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Meanwhile a lot of water went down the Rhine and I am still not sure if I should continue with this Blog.
Most of the time I was involved in defining consciousness. First I tried to invite people into my own forum, which is basically idle now. That call led to a long discussion here on [...]

Zen

With graceful movement
Draw the character for tea
Join the smallest with the largest
And understand
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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, [...]

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.

Qualia, presence and the mirror analogy of consciousness

Qualia are famous and much disputed features about consciousness. The discussion is well known and unresolved, yet I may have come on a unrefutable argument for the existence of qualia.
Qualia exist in the present only, they are complex and irrepeatable. They are also irretrievable. No memory is that good to enable anyone to exactly recall [...]

A Zen Story

This story has probably been told many times, in many ways. This version is maybe from Paulo Coelho. Zen Stories in my opinion do not have to be true. What matters is the message. This one has a very clear message about consciousness, so I cannot come up with a better editorial about consciousness and [...]