Is it healthy to know something? Is it a sign of health, to be certain of knowledge? Sometimes as a migraine begins—a stage of the illness called prodrome—I fall into a hard state of uncertainty. Like other aspects of migraine, this state erases awareness of itself; it arrives as a sudden totality. It’s not that I feel uncertain about something; I, my whole self,
On Uncertainty
On Uncertainty
On Uncertainty
Is it healthy to know something? Is it a sign of health, to be certain of knowledge? Sometimes as a migraine begins—a stage of the illness called prodrome—I fall into a hard state of uncertainty. Like other aspects of migraine, this state erases awareness of itself; it arrives as a sudden totality. It’s not that I feel uncertain about something; I, my whole self,