Michele Pasin / Quotes

The self is not a thing but a process

The fragility and robustness of the self is therefore no paradox, but another riddle that makes perfect sense when you understand enough about it. In short, the robustness of the self lies in the fact that it is not a thing at all, but a product of the complex interaction of parts of the brain and body.

Saved 23 April 2015

#self #process #brain #body

Every act of pity is a kind of prayer

Dead and naked he looked thinner, feebler somehow. I should’ve pitied him. Even if we never pity them at any other time, and in any other way, we should pity…

Shantaram (gregory David Roberts) #men #eyes #brain #heart #body #prayer

Seeing sight itself

Whenever I had approached such intensity before there’d been a whirring, then cracking sound in my head; this time, however, it wasn’t sound but sight that…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #perception #brain #body #psychedelics

A bubble popper (semantic assertions)

Here, inspired by the bubble-popping metaphor as much as by Popper himself, we propose a way in which research articles can become partially or wholly…

A Bubble Popper : Nature Genetics : Nature Research #experiments #constructs #hypothesis #process

An organism is what it does

To sum up: just as no thing or organism exists on its own, it does not act on its own. Furthermore, every organism is a process: thus the organism is not…

The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are #organisms #process #understanding #patterns

Backlog refinement or grooming (scrum)

This is the process of creating stories, decomposing stories into smaller ones when they are too large, refining the acceptance criteria for individual…

Scrum (software Development) - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia #process #types #one #time

Enantiodromia: extremes turn into their opposites

Historically, this is probably the extreme point of that swing of the intellectual pendulum which brought into fashion the Fully Automatic Model of the…

The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are #process #point