meanwhile in Dublin

December, on a Thursday

flowering trees

flowering trees
- petals on asphalt
December

Rohatsu 8th December

Some 2500 years ago, a guy named Gautama, sat under a tree, and had a nice idea about 4 [noble] truths. In Zen-Buddhism this moment is celebrated on the 8^th day of the 12^th month. Happy Rohatsu! in gassho _/\_

Acum 2500 de ani, un tip numit Gautama, sezand sub un copac, a avut o idee simpatica despre 4 adevaruri [nobile]. In zen-budism acest moment e celebrat in ziua a 8a din luna a 12a.  Rohatsu

in gassho _/\_ 

21 November 2015

7th of November

homage

thanks, K!

today he would have been 63. Thank you for all your teachings, K! you'll always be a part of me

in gassho

About Monkeysphere

A few years back a very good friend of mine gave me this link:

http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html

still insightful!

The Illusion of Conscious Will - Daniel M. Wegner

 Overview

"Do we consciously cause our actions, or do they happen to us? Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, theologians, and lawyers have long debated the existence of free will versus determinism.

 In this book Daniel Wegner offers a novel understanding of the issue. Like actions, he argues, the feeling of conscious will is created by the mind and brain. Yet if psychological and neural mechanisms are responsible for all human behavior, how could we have conscious will?

The feeling of conscious will, Wegner shows, helps us to appreciate and remember our authorship of the things our minds and bodies do. Yes, we feel that we consciously will our actions, Wegner says, but at the same time, our actions happen to us. Although conscious will is an illusion, it serves as a guide to understanding ourselves and to developing a sense of responsibility and morality.

Approaching conscious will as a topic of psychological study, Wegner examines the issue from a variety of angles. He looks at illusions of the will—those cases where people feel that they are willing an act that they are not doing or, conversely, are not willing an act that they in fact are doing. He explores conscious will in hypnosis, Ouija board spelling, automatic writing, and facilitated communication, as well as in such phenomena as spirit possession, dissociative identity disorder, and trance channeling.

 The result is a book that sidesteps endless debates to focus, more fruitfully, on the impact on our lives of the illusion of conscious will."

https://mitpress.mit.edu/index.php?q=books/illusion-conscious-will

3 new animations

Brand new animations. Check this:
http://silviudghermangraphics.blogspot.ie/p/animations.html

Hana-matsuri. 8th of April 2015

 Unii (japonezi) zic ca s-ar fi nascut pe 8 aprilie. Cine mai stie? sa zicem ca asa ar fi. Celebram si noi cu flori de cires irlandez. Senin in ganduri si priviri sa aveti! :) _/\_

[Some (japanese) say he was born on the 8th of April. Who knows? Celebrating with Irish cherry flowers. Gassho] _/\_