tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4402447079560137062024-03-12T21:19:46.010-07:0050 weeks to go...make it happenI started this blog upon learning that I have 50 weeks to go before my current place of work closes. I am officially RIF'd and now seeking my next employment. The content on my blog reflects my thoughts and feelings which are always related to this impending closure. I welcome comments.AnneMarie Arnoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05623349622206963122noreply@blogger.comBlogger192125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440244707956013706.post-48045715591220690592015-12-07T06:00:00.001-08:002015-12-07T06:00:06.921-08:00Peter Green<iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/O8RhZDGLEXM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>AnneMarie Arnoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05623349622206963122noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440244707956013706.post-86126204851495737452015-12-06T06:59:00.001-08:002015-12-22T18:01:16.176-08:00Why - from "The Matrix"<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BCfoK6RFW8c" width="560"></iframe><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px;">Agent Smith is a machine - he can't understand why Neo keeps fighting. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px;">Neo is human and humans have free will, he chooses to keep fighting.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 28.8px;">Machines have no true consciousness.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 28.8px;">"The only way we can achieve consciousness is by transformation from selfish to selfless. The arc of transformation is how we evolve consciousness. This is why computers and artificial intelligence will never lead to true consciousness. Machines do not have the power to elevate from selfish to selfless through independent free will. Machines can have intelligence. But never consciousness. Consciousness demands a connection to a higher dimension."</span></span><br />
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Einstein characterized himself as “devoutly religious” in one specific sense as in the following statement:
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science.
He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead.
To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and
the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms—
this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness.
In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.AnneMarie Arnoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05623349622206963122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440244707956013706.post-43356455285299876212015-02-21T22:15:00.000-08:002015-02-21T22:15:08.824-08:00Starting to Love Charlottesville!<iframe src="//player.vimeo.com/video/120272593" width="500" height="276" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>
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"A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted."<br />
-Robert Louis Stevenson, <i>Puerisque (1878)</i><br />
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"The soul that is united with God is feared by the Devil as though it were God Himself."<br />
- St. John of the Cross, <i>Counsels of Light and Love</i><br />
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"The next great truth which obtrudes itself upon our rapt attention, and which produces a shock of glad surprise, is the realization that the spiritual realm is no less material than the physical. It is merely composed of smaller particles, responding to shorter force-waves with more rapid vibrations; and in its aggregate manifestations to sight and touch attuned to sense it, it is just as firm and real as are the manifestations of physical matter to the physical senses."<br />
-Daniel Augustus Simmons, <i>The Science of Religion (1916)</i><br />
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<i><br /></i>AnneMarie Arnoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05623349622206963122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440244707956013706.post-4277533537920675302015-01-31T08:47:00.000-08:002015-01-31T09:03:34.785-08:00"Figures don't lie, but liars figure.""Figures don't lie, but liars figure."<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic; line-height: 1.714285714;">The old saying is that “figures will not lie,” but a new saying is “liars will figure.” It is our duty, as practical statisticians, to prevent the liar from figuring; in other words, to prevent him from perverting the truth, in the interest of some theory he wishes to establish.</span><br />
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<b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422493566040_2824">"We have a word for that in Japanese," he said. "It's called 'ma.' Emptiness. It's there intentionally." He clapped his hands three or four times. "The time in between my clapping is 'ma.' If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it's just busyness."</b></blockquote>
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-<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422493566040_2751"><a class="" data-tooltip="attached" href="http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-spirited-away-2002" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422493566040_2750" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; color: #2b6dad; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 12px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Spirited Away Movie Review & Film Summary (2002) | Roger Ebert</a></span></blockquote>
