Zen

With graceful movement

Draw the character for tea

Join the smallest with the largest

And understand

Source

Quotes worth remembering

Feynman didn’t know blogs…

“We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea first, and so on. So there isn’t any place to publish, in a dignified manner,what you actually did in order to get to do the work.”

– Richard Feynman In his Nobel Lecture, 1966

Ed Subitzki part 2

Are we getting the point?

Life is a bit like a movie in which we are at the same time observers and actors – with the possibility that we miss the whole point of it.

Blessed Self-humor

“Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, because they shall never cease to be amused.”

Thanks to Joachim Verhagen

Feynman on uncertainty

This is part of an interview

I think this shows a great approach to science and it should be applied to the science of consciousness as well.

CNEZ-watch

This could be fun, I searched nba.com for consciousness. This came up:

• as the league gained a foothold in the public consciousness,
• NBA players are more style-conscious than
• suffered a Grade 3 concussion (temporary loss of consciousness)
• Forrest Gump tapped into our society’s collective consciousness a few years ago
• the integration of the conscious and subconscious reflex functions in the brain clearly improves coordination
• They definitely made a conscious effort to take some things away from him
• how much is it a conscious thing for you guys to step up and say to each other
• we talked about trying to be a little bit more conscious about passing the ball

this could go on page after page and obvious is: consciousness is an issue in the society, in professional sport. It seems to make a difference! Also the main understanding that is being used is not an individual notion of consciousness but a collective one. Naturally we might say, because Bball is a team sport, but for consciousness research collective consciousness is in no way a no-brainer yet. If collective consciousness could become a major topic I would appreciate.

Conciousness and mind

What is the difference between consciousness and the mind?

Consciousness is always in the present and mind is never in the present.

Eckhart Tolle and Oprah Winfrey on consciousness

Do amoebas sleep?

Or do they just rest?

We tend to think every living being sleeps because we do, but that is not so self-evident on second sight. Apparently dolphins do not sleep, because they need to breathe. Reportedly they manage by resting part of their brain for a while, then switch.

Does consciousness require rest or does just thinking and other mental activity cause us to need sleep?

Consciousness in an amoeba, if we grant consciousness to them would not neccessarily require energy and thus require switching it off after some time.

There are rumors that politicians also do not sleep: they are in a continous state of dozing, which cannot be called sleep…

Other (sub)species that may not sleep: mothers and one-day-flies ( this maybe funny only for Germans )