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Posted in Everything on Jun 21, 2015
Children natively love both parents no matter what, as a force more powerful than just about any other they carry. This is the essence of what we destroy in children to make them into grumpy grownups like us -- it is what was destroyed in us, remember? (Oh child of the Cold War where everybody hated everybody or else the world would end.) Therefore be nice to their other parent -- even if they don't deserve it -- because your children do deserve it. No matter how angry or disappointed you may be at the other, always encourage a child's love for the other parent, especially when the child bri...
Posted in Everything on Jun 21, 2015
Monbiot "buries the lede" in this story, but it's a good one from this point forward:
The Ecuadorean government decided to allow oil drilling in the heart of the Yasuni national park. It had made an offer to other governments: if they gave it half the value of the oil in that part of the park, it would leave the stuff in the ground. You could see this as either blackmail or fair trade. Ecuador is poor, its oil deposits are rich. Why, the government argued, should it leave them untouched without compensation when everyone else is drilling down to the inner circle of hell? It asked for $3.6bn an...
Posted in Everything on Jun 06, 2015
My father taught me well how to walk away from what I love. I have since learned that this is not the best use of the skill of walking away. I am now learning how to walk away from what I hate. I believe it is a much more sustainable use of this difficult skill.
Posted in Everything on Jun 01, 2015
We know by the dual slit experiment that consciousness operates directly on matter and transforms it from wave to particle at the quantum mechanical level.
We have proven that consciousness does this at least four times faster than the speed of light, and in fact quite possibly instantaneously. This is not against the speed limit of light, which only holds for things that have mass -- consciousness is not bound by this limit.
We know that quantum entanglement breaks any sense of locality common to classical physics by moving information instantaneously. The state of one particle can affe...
Posted in From the Archives on May 31, 2015
The following excerpt from Simple Tools for Clarity, Understanding and Betterment by Stephen Pirie reminds me of an almost identical conversation I had with someone I used to look up to... until this conversation happened. Now I look across at him as an equal; the illusion is gone (lightly edited for clarity).
Not so long ago I was walking with a friend through a beautiful park overlooking one of Sydney's glorious beaches, discussing the downside of believing in perfection. When, lo and behold, we happened upon a group of people keen for us to join them and learn about meditation, and ... how ...
Posted in Everything on May 28, 2015
The term “resilience” comes from Latin resilere, “to spring back, start back, rebound, recoil, retreat”, and is often intended and defined as the ability to cope with or recover from change. Resilience is defined as: “the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganize while undergoing change so as to still retain essentially the same function, structure, identity, and feedbacks” (Brian Walker). Resilience corresponds to the Aristotelian concept of entelechy “exercising activity in order to guarantee one’s identity”. Resilience shows the boundaries to sustainability. It shows what ty...
Posted in From the Archives on Mar 01, 2015
The following excerpt from "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later" is interesting, good reason to re-evaluate the meaning of some of the more peculiar episodes of my own life:
One afternoon I was talking to my priest - I am an Episcopalian — and I happened to mention to him an important scene near the end of the novel in which the character Felix Buckman meets a black stranger at an all-night gas station, and they begin to talk. As I described the scene in more and more detail, my priest became progressively more agitated. At last he said, ’That is a scene from the Boo...
Posted in Everything on Aug 30, 2014
The interesting simplicity inherent in a sheepdog's movements:
The research group outfitted a herd of 46 three-year-old female merino sheep with small backpacks containing GPS transmitters. The sheepdog was also given a GPS tracker. For each trial, the dog was simply verbally instructed to move the sheep to the gate of a 12 acre field. Then, using data from the GPS trackers, the researchers derived a mathematical model describing the rules governing the movement of both the computerized sheep and a computerized shepherd. What they found was that sheepdogs use just two simple rules: when the sh...
Posted in Everything on Jun 26, 2014
This is one of the coolest things I have seen in a long time. I think the moment of transformation from digital to analog, or vice versa, is a fascinating moment to understand philosophically and practically. Here is the invention of vacuum tube technology at the nano scale. Fun not only for the advantage of extremely high frequency processing, but for the advantage of a2d transformation at nanoscale.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/06/nasa-melds-vacuum-tube-tech-with-silicon-to-fill-the-terahertz-gap/
And, here's the original link to the IEEE article, too:
Posted in Everything on May 11, 2014
Rarely does the mind get blown by something which is literally capable of blowing the mind. This qualifies: Researchers have been able to induce lucid dreaming at will with gamma waves. Even in this initial article, they're already talking about using this technique to hack the psyche. Check it out:
Voss and her colleagues therefore asked, if gamma waves occur naturally during lucid dreaming, what would happen if they induced a current with the same frequency as gamma waves in dreaming brains? When they did, via electrodes on the scalp in a technique called transcranial alternating current sti...