We are still pushing the rock uphill like Sisyphus — but unlike Sisyphus, we may find the top of the hill and then the rock will roll down the other slope without further effort.

They can keep ahead of the game now, with faster calculations by machine.

The marginal people (meaning those being pushed over the edge) are the poorest people in the poorest countries, mainly children. Sometimes an introduction provides information on animism, totemism, and Greek/Roman and Germanic polytheism. Is it memory that makes things “real” — i.e. Our understanding of the unity of life is dim and incomplete.Ecological ethics is an actively evolving concern. Still, he seemed inclined to let me proceed through the door (still closed) to the next room, where, with great excitement and anticipation, I expected to find hitherto unimagined delights.

There is a third arrow of time now — that of genetic information transmitted across generations.The third diagram (Jantsch’s Figure 32 on this page) is again a continuation of diagram 2, extending it even further to the right. Life thrives on Earth because of its middle position.

The spotlight is like the macula of the eye, but we also have peripheral vision to some extent.We might elaborate on this “map” by thinking of a darkened room rather than a darkened stage, but still with that spotlight in the centre, and by further postulating that the dark room has doors and windows in its very dark walls which connect it to other rooms and secret passageways.Through Door A, the unconscious might connect to the deeper layers of Jantsch’s “neural mind” (the mammalian and reptilian brain), and beyond that to the hormonal, epigenetic, genetic, and metabolic minds, i.e.

In humans, the splenium (part of the corpus callosum which connects the two brain hemispheres) is larger in females than it is in males (De Lacoste-Utamsing and Holloway). However, experiment shows that the two particles always, invariably, have the same spin. Mana or Tao is life or spirit permeating matter in an indissoluble unity. “What can a nonviolent resister do with his anger?” ask a Gandhian student, implying that anger (rage) is like a compressed fluid which will seek an outlet — if not in an explosion of violence, then in some sublimated form of behaviour.This has been called “the hydraulic theory of the emotions”, and is much used in psychoanalysis. My own descriptions and interpretations are given below. Examples of emergent properties are: protons and neutrons from quarks, nuclei from protons and neutrons, atoms from nuclei and electrons, molecules from atoms (most often quoted: liquid water from gaseous oxygen and hydrogen), macromolecules from simple molecules, living cells from macromolecules, eukaryotic cells from prokaryotic cells, multicellular organisms from living cells, societies of some animals of the same species, ecosystems from organisms of many different species.

Well, the series we get by binomial expansion of (1+1/n) to the nth power, as n increases without limit, converges very quickly to the limit e = 2.732… The same number e when raised to the power x (e ) is also the only function of x which is its own derivative in differentiation, i.e. It caught on immediately in popularity, showing that it corresponds to the emerging needs of humanity, to the spiritual soil in the collective unconscious from which our transformation must spring. However, this paradigm can be transferred to the difference between human gametes, and makes the female role somewhat superior even at this stage. While bringing in our input, we may linger for a while as in a library, browse among the shelves where other people’s experiences are recorded, and use the facility’s computers to retrieve what we may need for the next day.Why four such cycles per night?

It is like a musical instrument in a state of multiple harmonic vibrations reorganizing itself into a different vibrational state, or like an electron doing a quantum jump to a higher energy level. from paramagnetism to ferromagnetism at the Curie point, where all the molecular or atomic magnets become permanently aligned in the same direction; and from ordinary electrical conductivity to superconductivity, when there is no longer any resistance to the movement of electrons through the solid. )Collective decision-making depends on somehow aggregating the individual utility preferences into a group utility preference.

In writing about “stages of learning”, Hayden Roberts, in We have gone a long way indeed from physical quantitites like matter and energy, to explore mainly mental qualities like meaning and intelligence. When ether and water are put together in the same vessel, they form two distinct layers with a meniscus (boundary) between them. Kuhn made a “meta-science” of this theory of scientific revolutions.But all this is only scratching the surface of the real limits to knowledge.

Normally, we do start paying conscious attention in situations of danger; but if we are too deeply into automatic operation, we may even fall asleep at the wheel, with disastrous consequences.We, of course, walk automatically — that is an inborn pattern, hard-wired in the nervous system. Connections at synapses between neurons can be either excitatory or inhibitory, and both are necessary for proper balance.Similarly, our bodies have two kinds of autonomous (involuntary) nervous systems: the sympathetic, which stimulates (e.g.

Perhaps in the Golden Age, the Mandala centre was made of gold.There are at least 8 alternative theories of what happens after death: annihilation, torment, bliss, heaven/hell, addition of purgatory and limbo to heaven and hell, the last judgment, reincarnation, and timeless eternity.

And free will is possible, exploiting the butterfly effect of chaos.Time and space are self-similar down to the Planck limit, numbers are similar without any limit.