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The daughter, conversations, the big bang, the extinction of the dinosaurs, ... our own, seemingly inevitable extinction, trying to find, distill some meaning from it all ...
What matters.
I don't know.
Or I do, I think I do at least, have an intuitive grasp of beauty and those smaller - and larger moments, all too often alone, it would be nice to share them, but it's seldom worth the risk, to apprehend beauty in the company of fools - well, it makes it ugly, it in some ways devalues it, better to find it on your own. Which then maybe is a separate post, on the nature of beauty, not merely the sum of harmonious colors, symmetries and shapes, but ...? How to describe? Mathematicians describe beauty as well, and it has none of those qualities, and certain words, languages, have to the ear the same quality, and so there's a more worthwhile thought I can return to.
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An interesting long read on the consequences of "proving" the existence of ESP: https://slate.com/health-and-science/2017/06/daryl-bem-proved-esp-is-real-showed-science-is-broken.html
A lot there to digest.
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This is undervalued in education today. I mean, in areas of rote memorization it's important that you understand the "facts" as stated, somewhat, or merely be able to repeat them as required, although perhaps not as much as we think.
But for all the rest - and by this I mean "reasoning" and "skill" - wrong is every step on the stairway to being right. The fact that our education system penalizes wrong - well - perhaps the word itself is "wrong". Maybe instead of wrong we should assign a label of "persist" or "persist and correct" the orientation or direction of reasoning. We should be praising wrong as another step on the way to right.
In reasoning, and in everything involving effort, trial and error, experimentation, what-have-you -
...is that if you persist, and know that you are wrong, eventually you will be right. Eventually you'll paint better, etc etc - that we throw it out, but our mistakes are for learning - and for others as well,
too long discouraged by painting, writing shit, panning for....wrong, wrong, wrong, but - if the fool would but persist in his folly he would become wise -
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A short article with profound implications: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613092/a-quantum-experiment-suggests-theres-no-such-thing-as-objective-reality/
I've been doing a lot of reading on this & related topics lately, and so it's interesting to see the theories proven with Science. And - if you think about it - the implications are indeed profound.
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I've added this to my morning regime. (**REGIME** LOL THAT'S AN IN-JOKE FOR COFFEE, INTERNET AND CIGARETTES) For some reason I've taken a fancy to chilling in an ice bath for 10 minutes. I don't think I've ever done even a minute in the plunge pool at Ainsworth, although the daughter did 6 (I timed, told her her brother did 5 and so she had to beat him) - and the plunge pool, it's around 4-10 degrees Celsius, well above what Wim Hof is doing, tropical by comparison. His method? Well - it's - well, breathing - when you smoke - breathing can be a challenge. Breathing deep and holding your breath. And so by focusing on breathing I'm hoping to reduce the urge to smoke. Or - at the very least - get some oxygen to some seriously deprived cells. There can be no harm in this. The first time I tried it I held my breath for 2 minutes afterwards. Not bad. Although I could feel it in my chest the next day.
So, this on the list of morning things, before meditation (and it seems to cut into that time, there's an overlap for sure), and I'll let you know the results in a week or two...
Meanwhile, the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzCaZQqAs9I