10.03.2014 - Brain Research and new possibilities etc. by dali48
dali48 and writing ediary4+5 and cycling and walking and photographing in Wickrath since 6/2010 etc. 9.7.10 - Brain Research and Armstrong etc. on HP
09.07.2010 - Interpretation of dali48
Many brain researchers are thrilled by their new possibilities that they believe that their research would make unemployed philosophy, and perhaps before long also psychology. The neuroscientist William Calvin of the University of Washington in Seattle has a suitable image for it when he speaks of the "dream of the janitor". The janitor, so Calvin, doesn’t feel good in his dark basement. His greatest wish is a jump up high to the bright attic. It's similar with those brain researchers who would like to jump to philosophy with a slight jump from the cells and proteins of the brain. But the gap between proteins and meaning is enormous. Even if brain research is on a good way to solve the problem of brain center and brain function - the mechanism that produces brain, spirit and mind is far from being decrypted. Instead, we currently know more about what we do not know as to know about what we know. The more we learn about the brain, the more complicated it seems… The biggest puzzle is given to us by our personal attention to the ingredients of consciousness, our very subjective knowledge. Why does something feel for us a certain way, is still a big secret. Personal feelings and passions cannot be explained with general neurochemical findings. Neither measuring apparatus nor psychological conversations penetrate into this quality of experience and make it visible. As Louis Armstrong once was asked what is jazz, he said very aptly: "If you have to ask first, you'll never understand it!" Subjective states of experiences are and will remain inaccessible, even for brain research. After all, when playing a jazz piece, the magnetic resonance tomograph shows indeed that in certain emotional centers of my brain an increased blood supply occurs, but it shows neither how it feels, nor why it feels like this… However, today brain research is regarded as the discipline that is responsible for the foundations of our knowledge and our self-assurance. The reasons are obvious. Compared with philosophy there are a lot more exciting pulses by brain research. The only question is whether we can do somewhat without the help of philosophy. Nevertheless, the study of the brain is a very strange exercise. For, strictly speaking, human brains try to understand something about human brains, that is, a system tries to understand itself. The brain is both the subject and the object of study, - a precarious situation. Some brain researchers try by using a different method that is not the same as that of the philosophers who have been trying for 2000 years to understand their own thinking by thinking. To explore oneself by thinking while watching, if possible, was long the predominant method of exploring the human spirit. Their modern intensification was found on a memorable winter evening almost 400 years ago... (R.D. Precht)
Golden Snow
“How can I thank you dali48 ... such wonderful research on new possibilities for our brain ... the most exiting organ in our bodies ... used to their ability would astonish the world ... so much to discover ... our lives could be so different if we were taught at a young age to use our brains properly ... loving the child s wonderful ... teaching the child is amazing ... thanks for your great pin on Pinterest” …
08.03.2014 - The Joy of Writing and Past & Future etc. by dali48
dali48 as a private teacher & author in Erkrath, 8/1983 – 5/2010
08.12.2007 - Interpretation of dali48
The joy of writing. - The power of preserving. - Revenge of a mortal hand... The three strangest words: Tell I the word "future," - its syllable is already past. Say I the word "silence," - I will destroy it. Say I the word "nothing," - I create something which has space in non-being... (W. Szymborska, Poetry)
For a drink of written water from a spring whose surface will xerox - its soft muzzle... Why does she lift her head, - does she hear something? Later she has expressed her pessimism about the future of mankind - While skepticism has marked Szymborska's views of the human condition - it has not stopped her from believing - in the power of words and the joy arising from imagination... At the age of 9 she became interested in films - especially those which were forbidden to her... Szymborska's 2 poems published in the magazine Orda (1/2000) expressed her feelings of aging and strangeness. - She sees that we are only visitors in a cosmic celebration... (W.S.)
After finding himself (Sienkiewicz) penniless, - he left the university without receiving a degree... Those who are alive - receive a mandate from those who are silent for ever... They can fulfill their duties only - by trying to reconstruct precisely things as they were, and by wrestling the past from fictions and legends... (C. Milosz, Nobel L. 1981)
"In a Roman Catholic country", Milosz wrote at an early stage of his career that "intellectual freedom always goes hand in hand with atheism." - Later Milosz accepted his religious background and started to study Hebrew in order to translate the Old Testament into Polish... What once was great - now appeared small. Kingdoms were fading - like snow-covered bronze, stretched on the grass by the bank of the rivers. - As long, long ago, I launch my boats of bark... (C.M.)
