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Blog Post: Consolidated Quotes - Ian Gardner as at 2016.

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Added by Ian Gardner at 22:09 on November 22, 2016

Comment on: Blog Post '[TIME]LESS • [TIME] • in[TIME]...': ter following the Cuban missile crisis, whilst studying for our 'A' Level GCE examinations, we then both heard that President Kennedy had been assassinated. As biologist Lynn Margulis points out, “life does not exist on Earth’s surface so much as it is Earth’s surface. . . . Earth is no more a planet-sized chunk of rock inhabited with life than your body is a skeleton infested with cells.”[5] Gaia’s radical challenge to traditional Darwinian biology is that life influences the environment. For Darwin, life was essentially passive, a process that was forced to adapt to a specific environment. Gaia theory shows that life and environment evolve as a single, coevolutionary process. On Earth, all life is an embodiment of the planetary environment, but the planetary environment is also product of life. Gaia theory and the new biology embodies the circular, metabolic logic of life. The universe brings forth life and mind—but life and mind work to shape the universe. Life and environment are folded back on themselves in a self-referential, evolutionary spiral. Gaia is not a single organism, but a superorganism. Like the single organisms of which it is comprised, it is self-regulating and autopoietic. Like my own body composed of many individual cells, Gaia has its own metabolism. As we breathe and exhale, we participate in the life-breath of the entire biosphere. Gaia theory is strongly supported by complexity science, which shows how complex systems with feedback loops spontaneously self-organize and develop metabolic patterns. From the Gaian perspective, our own lives are totally inseparable from the life of the larger planet. http://www.cosmopolisproject.org/gaia-theory-in-a-nutshell/ …; Added by Michael Grove at 15:19 on August 2, 2022

Blog Post: THE HUMAN BRAIN [IS] HARDWIRED NOT ONLY ...

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Added by Michael Grove at 16:21 on October 7, 2021

Comment on: Blog Post 'THE forces of NATURE v HOMOSAPIENS': berating, so I'd like to share it with you guys, because maybe there's someone else out there who hasn't thought about it like this either.Bullshit is different than lies. Lies are things that are totally untrue. Like if you tell me you checked the tire pressure, but you really didn't. Of course, I could say, "That's bullshit! You never checked the tires!" And grammatically I'd be correct. But bullshit can be a really liberating concept when used in a somewhat different way.Now, I'm going to pick on my Dad here, which is something I never do. I truly owe my Dad my life in many ways, and wherever he is, he knows how very much I love him. And in that same sense, he knows that when I quote him as I'm now going to do, it's not lies and it's not bullshit, but rather a chance to clear up some ancient bullshit that needs cleaning up. At least from my point of view. OK, I think I was about five, and we were talking about radio. Like how it works and where the sound comes from. And Dad says to me, "There will never be women announcers on the radio." And I asked, "Why not?" And he said, "Because radio catches a certain range of the human voice, and because of that women's voices sound harsh and grating on the radio. They don't sound pleasant, and nobody enjoys listening to them." I thought about that for a minute, and then I said, "But women sing on the radio all the time. And they sing with women's voices, and those sounds are on the radio, and people like it. So if a woman's singing voice can be on the radio, then why not a woman's talking voice?""Talking voices are different than singing voices," he answered. "Women sound fine singing on the radio, but their speaking voices are grating." "But women talk to little babies all the time," I objected. "And if their voices were so bad, wouldn't they make babies cry? But they don't. Women's voices are good at soothing babies." "Well soothing babies is one thing, and reading the news or announcing songs is something else. Nobody wants to listen to a woman read the news."Well, sorry to say, I took his word for it. I stopped critically thinking, and I stopped asking questions, and I just filed it away under, "People don't like to hear women's speaking voices on the radio." But what I had just done was I had swallowed a line of bullshit. The difference is that my Dad wasn't lying to me. He was sharing his convictions in a true and open manner, but his convictions were simply a collection of biases, baseless judgments and red herrings. It's just that he had managed to convince himself of them (the regrettable situation of believing your own bullshit), and then use them to overwhelm my still tender bullshit detectors. But now I've finally got my eyes open and I'm watching for bullshit everywhere! And it's not that I haven't been aware of bullshit, it's just that I never had a name for it before, because within my interior lexicon, I was wasting the term on garden variety lies. It's too bad that kids often grow up in entire family nets of bullshit and lies. It makes it very hard not to have some fairly hefty issues. Access: Public 27 Comments Print I endorse this! Flag for review views (1,306)…; Added by Michael Grove at 16:11 on December 13, 2010

Blog Post: ME•WE come from one another: Added by Michael Grove at 10:12 on March 29, 2010

Comment on: Blog Post 'some thoughts...': ity for self-reflective awareness, simply in order for them to be able to experience happiness? It's my conviction that we are here for a reason, that there is a grand and great purpose to our presence in this universe, and that none of us are going to truly find what we are looking for unless we get over our misguided pursuit of personal happiness and connect with that greater sense of purpose—that ultimate reason for being." — Andrew Cohen …; Added by Michael Grove at 9:09 on July 3, 2012

Video: I am angry at my reading and writing disability.: IT IS NO MEASURE of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. The Work of Byron Katie - www.TheWork.com and www.ByronKatie.com; Added by Michael Grove at 15:00 on November 19, 2010

Blog Post: Autodidacticism or self-education ...

IS education without the…

Added by Michael Grove at 22:59 on June 2, 2018

Blog Post: My Body, My Soul and I.: My body is mine, but my body is not me,

My body is an expression of my…; Added by Ian Gardner at 0:51 on April 21, 2015

Blog Post: Buckminster Fuller & 4D TIME: Added by Michael Grove at 5:39 on April 10, 2015

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