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We had the agricultural age dominated by farmers, the industrial age dominated by factory workers, and the information age enabled by knowledge workers. According to Daniel Pink, now we are in the "conceptual age" - the age dominated by creative "right-brainers". Yay! Finally I'm in vogue! Machines are programmed to do the routines work, freeing me up to do all the jobs only humans can do: create beauty, create solutions to new problems, and...play!AnneMarie Arnoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05623349622206963122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440244707956013706.post-28772326272821882642015-01-19T16:28:00.001-08:002015-01-19T16:28:33.038-08:00Difference between theory and proof<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">A </span><b style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><i>theory</i></b><b style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> </b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">is an established and respected explanation of a natural phenomenon, acquired through confirmation of its principles through the scientific method - testing, confirmation, and observation and experimentation. Evolution is a widely accepted and demonstrated theory, validated across many disciplines.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">A </span><b style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><i>proof</i></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> in science a successful demonstration of a hypothesis under study using evidence and analysis. It is a misconception in many ways, since science actually can prove nothing. In this sense, "proof" is a simplified way of saying "greatly enhanced confidence".</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Quoted from Rick Thorne on Quora - <a href="http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-a-theorem-theory-fact-law-proof-and-rule" target="_blank">link</a>.</span></span>AnneMarie Arnoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05623349622206963122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440244707956013706.post-70913371436756754062015-01-09T18:06:00.006-08:002015-01-09T18:06:56.861-08:00Living in a dream<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">
<strong>"All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration – we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves." - Bill Hicks</strong></div>
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If a virtual reality computer program is your definition of "real" then this world, this universe and the body that you inhabit is real. But if a virtual reality program is your definition of an ILLUSION, then so is the "physical world" that you live in, yes, including your body.</div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity." - Albert Einstein</span></span></div>
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AnneMarie Arnoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05623349622206963122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440244707956013706.post-88099383122172896142015-01-01T10:48:00.001-08:002015-01-03T15:25:54.362-08:00inertia<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 11.7pt;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">inertia: a tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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reference, so they don't experience time; and if they don't experience time, it
means they don't move at all and in fact their "world" is more like a
single point rather than the universe we see around us. So, if that is true, "where"
are photons relative to us? And how are we interacting with them?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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AnneMarie Arnoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05623349622206963122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440244707956013706.post-80813749064897762292014-12-27T18:28:00.001-08:002014-12-27T18:28:12.994-08:00How Silicon Valley does meetingsIn meetings, managers should do 90% of the listening, and in one-to-one meetings, managers should ask certain questions: (<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/silicon-valley-ceos-love-one-to-one-meetings-2014-12" target="_blank">link</a>).AnneMarie Arnoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05623349622206963122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440244707956013706.post-17319963125216412842014-12-26T04:56:00.001-08:002014-12-26T05:07:14.738-08:00Management Skills from Life<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Not everyone is lucky enough to <b>experience</b> <b>poverty</b>. If you're from a struggling poor family, you're bound to have natural leadership qualities. Poverty makes you master management without going to any management or business schools. </span><b style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Not having any money will unleash your unknown abilities.</b><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><b>If you have money, learning to</b> <b>endure suffering</b> provides lots if valuable lessons for life. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">It teaches resilience that you can apply to other parts of your life - especially when it comes to mental stress of life situations. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">It helps you see situations more richly. They are not bad or good; pain or pleasure. They are more mixed and knowing that there is some good in there can point you in the right direction.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">It teaches you patience. This too will pass. When you are suffering minutes can seem like hours and hours like days. Learning how to cope with this mentally; learning the tricks and the way your mind works can give you strength.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Finally it teaches you about yourself. You are the only one who has an impact. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">How you learn to suffer is up to you. Physical exercise is the most effective and healthy way I know.</span>AnneMarie Arnoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05623349622206963122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440244707956013706.post-78903376177535307952014-12-25T20:34:00.003-08:002014-12-25T21:23:33.934-08:00The importance of an attractive work environment.<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: chaparral-pro, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px;">The truth is that </span>we are inspired by beautiful things<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: chaparral-pro, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px;">, and our environment plays a big role in what we ultimately produce. It’s why the best designers use Apple hardware—because they are powerful </span><em style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: chaparral-pro, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-right: 1px;">and</em><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: chaparral-pro, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px;"> beautiful. Or we work at clean desks, with headphones playing our favorite songs, or beautiful coffee shops with bright furniture. Because we are inspired by everything around us. Functional begets functional, and beauty begets beauty.</span></span><br />
