Thursday, 31 October 2024
Deepavali 2024
Puja is honour and gratefulness. There are many benefits of a yagna ritual. It is known to bring yasha (good name), pragya (heightened consciousness), vidya (education), buddhi (knowledge), balam (strength), veeryam (valour), ayush (long life), aishwaryam (wealth), and many more. There are three types of energy in each person. They are:
1. Iccha-shakti (willingness of a person)
2. Kriya-shakti (the energy to function)
3. Jnana-shakti (wisdom)
Wednesday, 30 October 2024
limbic capitalism
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Exploring the nature of consciousness is akin to embarking on a journey without end. It's a vast and subtle concept that both permeates and eludes our grasp. Let's delve into its nuances:
Consciousness as Existence: Consciousness is often seen as the foundation of all that is. It is the state of being aware, the very fabric that gives rise to all forms of life and phenomena. It's the ground from which everything springs forth.
Beyond Definition: While we often use the term "consciousness," it's much like other abstract concepts—difficult to pin down with precision. It's not merely awareness or intelligence, though these are components of it. It's more the essence of being, the recognition of existence itself.
Self-Awareness and Perspective: Consciousness is linked to self-awareness, the realization of oneself as an entity in the world. It prompts us to wonder, “What is it like to be another?” as philosopher Thomas Nagel suggested, highlighting the deeply personal nature of conscious experience.
The Dynamic Journey: In spiritual texts like the Bhagavad Gita, consciousness is portrayed as an ever-curving force, eternally creating and recreating. It suggests that consciousness is both the knower and the process of knowing, constantly shaping and understanding itself.
Paradox and Expansion: Consciousness is paradoxical, smaller than the smallest yet larger than the largest. It embraces infinity and singularity, simultaneously holding infinite possibilities and collapsing into a single point of awareness.
A Living Mystery: While consciousness can be deeply felt and experienced, it remains, to some degree, a mystery. Each person's journey with it is unique, leading to a diverse array of interpretations and understandings.
As you ponder these notions, consider:
- How does your own experience of consciousness manifest in your daily life?
- What do you notice when you become still and simply are?
- How does the nature of consciousness inform your understanding of self and others?
You might find it helpful to explore meditation or reflective practices to deepen your understanding of consciousness as an experiential reality. Feel free to share your reflections or ask further questions to continue this inquiry.
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risk is the likelihood that someone may be harmed by a hazard
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Holding someone’s hand is enough to reduce their pain and even synchronise breathing and heart rates, research finds.
Consciousness research explores the nature, origin, and functioning of consciousness—the mysterious phenomenon of self-awareness, subjective experience, and perception. Researchers across neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and artificial intelligence aim to answer foundational questions about how consciousness arises from biological processes, its purpose, and its various levels or states.
Key Areas of Consciousness Research
Neuroscientific Approaches: Neuroscientists study the brain’s structures and functions to identify regions and networks linked to conscious experience. This includes:
- Global Workspace Theory (GWT): Proposes that consciousness emerges when information is broadcast across multiple brain networks, creating a shared "workspace" for experiences.
- Integrated Information Theory (IIT): Suggests consciousness is linked to the amount and integration of information processed by a system.
- Neurotransmitters and Neural Correlates: Identifying specific molecules and circuits involved in wakefulness, sleep, and altered states.
Philosophical Approaches: Philosophers examine the "hard problem" of consciousness—the question of why subjective experiences (qualia) arise from physical brain processes. This includes:
- Dualism vs. Physicalism: The debate over whether consciousness is purely a product of physical processes or if it requires a non-material component.
- Panpsychism: The hypothesis that consciousness may be a fundamental property of the universe, existing even in elementary particles to a minimal degree.
- The Self and Identity: Exploring concepts like the nature of self-awareness and how consciousness creates a sense of self.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Consciousness: AI researchers investigate whether artificial systems can achieve a form of consciousness. While current AI lacks subjective experience, studies in artificial general intelligence (AGI) and embodied cognition suggest ways to create machines that mimic certain conscious behaviors or self-awareness.
Altered States of Consciousness: Examining states beyond everyday wakefulness, such as sleep, dreams, hypnosis, meditation, and psychedelic experiences, to understand how consciousness can change and what that reveals about its underlying structure.
Developmental and Evolutionary Perspectives: Researchers explore how consciousness evolves from infancy through adulthood and across species, analyzing the role of consciousness in survival, learning, and social interaction.
Breakthroughs and Challenges
While we’ve made progress in mapping brain networks associated with conscious thought, there are still challenges, including:
- Bridging the Hard Problem: Connecting subjective experience with measurable processes remains one of the field's greatest challenges.
- Ethical Implications: Questions about machine consciousness, treatment of animals, and neuro-enhancements raise new ethical issues.
- Practical Applications: Applying findings in medicine, such as enhancing recovery for coma patients or creating more effective treatments for mental health.
Consciousness research remains at the frontier of science, seeking to bridge the gap between mind, brain, and the nature of reality itself.
