside. And perhaps even the universe is only a small part of something larger.
Some love stories break your heart because two people cannot be together. Gunahon Ka Devta breaks it because, for a long time, you cannot understand why two people who mean so much to each other cannot simply choose one another. There are books you finish and put back on a shelf. There are books you remember when someone mentions a character, a scene, or a line you once underlined. And then there are books that leave you strangely quiet when you close them, as if something inside you has been d
ScienceWhat light is made of, why it has a universal speed limit, how it bends around stars, why a single photon can produce an interference pattern, and what the expanding universe does to the oldest light we can observe.
Imagine a book containing every story that could ever be told. Every love, every betrayal, every discovery, every possible version of your life. Now imagine that nobody can understand a single page.
FictionFull-series spoilers, including the ending. Most time-travel stories use time as a device. A character discovers the past, changes something, and returns to a future that is either better or worse. The machinery exists to create suspense, undo tragedy, or give the protagonist another chance.