Milosz's early works also show traces of distaste for any form of nationalism, anti-semitism, and ideological indoctrination... "What is poetry which does not save Nations or people?", he wrote... His new home country (California), Milosz viewed ironically: "What splendor! What poverty! What humanity! What inhumanity! What mutual good will! What individual isolation! What loyalty to the ideal! What hypocrisy! What triumph of conscience! What perversity!"... (from Milosz's ABC's, 2001)
He has especially examined - the role of the Jewish faith in the lives of his characters that are pestered - with passions, magic, asceticism and religious devotion. According to Singer, "A good writer is basically a story-teller - not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind"... Salvation and damnation are limited - only by the flapping of a butterfly... Writers can stir the mind - but they can't direct it. Time changes things - but writers can't change anything... (I.B. Singer)
"My life was never the same - after my mother died", Bellow said... (S.B.)
They refuse to exchange - their inner torment for the peace of mind - that comes with bourgeois propriety or some kind of religious belief... (Charles Simic in N.Y., Review of Books, May 31, 2001)
Szymborska accords full support to her idea that no questions are of such significance as those that are naive... ( CNN, Polish poet)
1940 - 1943, the prize money was allocated - to the Main Fund (1/3) and to the Special Fund (2/3) of this prize section... (Winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
08.03.2014 - Descartes the "reconnaissancer" etc. by dali48
dali48 and “I think - therefore I am,” and photographing near the spa house in Baden-Baden, 8/2010
09.07.2010 - Interpretation of dali48
A conversation with one's own thoughts has a very ambitious goal: While in the outside the Thirty Years War begins (see 1618 - 1648, etc. - d.48), which will put all of Central Europe in ruins - Descartes likes peace, order and clarity. He wants to explore the absolute and final certainty about himself and the world. First he lays down the rule - to keep nothing for true - which can not be clearly determined. And he doubts everything which can be doubted (see e.g. faith, ideologies etc. - d.48). One's eyes cannot be trusted - not even one's other senses. One can be fooled too easily. Doubtfully he searches his way forward. Even thought cannot be trusted without verification. Could it not be that an evil demon acts on oneself, and leads to false conclusions? But wait - is there not anything I cannot doubt, under any circumstances? Cogito ergo sum - "I think therefore I am"... Who was this man, who revolutionized philosophy early on a winter evening at the beginning of the Thirty Years War? - His name was René Descartes. He came from a noble family, and his father was legal counsel at the Supreme Court of Brittany in Rennes. His mother died in 1597, one year after his birth, and Descartes spent his childhood with his grandmother. At eight, he attended a Jesuit college - no funny business, but when he comes out again with sixteen years, he has got a brilliant classical and mathematical education. The gifted student studies law in Poitiers. Then he applies to the Paris Academy for young noblemen - in order to catch the so far failed life. He learns fencing, dancing, riding, good behavior and other essential things - but he has no idea what to do with it... As 22-year-old he enters service of the adventurous Dutch commander Maurice of Orange. He learns a lot about science, the life of a soldier - which he doesn't like very much on the other hand. Aimlessly he travels through Denmark and Germany, soon after joins the army once again, this time with the Duke Maximilian of Bavaria. With him, he took part in the capture of Prague and visited there the workplace of the astronomer Johannes Kepler. He realizes what he wants to be: a "reconnaissancer" - who brings clarity in the darkness of sciences. Self-confident, he dreams of a clear, logical and universal method for the study of truth". And he, Descartes, is called to find it. In April 1620 the 24-year-old meets the mathematician John Faulhaber in Ulm… In no time Descartes solves a very complicated mathematical problem by which, so he writes it very immodest, even the best minds of the time would have capitulated. The time is ripe for a promotion to a man - who is wise to find a simple solution for every problem. A year after his meditation in the Ulm farm-hut - he puts off the unloved soldier's coat, goes on a pilgrimage to Loretta and visited Germany, Holland, Switzerland and Italy. In 1625 he moved to Paris and finds connection in the intellectual circles of the city. On the soiree-parties he is a frequent guest, but his social life is very limited. After five years he left Paris and moved into the burgeoning Netherlands. There is the greatest spiritual and religious freedom on the continent, and Descartes will make use of it to write the long-prepared work. His social life is paralyzed, and his only replacement is a regular correspondence, especially with ladies. The whole ambition is now his "Treatise on the world" - but the book is never published. 