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Aug 14 15 1:23 AM
MOKSHA wrote:Very disturbing, indeed, so where does "SLAVERY" start, in the mind IMHO, as the lyrics of one song states "FREE YOUR MIND AND THE REST WILL FOLLOW" There seems to be a growing group who are completely thinking out side the box, and I am getting confussed with most of the data that I am looking at, the flat Earth people, = ultra orthodoxhttps://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/febible.htm They use "Solar Analemma" as means of proof.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analemma Then there is a guy claiming the Earth is not "convex globe but concave"http://www.joedubs.com/is-earth-convex-flat-or-concave/ One of the laws has been broken, "perspective" if the Earth is a globe, we should only be able to see stuff above the Horizion at a certain distance, so something is a miss. I have yet to jump off the fence, from what I been told by TPTB. what say you?
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Aug 14 15 1:27 AM
PeacefulSwannie wrote:These are the sorts of things that technology is doing to humanity.... Smartphone Addiction: Staggering Percentage Of Humans Couldn't Go One Day Without Their Phone http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/16/smartphone-addiction-time-survey_n_1791790.htmlSmartphone 'Addiction' May Affect Adolescent Development http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/804666 Computer Addiction http://www.addictions.com/computer/ Treatments for Computer addiction http://www.rightdiagnosis.com/c/computer_addiction/treatments.htmThe selfie symptomatic of the rise of a nation of narcissists I WAS at a mountain retreat. The scenery was breathtaking. A group of teenagers came onto the timber deck and were blown away by the view. “Wow”, they gasped bringing out their mobiles. And then they started snapping their faces and each other’s, all making kissy-pouty lips and donkey ears with their fingers, hats pulled down over faces, breasts pushed forward. The Facebook page would surely tell us they were at the Golden Mountain lookout and “it was awesome and amazing” but their heads and breasts would block any view. It would easy to describe the behaviour as self-obsessed and exhibitionist. But the issue is more complex than that. And far more troubling. If one is to take the word of experts who are looking into the behaviour of young people, we are looking at a selfie-led Armageddon. The end of society as we know it. We are breeding a generation of potentially ruthless narcissists who might not develop empathetic centres in their brains. Lack of empathy is what causes much destructive and aberrant behaviour in our society. Read more @ http://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/health-wellbeing/the-selfie-symptomatic-of-the-rise-of-a-nation-of-narcissists/story-fnr5f5xi-1227273598036 Generation selfie: Has posing, pouting and posting turned us all into narcissists? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11265022/Selfie-obsession-are-we-the-most-narcissistic-generation-ever.html Study Links Selfies To Narcissism And Psychopathy http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/12/selfies-narcissism-psychopathy_n_6429358.html Are Selfies a Sign of Narcissism and Psychopathy? https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/close-encounters/201501/are-selfies-sign-narcissism-and-psychopathy
The selfie symptomatic of the rise of a nation of narcissists
I WAS at a mountain retreat. The scenery was breathtaking. A group of teenagers came onto the timber deck and were blown away by the view. “Wow”, they gasped bringing out their mobiles. And then they started snapping their faces and each other’s, all making kissy-pouty lips and donkey ears with their fingers, hats pulled down over faces, breasts pushed forward. The Facebook page would surely tell us they were at the Golden Mountain lookout and “it was awesome and amazing” but their heads and breasts would block any view. It would easy to describe the behaviour as self-obsessed and exhibitionist. But the issue is more complex than that. And far more troubling. If one is to take the word of experts who are looking into the behaviour of young people, we are looking at a selfie-led Armageddon. The end of society as we know it. We are breeding a generation of potentially ruthless narcissists who might not develop empathetic centres in their brains. Lack of empathy is what causes much destructive and aberrant behaviour in our society.
I WAS at a mountain retreat. The scenery was breathtaking. A group of teenagers came onto the timber deck and were blown away by the view. “Wow”, they gasped bringing out their mobiles. And then they started snapping their faces and each other’s, all making kissy-pouty lips and donkey ears with their fingers, hats pulled down over faces, breasts pushed forward.
The Facebook page would surely tell us they were at the Golden Mountain lookout and “it was awesome and amazing” but their heads and breasts would block any view.
It would easy to describe the behaviour as self-obsessed and exhibitionist. But the issue is more complex than that. And far more troubling. If one is to take the word of experts who are looking into the behaviour of young people, we are looking at a selfie-led Armageddon. The end of society as we know it. We are breeding a generation of potentially ruthless narcissists who might not develop empathetic centres in their brains. Lack of empathy is what causes much destructive and aberrant behaviour in our society.
