Unknown quality was born...

Gravity Is a Choice

Gravity isn't a (physical) law but a choice, an act of (psychological, that is, relational) attraction.

Prove me wrong, Physicist:

Made of atoms yourself, show me that an atom doesn't feel!

A Medium of Communication

A medium of truly discrete parts conducts no waves.

A wave is not the behavior of parts but the behavior of the medium.

A medium that conducts no waves is not a medium.

If so, then what is a medium?

Medium is communication.

Atomic Behavior

Atom is not an entity of matter.

Atom is the behavior of matter.

Sometimes matter spaces out, wave-like.

Sometimes matter atoms in, particle-like.

No particle-wave duality here, just choices.

Mathematics is Literature

Mathematics is not science. Mathematics is art. Mathematics is quantitative (rather than qualitative) literature (in a number of languages). And just like literature, the art of mathematics has two broad genres - that of fiction and that of non-fiction.

Enjoy the Deconstruction, Luddite of Nonduality!

Dichotomy of organic/inorganic is ethnocentrism. If the matter that is writing and reading this sentence is alive (and It is!), why wouldn't any and all matter be alive? The division of matter into "Inanimate/Inorganic" and "Animate/Organic" is the first and the last dichotomy to collapse for any democratically-cosmological mind. Enjoy the deconstruction, Luddite of Nonduality!

We are all equally endowed with willpower but we differ in the power of habits that we have ourselves created and have now to struggle with. We also differ in terms of the skillpower (e.g. craving control skills, emotional self-regulation skills) that we bring to the fight with the habit-power.

"Все, что расслабляется, расслабляется ради того, чтобы ИСЧЕЗНУТЬ." (Georgy Somov)

Мысли В Догонку

Undifferentiated matter (which we experience as space or emptiness) doesn't know where it is: that which is pre-self is also pre-orientation. Undifferentiated matter - being pre-self - is also everywhere (since it knows no boundaries of self-hood yet) and is, thus, pre-orientation (since space-like undifferentiated matter is connected all throughout into one phenomenologically-sterile medium). Just a latent thought to go along with "History of the Next Big Bang" project...

Fantasies of Meaning

Survival is its own measure of life's success. Accomplishments and other wild fantasies of meaning are just the "hunger games" of any given civilization.

It Does

Seems like mind is inside the body. But is it?

Does not the object populate its own subjectivity?

Does not flesh suffer within the medium of its experience?

Does not body live experientially inside its perception of the outside reality?

Living Rock

So much of the mineral side of this planet hasn't yet had a chance to experience itself biologically. The entire oceans of molten lava have yet to pour out of the Earth's core onto its surface, then to cool, then to become rock, then - over millions of years - to be eventually eroded by wind into the fine mineral dust that may or may not one day become incorporate into some conscious life-form that will look at its own bones on an X-ray and say "Wow!"

What a privilege to be this living rock that I am.

Student of Consciousness

I - this here-and-now Mind-Form - am a student of this Consciousness-Essence. Ever learning, ever ignorant.

Congrats On Your Unfocused Mind

An excerpt from "Attention Surplus" (which is "a hundred meditative thoughts that reframe the concept of ADD from a strength- and empowerment-based perspective"):

