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The Zen poem that unified a nation
If you’ve been reading this blog, you’ll know I was born on the Earth but now live on a planet 40 light years away (see earlier posts for more info). Most of my posts are from the book I wrote … Continue reading
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Tagged epistemology, haiku, peacemaking, Philosophy, prejudice, Zen poetry
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In response to WordPress writing challenge – 5 haiku for successive days.
As suggested at http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/11/25/challenge-haiku/#more-48826 My native country on this terraformed planet is tropical; all its flora and fauna are imported from someplace on Earth. There is no moon here so the night sky features endless stars. There are no fossil fuels … Continue reading
Liquid Courage: Alcoholism and its Deep Roots in Hunter-Gatherer Bravery – (please consider reblogging if you think it might help people)
At one point in the story I tell in This Moonless Sky, I found myself on a sailing ship fleeing ahead of an advancing, hostile navy – and there was nothing to do but wait it out as the crew … Continue reading
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Tagged Alcoholics Anonymous, alcoholism, disinhibition, human evolution, Hunter-gatherer
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The Zen of Bottle-Smashing
One evening, my friends Xus and Eleya (a boy-girl couple, both 17 like me as reckoned in Earth years) came out with my boyfriend Yith and I on one of those reckless-youth occasions – a drinking party around a campfire … Continue reading
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Tagged Basho, Cuevas de la Pileta, haiku, personal transformation, satori, savikalpa, Spain, Zen
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‘Things – are they clouds?’ (translation of French post by Jean-Paul Galibert below). My comment: Categories, labels and defined entities – how artificial are they?
Every item or thing has three states: – the cloud of causes – the thing – the cloud of effects The thing is only a pose (a phase, a moment) of the cloud. It’s the hyphen, the transitory concretion, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Conceptualization, Labels, maya, Philosophy of categorization, Stereotypes, tattva, taxonomy
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The delineation paradox – the key to understanding conceptualization.
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Les choses sont-elles des nuages? / Categories, labels and defined entities – how artificial are they?
Originally posted on existences!:
Toute chose a trois états : – le nuage des causes – la chose – le nuage des effets. La chose n’est qu’une pose, (une phase, un moment) du nuage. Elle est le trait d’union, la concrétion…
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Artificial Intelligence: how mechanized aliens make decisions, in contrast to autistic and conventional humans. Part 1 (of 2). Human decisions: I take a sip of champagne.
The mechanized aliens who transported me from Earth to my new planet were once biological. They were four-legged and used their mouthparts as hands, in a way that they say would remind us of shrimp. Nowadays, they are shy about … Continue reading
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Tagged Artificial intelligence, Free will, Fulani, Philosophy
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What’s it like to travel on another planet?
As I mentioned, my new home planet was terra-formed with plants, animals, humans and microbes from the Earth. The only intelligent aliens I’ve met are the spaceship crew who transported me here. Still, humans themselves can be pretty odd. Not … Continue reading
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