Showing posts with label self. Show all posts
Showing posts with label self. Show all posts
Monday, April 20, 2026

What a self is.

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Reading Michael Pollan’s account of his meeting with Anil Seth in his recent book "A World Appears" has prompted me to write down ...
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

The polyvagal theory is dead - and HRV isn't a simple indicator of arousal

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I was recently struck by Baxter's Substack post (its title copied to be the title of this MindBlog post), which noted work critical of P...
Monday, March 16, 2026

The nature of intelligence and selves.

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I want to pass on the result of my extracting what I felt to be crucial chunks of text from Chapters 5 through 9 of Agüera y Arcas’s "W...
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

I am not my problem

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I use this MindBlog to go back and look myself up occasionally, and so pass on this re-post of my 10/26/2025 post: An explanation of the str...
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Dangerous Ideas.......

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Deric's MindBlog is almost 20 years old. Its first post appeared on Feb. 8, 2006. The assertions and ideas described in that original po...
Sunday, October 26, 2025

I am not my problem

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An explanation of the strange title of this post: Sometimes a new idea spontaneously appears from nowhere as I am waking in the morning. ...
Monday, September 22, 2025

Enlightenment, Habituation, and Renewal - non-dual awareness as the opiate of the thinking classes.

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Enlightenment traditions in Abrahamic, Buddhist, Hindu, or other schools of meditative insight have a common issue. How can the central cano...
Friday, September 19, 2025

Value, Purpose, Meaning, Futures

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Value, purpose, and meaning vary between  religions and cultures, and are best viewed as emergent properties supporting altruistic behavior...