Tag: science
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The science of consciousness.
I think this is a really good overview of the latest understandings in quantum science and consciousness ( don’t be put off by the ‘technical’ language in some parts). Watch it through and you will gain some appreciation of how science is beginning to understand that consciousness is not produced by the brain, that we…
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Less wired, more weird.
I don’t talk about it much here anymore, but I’m still enthusiastically exploring alternate deep routes. Trying to grok the suchness of life. For example, here are my current views on a range of anomalous phenomena rated from 1 ( exceedingly unlikely) to 10 (exceedingly likely verging on veridical). Of course, this is a high-level,…
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Science is waking up.
Video: A neuroscientist discusses the origins of consciousness. #science #consciousness #neuroscience #meditation
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This deranged age.
When I was in High School there was a popular educational TV science show called ‘Why Is It So?” that was hosted by Professor Julius Sumner Miller (here is a clip from the show). I remember in one episode he asked his panel of smartypants students why it was NOT possible to have a universal…
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What is consciousness?
A very interesting interview with the neuroscientist Marjorie Woollacott that explores the possibility that consciousness may not reside in the brain.
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Observing Stromlo
The Mt Stromlo observatory, near my childhood home, was a favorite biking destination. Despite destruction in 2003, new telescopes and equipment, like the ‘Sky Mapper’ and the Quantum Optical Ground Station, have been installed.
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Here is the world. Here are your tools.
With science, you can describe this vast world. With contemplation you can understand the science. With mysticism, you can experience the understanding. With deep ordinariness you can embody the experience.
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