Category: Tao
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The real meaning of Tao: Everything possible. Illogical. Thus true.
People see patterns and rules everywhere. But these patterns and rules are elusive. A pattern could be there and you could “see” it, but if you interpret the data in a different way or if you examine the context of your observations, you could “know” that there is no pattern and you could stop “seeing”…
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Learning rules. Having false memories…
Our tendency to create false memories could be related to our ability to learn rules according to new research. New research suggests that individuals who are particularly good at learning rules and classifying objects by common properties are also particularly prone to false memory illusions. (1) Forget whatever you have learned. It is the only…
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Standing still to go forward…
Nearly a decade after it landed on Mars, NASA’s Opportunity rover is about to get a fresh start. Opportunity’s engineers plan to reformat its flash memory, which is good news, as the rover’s mission has been renewed for another two years, Nature News reports. (1) The more we move on, the more we forget where…
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Transplants, wisdom, (un)learning…
There’s a better way to deal with rejection. People who have received a donor organ need to take a host of toxic drugs to stop their immune system attacking it. Soon they might just have their immune system rebooted – making it accept the new organ. (1) Your body shows the way into enlightenment. Unlearn…
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Microbes, arrogance, wrong perceptions.
Methane-producing microbes may be responsible for the largest mass extinction in Earth’s history. Fossil remains show that sometime around 252 million years ago, about 90 percent of all species on Earth were suddenly wiped out — by far the largest of this planet’s five known mass extinctions. It turns out that Methanosarcina had acquired a…
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