PLATINUM FROM PLATA, SPNSH FOR SILVER

SN MEN IN BLACK 2012


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SOCIALISED CNTRY MORE TAX MORE DEBT

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SN ATTNBRGH FRGN CRRSPNDNT 1940

//////////////////The thrill spectacle of the year

/////////////that neurochemical processes produce subjective experiences.



///////////// Where (and how) did consciousness exist before there was matter? We are left wondering



////////////strongest argument for brain causing mind, rather than vice versa - some types of brain damage can cause radical changes in the victim's personality



/////////////If mind creates brain, the physical damage should have no impact on personality, but is clearly does. Take the famous case of Phineas Gage



////////////////// for the sake of argument, if there was some metaphysical collective source of consciousness then its individual physical expression might be the product of the brain's biological processes



////////////////////neuroimaging studies of race processing. This network overlaps with the circuits involved in decision-making and emotion regulation, and includes the amygdala, fusiform face area (FFA), anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC).



///////////////////Sam Harris also quotes brain MRI imaging studies to show that we are implicitly racists no matter what we might claim about 'not having a racist bone in our body



////////////////Race is a social construct but as such is also a societal reality.


/////////////////the exceptional interpersonal understanding we humans show is by and large a product of our emotional responsiveness.



////////////////// if the monkey’s brain was directly mirroring the actions it observed. This “neural resonance,” which was later also demonstrated in humans, suggested the existence of a special type of "mirror" neurons that help us understand other people’s actions.



////////////////vegan progressive, so maybe there's a correlation there about empathy



///////////////////SCIAM TIDBITS


//////////////////EVO OF SORRY-as long as the apology matches the social error, the relationship can be saved—



/////////////////I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark." HAWKING


/////////////////////Quantum mechanical fluctuations can produce the cosmos. If you would just, in this room, just twist time and space the right way, you might create an entirely new universe. It's not clear you could get into that universe, but you would create it.


/////////////////The laws of physics, pure and simple, sparked universal creation.


///////////////////// According to UN estimates, cities are growing by over 60 million people per year -- or over one million people per week.



//////////////////PINA BAUSCH, GRMN DANCE



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999 75 YRS ON LNDN MET - RESPCT DIVRSTY

///////////////////////////

AHD CASE HNT

//////////////There are three taints: the taint of sensual desire, the taint of being and the taint of ignorance.

3 ATTCHMNTS


//////////////Mind uploading” is an informal term that refers to transferring the mental contents from a human brain into a different substrate, such as a digital, analog, or quantum computer. It’s also known as “whole brain emulation” and “substrate-independent minds.”
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////////////////That is that a computer that uploads your mind may have your memories and thoughts, but not your consciousness. If your consciousness doesn’t continue, then you are dead. As Descartes said “I think therefore I am”.


////////////////Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs appear to be associated with reduced risk of recurrent cardiovascular events in men and women, but do not appear to be associated with reduced all-cause mortality or stroke in women, according to a new report.



/////////////lthough gastric bypass surgery reverses Type 2 diabetes in a large percentage of obese patients, the disease recurs in about 21 percent of them within three to five years.



////////////////

CR FUEL MTR CRSS 2

//////////////EVOLN OF COOPERN=Humans are especially helpful because of the mechanism of indirect reciprocity, which is based on reputation and leads us to help those who help others.


/////////////Participants in the weight control survey walked for at least 60 minutes daily — or burned the same calories with other activities — so aim for 60 to 90 minutes of physical activity every day.



////////////////WORKING POOR


////////////////

BRNRD SHW

//////

Bernard Shaw, on cricket

The English, not being a spiritual people, invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity

//////////The aging of beings in the various orders of beings, their old age, brokenness of teeth, grayness of hair, wrinkling of skin, decline of life, weakness of faculties — this is called aging. The passing of beings out of the various orders of beings, their passing away, dissolution, disappearance, dying, completion of time, dissolution of the aggregates, laying down of the body — this is called death. So this aging and this death are what is called aging and death. -- MN 9 translated by Bhikkhus Nanamoli and Bodhi

//////////////////////Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity ~ TS Eliot

/////////////////

SHANAI - COPERNICAN PRINCIPLE

///////////// that a set of people who have no interest in food, might be more prone to drug addiction."


/////////////EARNESTNESS OF BEING IMPORTANT


//////////RD BK - BARROW -BOOK OF UNIVERSES



//////////////blood-brain barrier -- the filter that governs what can and cannot come into contact with the mammalian brain -- is a marvel of nature. It effectively separates circulating blood from the fluid that bathes the brain, and it keeps out bacteria, viruses and other agents that could damage it.


//////////////////KANTS EVOLUTIONARY COSMOS


/////////////////DE SITTERS ACCELERATING UNIVERSE


//////////////////FRIEDMANNS EXPANDING AND CONTRACTING UNIVERSES


////////////////////LEMAITRE , EDDINGTON EXPANDING, CONTR UNIVERSES


////////////////fractal BRONCHIOLES


/////////////DIRACS UNIVERSE- GRAVITY DECAYS


///////////////GOTTS SELF CREATING UNIVERSES


//////////////CASE NAO

UMBRTO ECO

Umberto Eco, on intellectuals

 "If by intellectual you mean somebody who works only with his head and not with his hands, then the bank clerk is an intellectual and Michelangelo is not"


///////////////////

BDDHA-we suffer because we are attached

/////////////shamatha (“calm abiding”), a series of methods for enhancing one’s attention, such as mindfulness of breathing


/////////////When we’re stressed, cytokines trigger inflammation throughout the body, which can cause serious problems if unchecked. In a brain-and-body feedback loop, if the central nervous system detects the presence of cytokines, it releases the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, which tells cells in the spleen and other organs to dial back the immune response.


///////////research team reported that at the end of the retreat, the first group had telomerase levels that were 30 percent higher than those in the control group



//////////////members of the retreat group consistently improved in a test measuring impulse control, which also contributed to their overall sense of psychological well-being



/////////////////participants were more moved by certain film scenes of suffering they were shown, and less likely to recoil from them than members of the control group. As the retreat progressed, she says, the meditators also showed greater fluidity in their emotional responses.



//////////////// that most people are happier and less anxious from their mid-50s onward.


