Wednesday, 9 December 2020

OM = mc^2 x PEACE

 








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The study used UK Biobank data, COVID-19 test results, and deaths recorded March-July.

Further analysis showed medical support staff were nearly nine times as likely to develop severe disease, social care nearly 2.5 times as likely, while transport workers were twice as likely to do so.

Ethnicity played a role with Black and Asian essential workers more than eight times as likely to have severe infection.



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  • Relationships – No actual or threatened violence; respect for personal autonomy; no crazy behavior; no meanness
  • Childrearing – Lots of love; real time for family; aspirational values (e.g., help out, be honest, do your job in school); reasonable parental authority
  • Job – Getting to work on time; fully competent with core skills; feeling alright with the people around you; having the resources to fulfill responsibilities
  • Physical health – Good sleep; veggies, protein, and vitamins; exercise; minimal intoxicants; take care of issues as early as you can
  • Mental health – On your own side; stepping back to observe your mind; calming down stress and upsets; take in the good of positive experiences; self-compassion; exercising restraint
  • Situations – Take a moment to consider one or more specific situations, such as an ongoing issue with someone in your life or at work, or with your health, career, or finances. Open to listening to the "still small voice inside" that may tell you about a basic thing you could care for better; it may well be something you’ve known all along.
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Chalmers changed the science of consciousness forever with a simple three-word phrase that has become an essential part of the academic discourse on consciousness: The Hard Problem.


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Conscientiousness is the personality trait that tends to lead to satisfying and well-paid careers.

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Nothing is more certain than consciousness, and yet nothing is harder to incorporate into our scientific picture of the world. We now know a great deal about the brain, much of it discovered in the last eighty years. We understand how neurons—the basic cells of the brain—work in terms of their underlying chemistry. We know the function of many regions of the brain, in terms of processing information and negotiating sensory inputs and behavioral outputs. But none of this has shed any light on how the brain produces consciousness.

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Due to the nature of the software and the underlying hardware, the mind’s primary illusion is the differentiation of consciousness into a basic duality of a personal I/ego/self as being separate from the Infinite Self as the source of consciousness/awareness. In this illusory error, the ego identifies with content instead of context and is therefore subject to the vicissitudes of animal motives, feelings, and faulty intellection


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This is all very odd. But still we haven’t gotten to the feature of quantum mechanics that has most troubled philosophers and scientists. By far the strangest aspect of quantum mechanics is that observation seems to make a difference to how the universe behaves.


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Naturalistic dualists, in contrast, seek to bring the nonphysical mind into the realm of serious scientific study. I once asked Chalmers if he has any spiritual beliefs or religious commitments. He answered, “Only that the universe is cool.” Another leading naturalistic dualist, the German-born Swiss philosopher Martine Nida-Rümelin, is positively angry at the idea that dualism should be mixed up with the myths and vagaries of religious belief. She once remarked to me at a philosophy conference dinner, “The whole concept of faith is fundamentally irrational. It asks you to believe without evidence!”


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Everyone already has a calibratable level of consciousness at the moment of birth that is thereby correlated with physicality itself. The Western world accepts karmic consequences subsequent to physical death as the destiny of the soul. The Eastern world accepts the reality of karma as an ongoingness of the evolution of the spirit over great periods of time. Consciousness calibration confirms and extensively demonstrates that every intention or action, even in its most minute details, is embedded and recorded forever within the infinite field of consciousness. It is also confirmable (at consciousness level 1,000) that everyone, without exception, is accountable to the Universe (i.e., the Mind of God or Divine Providence alluded to by whatever term chosen). Thus arises the wisdom that “God is not mocked,” and that “Every hair on one’s head is numbered.”


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Most of your body’s trillions of atoms, from calcium in your bones and carbon in your genes to iron in your blood, were forged by nuclear reactions in ancient stars, either when they were burning or when they ended in fiery supernova explosions. Those atoms were recycled through the births and deaths of more stars until, at some point, they escaped for a while. “Our solar system captured these elements to make Earth and everything on it,” says Schrijver – including you.


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But each of us is at least 4.6 billion years old, the age of the solar system, and perhaps as ancient as the universe’s first stars, which appeared some 13.7 billion years ago, just 100 million years after the big bang.

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MIFU- EYES CLOSED, MUCH STIMULI GONE

NAME THE THOUGHT, DOT FOLLOW YOUR MIND ON A TRIP


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DWM Being angry can be very harmful to physical health in old age, research finds.

Anger is linked to higher levels of inflammation in the body.


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CYCLICALLY DEEP TIREDNESS


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Leibniz pressed his version of the knowledge argument with his own intriguing thought experiment. Leibniz imagined we could somehow increase the size of the brain many times, so that it was big enough for us to climb inside “as one enters a mill.” No matter how much we wandered around the giant brain, examining its workings, we would find only “pieces which push one against another, but never anything by which to explain a perception [by which Leibniz meant a conscious experience].” 7 Knowledge of mechanism, Leibniz concluded, can never yield knowledge of the conscious mind.



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SLOGAN - LET IT COME, LET IT BE, LET IT GO


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globe spinning

GET HAPPY

HOW YOU MEASURE HAPPINESS DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU LIVE

"It is important to realize that the Western-centered viewpoint is not the only viewpoint."