1. A focused mind is a closed mind: to pay attention to one thing is to ignore another thing.

3. Mind is one-track: to pay attention to “this” is to ignore “that.”

4. Attention is zero-sum: to see one thing is to be blind to another thing.

5. That’s how attention works.  And that is normal.

6. To focus is to zoom in.

7. To zoom in is to notice the Small, the Specific, the Particular, the Detail.

8. To zoom in is to ignore the Big Picture, to lose sight of the rest of what exists.

9. Thus, to focus on the Small is to ignore the Large.

10.  Thus, to focus on one thing is to close your mind to the rest of what currently exists.

11.  To focus on a detail, on the specific is to ignore the Context.  And this can be dangerous!

12.  Realize: to pay too much attention to a banana is to ignore a jungle full of snakes.

13.  Understand: hyper-focus is an evolutionary risk.

14.  Realize: sustained attention is costly.

15.  Understand: a hyper-focused mind potentially puts its own body at risk.

16.  Thus, a focused mind is not just a closed mind but also an unsafe mind.

17.  We weren’t built to lose, we were built to survive.  This is true for you, me and all of us.

18.  Understand: your so-called “attention deficit” is not a deficit but an adaptation.

19.  Realize: your so-called “attention deficit” is not a problem but a solution.

20.  Understand: your so-called “attention deficit” is actually a surplus of attention.

21.  An unfocused mind is an open mind.

22.  An unfocused mind is a fluid mind.

23.  An unfocused mind doesn’t get stuck on one thing: it scans the Context.

24.  An unfocused mind is context-ready.

25.  An unfocused mind is open to anything and is thus ever-ready.

26.  An unfocused mind is an evolutionary asset, not an evolutionary liability.

27.  Congratulations to you if you have an unfocused mind!

"Attention Surplus: Rethinking ADD" (P.  Somov, 2012)

Bias & Ignorance of Justice

Blind justice (that doesn’t see the inevitable context of any given event) isn’t justice.  Such blind justice is plain old ignorance.

But the justice that sees (the justice that factors in the context) is no justice either.  The justice without the blindfold - the justice that looks at you, sees you as you, and then judges you according to your perfectly imperfect limitations – is simply the bias of compassion.

To restate: blind justice is ignorance and justice that sees is bias.

So, what do we have here?  A word “justice.”  An empty word and a bit of old poetry: “Justice is just what is” (1).

The word “forgiveness” has a lot more existential resonance to my ear than the empty legalistic echo of the word “justice.”

References:

(1) Totem of Tautology: From a Sense of “i” to a Sense of Awe! (P. Somov)

Life & Death of Matter

Death is the safest state of matter. Life is the most dangerous state of matter. But curiously, matter is unborn and undying - it always was and it always will be. So, go figure.

Music of Programming

Much of philosphizing life is like trying to get a player piano play an original tune for the first time.

GMO Film Project (Jeremy Seifert)

http://www.gmofilm.com/

GMO is a new film project by Jeremy Seifert (Dive!)

"THE GMO FILM PROJECT tells the story of a father's discovery of GMOs through the symbolic act of poor Haitian farmers burning seeds in defiance of Monsanto's gift of 475 tons of hybrid corn and vegetable seeds to Haiti shortly after the devastating earthquake of January 2010. After a journey to Haiti to learn why hungry farmers would burn seeds, the real awakening of what has happened to our food in the US, what we are feeding our families, and what is at stake for the global food supply unfolds in a trip across the United States and other countries in search of answers. Are we at a tipping point? Is it time to take back our food? The encroaching darkness of unknown health and environmental risks, seed take over, chemical toxins, and food monopoly meets with the light of a growing resistance of organic farmers, concerned citizens, and a burgeoning movement to take back what we have lost.

Today in the United States, by the simple act of feeding ourselves, we unwittingly participate in the largest experiment ever conducted on human beings. Massive agro-chemical companies like Monsanto (Agent Orange) and Dow (Napalm) are feeding us genetically-modified food, GMOs, that have never been fully tested and aren't labeled. This small handful of corporations is tightening their grip on the world's food supply—buying, modifying, and patenting seeds to ensure total control over everything we eat. We still have time to heal the planet, feed the world, and live sustainably. But we have to start now!"

Something

What can be known? Everything. Nothing.

Teleological Trajectories

There is a kind of apriori forwardness to how we process information. Watch a worm crawl around - this is what we are, just on legs, in cars, with cell phones. We are information-processing tubes and because our biological architecture is that of a tube (a mouth, a stomach, an anus) our minds are of an input/relay/output circuit. We metabolize the environment (sensorically) into calories of meaning and the waste of irrelevance. This anatomy locks us into a perpetual search: everything we crawl through - physically and subjectively - becomes a Way to something else. We project our own teleological trajectories, turning the neutrality of reality into means and ends. We anticipate (i.e. cognize, i.e. psychologically fast-forward to) the future outcomes of our information-processing and then re-cognize the knowledge we have just envisioned.

I just wrote this.

Now what?

Nothing: time to crawl on.