////////////////TM-striking stress-reducing changes, such as lowered heart rate and a slower rate of oxygen consumption, which he dubbed the “relaxation response.


////////////////MRI scans showed they had a thicker layer of tissue in the prefrontal cortex, a region thought to help integrate emotional and cognitive processe


//////////////////Breathing in I know that I am breathing in.
Breathing out I know that I am breathing out.”



/////////////// This food is a gift of the whole universe,the earth, the sky and much mindful work.
May we eat in mindfulness so as to be worthy of it.
May we transform our unskillful states of mind and learn to eat in moderation.
May we take only foods that nourish us and prevent illness.
May we accept this food to realize the path of understanding and love.


//////////////Before starting the car
I know where I am going.
The car and I are one,
if the car goes fast, I go fast.



/////////////////Waking up this morning I smile
knowing there are 24 brand new hours before me.
I vow to live fully in each moment,
and look at beings with eyes of compassion.



//////////////Glasgow University say that men who drink tea could have a higher risk of prostate cancer than men who don’t drink tea.



//////////////////Yours in distress
Alan Turing


///////////////Scientists have discovered that North African people have been making yogurt for more than 7,000 years, thanks to an analysis of pottery shards which was published in the journal Nature



////////////////ust because the media and our own brains have a negative bias doesn't mean we are helpless to do anything about it.



///////////////Mathematicians know their subject is beautiful,” says Ian Stewart of the University of Warwick.


//////////////seeing now is a transition from the historically slow spread of Buddhism through physical geographic dispersal, to more immediate availability and consumption of ideas through the virtual and geographic independent tools of social networking



/////////////////women require reading glasses or bifocal lenses earlier than men. According to a recent article, the gender difference is caused by factors other than focusing ability, such as arm length or preferred reading distance, which should be considered when prescribing readers or bifocals.


//////////////CLASSICAL MUSIC CONNECTS BETN INSTINCT AND INTELLECT


////////////////SYMPHONY, SONATA, CONCERTO



////////////////BEETHOVEN FROM ANGST TO JOY


//////////////

DAILY KMN BTTLES

/////////////////////////SN TV- THE STORY OF OTA BENGA



//////////////////////////JUST TOO DIFFERENT ?


////////////////////////////

IMPOSSIBLE LONGING- CHQRS NR MISSES

ROAD LESS TRAVELLED- ROAD NOT TAKEN


/////////////Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?"
– Confucius


///////////////GREAT CONTRACTION OR GREAT DEPRESSION?



////////////////Adam Mars-Jones on writers

"All writers overrate the impact of writing, or else they would choose another line of work"


///////////////NS-Daniel Dennett's designation as "the best idea that anyone ever had.


///////////////theory of natural selection applies most readily to genes because they have the right stuff to drive selection, namely making high-fidelity copies of themselves


//////////////Nepotistic altruism in humans consists of feelings of warmth, solidarity, and tolerance toward those who are likely to be one's kin.


////////////////////CIRCUMSTANCES EVOKE THE DEEPEST SYMPATHY


///////////////Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” ~ Dalai Lama



////////////////“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” ~ Dalai Lama


//////////////As soon as we wish to be happier, we are no longer happy.” ~ Walter Landor


//////////////“There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh


///////////////Realize that this very body, with its aches and it pleasures… is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.” ~Pema Chodron



///////////////When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal.” ~ Pema Chodron



////////////////Recommendations make life a lot easier



///////////////////INFLUENCING EVENTS IF NEEDED



///////////////////sciam-that foreign-born respondents were generally more likely to sleep the recommended healthy six to eight hours each night as compared with native-born Americans.


/////////////LF SUCKS, DTH HAPPENS


/////////////////A feel-good brain chemical called dopamine has been linked to everything from laziness and creativity to impulsivity and a tendency to partake in one-night stands. Now, we can add sleep regulation to that list.


///////////////AGITATOR TO NEGOTIATOR



////////////////////SLEEPINESS-WAKEFULNESS- DOPAMINE VS MELATONIN

When dopamine latches onto its receptor in a special part of the brain, it seems to signal the body to "wake up" by turning down levels of the sleepiness hormone melatonin, the researchers found.


//////////////////BANK NOTES MADE FROM COTTON AND LINEN


///////////////SMUG 81- I HVE MADE IT


/////////////BALTIMORE LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF AGING



//////////////////////////A PNIS A LA HAPPINESS



////////////////////

BAGGAGE OF HISTORY

//////////////

BAGGAGE OF HISTORY

//////////////SN SQUARED 2008


/////////////////

JCELAND cf TOMALIA QEACE SPECTRUM

//////////////..self-control is strongly associated with what we label success: higher self-esteem, better interpersonal skills, better emotional responses and, perhaps surprisingly, few drawbacks at even very high levels of self-control (Tangney et al., 2004)



//////////////

APPRCHNG DTH

///////Good health is simply the slowest way a human being can die." - author unknown


//////////The problem with positive fantasies is that they allow us to anticipate success in the here and now. However they don't alert us to the problems we are likely to face along the way and can leave us with less motivation—after all it feels like we've already reached our goal.


//////////.fantasies about an idealized future may indeed lead to poor decisions. Such fantasies create a preference for information about pros rather than cons, particularly when people are not yet serious about pursuing the realization of the future." (Kappes & Oettingen, 2012


////////////If you dream it and believe it, it becomes reality. [That philosophy] contributes to the economic bubble that we just saw explode in enormous ways" (Cohen, 2009)


///////////////

GENE X CULTR INTERACTION

//////////CO SPEECH GESTURE


//////////NIONSYNDROMIC DEAFNESS- AD, ar


/////////125 GENES IDENTIFIED FOR NON SYNDROMIC DEAFNESS


/////////////DEAF DEAF MARRG


//////////////ASL, BSL, ISL, VILLAGE SIGN LANGUAGES


///////////////GXC - SIGN LANGG DEVELOPED AND SUSTAINED IN A CLOSE COMMUNITY



////////////////SLGS GSCIST VS NILITRY GSCIST



///////////////RED RAIN IN KRALA- CRYTOZOOLOGY?


////////////////

FTHRS DAY- DINOSNORE

////////////END OF TIME-DG=that time itself could cease to be in billions of years - and everything will grind to a halt - has been proposed by Professor José Senovilla, Marc Mars and Raül Vera of the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, and University of Salamanca, Spain. The corollary to this radical end to time itself is an alternative explanation for "dark energy" - the mysterious antigravitational force that has been suggested to explain a cosmic phenomenon that has baffled scientists.


