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Consciousness & Retrocausality
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Ideas & Questions
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An interesting experiment that suggests present actions can influence past events. Which is an interesting thing to even conceive, let alone find a way to test...
Amores Perros - 2000
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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A story about how 3 completely different groups of people's lives intersect at a car crash.
3 stories, one movie, all bound together by thwarted love and dogs.
Surprisingly good, although my reviews lend nothing to the praise it's received. Worthwhile.
Books I Have Read...
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Blog
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It's been almost a year getting rid of most of my books.
I made a list. Not complete, but as close as I'll get. It's a long list, so I'm throwing in a "Read More..." so it doesn't fill up the blog...
Extended Mind
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Ideas & Questions
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An interesting take on the idea of mind, that a substantial portion of it lies outside of our brain.
Link: Wikipedia on the Extended Mind Hypothesis
I regard this less as a Hypothesis than a way of reframing our ideas of mind - mind is shaped not only by our environment, is more than the sum of our own memories (think film and books), is in fact extended everywhere we can see and a great many places we cannot.
We can store our thoughts on paper, in computers, share them around the world, words, videos, can provoke responses, themselves extending our minds, our physical place - house, apartment, furnishings, knick-knacks, all contribute to the quality of mind, all are governed, managed, we can set up our computers, AI bot agents, to furnish us with news we want (or need), we can disregard the evidence of our senses and education in favour of what our phones tell us, our memories...
And - these media allow us to extend our mind both forward and backwards through time, we can remember fondly their acquisition just as others may remember us in the inheritance of said objects, the theory implies the existence of the person beyond their mortal lives...
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