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“It is the same with thinking, which is really silent talking” One of the ideas I’ve been wrestling with since reading Jaynes has been this idea of other people’s thoughts in our minds. Thinking is silent talking; listening is letting someone else think for a moment. When you’
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“By trying to understand everything in terms of memory, the past, and words, we have, as it were, had our noses in the guidebook for most of our lives, and have never looked at the view” Memory is a fiction, and words are fiction, and they allow us to ignore
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“The pain is inescapable, and resistance as a defense only makes it worse; the whole system is jarred by the shock” This is what I was telling my son about getting a shot - if you tense up you make it worse. This week I have to go to the
Writing
Was walking down the sidewalk, and this squirrel ran from the yard across the concrete and ran up a tree, but then he stopped and turned and looked at me, chirping softly. I wonder if someone’s been feeding him, or maybe he figured I wasn’t a threat. Anyway,
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Maybe you’re meant to be constantly remaking your system, keeps it from getting static There’s something to that, right, the never ending project, the never ending work of perfection You work on it until it slips into the background, you work on it until it all becomes habit,
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time.com/6220951/colonial-america-is-a-myth/
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“We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so brief that we cannot even think about it before it has gone. From another point of view, this moment is always here, since we know no other moment
Autism
Dear Friends, I am so loving how my peers have flourished in diverse interests since gaining access to communication! It is so inspiring to me to see… Laughter Liberated I’ve been curious for a long time now about how technology can help non-speakers communicate. Leo shares a wonderful interview
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“We are struggling to make sure of the permanence, continuity, and safety of this enduring core, this center and soul of our being which we call “I.” For this we think to be the real man—the thinker of our thoughts, the feeler of our feelings, and the knower of
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www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/francis-fukuyama-still-end-history/671761/
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“I can only think seriously of trying to live up to an ideal, to improve myself, if I am split in two pieces. There must be a good “I” who is going to improve the bad “me.” “I,” who has the best intentions, will go to work on wayward “me,
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“The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality.” Excerpt From: Alan Watts & Deepak Chopra. “The Wisdom of Insecurity.” Knopf