mindfulness

You may have heard of the anthroposophic reason why the universe is shaped the way it is: It's because we are here! The universe wanted us to be here, so it was shaped to make us humans to appear... Why not? If you are religious you may think that God created the laws that in the end created us. "In the beginning God created..." Or it may be that we are created by algorithms that was created by... what? That's anyway a anthroposophic claims. The anthropic reason why we are here is that the universe was created to produce life or maybe consciousness. As somebody has said; even a sun may have some consciousness and maybe a galaxy may have it. (with another relation to time - maybe it takes a year for a galaxy  to say hello.... ;~) The third reason may be chance; there are so many multiverses out there, so one of them must be suited for life. Or we may say; one of them must be suited for complex things as the human brain. We may never know, though some ph

Qualia is an interesting word. Its interpretation is not so clear. But usually its described as the subjective consciousness experience. That is what we all have but what is quite difficult to share. For example the colour blue, how can we explain it for another person? And if we point to a blue dress and the other person says; no, that's a black dress? (that has happened to me...) Actually qualia has never been proven as a fact. But we all now that it exists. On of the Royal academies in Sweden has a big crisis. Its the one that choose the winner of the Nobel prize in literature. Last time it was a surprised Bob Dylan who got the price. Many criticized the  academy to give price to a singer songwriter, while others applauded it. Anyway the head of the academy was a woman, Sarah Danius, until recent days. Now she had leaved the place because of big quarrels in the group. Actually three other members that supported Danius has leaved. And the people left are accused of bei

I know, you shouldn't mix up the quantum world with "our" world. But Rovelli, the theoretical physicists, seems to do it. He anyway describes the quantum world in this way; "Quantum mechanism teaches us not ti think about the world in terms of `things` which are in this or that state but in terms of `processes`instead. A process is the passage from one interaction to another. The properties of  `things`manifest themselves in a granular manner only in the moment of interaction, that is to say, at the edges of the processes and are such only in relation to other things.....an electron is nowhere when it is not interacting" (from the book Reality is not what it seems) Yesterday I met five monastics in the Buddhist tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh. They gave us lay people meditations and we shared some questions to them. In the eyes of Rovelli and Buddha, we all interacted, even when we meditated. Maybe some of us lay people meditated in a deeper way than som