mindfulness

Copernicus learnt that that the Sun is in the center, not the Earth. It was not a popular idea in his time around 500 years ago in Poland. Kant meant that he made another Copernication revolution when he set our representation of the the phenomena in focus, not the phenomena per se. But what have happened after Kant. Do we still understand ourselves? Probably not. What about language, do we understand,  why we speak? It´s suggested that small talk is a continuation of how the apes use to clean each other furs. They do it to creat social bonds. David P Barash suggest that language is a way to impress on each other. Why do anyway use so many different words, make jokes and write theater plays or in blogs;~} We may just use about 500 words to be understandable. But many of us use a lot more. We also use words in ironic tones to make other people feel uncomfortable. But of course there are more reasons for our language, but more than we think of the reason for ...

Another way to say it is that two different parts put together is more than the sum of the parts. Let's take the example of heritage and environment. In us they are so interrelated  that they cannot we cannot say we act in a specific way just because of one of them. Nothing can live just in its own bubble. It seems that nature are both a builder and a destroyer. Just as in Hindu mythology. But the parts from something that are destroyed can be parts of new objects. Atoms that has been in the body of Shakespeare are now in bodies around the world. Nothing can completely vanish. Shiva is the destroyer and transformer. He is dancing the earth together again. So maybe we should not be so scary about destruction. Something must die for some new to come. The metoo campaign may show this. Slowly men's behaviours are questioned. The exquise that nature made us like that is not anymore enough. Power may change people, but that exquise is neither enough. We ...

Immanuel Kant was right; we cannot know the thing in it self, or the noumenon, as he called it. That means, we cannot know nature with our senses and our knowledge. So let's ponder about it; are there things that we cannot understand and cannot see around us. Yes, there may be.... A bat or a bird, a dog or an insect may view the world in another way and with other senses. Some animals don't see colors and we cannot see infrared colors. There may be threads there are spun around us that we cannot see. There may be events out there that just waits for us. But we cannot know.... That is maybe the best start for many questions; I don't know. Maybe you have heard the parable of the Chinese farmer: Once there was a Chinese farmer who worked his poor farm together with his son and their horse. When the horse ran off one day, neighbors came to say, “How unfortunate for you!” The farmer replied, “Maybe yes, maybe no.” When the horse returned, followed b...

If you go deep enough deeper than thought deeper than feelings and intuition deeper than you can you will go out of yourself and end up in cosmos and you will see how well ordered the universe is to create life on earth and you will appreciate all life on earth even the mosquitos  and the snakes and when you come home you are more than yourself  

There is alway another perspective to look at. If you meditate and become aware of your thoughts and feelings, you will be more able to shift perspective. And you will be aware of that your perspective changes without your will. An interesting and very broad way to look at our world is big history. Let's take the history on life on Earth. Its 65 million years since the dinos disappeared. It's just 10 000 years since we started to be farmers. We have changed the life on earth for many living beings because of that. But since 10 000 years in the history of our planets is not much, it may not mean so much in the long run. A man with an even bigger perspective is Sean Carroll. He is a cosmologist and professor of physics. He is interested in the questions that some thinks is not necessary, because they seem impossible to answer as: what happened before the Bing- Bang? Are there more universes outside our universe? And what about time? If  there are many univer...

We all want to believe in world that turns better and better. For many beliefs this is central. Marx believed in progress to better world and was inspired by Hegels thought about the law of a "weltgeist"that insured progress. Capitalism seem to promise luck if we buy more and more stuff, at least does the advertisement say so.  And we all now the promise of a paradise in religious contexts. John Gray is a retired professor from London School of Economics and Politic Science and has written a lot of books. Maybe he can be seen as a pessimist, but he can also be seen as clear eyed. He is a supporter of the green movement and  Lovelock's idea about Gaia. In Grays book "Straw Dogs" he claims that humanity probably will destroy itself, but life will go on anyway. The title of the book is inspired by some words from Lao Tzu: "Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the myriads of creatures as straw dogs." Gray gives some examples of his view; w...

What is complexity? Actually it's a complex question, cause nobody really knows. There are different interpretations of the word. Its usually compared with "complicated" that often is seen as a phenomena with many layers up on each other. Lets say a huge hamburger. If you just order it and it alone in a bar. It may be complicated  if they have to make a special one for you and what to pay would create some discussion. It may be complicated to eat because of its size. But wait, I think the hamburger can be seen in a complex light too; If we consider the cow that the meat came from. If we consider the food the cow ate, the sun and the water that was needed for the grass to grow.  Maybe fertilizers  were used too...Maybe the meat came from one of the calves that are slaughters right after they are born because they are males. And then the farmer his och hers family, maybe some kids, some neighbors, some machines and son on. Then the transport of the calves to th...