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Monday, 28 October 2024
Sunday, 27 October 2024
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BG2.14. First arrow problem. Krsna
BG 2.14. First arrow problem of Samsar
Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2, Verse 14
मात्रास्पर्शास्तु कौन्तेय शीतोष्णसुखदु:खदा: |
आगमापायिनोऽनित्यास्तांस्तितिक्षस्व भारत || 14||
mātrā-sparśhās tu kaunteya śhītoṣhṇa-sukha-duḥkha-dāḥ
āgamāpāyino ’nityās tāns-titikṣhasva bhārata
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Saturday, 26 October 2024
O CLOCK
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When we use the word o’clock, we’re saying that it’s a particular hour “according to the clock.” For example, “it’s almost 4 o’clock” means the same thing as “it is almost 4 according to the clock.”
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the phrase of the clock can trace its origin back to 1384
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Friday, 25 October 2024
Thursday, 24 October 2024
MURARE TRITIYA PANTHA
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BHIMA - NAROTTAM
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BHIMA AND KRSNA IN SYNC
MASA X SAMA
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KRSNA MOVED FROM MATHURA TO DWARKA AS PROBLEM WITH JARASANDHA OF PATNA
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KRSNA MAT COUSIN OF PANDVAS
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B GITA MAY BE CALLED ARJUN GITA
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VISHNU SHASRANAMA X SHIVA SAHASRANAM TO BHISMA
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PIETY THAT WE BRING X KARMIC BALANCE
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UDDHAV GITA
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UDDHAV RESILIENCE AFTER HEARING OF KRSNA DTH
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ARJUNA PARALYSIS ON HEARING KRSNA DTH
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2 ND TIME GITA TO ARJUNA - ANU GITA
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12000 YA - RAMAYANA
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KRSNA X BORN IN GRISHMA RITU X LIVED 108 YRS X 7500 YRS AGO
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SAME AGE AS ARJUN
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MAHABHARATA - ARJUN 70 SOMETHING, BHISMA 140 PLUS
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Karta. Prayojak Karta. God. Powerhouse
Wednesday, 23 October 2024
Tuesday, 22 October 2024
Monday, 21 October 2024
Sunday, 20 October 2024
SN TV TULSA KING
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a new study reveals it would take an unbelievably huge amount of time – far longer than the lifespan of our universe, for a typing monkey to randomly produce Shakespeare.
VFO X VSO
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4 mantras to consider incorporating into your daily routine:
* "I am present." This simple mantra can ground you in the here and now, reducing anxiety about the future or dwelling on the past.
* "I am worthy." Repeating this mantra can boost your self-esteem and help you overcome feelings of doubt or inadequacy.
* "I am grateful." Cultivating an attitude of gratitude can increase happiness and satisfaction in life.
* "I choose peace." This mantra can empower you to approach challenging situations with a sense of calm and inner strength.
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Saturday, 19 October 2024
Ancient Egypt. Cu chisels used as Fe not yet discovered
A. TA. Enlightenment. No journey. No destination. No path
As has been clarified countless times, there is no such thing as a ‘truly spiritually awakened person’ nor ‘unawakened’ person parroting their path’s teachings…because there is no person. The separate entity (that either ‘gets awakened’ or ‘doesn’t get awakened’) is the illusion. There is only Being.
“The Self (Being) is always the Self and there is no such thing as ‘attaining it.’ Who is to ‘attain’ what, and how, when all that exists is the Self?” - Ramana Maharshi.
“There is only the ‘I am.’ Not I am this or I am that, I am awakened or I am still seeking & parroting. Indeed, there is no “I.” Only “Am,” pure Beingness. The illusion is all these dream-characters thinking “they” are the doer, the seeker, the student, teacher or ‘awakener.’ - Sri Nisargadatta
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A. SS. I am prior to, subtler than mind
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It was philosopher Charles Peirce in the 1800s who introduced the term “quale” to refer to how “there is a distinctive quale to every combination of sensation… a peculiar quale to every day and every week—a peculiar quale to my whole personal consciousness.” 18 “Quale” comes from “quiddity,” which means the inherent or ultimate essence of something—how a thing is. William James, one of the founders of psychology, and brother to Henry James, the novelist, made use of the same term. Even now, contemporary philosophers like David Chalmers use “qualia” as a synonym for what is intrinsic about “consciousness,” or “experience,” or “phenomenology,” or “subjective experience,” etc., where “qualia” refers to the what-it-is-likeness of a particular sensation or thought.
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You look down at your legs.
The same old legs that once carried you everywhere, the legs that let you take large strides to wherever you wanted.
Now unused, probably never going to be used either.
After all, it’s been years since you last actually walked freely.
Back when you were still healthy.
Back when you didn’t have that forsaken tumor in your stomach.
Everyone tried.
As soon as it was discovered, you did everything to clear yourself from that curse.