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AnneMarie Arnoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05623349622206963122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440244707956013706.post-7218167143691050742014-12-18T16:36:00.002-08:002014-12-18T16:36:40.971-08:0020151. Purpose answers the question, "Why do you exist?"<br />
2. Values answer the question, "What do you believe?"<br />
3. Vision answer the question, "Where are you going?"<br />
4. Strategy is <i>how you are going to get there.</i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26.3999996185303px;">My <b>mission</b> is to become the author and illustrator of the favorite fairytale</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26.3999996185303px;"> of every young child. This will be accomplished by writing a journal and creating images each week (<b>strategy</b>). My book will be insightful, playful, and mysterious - combining art and spirituality; earning popularity based on merit (<b>values</b>). My readers will be transformed by the creativity expressed in the story and images which will translated into movie </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26.3999996185303px;">(</span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26.3999996185303px;">vision</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26.3999996185303px;">)</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26.3999996185303px;">.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Johns Hopkins studies on </span><span class="matched_term" style="background: rgb(223, 239, 250); color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">psilocybin</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">:</span><br />
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<span class="matched_term" style="background: rgb(223, 239, 250); color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Psilocybin</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> can occasion mystical-type experiences having substantial and sustained personal meaning and spiritual significance</span><br />
<span class="qlink_container" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><a class="external_link" href="http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Press_releases/2006/GriffithsPsilocybin.pdf" mobile_app_target="browser" routing="http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Press_releases/2006/GriffithsPsilocybin.pdf" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; color: #155fad; padding-right: 12px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.hopkinsmedicin<wbr></wbr>e.org/P...</a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Mystical-type experiences occasioned by </span><span class="matched_term" style="background: rgb(223, 239, 250); color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">psilocybin</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> mediate the attribution of personal meaning and spiritual significance 14 months later</span><br />
<span class="qlink_container" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><a class="external_link" href="http://csp.org/psilocybin/Hopkins-CSP-Psilocybin2008.pdf" mobile_app_target="browser" routing="http://csp.org/psilocybin/Hopkins-CSP-Psilocybin2008.pdf" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; color: #155fad; padding-right: 12px; text-decoration: none;">http://csp.org/<span class="matched_term" style="background: rgb(223, 239, 250);">psilocybin</span><wbr></wbr>/Hopkin...</a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Human hallucinogen research:guidelines for safety</span><br />
<span class="qlink_container" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><a class="external_link" href="http://csp.org/psilocybin/HopkinsHallucinogenSafety2008.pdf" mobile_app_target="browser" routing="http://csp.org/psilocybin/HopkinsHallucinogenSafety2008.pdf" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; color: #155fad; padding-right: 12px; text-decoration: none;">http://csp.org/<span class="matched_term" style="background: rgb(223, 239, 250);">psilocybin</span><wbr></wbr>/Hopkin...</a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Press Release:</span><br />
<span class="qlink_container" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><a class="external_link" href="http://csp.org/psilocybin/PressRelease201106.pdf" mobile_app_target="browser" routing="http://csp.org/psilocybin/PressRelease201106.pdf" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; color: #155fad; padding-right: 12px; text-decoration: none;">http://csp.org/<span class="matched_term" style="background: rgb(223, 239, 250);">psilocybin</span><wbr></wbr>/PressR...</a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">New York Times <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/opinion/sunday/can-mushrooms-treat-depression.html" target="_blank">article</a>: "Can Mushrooms Treat Depression?"</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">A study published last year
in the journal Experimental Brain Research found that psilocybin eliminated
conditioned fear responses in mice, which has implications for sufferers of</span><a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/post-traumatic-stress-disorder/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Post-traumatic stress disorder."><span style="color: #326891;">PTSD</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">. And psilocybin has been shown to relieve
anxiety, depression and despair in terminal </span><a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/cancer/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Cancer."><span style="color: #326891;">cancer</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;"> patients, who describe their