Francesco Carta fotografo

HAPPINESS GOVERNS MUCH OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR. But while it's a pervasive collective value, there's no universal definition of happiness shared across cultures. Happiness means different things to different people.

In fact, evidence suggests in Western countries, people associate happiness with independence, freedom, and often, thrilling experiences. It's conceived as a "personal achievement" linked to hard work and self-esteem. Americans specifically, and typically, want to feel peppy emotions like excitement and cheerfulness.

Meanwhile, studies indicate in Eastern cultures, happiness often hinges on interdependence — the relationships and social connectedness that give life meaning and purpose.

In a new study — spanning over 15,000 people in 63 countries — researchers discovered how people measure happiness also varies from culture to culture. Different questions, the study suggests, must be asked to gauge happiness accurately in Asian, African, Middle-Eastern, and Western countries.

Study co-author Gwendolyn Gardine is a social psychologist and recent Ph.D. graduate of David Funder's Situations Lab at the University of California, Riverside. Her team's findings were published Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE.

"It is important to realize that the Western-centered viewpoint is not the only viewpoint," Gardine tells Inverse.

"If psychologists are interested in studying the behavior of all humans, and not just Americans, we need measures that reflect more than just U.S. or Western-centered viewpoints."

WHAT'S NEW — For decades, scientific literature has been dominated by a narrow, Western viewpoint on happiness. That's because, as Gardiner puts it, the vast majority of psychological research involves study participants in the West, particularly in the U.S.

In recent years, non-Western happiness tests have emerged, but scientists haven't quite pinned down how different measurement tools actually work across contexts.

The blue countries represent the home nations of the study participants.Gwen Gardiner

"Oftentimes researchers are simply interested in asking: Which country has the happiest people?" Gardiner explains. But if people have different ideas about what it means to be happy, you're going to get different answers.

"So first we need to test and see what is the best way of measuring how happy people are based on how they define what happiness is," Gardiner says.

To determine the cross-cultural similarities and differences when it comes to happiness, Gardiner and her team undertook a worldwide comparison of two tests that measure people's happiness.

They used two happiness tests:

  1. The Interdependent Happiness Scale: a test developed in Japan that emphasizes interdependence.
  2. The Subjective Happiness Scale: a test developed in the U.S. that emphasizes independence.

The interdependence-focused test looks more closely at "interpersonal harmony" and equality of accomplishment with one's peers, while the second focuses on achievement and individual feelings.

They recruited 15,358 college or university students from 63 countries across six continents to complete both tests. The group included Canadians, East Asians, Africans, Latin Americans, Americans, Southeast Asians, and people from the Middle East.

WHY IT MATTERS — Across the board, tests that emphasized certain cultural values were most predictive in places that mirrored those values.

The Subjective Happiness Scale was best at measuring happiness in Western European countries like Belgium, Denmark, and the United Kingdom. It was also successful in accurately measuring happiness in countries with higher development, less population growth, and in colder climates.

In turn, it was not as effective when gauging happiness in Eastern countries, including China, Japan, and Vietnam. It performed poorly in African countries.

Meanwhile, the Interdependent Happiness scale was most reliable in Asian countries, including Japan and South Korea, and generally a less reliable predictor in Western countries. The team didn't find clear correlations connecting reliability to country-by-country factors like economic development or cultural factors.

WHAT'S NEXT — Interestingly, the interdependence-focused test accurately measured happiness in both the United States and Japan — a surprising result as these two countries are often used as polar examples of how Eastern and Western cultures value happiness differently. Overall, it was more consistently reliable across countries than the independence test, making it a more useful research tool for future cross-cultural comparisons.

Despite some cross-cultural differences, Gardiner stresses that the two happiness tests were still "highly correlated" with each other.

"Ultimately, there are far more similarities than differences when it comes to defining and measuring happiness around the world," Gardiner says.

This study also only used two measures to define and capture happiness. There are many other aspects of happiness yet to be discovered— especially relating to Middle Eastern or African countries, Gardiner adds.

 a Western-origin, or “WEIRD” measure of happiness that conceptualizes it as a self-centered (or “independent”), high-arousal emotion. However, research from Eastern cultures, particularly Japan, conceptualizes happiness as including an interpersonal aspect emphasizing harmony and connectedness to others. Following a combined emic- etic approach (Cheung, van de Vijver & Leong, 2011), we assessed the cross-cultural applicability of a measure of independent happiness developed in the US (Subjective Happiness Scale; Lyubomirsky & Lepper, 1999) and a measure of interdependent happiness developed in Japan (Interdependent Happiness Scale; Hitokoto & Uchida, 2015), with data from 63 countries representing 7 sociocultural regions. Results indicate that the schema of independent happiness was more coherent in more WEIRD countries. In contrast, the coherence of interdependent happiness was unrelated to a country’s “WEIRD-ness.” Reliabilities of both happiness measures were lowest in African and Middle Eastern countries, suggesting these two conceptualizations of happiness may not be globally comprehensive. Overall, while the two measures had many similar correlates and properties, the self-focused concept of independent happiness is “WEIRD-er” than interdependent happiness, suggesting cross-cultural researchers should attend to both conceptualizations.
















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