Philosophy | A De-fragger for the Brain

I don’t know if you remember how — on the old PCs — the hard disk would get all fragmented over time?  The computer would just store your Word docs or whatever in fragments, willy-nilly wherever there were little spaces available.  Eventually it greatly slowed down the speed that your computer could retrieve anything.  At that point, one would have to run a Defragmentation Application or “de-fragger” which would go through and begin consolidating fragmented saves together and them recording them back onto the disk in one piece.

I have things that seem to de-frag my brain.  Listening to intense baroque harpsichord like Scarlatti is one thing that seems to work .  Maybe it’s just another form of meditation.

My wife’s uncle, who is a bit religious — not severely, he’s a Methodist — sent us this link.  I’m sending it to you not as a way to evangelize (I’m an agnostic) or even as a joke to annoy,  but simply because it’s such a great momentary escape from materialism. (At least it is for me, because I do sense the spiritual as an ameliorator of the mundane.)  That word doesn’t fully express what I mean but it’s the closest I can think of right now.