Category: Personal Reflections and Diary

http://www.foodsmatter.com/allergy_intolerance/sulphites/articles/sulphites3.htmlAPOLOGIES

Apparently, last Friday I managed to down a piece of apple strudel full of enough preservatives to disorient me until today. As a matter of course, In this city, these pastries are made specifically without preservatives, but this restaurant, I guess not.

Now, normally, exposure to various preservatives puts me to sleep for six to eighteen hours, and in a state of confusion and stress for one to three days, during which I do little other than sleep and feel like I have the flu. But this time it was worse than usual. I suspect because hydration seems to affect the intensity somewhat and I have been dehydrated of late.

It has the interesting side effect of making my autistic speech return. That is, that I can still work, and even produce good philosophy, but my ability to produce coherent sentences declines rapidly.

The current theory is that some of us are short a mitochondrial enzyme (I know this is true on my mother’s side, and is common in Celts). Repeat exposure produces an immune response. This immune response can develop at any point in one’s life.

I am equally intolerant of MSG, and pretty much any agent that affects oxydation, or the dopamine pathways. I suspect, from what my mother has said, that I had early saturation with MSG and it developed from there. I remember specifically that I could get ‘confused’ from eating Maraschino Cherries – which was really frustrating as a small child at holiday time.

So, to my followers I am sorry for the rather austistic writing I have done over the past three days. Although It is interesting that I still was able to produce a few innovations over the weekend, even if I wrote them badly. There is some sort of meaning to this that I want to get my mind around: I do philosophy ‘prior to language’. Which for linguistic philosophers must seem impossible, but to me, is informative. Over-fascination with words, and under-emphasis on actions is probably what has hampered philosophy for more than a century.

My philosophy is one of action in time. My analysis is operational. My thinking is spatial, not verbal. And under duress I may lose the verbal, but I seem to retain the spatial.

That means something.