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A Practical Guide to Mindfulness (Tessa Watt)
Mindfulness is practice, not words
Mindfulness is about experience, not just words and concepts. To get the most from this book, you’ll need to do more than read – you’ll need to actually do the practices. Take your time. See if you can resist the urge to rush through to the end and ‘get somewhere’ quickly. It’s…
Listening to the body from the inside
When we go running or to the gym or to pilates class we may push through pain to exert our control over the body. When we eat, how often do we find that ‘our eyes are bigger than our stomach’ or that we are satisfying cravings that have little to do with what the body really…
Becoming A Master Of The Time-scarcity Demon : Zen Habits
Greed and time scarcity
The problem isn’t that we have too little time — we all get the same amount of time each day and each week. It’s the exact right amount of time, because it’s all there is. It’s possible that we have too many things to do. But actually the real problem is that we want to do too…
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Irreducible subjectivity
As far as we can tell, certain patterns of activity in this distributed network give rise to conscious experience. But fundamentally, this network’s activity is self-contained and the feeling of a unified flow of consciousness you have is not just from the processing of sensory…
Confusing experience with knowledge
Again in an email correspondence with Riccardo Manzotti he says: There is a confusion between experience and knowledge, which is the same as saying that there is a confusion between phenomenology and epistemology. Since we do both with our minds, a lot of people confuse the…
Concepts describe the world, experience is of it
One may be aware of one’s concepts and mental operations but that is the result of one’s capability of being conscious of the world (and thus also of certain internal tools to describe the world). In other words, we should not mix the concepts that we use to describe the world…
Condemned to treat representations as the world
“Many people would accept that we do not really have knowledge of the world; we have knowledge only of our representations of the world. Yet we seem condemned by our constitution to treat these representations as if they were the world, for our everyday experience feels as if…
Trust the speeding bus anyway
Even if our experience of the world is fundamentally no different from a hallucination, we should take our conscious experience of the world very seriously. Hoffman uses the example of seeing a bus speeding toward us as we walk across the street. We had better trust this…
Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
Real parenting is richer than the data
The real world of moms and dads is a much richer, much more amazing experience than the two-dimensional world of data, including all the stuff in this book. It’s easy to feel like the exasperated new father in the comic strip Baby Blues, who says, “The only time I ever felt…
Durante (Andrea De Carlo)
Profondità o varietà: vivere al riparo dal mondo
Più Ingrid andava avanti a mostrarci e commentare le sue fotografie, più avevo la sensazione che io e sua sorella fossimo invece rimasti immobili, bloccati nello stesso luogo e nelle stesse sensazioni come i nostri due telai erano bloccati sul pavimento del laboratorio. Provavo…
Una vita per ogni finestra aperta
“Ma tu quante vite hai?” ho detto. “Quelle che mi sono capitate” ha detto lui. “Ogni volta che hai incontrato una donna interessante?” ho detto. “Ogni volta che una donna mi ha lasciato guardare dalla sua finestra” ha detto lui. “Ogni volta che mi ha invitato a entrare.”
I, Steve: Steve Jobs In His Own Words Via 200 Quotes | Brain Pickings
Creativity
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve…
La Formica Zen (italian Edition) ( )
Tre vie alla saggezza
Con tre metodi possiamo imparare la saggezza: in primo luogo, dalla riflessione, che è più nobile, in secondo luogo, per imitazione, che è più facile; e la terza per esperienza, che è la più amara. (Confucio )
Leielui (italian Edition) (de Carlo, Andrea)
L'ennesima festa sulla spiaggia, già vissuta
Lui li segue sui ciottoli della spiaggia, disorientato come quando il sole è caduto improvvisamente oltre l’orizzonte dopo essere rimasto a spadroneggiare nel cielo tanto a lungo. Pensa che si è cacciato in questo guaio da solo; che non aveva nessun bisogno al mondo di…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle)
Qualia: the qualitative feel of experience
Conscious experiences have a qualitative aspect. There is a qualitative feel to drinking beer, which is quite different from the qualitative feel of listening to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Several philosophers have found it useful to introduce a technical term to describe this…
Life experience and innate capacities shape our desires
If we reject the externalist’s claim that intentional content is determined by external causal chains, what then does determine intentional content? Causally speaking, I do not think there is any general answer to this question except to say that our intentional contents are…
Son Attacks Apple After It Refuses To Unlock His Late Mother’s Ipad - News - Gadgets & Tech - The Independent
Digital legacy
After the funeral, her sons realised that Mrs Grant had failed to tell her sons her unique Apple ID password. “Funnily enough, I think she had bigger things to worry about,” Mr Grant blogged. The brothers attempted to restore the factory settings on the device, but were told by…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
We need the diaries of explorers
I have felt myself to be in the position of geographers or explorers of an earlier age, as they pushed into terra incognita. I am still not sure myself of exactly what happened, or of what I saw. In the words of Terence McKenna: The early approach with psychedelics was the…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
