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In my earlier post on Buddhist psychology I noted that the feeling sense is part of the thought process, prior to understanding, integral to the mind formation as an atom is to a molecule. Now via Kurzweil I came upon new research review which supports the fact that our feelings of attraction and repulsion are basic parts of perception: New research from Carnegie . . . → Read More: Science catches up with Buddhism Lama Surya Das, a buddhist monk who grew up a Jewish kid from Long Island, writes pithily in this book on the sense of time and the Dharma: It’s always now. Not earlier, not later, not yesterday, not tomorrow, but right now. 
One of the kernels of Buddhist psychology is, in my limited understanding the idea of the cittas. The mind produces thoughts like bubbles on a stream. They arise, persist for a while and pass away. But the mental productions are more than just the thoughts that we identify as ego thoughts in Western psychology and metaphysics. They are also the physical, the world, matter, the universe. The whole of the arising and passing away of these mind things, citta, are what is called samsara, the stream of birth and death. . . . → Read More: The mind, citta and cetasikas Mike Konczal has been doing great work decoding the #OWS movement on his blog. His recent post on Occupy and General Strike Links reminds via Nietzsche and Michelle Ty that while creditors wager their money, debtors wager their bodies: Although the defense of public education may seem a remote or peripheral concern of the occupy movement, the connection between the two is indisputable. . . . → Read More: Bodily wagers Paul Allen has written in Technology Review on his view contra Kurzweil: The Singularity Isn’t Near . He mentions the “complexity brake” on scientific progress. . . . → Read More: Complexity brake on understanding the brain Single dose of hallucinogen may create lasting personality change. If you really would like to change your personality. I noted that as usual the researcher recruited students – more that half the participants had postgrad degrees. And most of them had spiritual leanings. Interesting result though for even a small sample size.
The immortality projects of singularity science bring with it a serious question of what it will be to continue to exist as a self. I look at Eastern and Western concepts of self in this thought about transcendent projects. . . . → Read More: The persistence of the self |
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