“Author Richard Watson examines emerging patterns and developments and society, politics, science and technology, media and entertainment, and other industries in his book Future Files: A History of the Next 50 Years — and makes educated, and witty speculations as to where they might take us.” Source: Fast Company; Five Trends That Will Transform Society […]
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Human built-in empathy ?
May 21, 2007 
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The following quotations are from a 2005 article from The New York Times. The article is titled: “A Career Spent Learning How the Mind Emerges From the Brain.” It features a brief conversation with Dr. Michael Gazzaniga, a Psychologist (Cognitive Neurosciece) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. While I recommend that you read the […]
Read moreLanguages are complex dynamic systems
May 17, 2007 0 Comments
Gloria Capelli, a teacher and researcher at the University of Pisa has an interesting post on language: “…languages are complex dynamic systems within which different types of structures act as organizers in order to make it possible for cognition to handle the immense amount of information involved in the communicative process. Within this view…words act […]
Read moreQuestions: An essential part of life ?
May 14, 2007 0 Comments
I challenge you to think without asking yourself a single question for 5 minutes. If you are able to do that then perhaps you’re probably already a Zen master or on your way to become one. But I highly doubt anyonce can stop process of internal inquiry at all levels of the human body. The […]
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The age of machine-mediated empiricism
May 3, 2007 0 Comments
Traditional human-based empiricism as we knew it through many years ended with the advent of technology. It shifted and became a hybrid of linear mechanics and phenomenology. Today it is another type of hybrid it, is a hybrid of human phenomenology and digital phenomenology. Since science leads our concept of reality and science uses quite […]
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The timeless hopi
May 1, 2007 0 Comments
Time and language are interconnected Within the borders of what we now call the United States there are a few areas where time doesn’t exist. Linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf reported after studying the Hopi cultures that: “… the Hopi language is seen to contain no words, grammatical forms, construction or expressions that refer directly to […]
Read moreThe Future is Behind Us
October 25, 2006 0 Comments
New analysis of the language and gesture of South America’s indigenous Aymara people indicates they have a concept of time opposite to all the world’s studied cultures — so that the past is ahead of them and the future behind Read More>>
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