Let us all appreciate the smallest of moments, just as in this poem Thich Nhat Hanh tastes his tea as if the first time.
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Consciousness Explained is a full-scale exploration of human consciousness.
How did we get here? Where are we going? How will we get there? As individuals and on the societal level, these questions are at the heart of the human condition. The answers can provide a road map for how we live our lives.
It may be some way off, but mind uploading, the digital duplication of your mental essence, could expand human experience into a virtual afterlife.
Theories of consciousness come from religion, from philosophy, from cognitive science, but not so much from evolutionary biology.
In The Zen of Therapy, Mark Epstein weaves together two ways of understanding how humans can feel more settled in their lives.
Ira Glass of This American Life says, “Great stories happen to people who know how to tell them.
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You are who you are because of your environment. What happens in a virtual world in an environment created by another mind?
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundation for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
The question is no longer whether quantum theory is correct, but what it means.
Forget what you know or what you think you know about consciousness.