Today nearly everyone is focused on living in the present. Presence is the place and state of mind in which many people want to be at all times. That may very well be all good and fine, but still we should also keep in mind our orientation. Orientation is a word with very strong connotations.… Continue reading Natural Orientation
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Scaling Time
Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist https://www.wittgensteinproject.org/w/index.php/Logisch-philosophische_Abhandlung#1 When I turn on the radio, I usually expect to be entertained more than I expect to be informed — and my expectations seem to be confirmed time after time. This morning was no exception. This morning I heard that something had happened in Vancouver (Canada)… Continue reading Scaling Time
The Razzle-Dazzle of New & Improved vs. the Tried & True But Tired of Old & Over-Used
A while ago, I became aware of a book published last year, authored by Tali Sharot, titled “Look Again”. In an introductory statement to a talk given by the author at Google, the presenter states: “Look Again” explores all the ways that our brain’s ability to habituate to novel experiences over time affects our behavior,… Continue reading The Razzle-Dazzle of New & Improved vs. the Tried & True But Tired of Old & Over-Used
Living Here
This week I am going to be “switching things up” and I guess there will be a big “change of pace”. In part, this may be due to a dearth of propaganda influencing me and causing me to react (and / or retaliate). But the way I will introduce this topic will probably trigger a… Continue reading Living Here
How to Make Natural Selection Work
Now that I have written this title, I wonder why I have never before considered the context in which the term “natural selection” arose (and how this context perhaps influenced the selection of the term natural selection“). So I pulled a few volumes of decades-old paper encyclopedias off my shelves and in one of them… Continue reading How to Make Natural Selection Work
Be the Change
When Jim Morrison sang “I’m a change-ling, see me change” … who knows what he was thinking about? As we may think, he might have been alluding to the Godfather of modern views about change: Non-Nobel Peace Prize winner Gandhi, who apparently advised us all to “be the change you want to see in the… Continue reading Be the Change
Please Don’t Make Me Think
Thinking is hard. It’s much easier to just let someone tell you a story and when you hear the same old story over and over again, then it will probably begin to ring true. This is neither a new insight nor is it rocket science — it’s something a scientist from a long time ago… Continue reading Please Don’t Make Me Think
The further on I go, the less I know
Wittgenstein had a saying about “die Grenzen meiner Sprache”, namely that these correspond to “die Grenzen meiner Welt”. [1] In my not-so humble opinion, this quote misses something very fundamental about language: that it does not exist in any “particular individual” (see also the previous post, “Self Mythology“). Language is a technology that exists between… Continue reading The further on I go, the less I know
Rates of Evolution
Evolution is often thought of as a single thing. Yet’s it’s not even a thing at all — it’s a phenomenon, a figment of our imaginations, one way that we interpret the world we live in. It is perhaps one of our most abstract scientific concepts. At the same time, no one even just somewhat… Continue reading Rates of Evolution
Natural Languages & Linguistic Empathy — a First Essay on the Impact of Phenomena such as Presence, Awareness and Focus on Social Cohesion
To begin, I wish to contextualize my writing of this chapter within so-called “real world” history. I normally try to remain aloof from engaging with ephemeral inkstains on cheesecloth, but since this very chapter is actually sort of antithetical to the so-called “real world” views of most propaganda industries, I think it is perhaps useful… Continue reading Natural Languages & Linguistic Empathy — a First Essay on the Impact of Phenomena such as Presence, Awareness and Focus on Social Cohesion
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