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////////////////////Elderly couples 'can stay together in care'Telegraph.co.uk - 2 Mar 2008By Rosa Prince, Political Correspondent Elderly married couples will be able to stay together when they go into residential care under plans announced yesterday.
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/////////////////Bhagavad Gita Selection Number 257, for Wednesday, March 5, 2008From Chapter XI: The Yoga of the Vision of the Cosmic FormXI.37. KASMAACHCHA TE NA NAMERAN MAHAATMAN GAREEYASE BRAHMANO'PYAADIKARTRE; ANANTA DEVESHA JAGANNIVAASA TWAMAKSHARAM SADASATTATPARAM YAT. (Arjuna speaking to Krishna)And why should they not, O great soul, bow to Thee who art greater (than all else), the primal cause even of (Brahma) the creator, O Infinite Being! O Lord of the gods! O abode of the universe! Thou art the imperishable, the Being, the non-being and That which is the supreme (that which is beyond the Being and non-being). COMMENTARY: The Lord is Mahatma. He is greater than all else. He is the imperishable, so He is the proper object of worship, love and delight.
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/////////////////............Finally, there is the issue of the swarm metaphor that both Alda and Rushkoff, in different ways, evoke. This metaphor is both appealing and apt, and it is related to the notion of a "super-organism" mentioned in my original Edge interview. Like other investigators, Fowler and I have no doubt that human societies do, at least at times, evince swarm-like properties. However, as Alda suggests, a swarm of ants or bees or birds or fish might actually be closer to the synchronous beating of heart cells than to the behavior of people. A riot is a kind of human swarm. But the more sustained social networks in which we are all embedded (i.e., the kind of social organization that is both less ephemeral than a riot and more complex in terms of the ties between the actors) exhibits properties that hives and swarms do not; and the reason for this is that humans are conscious of their social network embeddedness (and conscious of much else too). So, the kind of emergent properties seen in ant hills or bee hives might actually better resemble those seen in networks of inanimate objects (such as networks of power stations or computers) or networks of non-sentient items (like heart cells) than they resemble networks of humans. Nevertheless, some of the phenomena seen in human societies (like riots, and also like markets) might indeed be just like swarms.
Hence, in some aspects of our lives, no doubt, we may indeed resemble ants, simply following the person in front of us. And this in turn does raise the concerning possible link to an individuality-crushing, soul-effacing "tyranny of the masses" that Rushkoff notes. Of course, even here, we should not set up false dichotomies: for people may have both an individual and a collective existence, be both disconnected and connected. Since it is hard to believe that we are connected for no reason, I myself of am of the view that social networks, and our embeddedness in them, serve a valuable and — I will go out on a limb — good purpose.
/////////////////////Animal behaviorist Temple Grandin believes extraordinary animals think much like autistic geniuses. Now, some neuroscientists say it simply isn't true.http://cl.exct.net/?ju=fe3715777660077f741473&ls=fdf51573746004747d127877&m=ff3310707762&l=fef61c7471640d&s=fe2615717c670774721775&jb=ffcf14&t=
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