1633, he learns what happened to his Italian colleague Galileo Galilei - who had to withdraw its new scientific understanding of the cosmos and of the world before the Inquisition… The Catholic Church is a dangerous opponent, even for a man like Descartes, who believes in "God", but in a relatively abstract "God" which he seeks to prove, as the highest principle. Although there is more tolerance in the Netherlands than in Italy or in France, - Descartes is carefully and restlessly - and changes his residence. He writes treatises on geometry, algebra and physics, and creates an excellent reputation as a mathematician. It was not until 1637 that he published that book about his mind-game, eighteen years ago which makes the world shrink to a living room with an oven - and contains his famous formula: "I think therefore I am". A small booklet to use for everyone - the treatise on the method of the correct use of reason and the scientific investigation of truth... For safety, the work will appear anonymously - the author gets quickly around nonetheless. Descartes enjoys great fame - but his arrogance and his deep distrust made him sensitive to any criticism. His next, and very similar work of mind provokes some kind of contradiction in its vicinity in Leiden and Utrecht. Descarte's distrust will grow out to paranoia. Several times he is thinking of - moving to England, makes flight-like travels to France, and is following an invitation from his pen friend, the Swedish Queen Christina in 1649. But the stay in wintry Stockholm - costs him his life. The queen insists on an early education - in an unheated room. In the spring of 1650 the 53-year-old dies of pneumonia... (R. D. Precht)
dali48 and writing and cycling and photographing in Wickrath since 6/2010 etc.
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dali48 and menaced private teaching (since 1989) and writing books & cycling & photographing in Erkrath till 5/2010.
dali48 and playing chess and stopping smoking as a sports student in Tübingen in the 70s etc.
Each day is our whole life - from sunrise to sunset etc… (dali48)
see Human Rights & Survival without clean air ca. 3 minutes, clean water ca. 3 days, clean food ca. 30 days etc. (dali48)
see dali48 and a nervous breakdown (burnout) & 1 year of psychotherapy as a student in Tübingen in 1973 etc.
see dali48 and "Flora & Fauna" since ca. 2000 etc. - “If the "Flora & Fauna" disappeared off the face of the earth - mankind wouldn't have anything left to survive” etc.
22.11.2023 - Around Lake Unterbach near Erkrath there were many swifts flying close to my head till 5/2010. In Wickrath I don't see swifts anymore since 6/2010 etc.
21.06.2023 - I didn't see a butterfly yet in Wickrath this year ... (dali48)
Leaf blowers against bees etc. in the gardens correspond to hurricanes against humans etc. (dali48)
I'm neither right nor left, see Salvador Dali in this context - I'm only dali48
“There is no greater wealth in this world than peace of mind.” ~ Unknown
Psychology says, Trust your intuition. It never lies.
see dali48 & FGYO / SIT, language teacher, 1975/76 in Tübingen and Lenzkirch (Black Forest), and wandering in the morning, and in Erkrath (8/1983-5/2010) cooking houseman and teaching in the afternoon, on Saturdays & compact courses during holidays etc.
see dali48 and walking and cycling etc. - and without own car in Erkrath since 2004 - and without driving in Wickrath since 6/2010 etc.
"It takes few words to express the essential" - Paul Éluard
"One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." ... (H. Miller)
"The past is pain, the future uncertainty. The present is all we have" ... (Tao Wong)
„Wer immer die Wahrheit sagt, kann sich ein schlechtes Gedächtnis leisten.“ (F. Sulzer
)
"Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way." (F. Kafka)
see dali48 and bees and CCD and "neonics" since ca. 2000 etc.