/////////////Senovilla proposes that we have been fooled into thinking the expansion of the universe is accelerating, when in reality, time itself is slowing down



//////////////theory bases it’s idea on one particular variant of superstring theory, in which our universe is confined to the surface of a membrane, or brane, floating in a higher-dimensional space, known as the "bulk". In billions of years, time would cease to be time altogether.


/////////////////"Then everything will be frozen, like a snapshot of one instant, forever," Senovilla told New Scientist magazine. "Our planet will be long gone by then."


//////////////// Gary Gibbons, a cosmologist at Cambridge University, says the concept has merit. "We believe that time emerged during the Big Bang, and if time can emerge, it can also disappear - that's just the reverse effect."


///////////////////

RCIP - HUGH SQRRL

////////////////////

WANTING DOPAMINE VS LIKING OPIOIDS

WANTING DOPAMINE VS LIKING OPIOIDS



///////////dopamine induced loop – With the internet, twitter, and texting we now have almost instant gratification of our desire to seek


//////////////Dopamine Makes You Addicted To Seeking Information


/////////////////SN DBL JEOPRDY 1999



////////////////

INFORMATION IS FOOD

/////////HUMNAS-SMALL STOMACH, LARGE BRAIN


//////////EXPENSIVE TISSUE HYPOTHESIS



///////////TRADE GUT FOR BRAIN


/////////////HG OF INFO TO FARMERS OF INFO


/////////////Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos Aren't


///////////////Black Holes are Everywhere



////////////////VK 6TH RCHST ECNMY IN WRLD


///////////////SCIAM-In the 1620’s the Englishman Francis Godwin wrote The Man in the Moone, or, a Discourse of a Voyage Thither, prefacing wryly that while it was simply an entertaining fancy, it had once been a fancy that the Earth was spherical.


//////////////// human populations in the past 100,000 years have adapted to a wide array of environments, devising new cultures that match human action to a variety of landscapes.


//////////////////Cultures must be willing and able to accommodate new conditions by reshaping traditions, religious beliefs, and such technicalities as rules regarding marriage and inheritance. In ancient Polynesia, for example, only a chief’s first son inherited anything, prompting other sons to disperse and explore the ocean for more land where they could built their own fortunes. This was a cultural adaptation that fit human action to the conditions of Oceania.



//////////////Even early off-Earth populations will have to be large—small populations are particularly susceptible to single catastrophes, disease in particular—won’t \be in the billions we have on Earth.



///////////////Human survival to date has been a result of our species’ ability to rapidly adapt our cultural practices according to local conditions.



///////////////we normally adapt more culturally than biologically NO SPECIATION IN HUMANS IN 150 K YRS


/////////////Dopamine was “discovered” in 1958 by Arvid Carlsson and Nils-Ake Hillarp at the National Heart Institute of Sweden. Dopamine is created in various parts of the brain and is critical in all sorts of brain functions, including thinking, moving, sleeping, mood, attention, and motivation, seeking and reward.



///////////////////dopamine causes seeking behavior. Dopamine causes us to want, desire, seek out, and search. It increases our general level of arousal and our goal-directed behavior. (From an evolutionary stand-point this is critical. The dopamine seeking system keeps us motivated to move through our world, learn, and survive


/////////////// the “wanting” (dopamine) and the “liking” (opoid) are complementary. The wanting system propels us to action and the liking system makes us feel satisfied and therefore pause our seeking


//////////////

MX HUNGER 1800- OATMEAL

//////////////////THNK FAST, DTH LAST


////////////////The metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents
Paul Zimmet



/////////////RDKLL PENANCE CHRTY


/////////////There are these four kinds of clinging: clinging to sensual pleasures, clinging to views, clinging to rituals and observances, and clinging to a doctrine of self. -- MN 9 translated by Bhikkhus Nanamoli and Bodhi



//////////////////"clinging" is "upadana" and it actually makes reference to fuel -- another form of nutriment, or food -- so what we have here is the fuel of views, of rituals and observances, and of belief in the self, as well as the fuel of "sensual pleasures" (though I do not think that what's meant there is limited to sensuality, but is, again, about everything sankhara-satisfying that comes in through the senses).



////////////////The belief that the world is just enables the individual to confront his physical and social environment as though they were stable and orderly. Without such a belief it would be difficult for the individual to commit himself to the pursuit of long-range goals or even to the socially regulated behavior of day-to-day life." (Lerner & Miller, 1978)



////////////////

SIP LTTL GREY SQRRL HUGHNDN MNR SLF RDKLL

//////////////////the evening is "down-time," used to relax, watch television, and unwind from the stresses of the day. Others view this as a time to multi-task and catch up on household chores, bills, homework, and other responsibilities


/////////////PM FR JINDE PRSDNT- 76- SM AGE AS FTHR


////////////////

SIP LTTL GREY SQRRL HUGHNDN MNR SLF RDKLL

//////////////////

PRNTS ALTING BETN LK TN AND PNIHTI

/////////////////ROMAN EMPIRE- ADMIN WTH HI QLTY SUBORDINATES, FIGURING IT OUT THEMSELVES, KEEPS MNY ROLLING IN, ROMANISATION


//////////////////MANTELL 1824- 1ST DINO FOSSIL FOUND


/////////////////DLY GLXY-A significantly higher amount of cytosine methylation in the newborn than in the centenarian: 80.5% of all cytosine nucleotides, compared with 73%, according to researchers at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute in Barcelona, Spain. The most recent research suggests that changes in DNA methylation patterns as a person gets older may contribute to human diseases for which risk increases with age, including cancer. The researchers examined two extreme cases: A newborn male baby and a man aged 103 years.


