6/26/24
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Home ______ Enlightenment Gene? As a meme, the culture for enlightenment is perpetuated through generations. As a gene, the biological capac...
4/11/10
Down The Rabbit Hole: Self-Transcendence, Brain Cancer, NDEs, & Consciousness
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Raise the index finger on your right hand. There, that was easy, wasn't it? You just told the finger to lift and it did. Now I have some...
3/1/10
Andy Clark & Extended Mind
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Some of his points: As our use of technology increases, we are hard put to say the world stops there and the person begins here.
Chaos Theory and Avalanches: Your Brain Is Like A Pile of Sand
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So you think your thoughts, you say? Well, if you do, what will you think thirty seconds from now? One minute from now? One hour? Where is ...
2/5/09
Douglas Hofstadter:What Do We Mean When We Say "I"?
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What Do We Mean When We Say "I"? Douglas Hofstadter has a vivid recollection of a pig's head on a table in a market. As a tee...
1/16/06
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem, Consciousness, & Linguistic Place Holders*
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Born in Czechoslovakia, in 1931 Kurt Gödel demonstrated that some propositions could not be mathematically proven true or false using the ru...
1/6/06
Of Selves and Cars
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In the 1 January 2006 article below, John Allen Paulos asserts that a major shift in society and culture would occur once the public widely ...
1/1/06
The Self Is A Conceptual Chimera
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John Allen Paulos says this about the self: "Doubt that a supernatural being exists is banal, but the more radical doubt that we exist,...
11/9/05
Non-Duality’s No-Self and Antonio Damasio
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Non-Duality’s No-Self and Antonio Damasio Non-Duality is the term for a view of the world as not two, but one—not the dua...
7/22/05
David Chalmers’ Hard Problem of Consciousness
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Although called the father of modern philosophy, René Descartes became challenged in the last century for the split he created between body ...
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