In "love" are the beginning and the climax - the most beautiful periods etc... (dali48)
"Time spent with cats is never wasted." (S. Freud)
Why not use bio-methane, hydrogen, bio heating oil, e-heating oil - instead of banning oil and gas heating etc. (dali48)
"Only the present moment counts, even when the subject is the past." (R. D. Brinkmann)
"Non-sexual intimacy is therapeutic. Deep conversations, healthy silence, a unique joke from an old memory, similar interests; beautiful stuff." (@ML_Philosophy
)
see dali48 and “If the Trees disappeared off the face of the earth - mankind would only have little left to live healthy,” see e.g. Amazonas forest, Indonesia etc, see e.g. @CGShanghaiAir Shanghai - 2023-03-06 4PM - PM2.5 - 103 AQI - Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups ... etc.
see dali48 and trees & photo synthesis and fresh air and health and cooling and biodiversity etc.
Why not recreate lost Wetlands by desalinated sea water? ... (dali48)
Half of the money for arms should go as reparation to "flora & fauna" & UBI ,,, (dali48)
More money than 1 million should be redistributed into small basic incomes etc. (dali48)
"#UBI is the only policy that can end the Rat Race before it ends us." e money for arms
"Getting older is realizing putting yourself first isn’t selfish, it’s necessary" (@meauhlback
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"Some people go through our lives to teach us not to be like them." ( Lev Tolstoy)
"is it ethical to hoard bread when families are starving?" (@existentialcoms
)"The goal isn’t money, the goal is to spend your days as you wish." (@ML_Philosophy
)“Give a child a good birth (if at all possible, no drugs to the mother)=1 and a good first three years, especially a good first three months, and a major part of the job of child rearing is done.” ― Arthur Janov, The Biology of Love"Be teachable. You’re not always right." (@ML_Philosophy)
"The tombstone of capitalism will later say: too much was not enough." (Volker Pispers)
see dali48 and environmental disasters & @sara_s_2020 & #Tiredearth & Manila Slum (Philippines) & Creek etc.
»Auf dem Grabstein (der Erde; d. Red.) könnte stehen: Jeder wollte das Beste – für sich.« (Siegfried Lenz)
"Smiling mobilizes 15 muscles, but sulking requires 40. Rest: smile!" (Christophe André)
"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift that"s why they call it the present." - (@TheWordicle)
"When you realize how precious and fragile life is, it changes your whole perspective." (Ryan O’Donnell)
"A kind word can warm up to three months of winter" - Japanese proverb
"It’s better to walk alone than with a crowd going in the wrong direction." (@wise_chimp)
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (@PsychologyDose_)
"The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth." - Lao Tzu
"... We get old too soon, and wise too late." (@_AhmadHijazi)
"Nothing in the world is worth turning away from what we love" - Albert Camus
I am allowed to say NO to others and YES to myself." (@Lenka49044040)
"You can only live forwards, understand life only backwards." (Søren Kierkegaard)
"Write your life - Or they'll wait till you're dead to write the lie" ... (@spectraspeaks)
see "Remove the idea that anybody else is responsible for your misery and suffering; that somebody can give meaning to your life. Accept that you are alone, born alone (premature birth, 7 months etc. - d.48), and you will die alone" ... (Osho)
"Respect for life - should be the only religion in the world!" ... (Osho)
"Religion is a journey inside - and meditation is the way there" ... (Osho)
"Zen finds religion in the daily activities." (I-tuan)
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see dali48 and nervous breakdown & psychotherapy (1 year) in Tübingen in 1974 and the ontogenetic & phyloggenetic unconscious etc.
see dali48 and dreaming & visions, see e.g. The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake & tsunami etc, see Golden G. Snow "I journey I know it's true. I've seen the future too. In my "journey", things are not good. So much of the earth will be ... soon. I have no more to say."), and NDE and reincarnation and reading & writing ...
see scott_hurst retweeted by dali48 "If all the atheists left the USA, it would lose 93% of the National Academy of Sciences but less than 1% of the prison population." Spelt helps: fatigue, loss of energy, heart problems etc. (St Hilda)
@dali48
I found this dairy of great interest and enjoyed the journey ... it is filled with well written information that covers all age groups, from history to health both in body and mind ... the why's and where's are answered in complete ... thanks dali48 for sharing ...