//////////////////////PILTDOWN MAN HOAX 1912


////////////////////////DEEP PSYCHOLOGICAL CONDITIONING


////////////////////////DEEPCARE AND ANGER


///////////////////////////////EMPATHY COMPASSION GRATITUDE MINDFULNESS CONCENTRATION



///////////////////////////HOME KITCHEN DOMESTICITY  cf HELLHOLE CAFE OF VAN GOGH


///////////////////////////////CODEPENDENT RELNSHIP


/////////////////////////////////DYSFNAL GRP DYNAMICS



///////////////////////////////THINGS HERE HAVE CHANGED IN WALTONS MOUNTAIN



///////////////////////////////WE ALL WILL TURN INTO OUR PARENTS


//////////////////////////////////

EVOLN OF MORLTY

Our righteous minds made it possible for human beings,” Haidt argues, “to produce large cooperative groups, tribes, and nations without the glue of kinship. But at the same time, our righteous minds guarantee that our cooperative groups will always be cursed by moralistic strife.” Thus, he shows, morality binds us together into cohesive groups but blinds us to the ideas and motives of those in other groups.


/////////////////led to the moral hive mind was a result of “shared intentionality,” which is “the ability to share mental representations of tasks that two or more of [our ancestors] were pursuing together. For example, while foraging, one person pulls down a branch while the other plucks the fruit, and they both share the meal.


///////////////SCIAM


//////////////////////convinced that life was a mixed bag and that things have improved and degraded


///////////////////CONNECTOME BRAIN -Hebb’s rule to: “Cells that fire together, wire together.


/////////////SCIAM- brain and mind are separate entities. The human brain is just a computer made of biological hardware. The mind system is a software system being processed by the cortex. That software is stored as weights on the neurons, not somehow embedded in the brain, or in the connectome designs. So neither the brain nor the connectome is “you”. You are the sum of information stored in memory (the learned software system). The Home sapiens version of the software system that develops over someone’s lifespan is what psychologists study. When you are born you have a brain, but no mind, because only a trivial amount of learned information has been accumulated, and it takes years to make a person.



//////////////The problem with seeing it as a "Software" vs. "Hardware" is this: At some level, all software is stored by a physical change in hardware.

Whether that's transistors set to a particular position or the specific pattern of grooves in a DVD, "software" is not physically, intrinsically independent of hardware like you say it is. Software must change the hardware in order to store and process information.


/////////////primitive fish named Acanthodes bronni was the common ancestor of all jawed vertebrates on Earth – including mankind, according to new research.



/////////////////

Venkatesh Rao, on technology

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from nature"

/////////////

ADT ALRM TO BE PUT ON

///////////////////// University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in Hamburg, Germany, report evidence from two experiments which suggest that one key to aging well might involve learning to let go of regrets about missed opportunities.



////////////////////REGRET CENTRE- VENTRAL STRIATUM


///////////////////Stroke risk increased by sleeping less than six hours a night; simple eye test could detect


//////////////////////

PRNNL WRS BRGHT DN THE RMN EMPR

/////////////////////////Junk Food More Appealing When You're Sleepy: Study


/////////////////////////Too Little Sleep Tied to Stroke Risk


//////////////////////////Parents of a child with acute RVGE presenting to primary care experience worry, distress anddisruptions to daily life as a result of the child's illness. Prevention of this disease throughprophylactic vaccination will improve the daily lives of parents and children.


//////////////////////////////Adding hand hygiene instruction to existing hand hygiene practices improved attendance atpublic elementary schools during the flu season. Standardized and brief repetitive instructionin hand hygiene holds potential to significantly reduce absenteeism.


/////////////////////////////SN PNN CPTL OF CMBDIA

////////////////////////////////Children Living In Towns More Likely To Have Food Allergies Than Those Living In The Country



////////////////////////////////

DTR AT OSMNGTN BY SCHL TRP

////////////////////Pat Shipman recounts in American Scientist, they tended to be associated with the remains of ancestral dogs. This shows first that dog domestication dates back a very long way, to some 45,000 years ago, and that making an alliance with Canis lupus served Homo sapiens very well



//////////////////////Life begins again in your 60s as thoughts of death make people value their time more, Martin Amis has claimed.



/////////////////////Amis said be believed youth ends in a person's mid-40s, followed by a period of melancholy in their 50s.

 However, by a person's 60s, they are beyond the despair of a midlife crisis and begin to appreciate life more, he claimed.



//////////////////////////“Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I try to send it back. But sometimes I'm too afraid to and have to eat it anyway.”
 ― Martin Amis, Other People



////////////////////////////And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.”
 ― Martin Amis, London Fields



/////////////////////////////////Oh Christ, the exhaustion of not knowing anything. It's so tiring and hard on the nerves. It really takes it out of you, not knowing anything. You're given comedy and miss all the jokes. Every hour you get weaker. Sometimes, as I sit alone in my flat in London and stare at the window, I think how dismal it is, how heavy, to watch the rain and not know why it falls.”
 ― Martin Amis, Money: A Suicide Note



/////////////////////////////////Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.”
 ― Martin Amis, House of Meetings



//////////////////////////////////When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable”
 ― Martin Amis, Other People




///////////////////////////////////Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black. We can't tell if it will survive us. But we can be sure that it's the last thing to go.”
 ― Martin Amis,


/////////////////////////////////////The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.”
 ― Martin Amis



////////////////////////////////What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. A compulsive tendency to overtip. An uxoriousness that their wives deservedly inspired. More than that, they both lived their lives 'beautifully'--not in any Jamesian sense (where, besides, ferocious solvency would have been a prerequisite), but in the droll fortitude of their perseverance. They got the work done, with style.”
 ― Martin Amis, Experience: A Memoir


////////////////////////////////“We all have names we don't know about.”
 ― Martin Amis



//////////////////////////////////He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.”
 ― Martin Amis



///////////////////////////////He was in a terrible state- that of consciousness.”
 ― Martin Amis



///////////////////////////////////It was the tiredness of time lived, with its days and days. It was the tiredness of gravity- gravity, which wants you down in the center of the earth.”
 ― Martin Amis



///////////////////////////////Your purpose when driving is not to arrive at your destination safely or quickly. Your purpose when driving is...to impress your personality on the road.”
 ― Martin Amis




////////////////////////////////////Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life”
 ― Martin Amis, Essays



////////////////////////////////Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.
AMIS


//////////////////////////////Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
AMIS


//////////////////////////////
It used to be said that by a certain age a man had the face that he deserved. Nowadays, he has the face he can afford.

AMIS ON CAMUS


/////////////////////////////Much more recently I reclassified myself as an agnostic. Atheism, it turns out, is not quite rational either. The sketchiest acquaintance with cosmology will tell you that the universe is not, or is not yet, decipherable by human beings. It will also tell you that the universe is far more bizarre, prodigious and chillingly grand than any doctrine, and that spiritual needs can be met by its contemplation. Belief is otiose; reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.

