tag > Philosophy
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Scientists are searching for a mirror universe. It could be sitting right in front of you
“At Oak Ridge National Laboratory in eastern Tennessee, physicist Leah Broussard is trying to open a portal to a parallel universe…She calls it an “oscillation” that would lead her to “mirror matter”.... A decade ago, Anatoli Serebrov of Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute in Russia introduced the idea that ordinary neutrons sometimes cross over into the mirror world and transform into mirror neutrons. At that point, we could no longer detect them — it would be as if some of the neutrons simply vanished”.
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"There is no need to prove them wrong or right... Just play!" - MonoNeon
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Charles Fort (1874 - 1932) - writer and researcher who specialized in anomalous phenomena
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The universe as like human brain: discover scientists
A new study finds similarities between the structures and processes of the human brain and the cosmic web. The research was carried out by an astrophysicist and a neurosurgeon. The two systems are vastly different in size but resemble each other in several key areas.
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The Ancient Indian Fable of the Blind Men and the Elephant.
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Five years ago, i had the pleasure of chatting with @vakibs about AI and a friendlier, more human world. After that, he wrote this insightful blog post. Fun to revisit today.
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"Science needs to be lived alongside religion, philosophy, history and aesthetic experiences; alone it can lead to great harm" - Joseph Needham in "Science and Civilization in China
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10 guiding principles for Tai Chi by T. T. Liang (1900 – 2002)
T. T. Liang (1900 – 2002) gives a talk on his 10 guiding principles for Tai Chi from his book “T’ai Chi Ch’uan for Health and Self-Defense”. This was filmed at the annual Zhang San Feng festival when he was 96 years old. T. T. Liang was a popular Tai Ch teacher in the United States. He was a senior disciple of the famous Cheng Man Ching, as well he studied with various teachers. After moving to the United States from Taiwan in 1964, he had taught Tai Chi for many years in Boston. When T.T. Liang retired from teaching at his school in Boston, he moved to St. Cloud, Minnesota in 1981 where he continued to teach.
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A delusion in which the patient believes that unsuspicious occurrences refer to him or her in person. Patients may, for example, believe that certain news bulletins have a direct reference to them, that music played on the radio is played for them, or that car licence plates have a meaning relevant to them. Ideas of reference differ from delusions of reference in that insight is retained.
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"Various medical authorities swarm in and out of here predicting I have between two days and two months to live. I think they are guessing. I remain cheerful and unimpressed. I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. I love you all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna flying. Please pardon my levity, I don't see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd." - Robert Anton Wilson (1932 - 2007)
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Building a Bridge to the 18th Century - talk by Neil Postman
"The problem of the 21st century is not to move information - not the engineering of information. We solved that a long time ago. The problem is how to transform information into knowledge and how to transform knowledge into wisdom. If we can solve that problem, all the rest will take care of itself." - Neil Postman
Related: "Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change" - by Neil Postman (1998)
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Balanced Life, Peaceful World - A Discussion with Wushu and Qigong Master Lee Feng-San
Pingshuai Gong - 平甩功 - a hand-swinging exercise pioneered by Taiwan Qigong (氣功）master Li Feng-shan (李鳳山）
Pingshuai Course—Live Webcast For The First Time
Pingshuai 30min exercise
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Hexagram 51 - Zhen (Shocking) - Yijing (I Ching) sign of the year 2021
"Success comes when you achieve tranquility in disturbance."
"Cultivate inner peace in turbulent times."
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The Useless Shu Tree - Zhuangzi - Chapter 1 (Carefree Living)
CC Tsai illustration: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Way_of_Nature/1ZuBDwAAQBAJ
Full text Translated by Burton Watson: https://terebess.hu/english/chuangtzu.htmlHui Tzu said to Chuang Tzu, "I have a big tree of the kind men call shu. Its trunk is too gnarled and bumpy to apply a measuring line to, its branches too bent and twisty to match up to a compass or square. You could stand it by the road and no carpenter would look at it twice. Your words, too, are big and useless, and so everyone alike spurns them!"
Chuang Tzu said, "Maybe you've never seen a wildcat or a weasel. It crouches down and hides, watching for something to come along. It leaps and races east and west, not hesitating to go high or low-until it falls into the trap and dies in the net. Then again there's the yak, big as a cloud covering the sky. It certainly knows how to be big, though it doesn't know how to catch rats. Now You have this big tree and you're distressed because it's useless. Why don't you plant it in Not-Even-Anything Village, or the field of Broad-and-Boundless, relax and do nothing by its side, or lie down for a free and easy sleep under it? Axes will never shorten its life, nothing can ever harm it. If there's no use for it, how can it come to grief or pain?"