Thank you for sharing. Your braveness to fight illness has inspired me to face life in a different way dali48. I love the concept of living in the moment and breathing into it. This has improved my health both in body and mind.
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dali48 and writing books and cycling and photographing etc...
see dali48 and warning of neo-fascism since 1989 in Erkrath etc. - instead of Ecology & Health etc. - Uncontrolled capitalism (without UBI & wealth tax) produces evil as bees produce honey, see Instead of €100 billion for armaments - €50 billion for #ClimateEmergency 2022 & UBI etc.
see @nur_Dagmar / ntv: "Global #militaryspending exceeds for the first time 2 TRILLION dollars" (2022) - instead of 1 trillion for #ClimateEmergency 2022 and basic income etc. (dali48)
see dali48 & "The already uninhabitable Earth. Today (3.7.23), Zabol in Iran recorded the highest temperature on Earth at 49.6C" (@PGDynes), see e.g. https://aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/30/out-of-time-temperature-records-topple-around-the-world, & #ClimateEmergency 2022 instead of clean air (see e.g. Shanghai Air etc.) & drinking water (see desalination of sea water since ca. 2000), enough trees & healthy fish, #ZeroHunger, solar & wind energy since the 70s & UBI since 2008 & biodiversity & health & no heat waves, pandemic, inflation, wars etc. The World’s Workers Are Donning Cooling Vests to Battle Record Heat Waves ... BY CHRIS BARANIUK
Garments that can be packed with ice or equipped with fans are becoming increasingly popular among workers exposed to high heat. - see dali48 and watching female construction workers in the heat near medical environment university in Orio in Japan in 1978
see dali48 & Heatwaves in #Europe, see #IPCC #ClimateReport, see #ClimateEmergency 2022 (https://insideclimatenews.org/.../cold-weather-polar.../ via , #heatwaves #Pakistan & #India 62°C/143°F, #Copernicus #Sentinel3 LST, dryness, #Wildfires in US & Canada, 'gigafires' & air pollution (Australia, Amazonas (#amazon #brasilien #luigicani #bäume #natur #pflanzen #säen), California, South Europe, South America, etc), floods, hurricanes, cyclones etc. since ca. 2000, loss of home in Africa, Southeast Asia & Pacific etc. - despite Club of Rome in the 70s, Copenhagen 2009, Paris 2015, Coronavirus 2020, #EarthOvershootDay 2021, #COP26, mass extinction, ecocide (https://www.stopecocide.earth/.../ecocide-due-to-biomass...), "ethnic cleansing", factory farming & zoonoses, racing in the wrong direction, see Instead of €100 billion for armaments - €50 billion for #ClimateEmergency and basic income etc. (dali48), see https://www.boell.de/.../20/wettrennen-die-falsche-richtung, see #SaveTibetSaveThePlanet, see Indigenous Climate Action etc. - instead of clean air & drinking water, enough trees & fish, #ZeroHunger, solar & wind energy & Basic Income (see https://eusignday.eu) & biodiversity & health & cures instead of wars & inflation etc. War crimes, see e.g. Ukraine etc. - and environmental crimes, see e.g. Kuwait, 50 million tires burn etc. - should be documented & punished by the UNO etc... (dali48)
see History & Genocide of Minorities & Scapegoats - instead of @UNHumanRights and Protection of #environmentdefenders & reparation for natives etc... (dali48)
Don't see swallows here in Wickrath (2018) as before at Lake Unterbach where they were deeply flying before the rain, and were nearly touching my head till 2010... (dali48)
see dali48 and Concerning Chernobyl 1986, see sohub.io/uo63, see sohub.io/st6t, and Fukushima 2011 - see http://www.mdr.de/.../video-2362_zc-b45e8c8c_zs-6da2f47c... - see Comparison of the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear accidentshttps://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Comparison_of_the_C... The following table compares the nuclear accidents at the Chernobyl (1986) and Fukushima Daiichi (2011) nuclear power plants, the only INES level 7 nuclear ... Survivors of nuclear testing should get reparation by the UN etc. (dali48)