AMIS


///////////////////////////////"I'm going to the inevitable."
AMIS


////////////////////////////DEFORMITIES AND INFIRMITIES


///////////////////////////////When you were born, you were given an amazing gift, life. You didn't ask for it, but you were happy just to be alive, a long time ago. And then some things happened to you that made you feel extreme anxiety and then you felt sad about what had just happened. And then the same things happened over and over to reinforce those feelings of anxiety and sadness to become your norm. RUFUS


////////////////////////////////////House sales have dropped 40 per cent in the past five years



//////////////////////////////////Children should no work except homework and the minimum age for employment should be increased from 14 to 18, activists said Tuesday, the 11th World Day Against Child Labour. “All forms of child labour except homework should be banned.


//////////////////////////////TBI=Contrary to expectations, children injured in middle childhood demonstrated the poorest outcomes; this age potentially coincides with a critical period of brain and cognitive development.


////////////////////////////////OPTIMISM RULES- BUY SUNGLASSES


/////////////////////////////////

ALONE WTH MEDIA

/////////////black balloon 2008


/////////////How old a man is when he has children may affect the lifespans of his grandchildren, a new study suggests.

Men in the study who were older when they had children tended to have kids and grandkids with longer telomeres — caps on the ends of chromosomes that protect the chromosomes from damage.



////////////

ALONE WTH MEDIA

///////////////A mantra is simply a thought that you can focus on. If you do not wish to use this specific mantra, then try anything you like. It can be a word that has great meaning for you or a random word. At the very least it, allows the mind to focus on one thing. This eliminates mind chatter, which is relaxing. If the word has great meaning for you, then your mantra is even more powerful because you are focusing on a desire.

Gallagher, Jenny (2011-05-26). Yen Path: Taking Steps Towards What You Want in Life (p. 85).



///////////////

HAPPINSS TEMPORARY, CONTENTMENT LONG LASTING

////////////////// an original film score is comprised of music that was composed solely for use in the movie, while a movie soundtrack consists of songs that were previously written by other artists and band ABOUT


////////////////

EQUALITY OF MISERY/CONTENTMENT

//////////////////////

A belief is not merely an idea that the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.”

—Robert Bolton

////////////////

We speak for Earth.

-Carl Sagan

//////////////////BIOSPHERE, ECOSPHERE, THIN GREEN SMEAR

///////////////////REGOLITH, WEATHERING, EROSION, ROCK CYCLE

/////////////////////A combination of just the right size and composition (especially the presence of water) and optimal distance from the Sun make the surface conditions on Earth perfectly suited for hosting life

//////////////////////Psychologists have discovered that daydreaming allows certain ideas and problems to "marinate" in our unconscious minds, allowing us to think of new possibilities and solutions, even when we aren't working on a problem directly.

///////////////////////////////What does it mean for a civilization to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our technical civilization is a few hundred years old ... an advanced civilization millions of years old is as much beyond us as we are beyond a bushbaby or a macaque."-SAGAN

////////////////////// "one day, many of us could gaze at the encyclopadia that contains the coordinates of perhaps hundreds of Earth-like planets in our sector of the galaxy. Then we will ponder with wonder, as Sagan did, what an intelligent civilization a millions years ahead of ours will look like." KAKU

//////////////////////most potentially interesting civilization is a Type III civilization, "for it is truly immortal. It has exhausted the power of a single star, and has reached out to other star systems. No natural catastrophe known to science has the capacity to destroy a Type III civilization."

///////////////////

CIVILISATIONS MAY BE RANKED by their energy consumption, using the following principles:

• The four laws of thermodynamics 

• The laws of stable matter. Matter in the universe clumps into three large groupings: planets, stars and galaxies.

• The laws of planetary evolution. Any advanced civilisation must grow in energy consumption faster than the frequency of life-threatening catastrophes, such as meteor impacts, ice ages, supernova explosions, and so on. If their growth rate stays any slower, they are doomed to extinction. Thus, this places mathematical lower limits on the growth rates of these civilisations. KAKU

//////////////////////////Our best bet for a theory of everything is M-theory --an extension of string theory," Hawking 

/////////////////////the entropy at this transition stage will be extremely low, because black holes, which destroy all information that they suck in, evaporate as the universe expands and in so doing remove entropy from the universe."penrose

//////////////////////Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe" (WMAP) mission has measured these variations and found that the universe is 13.7 billion years old, and it consists of 4.6% atoms, 23% dark matter, and 72% dark energy

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HUMN CONDN- EXPLOITN , REFORM, TUG OF FORCES

////////////// Democracy is what two wolves and a
lamb decide to have for lunch.



////////////////THE BUDDHA PROBLEM- OSAD- FAILING VISN- SGTDA MTHR NOW 80-HDTGSHPKA



/////////////////Kevin Kelly, on paid content
"You can get anything you want free if you wait long enough. You pay for immediacy"



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ELIGIBLE MOOTERS- PWR CO- TRIP IN EGO TUNNEL-LEX/70

/////////////////Brain Wired At Birth But Experience Selects Which Connections To Keep


///////////////VDIC FRPWR-Atharva Veda. Information regarding cannons are found in Vana Parva of Mahabharata and also in Naishadham text of Sriharsha. The name given by ancient Indians to cannon was Shatagni.


//////////////AT LONG LAST, FNG DOES NOT EXPECT......UROFTBLL



/////////////////LUCKY TALISMAN.....SUGGESTION >>COGNITION>>>BEHAVIOUR


///////////////30 IS WHEN U GO FLABBY AND FLOPPY


////////////////Half of the people who died during a longitudinal study of older adults(>65) visited the emergency department (ED) at least once during the last month of life, 77% were subsequently hospitalized, and 68% of those hospitalized died in the hospital, according to a study published in the June issue of Health Affairs.



