Monday, January 28, 2013
What Is Consciousness? Go to the Video! | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network
What Is Consciousness? Go to the Video! | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network:
"Various scholars have tried to explain consciousness in long articles and books, but one neuroscience pioneer has just released an unusual video blog to get the point across. In the sharply filmed and edited production, Joseph LeDoux, a renowned expert on the emotional brain at New York University, interrogates his NYU colleague Ned Block on the nature of consciousness. Block is a professor of philosophy, psychology and neural science and is considered a leading thinker on the subject. The interview ends with a transition into a music video performed by LeDoux’s longstanding band, the Amygdaloids. The whole exercise is a bit quirky, yet it succeeds in explaining consciousness in simple, even entertaining terms."
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"Various scholars have tried to explain consciousness in long articles and books, but one neuroscience pioneer has just released an unusual video blog to get the point across. In the sharply filmed and edited production, Joseph LeDoux, a renowned expert on the emotional brain at New York University, interrogates his NYU colleague Ned Block on the nature of consciousness. Block is a professor of philosophy, psychology and neural science and is considered a leading thinker on the subject. The interview ends with a transition into a music video performed by LeDoux’s longstanding band, the Amygdaloids. The whole exercise is a bit quirky, yet it succeeds in explaining consciousness in simple, even entertaining terms."
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Path to Citizenship
Read announcement in NYT.
Finally Americans understood that Mexicans already here should stay!
This is a historic moment brought by the political participation of those Mexicans:
In 2006 Millions of people participated in marches all over the US, read in Wikipedia.
The straw that broke the camel's back, was the election of Obama last year. Seventy percent of legal Mexicans voted for him, because he promised to do what he will announce tomorrow.
Provide a Path to Citizenship.
Finally Americans understood that Mexicans already here should stay!
This is a historic moment brought by the political participation of those Mexicans:
In 2006 Millions of people participated in marches all over the US, read in Wikipedia.
The straw that broke the camel's back, was the election of Obama last year. Seventy percent of legal Mexicans voted for him, because he promised to do what he will announce tomorrow.
Provide a Path to Citizenship.
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Monday, January 21, 2013
Abraham Lincoln, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Barack Hussein Obama
I saw Steven Spielberg's movie, listened to the president's Inauguration speech, and read the NYT. Also I have been thinking about consciousness the last few weeks. Here you can read what I have to say about these three men.
From the NYT:
"Security in Washington was tight as Mr. Obama, the nation’s first black president, delivered his second Inaugural Address from the Capitol just before noon. Speaking on the day the nation sets aside to honor the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mr. Obama took his oath with his hand on two Bibles: one once owned by Dr. King and another once owned by Abraham Lincoln."
Another relevant passage for this note is:
"The president has already unveiled his proposals to reduce gun violence amid fierce opposition from gun owners, the National Rifle Association and many Republican lawmakers. Aides say Mr. Obama will soon begin the immigration fight as well, perhaps as soon as next month, when he delivers his State of the Union speech."
This note is also informed by Jared Diamond's new book: "The World Until Yesterday".
Let me start with the fragility of life.
After Lincoln constructed a new Social Consciousness, by passing the Thirteenth amendment to the constitution, he was slain by Booth, after MLK delivered an important speech he was killed by Ray. I hope nothing happens to Obama, but he knows history.
Diamond writes about non-state societies, where sometimes differences are resolved violently. I come from a region in Mexico, where even seventy years ago, if not even more recently, neighbors keep grudges very much alive.
Given that fragility of life, it is a miracle that we keep building Social Consciousness.
Consciousness.
Enrico Fermi asked many years ago: Where are they? He was referring to the intelligent beings, that should exist in other planets, given current scientific knowledge. We are the only conscious beings in the known Universe.
I know more than Fermi knew, and the question is even more unsettling now.
From the NYT:
"Security in Washington was tight as Mr. Obama, the nation’s first black president, delivered his second Inaugural Address from the Capitol just before noon. Speaking on the day the nation sets aside to honor the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mr. Obama took his oath with his hand on two Bibles: one once owned by Dr. King and another once owned by Abraham Lincoln."
Another relevant passage for this note is:
"The president has already unveiled his proposals to reduce gun violence amid fierce opposition from gun owners, the National Rifle Association and many Republican lawmakers. Aides say Mr. Obama will soon begin the immigration fight as well, perhaps as soon as next month, when he delivers his State of the Union speech."
This note is also informed by Jared Diamond's new book: "The World Until Yesterday".
Let me start with the fragility of life.
After Lincoln constructed a new Social Consciousness, by passing the Thirteenth amendment to the constitution, he was slain by Booth, after MLK delivered an important speech he was killed by Ray. I hope nothing happens to Obama, but he knows history.
Diamond writes about non-state societies, where sometimes differences are resolved violently. I come from a region in Mexico, where even seventy years ago, if not even more recently, neighbors keep grudges very much alive.
Given that fragility of life, it is a miracle that we keep building Social Consciousness.
Consciousness.
Enrico Fermi asked many years ago: Where are they? He was referring to the intelligent beings, that should exist in other planets, given current scientific knowledge. We are the only conscious beings in the known Universe.
I know more than Fermi knew, and the question is even more unsettling now.
He is Perfect
I am watching Barack H. Obama, he made a little mistake in repeating the words for the assumption of power. Because he is human, he is perfect.
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Otomis
In the town of Pahuatlan live the Otomis and the Nahuas. These people have been there for thousands of years. They've seen Aztec and Spaniard contests, and are still there keeping "The Consciousness of the Universe" alive. A few westerners have talked to them, but I personally do not know what the Otomis know. Consciousness is an emergent property of matter, and now we have a worldwide accepted cosmology. Using the scientific method we know that the stage we are going through, started more than thirteen thousand million years ago, with the process known as the Big Bang.
I only know one person from Pahuatlan, he is light skinned, so I assume he is not Otomi. He told me that when he was a kid, he could walk anywhere he wanted in town, like if it was his playground.
Professor Jacques Galinier has visited them since 1969. He gave a lecture in Puebla yesterday.
According to the Current Cosmovision, the only consciousness in the Universe exists on Earth. It is fundamental, first that we recognize this fact, and second that we start intelligent conversation with Human minds here on Earth.
I only know one person from Pahuatlan, he is light skinned, so I assume he is not Otomi. He told me that when he was a kid, he could walk anywhere he wanted in town, like if it was his playground.
Professor Jacques Galinier has visited them since 1969. He gave a lecture in Puebla yesterday.
According to the Current Cosmovision, the only consciousness in the Universe exists on Earth. It is fundamental, first that we recognize this fact, and second that we start intelligent conversation with Human minds here on Earth.
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