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///////////////////////////////It is on its own as a “replicator,” with its own unique status as a unit of Darwinian selection. Genes, but no other units in life’s hierarchy, make exact copies of themselves in a pool of such copies. It therefore makes a long-term difference which genes are good at surviving and which ones bad. You cannot say the same of individual organisms (they die after passing on their genes and never make copies of themselves). Nor does it apply to groups or species or ecosystems. None make copies of themselves. None are replicators. Genes have that unique status.
/////////////////////////////////////........Evolution, then, results from the differential survival of genes in gene pools. “Good” genes become numerous at the expense of “bad.” BRWSR
//////////////////////////////////////Bill Murray, on fame
"The only time [fame] really matters is in the emergency room with your kids"
///////////////////////////////////////It took some 10 million years for Earth to recover from the greatest mass extinction of all time, latest research has revealed.
Life was nearly wiped out 250 million years ago, with only 10 per cent of plants and animals surviving. It is currently much debated how life recovered from this cataclysm, whether quickly or slowly.
Recent evidence for a rapid bounce-back is evaluated in a new review article by Dr Zhong-Qiang Chen, from the China University of Geosciences in Wuhan, and Professor Michael Benton from the University of Bristol. They find that recovery from the crisis lasted some 10 million years, as explained today [27 May] in Nature Geoscience.
There were apparently two reasons for the delay, the sheer intensity of the crisis, and continuing grim conditions on Earth after the first wave of extinction.
The end-Permian crisis, by far the most dramatic biological crisis to affect life on Earth, was triggered by a number of physical environmental shocks - global warming, acid rain, ocean acidification and ocean anoxia. These were enough to kill off 90 per cent of living things on land and in the sea.
/////////////////////////////////LOVE AND HEALTH-
Endorphins are the key. According to the National Institute of Health, love triggers the hormone oxytocin which makes us feel good. It also lowers the levels of stress chemicals in our system. Physical contact like cuddles, hugs and kisses trigger the production of oxytocin,” said Jodi Prohofsky, Ph.D., L.M.F.T
////////////////////////////////////So you can become aware of a thought, but you are not independent to that thought
////////////////////////////////////how the singularity of the self emerges from the cacophony of mind and the mess of social life
////////////////////////////////the self – this entity at the center of our personal universe – is actually just a story, a “constructed narrative.”
/////////////////////////////////Nietzsche’s nihilism and Woolf’s depression could have been reflections of their intuitive understanding that the richness of experience must be made up of a multitude of hidden processes and that the core self must be an illusion – and maybe that upset them.
/////////////////////////////////B HOOD- Why do we bother telling a story about ourselves?
HOOD: For the same reason that our brains create a highly abstracted version of the world around us. It is bad enough that our brain is metabolically hogging most of our energy requirements, but it does this to reduce the workload to act. That’s the original reason why the brain evolved in the first place – to plan and control movements and keep track of the environment. It’s why living creatures that do not act or navigate around their environments do not have brains. So the brain generates maps and models on which to base current and future behaviors. Now the value of a map or a model is the extent to which it provides the most relevant useful information without overburdening you with too much detail.
///////////////////////////////////............Whether it is the “I” of consciousness or the “me” of personal identity, both are summaries of the complex information that feeds into our consciousness. The self is an efficient way of having experience and interacting with the world. For example, imagine you ask me whether I would prefer vanilla or chocolate ice cream? I know I would like chocolate ice cream. Don’t ask me why, I just know. When I answer with chocolate, I have the seemingly obvious experience that my self made the decision. However, when you think about it, my decision covers a vast multitude of hidden processes, past experiences and cultural influences that would take too long to consider individually. Each one of them fed into that decision.
///////////////////////////////////that the brain creates both the mind and the experience of mind. So you can become aware of a thought, but you are not independent to that thought
/////////////////////////////////..........self exists independently to its parts, which it doesn’t. In the book, I argue that because we have evolved as social animals, those around us construct a large part of our mental life that we experience as our self.
///////////////////////////////////// "I" is the physical locus from which we experience (which I would call the being) and the "me" is what the Zen literature would call the ego (a story about who we are based on interpretations from the remembered past experience, including beliefs adopted in the past).
//////////////////////////////...........Deep meditation, of course, returns you to where you are not compulsively telling stories - that is, the 'I' is simply experiencing from it's locus. Patanjali, in yoga, called this 'the ground of being' and makes it clear that all ideas about self, god, etc must be discarded to arrive at the being.
/////////////////////////////...........our high exceptionally degree of self-awareness is a feature that has been thrust upon us by natural selection. An extension of the navigational capability commonly required by motile organisms In the past, the only tool available to deal with the self-awareness and closely related "free will" issues was introspection
/////////////////////////////////.........boundary separating the self from its processes and experiences does not exist except in our minds.
///////////////////////////////NJB CRSS OVER 1981
NABC SOLN 1994
/////////////////////////////////////Early Neolithic sedentary villagers started cultivating wild cereals in the Near East 11,500 y ago [Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA)]. Recent discoveries indicated that Cyprus was frequented by Late PPNA people, but the earliest evidence until now for both the use of cereals and Neolithic villages on the island dates to 10,400 y ago.
//////////////////////////////////////LV AND MATING IS SUBCORTICAL DRIVE
////////////////////////TV/SX IN THE STONE AGE
//////////////////////////////PEAK CAR-People under the age of 30 are waiting longer to get their driver's licenses and buying fewer cars. 88 percent prefer walkable downtowns to traffic-choked freeways. Welcome to the post-automobile age.
////////////////////////////modern humans may have mated with "at least two groups" of ancient humans: Neanderthals and Denisovans.
////////////Mamihlapinatapei (Yagan, an indigenous language of Tierra del Fuego): The wordless yet meaningful look shared by two people who desire to initiate something, but are both reluctant to start.
//////////////////////////Yuanfen (Chinese): A relationship by fate or destiny
////////////////////////////////Cafuné (Brazilian Portuguese): The act of tenderly running your fingers through someone's hair.
//////////////////////////////Retrouvailles (French): The happiness of meeting again after a long time.
/////////////////////////////Ilunga (Bantu): A person who is willing to forgive abuse the first time; tolerate it the second time, but never a third time.
///////////////////////////La Douleur Exquise (French): The heart-wrenching pain of wanting someone you can’t have.
/////////////////////////////////Ya’aburnee (Arabic): “You bury me.” It’s a declaration of one’s hope that they’ll die before another person, because of how difficult it would be to live without them.
///////////////////////////Forelsket: (Norwegian): The euphoria you experience when you’re first falling in love.
//////////////////////////////Saudade (Portuguese): The feeling of longing for someone that you love and is lost
ANJUS
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Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so
slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often
the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
Virginia Woolf
//////////////////////////“Beauty is not caused. It is.” - Emily Dickinson
///////////////////////All great men have a passion for simplification.” Narayanan went on: “You have simplified the nature of human conflict as between violence and non-violence, truth and untruth, right and wrong...” And then he put the question: “But in life is not the conflict between one right and another right or between one truth and another truth?”
//////////////////////////OM TAT SAT - THAT WHICH IS
//////////////////////////////NYC's White Roof Project aims to paint every roof in the world white by 2030.
////////////////////////////////Crowds are forming along San Francisco's waterfront, while San Francisco Bay is crowded with pleasure boats, tug boats and other vessels as the city celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge. 1937-2012
/////////////////////////////Those with the most positive outlook live longest, says U.S. study
Scientists who studied 243 centenarians found that, far from being world-weary, most were cheerful and sociable. The positive personality traits may in part be genetically based, the researchers believe.
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