////////////////////////////JUNE GLOOM



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ILEN LWIS JLU

Ray Bradbury, on art

"We have our Arts so we won’t die of Truth"


///////////////// coffee habit is killing the black-handed spider monkey

habitat destructn d/t coffee cultuvn=sciam



/////////////////CONSC IS THE APPEARANCE OF A WORLD


/////////////////EGO TUNNEL


///////////////////SHADOWS DO NOT HAVE AN INDEPENDENT EXISTENCE


///////////////////OUT OF THE BODY AND INTO THE MIND


/////////////////////OUR CONSC EXPERIENCE IS JUST A TUNNEL THRO REALITY



//////////////////i feel every cut


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GRMMR SCHOOL - 14 TH CNTURY

//////////////////WRKNG CLSS AIMINH HI- 25% FREE


///////////////////PLAY THE GAME


///////////////////////Sapere aude is a Latin phrase meaning "dare to be wise", or more precisely " dare to know".



////////////////////////Volkow et al. “Evidence That Sleep Deprivation Downregulates Dopamine D2R in Ventral Striatumin the Human Brain” Journal of Neuroscience, 2012


//////////////////////VACKEES VS VLLAGER CHLDRN WW2


//////////////////////////IT WILL GET EASIER, AS U WILL GET TOUGHER



/////////////////////////////CULTR IS A BUNCH OF IDEAS


/////////////////////////////James McWilliams, on killing animals
 The confined animal lives a life of brutality and is dispatched; the free-range animal lives a life of relative freedom and is dispatched. From the perspective of happiness lost, the latter scenario is more tragic



/////////////////////////////TIMES CHANGE, ATTITUDES SOFTEN


///////////////////////////////ENDORPHIN REWARD OF MARATHON-that “anandamide-inspired motivation to run was the evolution of an ‘endurance athlete phenotype’ that played a major role in the survival and reproductive success of our Homo sapiens ancestors…”

RUNNERS HI


/////////////////////////“The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet

"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon--instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."
-- Dale Carnegie, author, How To Win Friends and Influence People

"I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stfled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist."
-- Jack London, author and journalist



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G PIG MULTI SCAB CRSS

////////////////////LNTIOC

CNEMA - WHERE COMMERCE MEETS CULTURE

////////////////WHAT IF DARWIN MET MENDEL?


///////////////////SEA IS THE SALTY ALMA MATER OF BIOLF



/////////////////////////PROBLEM OF THEODICY......BIOL SOLN TO PROBLEM OF PAIN



//////////////////////////////Birds versus bees? Our feathered friends are the only reason insects aren't 3ft wideFaced with an airborne predatory threat after dinosaurs evolved into birds, the creatures stayed small to be more manoeuvrable, say University of California San Diego scientists.



///////////////////////////////The godly matter of nature has already been settled by (the blessed) Spinoza: god and (naturing) nature are one and the same. Take care of your metaphors in bridging between magic and method: "is the human brain hard wired for the aroma of coffee?"



//////////////////////////////////study suggest is that one is more calm/relaxed with ritual behavior. Thus, no we are not pre-wired for belief in imaginary creatures, but we do function better with rituals. This has been proven over and over again with other brain studies. Your morning routine, your drive to work, the things you do when you first settle into work, these are all rituals that allow your brain to do common things without thinking, while allowing it to concentrate on other things.



//////////////////////////////// NASA nap

 A little group called NASA discovered that just a 26-minute nap increases performance by 34% and alertness by 54%. Pilots take advantage of NASA naps while planes are on autopilot.


////////////////////////////wht is not right’: no bread, rice, pasta, sugar

 ////////////////////////////////Spreading the letters of words a bit farther apart helps dyslexic kids read more quickly and make fewer mistakes as they read, a new study shows.



////////////////////////////////CULTURAL SUPERPOWER- VK



////////////////////////////////////

QN DMND JBLEE THMS PAGEANT SN TV

//////////////////////////////That's when, 375,000 years after the Big Bang, the Universe finally cooled enough that protons could hang on to electrons, forming hydrogen atoms and emitting photons in the process. These photons, stretched out and cooled by the expansion of the Universe, have been with us ever since. And, with just a regular old TV set, you can capture some of them.


/////////////////////////////CLOVES (which stands for Congenital Lipomatous Overgrowth, Vascular malformations, Epidermal nevis, Spinal/skeletal anomalies/scoliosis

six and 60 percent of cells in each individual's affected tissues contained mutations in a gene called PIK3CA, a component of a key molecular pathway regulating cell division and growth. Even though the precise mutations differed slightly between the patients, each mutation—a simple replacement of one DNA base for another, altering the structure of the protein PIK3CA encodes—has the effect of activating the pathway in the absence of external signals promoting growth.


////////////////////////////////////War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy

Because what else is there?


////////////////////////////////////The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain

Because a boy can disappear, a boy can survive on his own, a boy can become part of a nation's hopes for itself.



//////////////////////////////////AVC.......modernism and post-modernism define the 20th century in western culture. Modernism first emerged in the late 19th century and was a reaction against the romanticism that had defined western civilization in the 19th century. Modernism embraced the industrialization of society and the emergence of breakthrough scientific thinking. In art and architecture, modernism brought simplicity and and new artistic forms.

Post-modernism was the post-war (WWII) reaction to modernism. It re-embraced historical contexts but in a modern form. Post-modernism was complex, ironic, and ambiguous.

pseudo-modern cultural phenomenon par excellence is the internet.

text messaging and emailing is vapid in comparison with what people of all educational levels used to put into letters. A triteness, a shallowness dominates all. The pseudo-modern era, at least so far, is a cultural desert.







////////////////////////////All people operate from the same two motivations: to fulfil their desires and to escape their suffering.

Life is a subjective experience and that cannot be escaped


////////////////////////////Theoretical physics is mathematics and invention. Experimental physics is observation and discovery



////////////////////////MIRROR NEURONES, INSULA AND EMPATHY



///////////////////////////////////////STROKE=Once considered exclusively a disorder of blood vessels, growing evidence has led to the realization that the biological processes underlying stroke are driven by the interaction of neurons, glia, vascular cells, and matrix components, which actively participate in mechanisms of tissue injury and repair.


///////////////////////////////////////Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone.
For the sad old earth must borrow it's mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own

Wilcox


///////////////////////////////

HUEN TSANG AND ASOKAS PRSN

///////////////////BEETHOVEN OF BEET FARMERS


////////////////////NOT EVERY GOOD Q HAS A GOOD ANS


////////////////////////Carlo Rovelli on science

 "Science is not about certainty. Science is about finding the most reliable way of thinking, at the present level of knowledge"


//////////////////////////JUBILEE THAMES A LA WHISTLER/MONET- GREY/GREEN


////////////////////////////Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that
dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be
beaten."

