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  • The ‘Busy’ Trap – NYTimes.com

    I have spoken a lot to folks over the years about how AKEDIA or Sloth is not “mere laziness” but “spiritual/mindful laziness.” This manifests in two ways: Either as allowing yourself to just sit around in a dulled idle doing nothing… Continue reading

  • Bankers and the neuroscience of greed | Ian Robertson | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

    While power in moderate doses can make people smarter, more strategic in their thinking, bolder and less depressed, in too-large doses it can make them egocentric and un-empathic, greedy for rewards – financial, sexual, interpersonal, material – likely to treat… Continue reading

  • Originally posted on coromandal: http://youtu.be/bOJL7WkaadY It turns out there’s a long tradition in philosophy and spirituality that’s about embracing negativity, about easing up on all this positive thinking, and learning instead to bathe in insecurity and uncertainty and failure, to… Continue reading

  • Turing’s three philosophical lessons and the philosophy of information

    In this article, I outline the three main philosophical lessons that we may learn from Turing’s work, and how they lead to a new philosophy of information. After a brief introduction, I discuss his work on the method of levels… Continue reading

  • Originally posted on What is it like to be a woman in philosophy?: This is not about what it’s like to be a woman in philosophy. I suspect it is about what it’s like to be a human in philosophy.… Continue reading

  • Together Alone Coming Down Later

    After doing prostrations, bending old body into the smoke-filled interior of the strange bedding, mind detaches from flowing world. Ages pass into moments pass into chaos pass into stillness where all these perennial teachings push me to transgress, to overcome,… Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120630

    “Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.” ~Rabindranath Tagore Continue reading

  • Whatever, Etc., 0017: For John & Martine

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  • Originally posted on The Phoenix and Olive Branch: Might as well quit now, kid. Your classmate is already doing Advanced Calculus. Dear Baby Boomers and Generation X, Quit telling us we’re not special. Believe us, we bloody well know. Earlier… Continue reading

  • Originally posted on Drunks&Lampposts: A close up of ancient and medieval philosophy ending at Descartes and Leibniz If you are interested in this data set you might like my latest post where I use it to make book recommendations. This… Continue reading