Folks, Here is my subjective account on what is going on in our brains that is partially reconciled with findings in neuroscience. The "gaps" in findings, I...
Stephen, My congratulations on your literary success and I wish you many more. But I would be even more happier if our discussion ended differently. (It seams ...
Folks, Stephen started his own discussion group on serenity and tolerance - it is under Science>Alternative. Although it appears marginally related to the ...
Folks, It is time to put "what is going in our brains/minds?" into a persepctive of "objectivity", "subjectivity", uniqueness and selfrence. Here is an outline...
... persepctive of ... outline ... ourselves within ... surrounds us ... ourselves ... the world ... Damir, consider the sun in the sky, and ask the question...
Stephen, I might be a bit old fashioned and reluctant in relation to the backward causality so much lauded by quantum physicists as "proven". In few encounters...
Stephen, I like to think about myself as "open minded". Maybe I'm not in the case of backward causality (which I'm leaving open) - but let us give it a try. ...
Damir, because of possible confusion I am removing my last two messages, and providing this new message as a single replacement. And rather than pointing to...
Folks, It seams that we are experiencing significant delays in distribution of posted messages. (I found a bit late that I am replying on a withdrawn message -...
Stephen, Misunderstandings happen, but we should try to avoid them. From my experience, the best strategy is to avoid replying in haste and give it a time to...
Folks, Up to now, I refrained from going into details of emergence and how it relates to our "subjective" experiences. This was partially due to my need to...
Stephen, Thanks for the article. It raises some important issues we already touched upon (social pressures, culture, thought, perception…). It also raises an...
I found this interesting review by --- in the New Scientist: <A HREF="http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opbooks.jsp?id=ns23817">New Scientist</A> My remarks...
Images Show Universe in Infancy By Deborah Zabarenko, Reuters WASHINGTON (Feb. 11) - Scientists using a robotic NASA probe have determined with precision the...
Stephen, Am I tiring in repeating that we agree much more than we suspect? I guess I am, so from now on you can take it as default, unless of course I...
Folks, One of the most interesting aspects of the culture is how our own non-conscious thinking and remembering is impacted by interaction (communication) with...
Folks, Some of our members receive our messages on e-mail accounts that often run over allowed quotas resulting in bounced messages. I would suggest that you ...
Folks, A little recap of the thought and the memory in relation to two recent studies: We said that our wild thought continuously attends contradictions...
Folks, There were many theories how the cooperation between single cells might have started. In the article published by Nature "Bugs build tiny balls" we may ...
Folks, I am preparing the fourth edition of my web-site that will be probably published by the end of the next week. It will include many things we touched...
... probably ... we ... more ... divisions ... Curious! I did not know non-members could post? Were these new people? Strangely, I felt a similar conflict when...
Folks, I received this invitation for all of us. Although this search engine does not list my web-site (yet), it seams quite powerful. I encourage you to try ...
Apparently, "beauty" has a long history in science, even beyond the study of aesthetics in philosophy. But I am using beauty and aesthetics in this same...
Stephen, Almost entirely agree! The small point of approximations establishing an "order" (symmetry) should be taken as addition - not really a disagreement. ...
Folks, You haven't heard from me for a while. I'm working a lot on the new edition of my web-site and it will hopefully published this weekend. As I studied...