Speedlinking 2/12/08
Quote of the day : "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." ~ Sir Winston Churchill Image of the day :... More »
Quote of the day : "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." ~ Sir Winston Churchill Image of the day :... More »
Quote of the day : "It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice... More »
Quote of the day : "The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution." ~ Hannah, Arednt Image of the day : BODY ~ Fructose - The Sweet Nectar of Body... More »
[ image source ] Today's Daily Dharma from Tricycle -- a whole different take on consciousness . Empty Phenomena Rolling On The Buddha described what we call “self” as a collection of aggregates –... More »
The LA Times has an interesting editorial by Jonah Lehrer, called Misreading the Mind . The article is an impassioned defense of subjective experience -- what is often thought of as consciousness -- against the... More »
An interesting, though brief, defense of mind and soul from the onslaught of rationalist, reductionist models that "computerize" the brain and discard the idea of consciousness. But Searle's concept of "intentionality" still is not sufficient... More »
The still emerging field of neuroscience has revolutionized our understanding of human behavior and the human mind. We now know that certain chemicals (or the lack of them) in the brain can cause specific mental... More »
Quote of the day : "Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake,... More »
Quote of the day : "The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche Image of the day : BODY ~ Getting The Truth About... More »
Today's Daily Dharma from Tricycle : Luminosity and Knowing With persistent practice, consciousness may eventually be perceived or felt as an entity of mere luminosity and knowing, to which anything is capable of appearing... More »