The separate ego is a fiction
the more it becomes clear that to be is to quarrel and to pursue self-interest, the more you are compelled to recognize your need for enemies to support you. In the same way, the more resolutely you plumb the question “Who or what am I?”—the more unavoidable is the realization…
Feeling yourself as the whole process of life
when you know for sure that your separate ego is a fiction, you actually feel yourself AS the whole process and pattern of life. Experience and experiencer become one experiencing, known and knower one knowing. Each organism experiences this from a different standpoint and in a…
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself—through our eyes and it’s
After people die, babies are born—and, unless they are automata, every one of them is, just as we ourselves were, the “I” experience coming again into being. The conditions of heredity and environment change, but each of those babies incarnates the same experience of being…
Memory and the ego as a stable mirror
The ego is somewhere behind the eyes and between the ears. It is as if there sat beneath the dome of the skull a controlling officer who wears earphones wired to the ears, and watches a television screen wired to the eyes. Before him stands a great panel of dials and switches…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
A sudden disappearance of the personal self
‘In one moment, everything that I had ever taken to be my personal self completely disappeared,’ she later recalled. ‘It was just gone. As I waited for the bus to approach, something in consciousness was loosening somehow. And when it got there … this reference point of an “I”…
An inner experiencer can't explain unity
You cannot explain the unity of experience by simply positing an inner, unified experiencer. That simply begs the question: how is unity of experience possible in the first place?
I am my baggage
it seems to me that a consistent set of personality traits is not a person. Janet’s metaphors seem to get it exactly wrong. I am my baggage. I am the layers that have grown on the onion, not the tiny core at the middle. We are precisely all the things we’ve accrued, the…
Kant's transcendental unity of apperception
Cassam follows in the footsteps of Immanuel Kant, who argued that for experience of the world to be possible, there has to be a fundamental unity within the subject of experience which allows the world to be perceived. Kant calls this the ‘transcendental unity of apperception’…
Self-experience exists whether or not selves do
I may have to think of myself as having a unity over time, but that does not mean that I really have it. How we must think about things at certain times, for certain purposes, in certain ways, does not necessarily tells us about how they actually are. Kant recognised this: ‘The…
Ego-less experience is not more veridical
Similarly, if we are to see ourselves as we really are, we will always see a self there. Ego-less experience is not somehow more veridical than ego experience.
The One Day When Christians And Atheists Sing From The Same Hymn Sheet | Giles Fraser | Comment | The Guardian
Religious experiences can be explained in terms of brain chemistry
I also refrained from mentioning that many it is now common knowledge that religious experiences such as a sudden overwhelming feeling of onesness with God, are merely the result of chemical reactions in the brain involving serotonin and other chemicals that the body generates…
The Tao Of Topic Maps
Books need indexes as travellers need maps
Someone once said that “a book without an index is like a country without a map”. However interesting and worthwhile the experience of driving from A to B without a map might be in its own right, there can be no doubt that when the goal is to arrive at one's destination as…
Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney)
Children learn by doing
Dewey played a central role in the development of—and is most associated with—the progressive education movement in the United States. In Europe, Maria Montessori and Jean Piaget were spreading the same message. These early theorists all agreed that children learn from doing…
Education is living, not preparation for it
“I believe that education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living” (8). Dewey believed that education is part of life. He believed that as long as people are alive, they are learning, and education should address what the person needs to know…
Mis-educative experiences
Dewey avoided the either/or discussions so common to educational philosophy. He believed that the real issue is not a matter of new versus old approaches to education but rather what conditions make any experience worthy of being called “educational.” Dewey insisted that…
Disequilibrium and accommodation
Piaget believed that in the preoperational stage, children form ideas from their direct experiences in life. This is why telling children something is less effective than finding a way to help them think their own way through a problem. For example, if a child sees birds fly…
Tourism Is Just Another Form Of Narcissism | Vice United Kingdom
Traveling
Like the dude on safari who doesn’t lift his head from the lens, many of us have started holidaying to accumulate – stories, photos and experiences – rather than just letting the unfamiliar wash over us, and revelling in the surprise of unexpected things. We have become a…
Understanding Digital Humanities (david M. Berry)
Databases are not necessarily more objective than arguments
As Leigh Starr and Geoffrey Bowker have persuasively argued, the ordering of information is never neutral or value-free. Databases are not necessarily more objective than arguments, but they are different kinds of cultural forms, embodying different cognitive, technical…