-- G.K. Chesterton



//////////////////////////////////////C ROVELLI-Science is about hypothetico-deductive methods, we have observations, we have data, data require to be organized in theories.  So then we have theories. These theories are suggested or produced from the data somehow, then checked in terms of the data. Then time passes, we have more data, theories evolve, we throw away a theory, and we find another theory which is better, a better understanding of the data, and so on and so forth.



//////////////////////////////////// think science is not about data; it's not about the empirical content, about our vision of the world. It's about overcoming our own ideas, and about going beyond common sense continuously. Science is a continuous challenge of common sense, and the core of science is not certainty, it's continuous uncertainty. I would even say the joy of taking what we think, being aware that in everything we think, there are probably still an enormous amount of prejudices and mistakes, and try to learn to look a little bit larger, knowing that there is always a larger point of view that we'll expect in the future.  


/////////////////////////////////////SCIENCE IS NOT ABOUT CERTAINTY: A PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSICS


///////////////////////////////one super-eruption, which took place in Indonesia 74,000 years ago, may have come remarkably close to wiping out the entire human species.


//////////////////////////////POOR MISERABLE THANATOPHOBES


//////////////////////////////// LuCretius conclusion by myself. But the thought of being dead for the rest of time while galaxies collide and entropy grows to a maximum is fear instilling non the less.



/////////////////////////////////FALLING ASLEEP- FALLING DTH


/////////////////////////////////AD INFINITUM.....AD MORTEM



//////////////////////////// Metabolic health means having normal levels of blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar and C-reactive protein, a marker for inflammation


/////////////////////////////MRY PPPINS TO QORNOGRPHY



/////////////////////////////BOUND BY LON



////////////////////////////////ALDUS MANITUS, FATHER OF COMMA LATE 1400s



///////////////////////////marriage “appears to protect against normal declines in happiness during adulthood” that happen over time.


////////////////////////////////Babies born prematurely are at a much greater risk for developing severe mental disorders including psychosis, bipolar disorder and depression, according to a new study.


///////////////////////////////There is an increasing awareness that obesity and inflammation are connected," said John Wherry, Ph.D., Deputy Editor of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology. "Not only does this new report demonstrate an important set of interactions between obesity, pancreatitis, and inflammation, but it also identifies the inflammatory pathway, IL-6, which could represent an important new therapeutic target in these settings."

DRGPR FRIDGE 1972 ALLWYN

///////////////////////INDE GDREJ FRST FRDGE 1958


///////////////////////////MRRG TO CLBRT RELNSHP


////////////////////////////YDAY KMN DTR CRSS


/////////////////////////////OLMPC CRCS DRGPR 1970S



/////////////////////////////////CNMA- SURRGT EXPRNCE


///////////////////////////////////SHKSPR-Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
But then begins a journey in my head,
To work my mind, when body's work's expired:



/////////////////////////////////////ANAMIKA


/////////////////////////////////////MNHTTN MRDR MYSTERY 1993


/////////////////////////////////

CHIRIAKHANA SN

///////////////KHOON CHHARA SHAKESPEARE NEI

/////////////////ABOIDH PREM CHHARA UPANYAS NEI


////////////////////Bipolar disorder entails dramatic mood swings between extreme happiness (known as "mania") and severe depression.

People with bipolar tend to be creative when they're coming out of deep depression," Fallon said.

they're able to entertain contradictory ideas simultaneously, and become aware of loose associations that most people's unconscious brains wouldn't consider worthy of sending to the surface of our consciousness. While the invasion of nonsense into conscious thought can be overwhelming and disruptive, "it can be quite creative, too," said Saks,


//////////////////////Johnson’s gloomy opening: “Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.”



/////////////////////////////////triumph and validation — or defeat and punishment


////////////////////////////////////a person breath-holds after a normal exhalation, it takes about 40 seconds before breathing commences”

Rakhimov, Artour (2012-03-19).



////////////////////////////////////Plato’s famously stated that “Philosophy is a preparation for death.” The Greek word that Plato uses for ‘preparation’ is ‘Melete’ and the root meaning is ‘care’ or ‘attention’. It can also mean ‘meditation,’ ‘practice’ or ‘exercise’. So are philosophers supposed to ‘practice’ dying, or simply to recollect the fact of mortality as they live their lives?



/////////////////////////////////////before WW2 breathing rates of ordinary people were even less than normal. During last 2 decades ordinary people breathe about 2 times more air than the medical norm or nearly 3 times more than in the 1920's and 30's..

Rakhimov, Artour (2012-03-19).



/////////////////////////////////////root meaning of ‘philosophy’ as the ‘love of wisdom’. Wisdom is not a topic that comes up very much in contemporary philosophy. It was more to the fore in the ancient world, where wisdom, ethics, and the question of living a good human life were brought together in a philosophical approach to living.



/////////////////////////////////////but leaning physically to the left causes people to estimate sizes as being smaller



////////////////////////////////BASA USED BY BANGALS NOT GHOTIS



/////////////////////////////////ERIC RECTION



////////////////////////////////PLOS.....The causes of socioeconomic inequality have been debated since the time of Plato. Many reasons for the development of stratification have been proposed, from the need for hierarchical control over large-scale irrigation systems to the accumulation of small differences in wealth over time via inheritance processes. However, none of these explains how unequal societies came to completely displace egalitarian cultural norms over time. Our study models demographic consequences associated with the unequal distribution of resources in stratified societies. Agent-based simulation results show that in constant environments, unequal access to resources can be demographically destabilizing, resulting in the outward migration and spread of such societies even when population size is relatively small. In variable environments, stratified societies spread more and are also better able to survive resource shortages by sequestering mortality in the lower classes.



/////////////////////////////////7 BN HUMAN LMT ON EARTH


////////////////////////////ZOGA- ?VOLUNTARY HVENTILN



///////////////////////////////in 1904 by the Danish physiologist Christian Bohr (father of famous physicist Niels Bohr). He found that due to higher CO2 concentrations in tissues (and more acidic environment), hemoglobin will bind to oxygen with less affinity. In other words, increased CO2 levels in tissues allows red blood cells to release oxygen. As a result, those tissues that generate more CO2 will get more oxygen from the blood. There are many

Rakhimov, Artour (2012-03-19).



