Category: The Unknown

• V.S. Ramachandran – Consciousness, Qualia & Self

  “The human brain, it has been said, is the most complexly organized structure in the universe and to appreciate this you just have to look at some numbers. The brain is made up of one hundred billion nerve cells or “neurons” which is the basic structural and functional units of the nervous system. Each neuron makes something like a thousand to ten thousand contacts with other neurons and these points of contact are called synapses where exchange of information occurs. And based on this information, someone has calculated that the number of possible permutations and combinations of brain activity, in other words the numbers of brain states, exceeds the number of elementary particles in the known universe.”
  – Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Awareness, Consciousness, Existence, Experience, Identity, Perception, Philosophy, Psychonaut, Reality, Science, The Unknown

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• John Searle – Consciousness

  “Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.”

  “The reason that no computer program can ever be a mind is simply that a computer program is only syntactical, and minds are more than syntactical. Minds are semantical, in the sense that they have more than a formal structure, they have a content.”

  – John Searle
  – Biological naturalism

  Awareness, Consciousness, Energy, Existence, Experience, Identity, Nature, Perception, Philosophy, Psychonaut, Reality, The Unknown

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• Michio Kaku – Will Mankind Destroy Itself?

  “It’s humbling to realize that the developmental gulf between a minuscule ant colony and our modern human civilization is only a tiny fraction of the distance between a Type 0 and a Type III civilization – a factor of 100 billion billion, in fact. Yet we have such a highly regarded view of ourselves, we believe a Type III civilization would find us irresistible and would rush to make contact with us. The truth is, however, they may be as interested in communicating with humans as we are keen to communicate with ants.”
  – Michio Kaku

  Awareness, Cosmology, Earth, Energy, Existence, Nature, Peace, Perspective, Power, Reality, Science, Society, Space, The Unknown, Unity

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• Terence McKenna – Culture is not your friend

  “The felt presence of immediate experience– this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.”
  –Terence McKenna

  Awareness, Consciousness, Existence, Experience, Identity, Linguistics, Perception, Philosophy, Reality, Society, The Unknown

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• Terence McKenna – You are the center of the Mandala

  “It’s all about personal empowerment, and personal empowerment means deconditioning yourself from the values and the programs of the society and putting your own values and programs in place.”
  – Terence McKenna

  Awareness, Consciousness, Existence, Experience, Identity, Linguistics, Love, Perception, Philosophy, Reality, Society, The Unknown

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• Carl Jung – Death and the Psyche

  “Look forward to the next day as if he had to spend centuries and then he lives happily. But when he is afraid and he doesn’t look forward; he looks back. He petrifies. He gets stiff and he dies before his time, but when he’s living on, looking forward to the great adventure that is ahead, then he lives.”
  – Carl Jung

  Awareness, Consciousness, Existence, Experience, Love, Nature, Perception, Psychonaut, The Unknown

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• Earl Nightingale – The Personal Commitment

  “Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.”
  – Earl Nightingale

  Art, Energy, Existence, Experience, Identity, Love, Perspective, Philosophy, Power, Society, The Unknown

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• Tony Robbins – Why we do what we do

  Tony Robbins discusses the “invisible forces” that make us do what we do.
  “The secret to living is giving” “It’s not about me, it’s about we”

  Consciousness, Energy, Experience, Identity, Love, Perception, Perspective, Power, Psychonaut, Society, The Unknown, Unity

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• Les Brown – Why People Fail

  “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.”
  – Les Brown

  Awareness, Consciousness, Energy, Existence, Experience, Identity, Perception, Philosophy, Society, The Unknown, Time

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• Les Brown – Live Your Dreams

  “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
  – Les Brown

  Awareness, Consciousness, Energy, Existence, Experience, Identity, Linguistics, Perception, Philosophy, Society, The Unknown

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