Surgery after surgery, you could feel your life slip away, as gradually, you grow weaker as they cut out most of your stomach. You grow weaker as you can barely eat, and you struggle your daily life in pain, and and wrestling to do basic activities that you can’t do alone anymore.
Before you know it, you can’t leave the bed.
From the bed, you can see everything that goes around you.
You can hear that your family is struggling to keep you in the hospital, despite their greatest efforts to make sure you can’t hear.
You can see the arguments spark between your relatives.
You can see your sickness slowly creating a gap between everyone you loved.
Amidst that, you can feel your mind growing more hazy.
Days fly by, you blurt out things you don’t mean, yet it still hurts the people around you.
You are moved between hospitals, constantly being treated. After all, it is the doctor’s job to try to let at least one more patient live. But they know it’s futile. You know it’s futile. You know that you have not many days left to live.
No one says it out loud, but everyone has been preparing themselves for a goodbye.
But somewhere, from the back of your mind, you shout back.
You want to live.
I want to live, it screams, as your mind falls even deeper into the abyss. Your thoughts get sucked into the empty void, the void where nothing exists, where you would be nothing. You protests, scrambling to crawl out of the crater. But everything becomes clouded, devoid of light, as even that one protest fades away…
Earlier than the morning, far before the sun’s light had even shown on the sky, each of your relatives would get a call from the hospital.
Yup, cancer’s a bitch.
I would say sudden death.
That was the only death I’ve seen in my life and frankly, I never want to see something like that ever again.
Whether it is a slow death in that it takes hours to die, or a slow death that takes years for the disease to take over, I don’t want to spend even the shortest amount of time knowing that I will die. That’s not how I want to spend my last moments.
At least in a sudden death, I wouldn’t need to be in pain, physically or emotionally.
Well this turned depressing real quick.
Human sensory input 11 mn bits per second
Friday, 18 October 2024
Dpk atri. A. Int change. Ext change. Insight
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- 13 harsh truths about success nobody told you: (1) You will have to endure long seasons of loneliness; (2) Your anxiety will scale proportionally to your ambition; (3) To shine in the light you have to embrace boredom in the dark; (4) The climb is always better than the view from the summit; (5) You have to pay your rent daily; (6) Adaptability will always beat planning; (7) Your imposter syndrome and self-doubt never go away; (8) It will always take longer than you expect; (9) The good and the bad get amplified; (10) The money only solves money problems; (11) There's no such thing as later; (12) You never really figure it out; (13) You'll never feel successful unless you create your own definition of success.
The "Z Argument" is a philosophical argument related to consciousness, originating in thought experiments that question the nature of subjective experience and the challenge of understanding consciousness through purely physical explanations. While there isn't a universally agreed-upon "Z Argument" in philosophy, the term is often associated with debates about zombies—hypothetical beings that are physically and behaviorally identical to humans but lack conscious experience.
The "Zombie" Argument in Consciousness Studies
Philosophical Zombies (P-Zombies): In discussions on consciousness, a philosophical zombie (or "p-zombie") is a creature that behaves exactly like a human—showing emotions, reactions, language use, etc.—but has no subjective experience or "inner life." This idea was popularized by philosopher David Chalmers in his arguments regarding the "hard problem of consciousness."
Purpose of the Argument: The zombie thought experiment is used to argue that consciousness cannot be fully explained by physical processes alone. If it’s possible to conceive of a being that is identical to a human in every physical way but lacks consciousness, then consciousness must be something beyond just the physical arrangement of neurons or biological processes.
Implications of the Argument:
- Dualism vs. Physicalism: The possibility of zombies suggests that physicalism—the belief that everything, including consciousness, can be explained by physical processes—might be incomplete. If zombies can exist, then consciousness (or subjective experience) could be a non-physical property, supporting some form of dualism.
- The Hard Problem of Consciousness: This argument highlights the "hard problem," which asks why and how physical processes in the brain give rise to subjective experience. Even if we understand all the brain’s mechanisms, the experience of “what it’s like” to perceive or feel remains elusive.
Critiques of the Zombie Argument:
- Conceivability vs. Possibility: Critics, like philosopher Daniel Dennett, argue that just because we can imagine zombies doesn't mean they are possible. The idea that zombies lack consciousness may simply reflect our limited understanding of consciousness, not that consciousness is separate from physical processes.
- Epiphenomenalism: Some argue that consciousness could be an epiphenomenon—a byproduct of physical processes without causal influence on behavior. This view challenges the idea that consciousness is a "mystery" separate from the body.
Conclusion
The zombie argument remains central in discussions of consciousness because it challenges assumptions about the relationship between mind and body. It suggests that, while we may map the brain's physical processes, we may still not understand the essence of subjective experience—indicating the need for a more nuanced approach to understanding consciousness.
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Thursday, 17 October 2024
BG 2.56. duhkhesv anudvigna-manah sukhesu vigata-sprhah
Chapter 2: Contents of the Gita Summarized
sukhesu vigata-sprhah
vita-raga-bhaya-krodhah
sthita-dhir munir ucyate