////////////////////////////we will always be in a transitional phase. look around you and know that everything will be replaced at some point.. this existence is only temporary.



/////////////////////////////////if yoga student wants to provide more oxygen for the brain, heart and other cells of the body, he or she should learn how to breathe slower and less.

Rakhimov, Artour (2012-03-19).


////////////////////////////or deep breathing cannot increase O2 content in the arterial blood to any significant degree (normal hemoglobin saturation is about 98%), but it reduces CO2 concentrations in all cells and the blood. 2. Hypocapnia (or CO2 deficiency) leads to constriction of blood vessels and that reduces blood supply to vital organs of the human body. 3. Hypocapnia (or CO2 deficiency) also leads to suppressed Bohr effect that causes reduced O2 release in tissues and further reduction in delivery of O2 to cells. Hence, the more one breathes, the less oxygen is provided for vital organs of the human body.

Rakhimov, Artour (2012-03-19).




////////////////////////////////back-up the wisdom of traditional yoga suggesting to calm the breath

Rakhimov, Artour (2012-03-19).

breathing is calmed when the mind becomes steady and calm; …" Hatha Yoga Pradipika (15 century) Medical research

Rakhimov, Artour (2012-03-19).

Even the term "deep breathing" has never been a part of original yoga, and this indicates serious confusion since, in reality and according to traditional yoga teaching, breathing exercise pranayama suppose to reduce ventilation (i.e., you need to breathe LESS air per minute) and increase CO2 in the lungs, arterial blood, and other body cells. Distorted yoga essence (learn how to breathe slower

Rakhimov, Artour (2012-03-19).

/////////////////////HEIGHTISM


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SLF DNIGRATNG LSR

///////////////////////////LEAN DM2 GENE- genetic variants near the gene, LAMA1, were linked to type 2 diabetes risk for the first time, with an effect that appeared only in the lean patients.



/////////////////////////SNSBL THNG, FRSR- LT HR GO


//////////////////////DARWINS WAS THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY IDEA EVER


////////////////////DENNETT- PHONETIC NORMS- LANGG HAS WONDERFUL PROOF READING CAPACITY- HI FI CULTR TRANSMISSION


//////////////////NORM IS THE TARGET- NAILING EG


//////////////////////WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF THE LAWS OF PHYSICS- MAY BE UNANSWERABLE- BUT IF ANS , IT WILL BE BY SC



/////////////////////////////ANTHROPOGENY



//////////////////////////////////GT APES, ORCAS, BIRDS HANE CULTR


////////////////////////////////SHARED BLFS, SHARED VALUES- HUMAN CULTR



//////////////////////////////////HUMAN DEPENDENT AND SHAPED BY CULTR


////////////////////////////////JUVENILE PD IS DANGEROUS FOR THE SPECIES



////////////////////////////////TECH/ECON INNOVN, LARGE SOCIAL GRP,WORLD OF SYMBOLS- ALL HELP HUMAN CULTR


/////////////////////////////CULTR LED GENE LED COEVOLN



////////////////////////////////CULTR EVOLVES BY DESCENT WITH MODIFICN



/////////////////////////////////LACT GENE AND LACTOSE TOLERANCE


/////////////////////////////////MALARIA AFFECTED AFTER AGRICULTR ARRIVED- DENSE POPULN - MALARIA SURVIVED


//////////////////////////////////HUMANS DOMESTICATED BY CULTR SELECTION PROCESS



/////////////////////////////PLRP2 GENE AND RELN WITH CEREAL RICH DIET TAKING POPULN



/////////////////////////////////



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FRND SNJY GT DM2

/////////////////////////RD BK IMMORTALITY EXCERPT-Cave argues that on the one hand, boredom and apathy would eventually set in after one has done and seen everything, and other the hand, the prospect of an infinite future means that there is no urgency to do or see anything resulting in paralysis. Meaningful lives require a time limit, he argues.



///////////////////////SCIAM=There is ancient circuitry that appears to be involved in social behavior across all vertebrates,” Hans Hofmann,

Hofman observes, these conserved neural clusters originated at least 450 million years ago.



///////////////////////be computational resurrectionists to argue for uploading minds (information encoded in an individual’s brain) onto another piece of hardware, an electronic avatar, a robot, or another brain which would be psychologically identical to the original mind. Cave argues that computational resurrection does not actually achieve immortality for a specific individual, but merely makes an exact psychological copy of him. There is the additional problem that if minds can be digitized they can be duplicated many times. If this occurs who then is the original resurrectee? “When you closed your eyes on your deathbed, you could not expect to open them again in silicon form,” he explains. The result of mind uploading “would all just be high-tech ways of producing a counterfeit you.”


///////////////////////////fear of death is nonsensical is the Greek philosopher Epicurus who wrote, “While we are, death is not; when death is come, we are not.” Cave interprets Epicurus as chiefly arguing that we should not fear the state of being dead. Being dead is nothing, so why fear nothing? Cave asserts that wisdom comes when we realize “that we can never be dead, that fearing being dead is therefore a nonsense.” Oddly, I don’t think that I (and many others) suffer from Cave’s Mortality Paradox—I can imagine non-existence. Consequently, with regard to death there is nothing to fear but nothing itself.



/////////////////////////////EMG=In order to further undermine our fear of death Cave counsels that we adopt the three virtues of empathy, mindfulness, and gratitude. Empathy reduces our fear of the death by shifting the focus from ourselves; mindfulness encourages us to enjoy the present moment; and gratitude makes us conscious of what an incredible stroke of luck it is to be alive in the first place. It seems to me that the cultivation of these virtues is valuable in its own right, and if such cultivation happens to reduce one’s fear of death then that’s a nice bonus.



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JORA CR NRSNG CRTKR OSAD BUDDHA PRBLM

//////////////////////////BAILERO WHN WNT TO FEEL SAD


/////////////////////////Chants d'Auvergne" ("Songs from the Auvergne"), a collection of folk songs from the Auvergne region of France arranged for soprano voice and orchestra by Joseph Canteloube between 1923-1930.


//////////////////////////////LEX MESS AS PER GON EVEN OSAD


/////////////////////////////SLF AS MILD DEPRESSIVE


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DTR 11 HARROW STDY DAY