老头走好
2009-09-03
上午刚刚看完这本书。看过这后马上用手机查一下发现作者93年的时候就去世了，突然感觉像死掉了一个朋友。他的书写的轻松亲切又谦卑，内容很颠覆我以前固有的思维。我都不知道该怎么推荐给大家了。
说起音乐，他说：“音乐是我们为向自己解释我们的大脑如何工作而作的努力。我们聆听巴赫时像被施了定身法，因为那就是聆听一个人的头脑。” 没有比这句话更准确的了，我以前老是想，为什么会有“莫扎特效应”，是什么魔法让连听过莫扎特的小白鼠钻迷宫的速度也加快了。前Pink Floyd时代Syd吸食的迷幻剂（LSD）会让大脑混淆声音信号与光信号，所以来自他们写出的声音总是听得我激动异常，又说不出原因。两个人，一个靠天赋，一个靠药剂暗合了我们大脑中某种潜在结构，让小鼠和胎儿突然获得额外的智力。在理解意识和大脑之前，我们所做的只有猜测。
去年在家里用MP3看他写的《细胞生命的礼赞》的电子书时因为激动分泌的激素还在影响着我的人生观。在那本书里他说人类没有狂妄自大的理由，因为“我们的作用是整个生物体的神经系统”，例如线粒体有自己的遗传物质，我们似乎和他们达成了某种共生关系，我们提供他们生存的环境，他们提供我们需要的能量。
我们多说就是所谓“人类”的神经系统。
有老头在天堂，让我觉得那里更活泼点儿。突然想起一个笑话搜到了粘在下面：
Things Brought to heaven
There once was a rich man who was near death.He was very grieved because he had worked so hard for his money and he wanted to take it with him to heaven.So he hegan to pray that he might be able to take some of his wealth with him.
An angle hears his plea and appears to him."Sorry,but you can't take your wealth with you."The man begs the angel to speak to God to see if He might bend the rules.the man continues to pray that his wealth could follow him.
The angel reappears and informs the man that God has decided to allow him to take one suitcase with him.Overjoyed,the man gathers his largest suitcase and fills it with pure gold bars and places it beside his bed.
Soon afterward the man dies and shows up at the Gates of Heaven to greet St.Peter.
Seeing the suitcase,St.Peter says,"hold on,you can't bring that in here!"
But,the man explains to St.Peter that he has permission and asks him yo verify his story with the Lord.
Sure enough,St,Peter checks it out and comes back saying,"You're right.You are allowed one carry-on bag,but I'm supposed to check its contents before letting it though."
St.Peter opens the suitcase to inspect the wordly items that the man found too precious to leave behind and exclaims,"Oh,you brought pavement?!!!"
下面是刘易斯?托马斯部分作品，记在这里：
细胞生命的礼赞
可用作倒数计时的一些想法
作为生物的社会
对于外激素的恐惧
这个世界的音乐
一个诚恳的建议
医疗技术
说味
鲸鱼座