11 Nov, 2024
"Ignorance is bliss", according to an 18th-century poem by Thomas Gray. Listening to ignorance can be quite funny, unlike arrogance. Hence, I wonder if the ignorance of the conservative-right has beaten the arrogance of the liberal-left on November 5. To some extent, the same is happening in Europe. The arrogance of the liberal-left manifests itself in topics like...
17 Oct, 2024
Intro LO: In my view, the impact of this Quanta Magazine article reaches much and much further than its topic, being: even a single bacterial cell senses seasonal change. Hence, my blog title: consciousness on a cellular level. Lately, many more articles are about consciousness in other life-forms than humans (eg, animals, plants and trees). The (alleged)...
10 Oct, 2024
Recently, the Psychological Bulletin published a “meta-analytic review of the association between mental effort and negative affect”. That review was entitled as “The unpleasantness of thinking”. I agree that “critical thinking is not just hard work but also mentally draining”. I disagree that it’s “often unpleasant”. Source: The Debrief, covering the recent...
2 Sep, 2024
When you look at the Universe then you will notice (at least) two things: (centrifugal) force (eg, orbits) and matter (eg, moons, planets, suns). Where does that (centrifugal) force come from?? In case of humans, the answer would - probably - be Life. I suppose author Duane Elgin (b.1943) has a similar view and answer and/or solution, given this quote from his...
29 Aug, 2024
Until writing this blog, I had assumed there was one main mystery in life: Consciousness. Remarkably, there is another one: Light. It feels to me that both mysteries might be (very much) related. Even sleep might be related. “The exact nature of visible light is a mystery that has puzzled humans for centuries, with many scientists and philosophers striving to answer...
26 Aug, 2024
My previous blogs were about dimensions that are familiar to us: Space (Length x Width x Height) and Time (eg, yesterday, today, tomorrow). In my view, there is also an Energy + Matter dimension. Matter is only considered matter when sunlight reflects on it (source). Hence, dark matter would be invisible to us. "In astronomy, dark matter is a...
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