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#survival
Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
The brain learns in order to survive
First, I need to correct a misconception. Many well-meaning moms and dads think their child’s brain is interested in learning. That is not accurate. The brain is not interested in learning. The brain is interested in surviving. Every ability in our intellectual tool kit was…
Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana
The medium; the path of drift is a path without any choices
Both the living system and the medium change in congruence with one another. They change their structure / shape so that they fit together in a drift. The concept of drift does not imply a chaotic situation because it is being determined on a moment- to-moment basis by the…
Structural coupling
'Structural Coupling' is a term ( like adaptation ) which is used to refer to the systems structural correspondence with its medium. A structure-determined system is coupled to its domain of existence (medium) as long as its organisation is conserved and also as long as it…
Sexuality And Gender In The Classical World - Readings And Sources
Self-mastery as a soldier's virtue
Living in a fragmented and predatory world, the inhabitants of a Greek city-state, who could never afford to take the survival of their community completely for granted, attached great importance to the qualities required of a soldier: not only to strength and speed, in which…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
Mind at Large and the reducing valve
Earlier in his essay he had referred to possibilities broached by the English philosopher C. D. Broad. The function of the brain and nervous system and sense organs is in the main eliminative and not productive. Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Two questions of personal identity
One way of looking at this is that, rather than there being one question of personal identity, there are actually (at least) two different questions. There is a logical question about the identity of objects and the existential question about what matters to us about our…
Reincarnation is not survival of the self
Akong and Ringu’s lack of any felt connection with their previous incarnations, the absence of any clear evidence that someone even is a reincarnation, and the no-self doctrine of anattā: all these suggest that, whatever reincarnation is supposed to be, it is not about the…