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Monthly Archives: August 2014
Awareness (A Poem for Michael Graziano)
Still pond of attention. Frog speaks to it, announces it, jumps in. Reverberations. Loops. Interferences. A deep dive. Frog’s breath bubbles. Pops. Poet sees it, represents it, announces it, jumps in.
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Uncertainty v. Certainty (or Bayes’ Rule v. the Bible)
What’s the major premise I live my life from? I’m not outside the system I’m trying to explain, I’m inside it; I’m an evolved primate in a vast and ancient cosmos. That’s my existential situation. I can’t get a God’s … Continue reading
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Michael Graziano: Awareness Is “A Schematic Description Of Attention”
Michael Graziano teaches neuroscience at Princeton, and his theory of consciousness sounds plausible to me. No woo, with a sound explanation for how and why evolution would have brought it into existence in the first place (as a schematic modeling device … Continue reading
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A Very Zennie Ad Slogan: “You’re Here. The Hard Part is Over.”
Saw an ad slogan this morning that said, “You’re here. The hard part is over,” and thought, “Wow, that strikes me as very Zen!” What I was thinking of is what zennies (Zen hippies) call “spontaneous Buddha mind.” The groovy … Continue reading
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What I Believe
I’m an agnostic. No superstitions. No spooks. I think there’s one world. No evidence for minds apart from brains. The form of theism that seems vaguely plausible to me is simple deism. I think it’s logically possible that there is … Continue reading
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The Stockholm Syndrome and Religion
The Stockholm Syndrome is where love and threat are coming from the same source; it’s a form of hostage taking, and it’s what religions do emotionally with people when they make God the source of love and acceptance if you … Continue reading
Two Pens Are Better Than One: Why I Write
For me, I get writing energy from other people, responding to what they have to say (or to questions they might pose). If they respond again in turn, I hope to be surprised by the angle they take in the … Continue reading