experience as giving them a new perspective on their lives.></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">USA Today: 'Magic mushroom' drug may improve personality long-term</span><br />
<span class="qlink_container" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><a class="external_link" href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/story/health/story/2011-09-29/Magic-mushroom-drug-may-improve-personality-long-term/50602264/1" mobile_app_target="browser" routing="http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/story/health/story/2011-09-29/Magic-mushroom-drug-may-improve-personality-long-term/50602264/1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; color: #155fad; padding-right: 12px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.usatoday.com/n<wbr></wbr>ews/hea...</a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Dr. Roland Griffiths on TEDx:</span><br />
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<span class="qlink_container" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><a class="external_link" href="http://tedxmidatlantic.com/2009-video/#RolandGriffiths" mobile_app_target="browser" routing="http://tedxmidatlantic.com/2009-video/#RolandGriffiths" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; color: #155fad; padding-right: 12px; text-decoration: none;">http://tedxmidatlantic.co<wbr></wbr>m/2009-...</a></span><br />
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Group-think can result in the development of low self-confidence in decision-making as personal evaluation and observation seems more threatening to Japanese. Independence is often seen as anti-conformity. Creative thinkers are regarded as acting negatively against authority rather than seen as seeking new independently-formulated goals.<div>
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Various Japanese terms related to conformity: dakyo, kyocho, docho, and ison.</div>
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Independence occurs when person is consistent and logical in judgement.</div>
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Reference <a href="http://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/handle/1911/63032/article_RIP564_part21.pdf?sequence=1" target="_blank">link</a>.</div>
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AnneMarie Arnoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05623349622206963122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440244707956013706.post-60110690624202503472014-11-27T03:58:00.001-08:002014-11-27T03:58:33.161-08:00"Blindsight" quotes<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"...who looks out from its eyes? What does it reduce to? Who am I?"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Gödel was right after all: no system can fully understand itself."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">What is Human history, if not an ongoing succession of greater technologies grinding lesser ones beneath their boots?” </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">People simply can’t accept that patterns carry their own intelligence, quite apart from the semantic content that clings to their surfaces; if you manipulate the topology correctly, that content just comes along for the ride.” </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">You can’t see why anyone wouldn’t want to wallow in the sheer beauty of </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">language</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">.” </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">...something ELSE set your body in motion, sent an executive summary - almost an afterthought - to the homunculus behind your eyes ...that arrogant subroutine that thinks of itself as The person, mistakes correlation for causality," ...and thinks He moved the finger” </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Perfection’s unattainable but it isn’t unapproachable.” </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">The second mouse gets the cheese.” </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">We don’t really see anything except a few hi-res degrees where the eye focuses. Everything else is just peripheral blur, just … light and motion. Motion draws the focus. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">And your eyes jiggle all the time, did you know that, Keeton? Saccades, they’re called. Blurs the image, the movement’s way too fast for the brain to integrate so your eye just … shuts down between pauses. It only grabs these isolated freeze-frames, but your brain edits out the blanks and stitches an … an illusion of continuity into your head.” He turned to face me. “And you know what’s really amazing? If something only moves during the gaps, your brain just … ignores it. It’s invisible.”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">PREDATORS RUN FOR THEIR DINNER. PREY RUN FOR THEIR LIVES. —OLD ECOLOGIST’S PROVERB”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Technology is a stunted thing in benign environments, it never thrived in any culture gripped by belief in natural harmony. Why invent fusion reactors if your climate is comfortable, if your food is abundant? Why build fortresses if you have no enemies? Why force change upon a world that poses no threat?” </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">― </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/27167.Peter_Watts" style="background-color: white; color: #666600; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">Peter Watts</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/47428-blindsight" target="_blank">Blindsight</a><span id="goog_1160417686"></span><span id="goog_1160417687"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a></i>AnneMarie Arnoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05623349622206963122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440244707956013706.post-70255185352461425532014-11-24T17:38:00.000-08:002014-11-24T17:38:58.878-08:00Eudaimonic Well-beingT<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.4559993743897px;">he Greek word eudaimonia means literally ‘the state of having a good indwelling spirit, a good genius’.</span>AnneMarie Arnoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05623349622206963122noreply@blogger.com0