mindfulness

The question of free will is a never ending story. It seems that i can proof free will by raising my arm and say, "I choose to raise my arm, and just see..." But if If I do it to give proof to another person  Im interact with that person. And if we are really aware of it, we always interact with someone or something. We are never in a vacuum. we are always interrelated. So if there are no separate I, the question of free will for the individual will disappear. I the future we will interact with AI, what about freedom then? Well it will not be total; we have to interact with the people who programmed the AI, and if the AI will be really intelligent, with the AI itself. But we are not there yet. We are on the journey towards understanding about our interaction with nature. We have influenced it a lot - but we must understand that nature interact with us too - to a degree where we cannot cannot tell the difference between us and nature. Nature will response wit...

We don't know what our universe is made of. But we know that it's a quite violent place. Galaxies collide. Our milky way are going to crash into the Andromeda galaxy. We are literary made of the stoft from an exploding supernova. As we know our planet is a quit violent planet too. Animals eat other animals. Vulcanos have arrut0tioens, Tsunsmis and iceages, and now a coming greenhouse effect. We should be happy to have lived in quite peaceful time. But we humans are not peaceful at all. We are animals that slaughter other animals, and treat them like slaves. We are totally changing the surface of the Earth. Change is maybe the most important word here, everything is changing and in an flux. Can there be some good in this? well, as Heracleit said, War is the mother of everything, change makes new form to arrive. But we should be careful to say to much of the big things. We know just something about 4 % of the universe. The rest is black matter and energy. ...

XX teaches us not to think about the world as a place of  `things` which are in this or that state but in terms of `processes` instead. A process is the passage from on interaction to another. The properties of  `things` manifest themselves i granular manner only in the moment of interaction....  What's that? Some famous  Buddhist talking about the world? And what is XX. Well the author is Carlo Rovelli, a famous theoretical physicist and XX stands for "Quantum mechanics". So in the tiniest part of the world, there is really nothing before the interaction. Everything is relations. What about in our world? Well, a guess no one of us would have been here it it not have been for  mother and probably  father. so without that interaction, no you and no me. And without food and water?  So it seems that  neither in this world we are nothing without interaction. Before that we are just propabilities.... And when we are born, the best way ...

If really believe that we have no, or at least very little, free will - how should we treat other beings? If someone is screaming to you - would you scream back? Is it punishment to scream back, or should it be seen as a consequence of the first screamers act. Our intuition says, scream back or hide away from the screamer. Our intuition may say, that screamer has a free will and chose to scream at me. I chose to scream back, to show my free will. But will our response help the first screamer? Will the thief stop his behavior if he will be set in prison for some years? Does suffering do you good? Okey, sometimes society needs to save itself from murderers and terrorists. But will it maybe be better to use preventive measures, as a basic income for everyone. Or maybe more of social help for children that are abused in their homes? Can we make a space for freedom if we meditate and then learn not to follow our impulses and intuitions? In "Crime and Punishment...

In a conversation with Yuval Harari Thomas Friedman, author and journalist, claims this, Is he right? Before his speaks about Mother Nature as made of chemistry etc, he imagines that he has a dialogue with her. You can hear it 13 minutes into the film. But wait a minute; even of nature isn't a person, it's possible that she is more than materia. She may be conscious., Friedman forgets something; we are a part of nature and we are conscious  ( as other animals are), so at least a part of nature is conscious. And that part is beginning to understand more and more about the whole planet. So it's not  wrong to say that the planet is self-conscious. It may repair itself from the harm it has created to itself; global warming, mass destruction o species and so on. But she is in a hurry = we are in a hurry. Actually more we than she. ;nature will go on. About 40 million years ago, there were rainforests in the north of  Canada. Life was flourishing there. Bit the...

Presentism in a philosophical view means that only the present moment exists. That's the view in mindfulness too. We should live in the here end now as much as possible. You can argue that there is no permanent now and maybe no now at all, since time is flowing like a stream. But you can also say that we can reach a kind of eternal state in meditqtion, anyway in the space between the different  feelings and thoughts that always will occur. But of course we cannot stop aging. We will always be a part of the conventional world. Even the Gurus, even Buddha was In presentism the past has gone and the future is not yet here. That seems natural. But Einstein pushed that intuitive view a bit. His idea is is the one of block-time. The future is already there somewhere and the past exist too. This can be explained in different ways. Biu as you know it is proven that time passes faster on a mountain that in the valley beneath. Gravitation slows up time and bends space, or...

If we ask what we humans are, we of course have to compare us with something. If we compare us to other animals we can see differences and similarities. If we compare ourselves to rich and beautiful people at the net, we may see our faults. But if we compare us to the cosmos? What are our connection to it? We may think that we are small or nearly nothing. Or we may think that God made us to look like him. Or we may think that the universe  was made to make us, an anthropocentric view. We are made of stardust from an exploding supernova, but put together we are more than the sum of that dust. It seems that the universe was made do create life in some parts of it. In the beginning of the big bang it was really chaos. But after billions of years there more order, at least on our place. Complex lifeforms have evolved here and complex places like big cities There might be that the Universe was made to create intelligent creatures that could help the universe to underst...