Tag: Dasein
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Time moving forward. Time moving backwards…
Most of our lives revolve around time, from the instant our alarm clocks go off to attending afternoon appointments to the moment we call bedtime. Tick tock. But what exactly is time, and why is it always marching forward? A new paper suggests that the arrow of time – a term given to the forward…
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Is consciousness more important than intelligence? Work. Humans. Doing nothing.
Until today, high intelligence always went hand-in-hand with a developed consciousness. Only conscious beings could perform tasks that required a lot of intelligence, such as playing chess, driving cars, diagnosing diseases or writing articles. However, today we are developing new types of non-conscious intelligence that can perform these tasks far better than humans. This raises a…
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Go backwards. Surprise the Universe!
Driving to work becomes routine — but could you drive the entire way in reverse gear? Humans, like many animals, are accustomed to seeing objects pass behind us as we go forward. Moving backwards feels unnatural. In a new study, scientists from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) reveal that moving forward actually trains the brain…
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Killed by lightning. Ancient tribes. Being.
Eleven Wiwa Indians killed by lightning during a tribal ceremony in Colombia’s Sierra Nevada mountains will be left unburied where they died according to their traditions, an official said Sunday. The community of about 60 families will abandon their remote village in the wake of Monday’s tragedy, but it was not yet clear where they…
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Flowers. Being. For ever.
A flower. Creating seeds. Future and past locked together. Paused in time. (1) We can see them as if we were there. But wouldn’t we always see them if we were there? Time is just another dimension… The flowers are here now. The flowers existed back then. Always. Along with us. I will always be…
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