In a previous post—Mercury Rising—we considered various measuring devices—used by scientists to record information about large, medium-sized and very small phenomena. One device briefly considered was the human body-mind itself. Now, let’s continue our exploration by taking a closer look at the human body-mind as a measuring apparatus. In particular, let’s address the question: what counts as …
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Mercury Rising
In a previous post—Star Light, Star Bright—I posed the question: What is meant by “observation” in various physics paradigms, and how does this relate (if at all) to Awareness as the final, ultimate perceiver/observer? And, as we saw, what is meant by “an observer” differs quite dramatically, between Newtonian, special relativity, and quantum mechanical paradigms. And this is quite …
Star Light, Star Bright …
Most of you will be familiar with the nursery rhyme: Star light, star bright, First star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, Have this wish I wish tonight. My current wish is a clearer understanding of what is meant by "observation" in various physics paradigms, and how this relates (if at all) to Awareness as the final, ultimate perceiver/observer. Starry Night I'll be returning …
Practice Notes: Detective Work, Part Two
To continue our exploration of the anesthesia experience, let’s now consider the recording and projecting capacities of the human brain—which all evidence reveals to be a super-sophisticated electrochemical device which plays a central role in the creation of our sensory and cognitive experience. Much of how the human organism thinks, perceives and interacts with the surrounding environment has …
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Practice Notes: Detective Work
You may be familiar with detective shows—e.g., Poirot, Inspector Morse, NCIS, Sherlock—whose plot periodically features a bad-guy who deletes a segment of security-camera footage, in order to commit a crime, unobserved. Heist Say, for instance, the bad-guy is planning a heist of a jewelry store. There are a variety of ways that security-camera footage might be eliminated: 1. Most crudely, the …
On To The Fields Of Praise
The Lover Of God In the wake of learning about the binding problem, what has come to mind are some of my favorite poems, and in particular great turns of line, whose power has much to do with a sudden shift in how our mind is constructing meaning: a slide from one narrative construction to another, which renders the whole construction process transparent, allowing the freedom of the unconstructed …