Tag: God
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A mind anticipating everything… A human mind… God’s mind.
Scientists have shown how the brain anticipates all of the new situations that it may encounter in a lifetime by creating a special kind of neural network that is 'pre-adapted' to face any eventuality. A study shows that a seemingly miraculous pre-adaptation comes from connections between neurons that form recurrent loops where inputs can rebound…
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Don’t re-tweet if you wish to remember… Just draw. [OR: How the world is now lifeless]
In a digital world where information is at your fingertips, be prepared to hold on tight before it slips right through them. Research at Cornell University and Beijing University finds retweeting or otherwise sharing information creates a "cognitive overload" that interferes with learning and retaining what you've just seen. And this applies not only to…
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Ghosts… Depression… A dead God. The unseen problems of a “progressed” world…
It is exactly α hundred years since Sigmund Freud set pen to paper to write his groundbreaking paper Mourning and Melancholia. Published in 1917, Freud distinguished between two responses to loss: mourning, when the object of loss is clear and obvious, and thus can be emotionally processed; and melancholia, a state of being in which…
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Understanding God...
"Barlaam interpreting his apophatic theology as intellectual dialectic, and Gregory seeing it as concerned with the ineffable experience of God" (1) ... Western logic can understand God... Eastern intuition believes we can only feel God... Small moments, defining who we are. A conflict long gone. Influencing us still... Εάλω η Πόλις...
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Freedom of choice? Causality. Being "free" via slavery to the "laws"…
Professor Ted Honderich in his book On Determinism and Freedom (2005) argues that the notion of free will that lies behind all talk of choices and responsibility is incoherent, and cannot be assimilated to the account of physical reality the sciences have arrived at. In particular, Honderich objects to the notion of origination: that is,…
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