Showing posts with label mindfulness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mindfulness. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Thoughts on having a self - Deric's MindBlog as WebLog - January 2024

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In the spirit of the original personal WebLogs of the 1990s that morphed into Blogs that enjoyed a golden era in the 2000s, I am offering re...
Sunday, January 21, 2024

Titles and URLs for key MindBlog posts on selves

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I pass on a chronological list of titles and URLs of MindBlog posts assembled in preparation for a video chat with a European MindBlog reade...
Sunday, April 23, 2023

How does a meditation app move toward becoming a corporate behemoth?

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I've spoken highly of Sam Harris' "Waking Up" App, which now clocks me as having done 776 practice or theory sessions.  I ...
Friday, April 14, 2023

Breath - Some basic facts and instructions

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I’ve enjoyed reading through James Nestor’s book “ Breath - The new science of a lost art, ”  and I tried out some of the exercises he point...
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Friday, February 24, 2023

MindBlog picks some of its favorite posts on defining what a self is…

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The following links are from a recent scan of what pops up if I click on items in ‘Selected MindBlog Categories’ in the right column of this...
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Mindful attention enhances brain network control and uncouples past from the present

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Zhou et al. (open source) do an interesting experiment on mindfulness and brain network control:   Significance Practicing mindfulness he...
Monday, January 02, 2023

Enlightenment, Habituation, and Renewal - Or, Mindfulness as the opiate of the thinking classes?

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This New Year’s post is directed to the small number of MindBlog readers who might be sympathetic to some of my private random rants. Perha...
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Wednesday, October 26, 2022

A lucid exposition on non-dual awareness by James Low

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The ‘Waking Up’ app by Sam Harris has posted a series of lectures by James Low that “makes the esoteric teachings of Dzogchen—a non-dual co...
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Monday, September 12, 2022

Non-duality as a platform for experiencing daily life.

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I pass on abstracted edited clip from a recent podcast conversation between Sam Harris and M.I.T philosopher Kierna Setiya on “Philosophy an...
Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Graphic depictions of an integrative model of mind

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To hopefully enhance the chance that you will pay attention to the creative and seminal thinking in the open source Laukkonen and Slagter re...
Wednesday, July 21, 2021

From many to (n)one: Meditation and the plasticity of the predictive mind

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I had a chat with my former University of Wisconsin colleague Richard Davidson during my visit to Madison, WI last week, and he pointed me t...
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Monday, March 22, 2021

Points on having a self and free will.

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 A recent podcast by Sam Harris summarizing his ideas on the question of whether we have free will motivates me to do a further summary her...
Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Evidence for an influence of meditation on immune-related pathways?

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I pass on the abstract, below, and also the entire text of a study by Chaix et al .: Highlights • We explored the methylome of train...
Wednesday, March 03, 2021

Wellness apps can't cure our digital dehumanization

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Wortham describes the surge in the use of wellness Apps as we have shifted our entire lives indoors this past year and notes that they can&#...
Monday, March 01, 2021

Humans are animals - get over it. Let go of 'the purpose and meaning of it all'

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Philosophy professor Crispin Sartwell does a piece discussing how relentlessly Western philosophy has strained to prove we are not squirrel...
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Thursday, December 24, 2020

The plasticity of well-being and the cultivation of human flourishing

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I pass on the abstract of an open source article in PNAS contributed by my former colleague Richard Davidson and his colleages at the Unive...
Friday, October 30, 2020

MindBlog's 5,000th post - The milliseconds of a choice - Watching your mind when it matters.

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This was going to be a post on oxytocin research...but I looked at the Blogger counter to see that it will be the 5,000th post done since th...
Friday, March 13, 2020

MindBlog passes on a note: on the relief of not being yourself.

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I am going to start occasionally doing MindBlog posts on ideas that I think might have the potential of developing into longer pieces of wor...
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Monday, March 09, 2020

Sam Harris' "Waking Up" wakes up Deric's MindBlog

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Over the past few months I have gone back to school by doing the entire sequence of lectures and exercises presented by two mindfulness medi...
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Friday, February 14, 2020

Mindfulness as an antidote to the intrusions of artificial intelligence?

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I want to point to a very interesting New Yorker Magazine article by Ian Parker describing the life and ideas of Yuval Harari, whose work h...