WSDM

///////////five crucial aspects of wise reasoning: "Willingness to seek opportunities to resolve conflict; willingness to search for compromise; recognition of the limits of personal knowledge; awareness that more than one perspective on a problem can exist; and appreciation of the fact that things may get worse before they get better." ////////////"Awareness of one’s mortality focuses the mind to create and produce to avoid the terror that comes from confronting the mortality paradox." /////////////.....BIG THINK... ////////////.......Evolutionary biologists say there may be a greater motivating force behind our actions: Sex. Rather than avoid death directly, we create works of art and science to attract mating partners. //////////////......"A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but...a Schiele self-portrait, reveals what an anxiety state really feels like," said Kandel. "Both perspectives are necessary if we are to fully grasp the nature of the mind, yet they are rarely brought together." //////////////CONSC....First came simple reactions to our environment, the way a plant may respond to the sun, followed by the development of a central nervous system, allowing us to localize sensations in the body. Then, humans conceived of time as something more stable than it actually is, creating past and future from infinitesimal present moments. .......After creating a stable past and future, a quick extension of the concepts would lead anyone to recognize the inevitability of their own death, and the death of all future generations, etc. Humphrey does not consider this realization to be a terribly helpful adaptation. But for him, consciousness has the ability to escape itself through beauty and enjoyment. Artistic endeavors like poetry and film-making reach beyond the limits of an organic human life, giving us a sense of immortality and encouraging ourselves not to give up so that our genes might be passed on to future generations... ///////////////////////.....Open to evidence and sees no evidence for a god /////////////////.........Agnosticism has nothing to do with belief; agnosticism is a statement about *knowledge*. ////////////ACTING ///////////////.......Not having time or interest in a subject (golf/ god) makes one an APATHEIST - like most of us about something or other ///////////.....BROWSER,,,,Every creative journey begins with a problem. It starts with a feeling of frustration, the dull ache of not being able to find the answer. When we tell one another stories about creativity, we tend to leave out this phase of the creative process. .........It's often only at this point, after we've stopped searching for the answer, that the answer arrives. All of a sudden, the answer to the problem that seemed so daunting becomes incredibly obvious. This is the clichéd moment of insight that people know so well from stories of Archimedes in the bathtub and Isaac Newton under the apple tree. //////////////INSIGHT FROM RT HEMP OF BRAIN.....although it seemed that the insight answer appeared out of nowhere, the brain had been laying the groundwork for the breakthrough. The process began with an intense mental search as the left hemisphere started looking for answers in all the obvious places. //////////////........Beeman and Kounios went back, analysed the data and discovered the "neural correlate of insight": the anterior superior temporal gyrus (aSTG) /////////////////BEING GOOD ,,,GRAYLING.....quest is for the good and well lived life. .........The Choice of Hercules, where .... discuss the tension between the good life in the sybaritic sense of wine, women and song, and on the other hand the Good Life in the sense of the puritan virtues, my argument is that they are both important, and that a blend of the two is constitutive of a third and better version of the good life. ........EPICURIUS....ALL THINGS IN MODERATION /////////////////SOFT STATE OF JNDE /////////////AFFECTION AND ACHIEVEMENT DEFINE A GOOD LF ///////////////.....Clay Shirky, on boredom "Being bored is a kind of diagnostic for the gap between what you might be interested in and your current environment" //////////////////NMTA- AGITATE cf ADMINISTER ///////////////////EDUCATION cf INDOCTRINATION ////////////////PRO-CORPORATE cf PRO-PEOPLE ///////////////////////OPERATIVE FEDERALISM ///////////////////.....Steven Cave, on Easter "Easter is a mixed-up affair. Fluffy bunnies and confectionery compete for attention with the tale of a young man being tortured to death" //////////////// ......