Alternative Kitten Philosophy 101 Episode One
Click on Picture to downloadThis is the first of a series of episodes of philosophical discussion, Alternative Kitten Philosophy 101. This episode is about Multiple Sclerosis, Reality, and Human Consciousness.
posted by Rachel at 10:49 pm
3 Comments:
Rachel,
I really enjoyed this vlog. I love the wit and humor you display, and yet inform me of the very real issues you deal with everyday. I know a lot more about MS now than I did 10 min. ago. Please keep vlogging, and if you're ever in Amsterdam, I'll take you out for a drink.
Vlogarific!
Good work describing the condition your dealing with -- love the images and sound.
Hello Rachel,
Charles-A. Rovira, a fellow blogger, a podcaster and another soul afflicted with MS.
While you describe the affects of MS quite well, I am somewhat uncomfortable with your description of its causes and effects.
I chose to describe it rather differently in my own blog and podcast (Blog: http//multiplesclerosisblog.blogspot.com/
Media: http://msb.libsyn.com/
iTMS: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120932170)
I feel my description might be somewhat more accurate:
"Well, MS is an auto-immune system disease where otherwise healthy T-Cells respond to some trigger, (in my case its a particular and specific genetic strain of influenza,) and the T-Cells get confused as to the identity of the offending substance or organism and start attacking the myelin sheath surrounding the neurons and axons of my nervous system and the oligidendrocytes which produce the myelin.
In English, stripped of the medical mumbo-jumbo, its like taking a pair of wire strippers to the control cables that run your body and the wires that feed back to tell you how your body's doing.
Any competent high-school graduate will tell you that that's really gonna fuck you up.
Any competent dancer will tell you that it messes up your kinesthestic sense.
Any competent audio engineer will tell you that this will introduce cross-talk and modulation distortion as signals leak in and out of your cabling and span across your wiring.
Any competent robotics systems analyst will tell you that the feed back and control mechanisms will be approximations and require constant monitoring and recalibration to a baseline.
Any competent physiologist would tell you that it would wreak havock with your 'somatic cage'. "
Nevertheless, you opened my eyes (litterally) and I would like to interview you on you MS, your vlogging and life in general.
Of course, you living "on the other side of the pond" means that we'll have to use the internet to do so.
Please contact me at msb@artdogs.org.
I would also loke to help you with any further French translation. :-)
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