Month: February 2022

Buddhism, Living, Philosophy, PsychologyLeave a comment

The Power of Not-Knowing

Fernando Kaskais

A contemplation on this posture of humility: a gesture of power, not weakness, that keeps us open to fresh perspectives By Fabrice Desmarescaux Knowledge is power, or at least that’s our going assumption. I spent my professional life in boardrooms and C-suites, and I can also say that this puts tremendous performance pressure on all of us leaders. If I don’t know, then there must be something wrong with me. This limits our creativity and ability to see the nature of reality tremendously. If, from time to time, we free ourselves from this obligation to know, and walk into a meeting … Continue reading The Power of Not-Knowing

History, Living, Philosophy, PsychologyLeave a comment

The love story story

Fernando Kaskais

Neither psychology nor anthropology fully understand love: only history sees that it’s all about the time and the telling Barbara H Rosenwein is professor emerita in history at Loyola University Chicago. Her recent books include Anger: The Conflicted History of an Emotion (2020) and Love: A History in Five Fantasies (2021). Edited by Sam Haselby The top song on Billboard’s Rhythm & Blues chart in 1967 was Jackie Wilson’s (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher. Once (he sang), he had been ‘down-hearted’. Then he found a special girl. Now he’s flying high. Next, compare the feeling of love in Wilson’s song with that of … Continue reading The love story story

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Mind of its own: Will “general AI” be like an alien invasion?

Fernando Kaskais

KEY TAKEAWAYS According to surveys, approximately half of artificial intelligence experts believe that general artificial intelligence will emerge by 2060.  General artificial intelligence (also called AGI) describes an artificial intelligence that’s able to understand or learn any intellectual task that a human being can perform.  Such an intelligence would be unlike anything humans have ever encountered, and it may pose significant dangers. by Louis Rosenberg An alien species is headed toward earth. Many experts predict it will get here within 20 years, while others suggest it may take a little longer. Either way, there is little doubt it will arrive before … Continue reading Mind of its own: Will “general AI” be like an alien invasion?

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The Atom and the Doctrine of Identity: Quantum Pioneer Erwin Schrödinger on Bridging Eastern Philosophy and Western Science to Illuminate Consciousness

Fernando Kaskais

“The over-all number of minds is just one.” BY MARIA POPOVA “Our minds are all threaded together,” the twenty-one-year-old Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary in the first years of the twentieth century, “& all the world is mind.” Those were the dawning days of quantum mechanics, just beginning to illuminate a whole new order of golden threads holding the world together, just beginning to reverse-engineer the loom with nothing more than the human mind. A decade after Woolf’s death, the Nobel-winning quantum pioneer Erwin Schrödinger In October 1956, Schrödinger delivered a set of lectures at Trinity College under the title Mind and Matter, … Continue reading The Atom and the Doctrine of Identity: Quantum Pioneer Erwin Schrödinger on Bridging Eastern Philosophy and Western Science to Illuminate Consciousness

Freak U.S.A, Manipulation, Military, Politics, Russia, WarLeave a comment

AS WAR DRUMS BEAT FOR UKRAINE, REMEMBER, LIES AND PROPAGANDA STARTED NEARLY EVERY WAR IN US HISTORY

Fernando Kaskais

Don Via Jr., Guest Waking Times War is one of the most primitive and senseless manifestations of the human experience, so naturally, most sane people with families, ambitions and kind hearts want nothing to do with such things. Unfortunately, as we are seeing with the Ukraine / Russia escalation, governments thrive on war, as it gives them a pressing excuse to grab more power and take extrajudicial measures—both at home and abroad. To get around the obstacle of public opinion, governments have an extensive history of lying their way into war. This is hard to believe for people who think that government … Continue reading AS WAR DRUMS BEAT FOR UKRAINE, REMEMBER, LIES AND PROPAGANDA STARTED NEARLY EVERY WAR IN US HISTORY

Climate Change, Eco, Globalization, Planet, PoliticsLeave a comment

The power of water

Fernando Kaskais

Far more potent than oil or gold, water is a stream of geopolitical force that runs deep, feeding crops and building nations Giulio Boccaletti is an author, entrepreneur and senior executive. He is co-founder of the tech startup Chloris Geospatial, an honorary research associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford, and the author of Water: A Biography (2021). He lives in London. Edited by Pam Weintraub Agreat river encircles the world. It rises in the heartland of the United States and carries more water than the Mississippi and Yangtze rivers combined. One branch, its … Continue reading The power of water

Brain, Manipulation, Matrix, Philosophy, PsychologyLeave a comment

The man rethinking the definition of reality

Fernando Kaskais

By Tom Chatfield Across his career, the philosopher David Chalmers has challenged what we hold to be true about consciousness and the mind. As Tom Chatfield discovers, now he is questioning reality itself. If you woke up one day and discovered that you were living in a virtual world – that everything you’d ever known was, like the Matrix, a form of hyper-realistic simulation – what would this imply for your hopes, dreams and experiences? Would it reveal them all to be lies: deceptions devoid of authenticity? For most people, the intuitive answer to all these questions is “yes”. After … Continue reading The man rethinking the definition of reality

Buddhism, Esoteric, Metaphysics, Philosophy, PsychologyLeave a comment

Don’t Fear the Reaper

Fernando Kaskais

Life is uncertain. Love is not. By Susan Moon Iwasn’t at the hospital for the surgery, but Melody and her husband, Mischa, sat in the lobby beside the operating room for the whole three hours while Dr. P. threaded a tube from Friedel’s groin up through the artery, all the way to her neck, and put in a stent. When it was done, Melody called me to say that it had gone well, that Friedel came out of it smiling, and that Dr. P., also smiling, declared, “I’m proud of her!” Melody said, “Friedel’s powerful life force triumphed!” Death receded. When … Continue reading Don’t Fear the Reaper

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Slow sex, long life

Fernando Kaskais

Tokyo’s imperial archives advise what science now confirms: the secret of longevity lies in the gentle arts of the bedroom Denis Noble is emeritus professor of cardiovascular physiology at the University of Oxford. He was the first to develop computer models of the heart, published in Nature in 1960, and is one of the founders of the field of systems biology. His books include The Music of Life (2006) and Dance to the Tune of Life (2016). Edited by Pam Weintraub For more than 1,000 years, the Imperial Family of Japan and its physicians have preserved a treasure of oriental medicine: the complete 30 scrolls of the Ishinhō, or … Continue reading Slow sex, long life

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Research confirms men with older brothers are more likely to be gay

Fernando Kaskais

Men with one older brother are 12% more likely to enter a same-sex union than those with a sister. Jan Kabatek and Christine Ablaza and Francisco Perales New research shows having a greater number of older brothers increases the probability of a person entering a same-sex union at some point in their lives. This finding, detailed in our paper published today in the Journal of Sex Research, offers a rare insight into the origins of sexual orientation. The origins of sexual orientation In recent decades, many countries have achieved remarkable progress towards equal treatment of LGBTIQ+ people, including greater public support and more protective legislation. But despite these … Continue reading Research confirms men with older brothers are more likely to be gay