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Domain Of Experience
How do you experience keeping secrets from yourself or the wider “conscious”, if I may call it that? Freud spoke of the irrationality of a part of the mind he called the ID. Well… Rationality is a joke, but that’s beside my point. There is a domain of human experience that goes on all the…
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Public Domain
We all dream. Here is a simple trick you might enjoy practicing. The next time you have an animals attention, clear your mind, don’t think, and just fix your gaze on its eyes. Don’t analyze its eyes, just let your vision touch its vision. You might be surprised at how much you and the animal…
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Tap Into a Domain of Intelligence
Ray Kurzweil is projecting that in a matter of decades, we will have something the size of a laptop that dwarfs human intelligence thousands of times over. What do you think of that notion? I’m already scared of it. You needn’t be, though not for the reasons Kurzweil suggests in my view. I say don’t…
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Domain of Rational, Reasonable Behaviour
How about the opposite end of the brain, cerebral cortex? (rational, etc.) Ah, this is a very important part. We can never accept as rational that which makes us feel fear. Without exception, fearful behaviour for fearful circumstances are typically described as being insane. Where perception comes in… Let’s say I have a very acute…
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Domain of the Elementals
Perhaps another track of explanation. Shall we throw a bit of physics at this? Let’s go with the still predominant big bang. The singularity, before the moment of its explosive expansion, would have existed in a state of no time. No space equals no time. Infinite mass also equals infinite gravity. Well, at the moment…