“Seen through the lens of sekki—and even more so, of kō—time no longer looks like an emptiness that has no meaning unless we fill it with doing. Instead, it is an independent incessant flow that’s just structured enough to appreciate its regular passing and the cadence it gives to our lives.”
https://qz.com/work/2027018/japanese-seasons-can-help-us-forget-productivity/
A beautiful musical homage to the eternal dance of life and death…
https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/12/17/shannon-hawley-a-different-kind-of-progress/
New research reveals that emotional states are universally associated with certain bodily sensations, regardless of individuals’ culture or language.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/body-atlas-reveals-where-we-feel-happiness-and-shame
Gazing at a painting feels like an almost magical encounter with another mind but what real effects does art have on us?
https://aeon.co/essays/works-of-art-compel-our-attention-but-can-they-change-us
If non-primates set their marks upon this world,
Their views, their memes, their sins.
Would they a lady’s slipper see,
Or different worlds within?
Perhaps instead, a feline grace,
A fleeting hippo muse,
A mantid’s dream,
Archaean’s space,
A raptor’s edge-sharp hues.
But in their darkest dreams and fears,
In their most dismal hours,
I fear they see a primate face
And feel a primate’s power…
We can learn much about how a historical period viewed the abilities of its children by studying its children’s literature.
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I recently rewatched a movie, something I rarely do. Perfect Sense struck home in a way it hadn’t done before the pandemic, and coupled with the two takes below on The Sound of Silence from my original post over a year ago, I was reminded again of our common humanity amidst the continuing pain and sadness today.
Sometimes wonder mourns rather than celebrates…
For those with the occasional thoughtful bent as winter comes on, check out the description below from Open Culture. It’s work, but an occasional video makes for a great evening discussion with a group of good friends. Best of all, it’s free.
The Philosophy section of our big Free Online Courses collection just went through another update, and it now features 100 courses. Enough to give you a soup-to-nuts introduction to a timeless discipline. You can start with one of several introductory courses.
Philosophy for Beginners – iTunes – Web Video – Marianne Talbot, Oxford
Critical Reasoning for Beginners – iTunes Video – iTunes Audio – Web Video – Oxford
A Romp through Ethics for Complete Beginners – iTunes Video – Web Video – Oxford
Introduction to Political Philosophy – YouTube – iTunes – Web Video – Steven B. Smith, Yale
The Art of Living – Web Video – Stanford
The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps – Multiple Formats– Peter Adamson, King’s College London
Our worldviews form the basis for what our thinking preferences, emotional IQs, personalities and communications styles share with the world around us. That journey continues to challenge me…and yet it also frees me, when I let it.
Continuing today’s philosophical musings –
“Study reveals individual neurons in the human brain are triggered by the subject’s conscious perception, rather than by the visual stimulus.” (Redorbit).
Through the examination of morphed faces, researchers concluded that only in the act of recognition did neurons actually fire. Subjective perception rather than objective visual stimulus caused the firing.
Professor Rodrigo Quiroga at the University of Leicester then went on to say, “In a sense, the interpretation of this result goes way back to British Empiricism and even to Aristotle. As Aristotle put it, we create images of the external world and use these images rather than the sensory stimulus itself for our thoughts. These neurons encode exactly that.”
Subjective perception… and the power of worldview and our mental models of the world around us.
Ever so subtly the chains that bind
Wrap us in their siren embrace.
And though I see you,
I see you as I see you –
Not as you really are… and rarely your true face.
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