Tag: consciousness
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Podcast: Waking up.
An introduction to the practice of meditation from Sam Harris. I have already mentioned Sam Harris and his subscription based* Waking Up app in one of my posts about mindfulness. I am always micro-despondent at people who try to monetise the practice of meditation. It’s like charging you to learn how to breathe. So (without […]
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Video: Federico Faggin on consciousness.
Federico Faggin is a physicist and inventor of both the microprocessor (the Intel 4004) and silicon gate technology. In this interview, he discusses his evolving views on consciousness, artificial intelligence, non-duality and his own spiritual epiphanies. This is not a hit-and-split entertaining watch whilst waiting to pick up the kids. This is a percolating, slow […]
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Video: The near-death experience of Nancy Rynes.
Nancy Rynes was a science writer and professed agnostic until she had a Near Death Experience following a cycling accident. In this interview, she discusses her accident, the NDE experience and the subsequent integration of those experiences into her worldview. Her story contains many elements common to the NDE including a life review and a […]
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Your brain is a radio.
Choose your stations carefully. The vast majority of people (including very smart neurobiologists and physicists) go about life thinking that consciousness is located (somewhere) in the brain. Your brain generates…you. But there is an increasing number* of people who think otherwise. That consciousness is non-local to the brain (this is sometimes referred to as ‘Mind […]
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