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Don’t Beg For Life, Fight.
Sunday morning September 1. Message couldn’t be clearer. IDF found one Bedouin man, ill treated but alive, now comes across bodies of 6 beautiful Israeli kids below the age of 40 shot dead by Hamas. It is early but NYT failed to report what really happened. After their ordeal of near 11 months, Hamas murdered…
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Neuroplatonism
August 2, 2024 The Biggest Russo-American Hostage Exchange since the Cold War. Neuroplatonism: Make Up Your Mind Vladimir Putin gave Vadim Krasikov the red carpet treatment welcoming a person our American news media call a hit man and assassin. Krasikov was serving a life sentence for shooting a man in broad daylight. Putin considers him…
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Anatomy of Two States
Two State Solution: Mindfulness v Default State MINDFULNESS DEFAULT STATE Anatomy: Central Executive Network, Task Positive Network Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) Anterior Cingulate Cortex Prefrontal Cortex Parietal Cortex Intraparietal Cortex Basal Ganglia (Striatum and caudate) Insula Anatomy: Default Mode Network (DMN) , Task Negative Network Medial Prefrontal Cortex Posterior Cingulate Cortex Angular Gyrus Hippocampus Behavior:…
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Purpose of Two Sub-States
OK we have established two sub states of Waking, Mindlessness and Mindfulness: focused and defocused waking. We are generally more productive when focussed. Generally most people see themselves appreciating their life more in mindfulness. And they are more productive too. Our bosses want our minds on our work and so do inner bosses. I noticed…
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The Preferred State
If I told you, you’d rather be in a state of blank mindlessness as opposed to full awareness, you would object. But that’s the case and I’ll prove it. You may not know that there are two separate types of waking, mindfulness and mindlessness. That was brought to light by Marcus Raichle using modern brain…
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Presence of Mind
You parked your car. Come out of the store. Do you remember where it was? Chances are you do if you were focused on that when it occurred and weren’t either distracted by something else or not focused at all. This is a basic lesson that could be taught to all people who forget things.…
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Cure for Global Warming? Tweak Chloroplasts.
My Socratic Interaction with POE Me: Was all the natural gas, petroleum and coal in the world made ultimately by chloroplasts? POE: No, the fossil fuels we use today, such as natural gas, petroleum, and coal, were not ultimately produced by chloroplasts. Chloroplasts are the organelles in plants that carry out photosynthesis, but the formation…
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Road to Ruin
The Road to Ruin is Paved with Good Intentions: My take on presidential debate on June 27, 2024 was like nearly all of the democrats, that Biden wasn’t up to the task or running the country. But Trump didn’t function either. I did not find Trump answering any question put to him. Neither candidate could…
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Vision and Flickering States
As soon as you open your eyes, the regions of activity in the default mode network begin to decrease activity. Well, that’s exactly what happens to alpha activity on the EEG. We say alpha attenuates, which means decreases amplitude. At the same time this network turns off. Should you begin working on a task, say…
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Anatomy of Default Mode
I have included the parts of the brain that are active, mainly consuming Oxygen at which time the subjects are in a state of awake, eyes closed, restful waking. Images are a sort of average over many individual subjects. The red areas are mostly in the midline in the front of the brain, the Medial…