Read more @ http://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/health-wellbeing/the-selfie-symptomatic-of-the-rise-of-a-nation-of-narcissists/story-fnr5f5xi-1227273598036
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Aug 14 15 8:47 AM
icepick wrote:MOKSHA wrote: Fence sitting might be the wisest choice Moksha. In a world where it has become difficult even to trust our eyes, are we sure that we have the necessary tools to discern reality? Even most of the more evil among us wear cloaks of good deeds ............. Tim
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Aug 14 15 11:14 AM
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Aug 15 15 11:44 AM
IF a person from Athens 1000 BC came back to earth today, chances are they'd be smarter than all of us. So says Dr Gerald Crabtree, a leading geneticist from Stanford University in the United States, whose new research suggests we humans are just getting stupider. In the paper published in the journal Trends in Genetics, Dr Crabtree says unavoidable changes in our genetic makeup, combined with advances in technology have caused us to become a mutation of our former human selves and a lot less bright than our ancestors. Dr Crabtree told the online journal Natural Society that humans were at their peak when exposed to nature's "fight or flight mechanism".Under those conditions humans were forced to rely on memory, clear thinking and emotional stability that allowed us to trust our instincts and adapt to situations quickly. Modern life places other demands on our bodies and our minds, but technology has replaced our need to rely on our natural abilities and instincts. Our over-processed diet is not doing us any favours, either. British researchers recently discovered that a steady intake of foods high in fructose can quickly reduce IQ. Pesticides and fluoride found in water supply are also said to have a negative impact on brain development. But all is not lost. Dr Crabtree argues that our superior education and progress means we'll have figured out how to overcome these weaknesses in another 300 years or so.
IF a person from Athens 1000 BC came back to earth today, chances are they'd be smarter than all of us.
So says Dr Gerald Crabtree, a leading geneticist from Stanford University in the United States, whose new research suggests we humans are just getting stupider.
In the paper published in the journal Trends in Genetics, Dr Crabtree says unavoidable changes in our genetic makeup, combined with advances in technology have caused us to become a mutation of our former human selves and a lot less bright than our ancestors. Dr Crabtree told the online journal Natural Society that humans were at their peak when exposed to nature's "fight or flight mechanism".Under those conditions humans were forced to rely on memory, clear thinking and emotional stability that allowed us to trust our instincts and adapt to situations quickly. Modern life places other demands on our bodies and our minds, but technology has replaced our need to rely on our natural abilities and instincts. Our over-processed diet is not doing us any favours, either. British researchers recently discovered that a steady intake of foods high in fructose can quickly reduce IQ. Pesticides and fluoride found in water supply are also said to have a negative impact on brain development. But all is not lost. Dr Crabtree argues that our superior education and progress means we'll have figured out how to overcome these weaknesses in another 300 years or so.
Source http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/human-beings-are-getting-dumber/story-fneuz9ev-1226581222526
We Are Losing Our Intellectual And Emotional Abilities - Scientists Say
We are losing intellectual emotional capabilities, because we no longer need intelligence to survive, according to a new study published in the Cell Press journal Trends in Genetics. This provocative hypothesis suggests that it happens because the intricate web of genes endowing us with our brain power is particularly susceptible to mutations and that these mutations are not being selected against in our modern society. Human intelligence and behavior require optimal functioning of a large number of genes, which requires enormous evolutionary pressures to maintain. "The development of our intellectual abilities and the optimization of thousands of intelligence genes probably occurred in relatively non-verbal, dispersed groups of peoples before our ancestors emerged from Africa," says the papers' author, Dr. Gerald Crabtree, of Stanford University. In this environment, intelligence was critical for survival, and there was likely to be immense selective pressure acting on the genes required for intellectual development, leading to a peak in human intelligence.
We are losing intellectual emotional capabilities, because we no longer need intelligence to survive, according to a new study published in the Cell Press journal Trends in Genetics.
This provocative hypothesis suggests that it happens because the intricate web of genes endowing us with our brain power is particularly susceptible to mutations and that these mutations are not being selected against in our modern society.
Human intelligence and behavior require optimal functioning of a large number of genes, which requires enormous evolutionary pressures to maintain.
"The development of our intellectual abilities and the optimization of thousands of intelligence genes probably occurred in relatively non-verbal, dispersed groups of peoples before our ancestors emerged from Africa," says the papers' author, Dr. Gerald Crabtree, of Stanford University.
In this environment, intelligence was critical for survival, and there was likely to be immense selective pressure acting on the genes required for intellectual development, leading to a peak in human intelligence.
Read more @ http://www.messagetoeagle.com/gettingmorestupid.php#.UK8h0mei7IY
These are old articles I came across while looking for an old thread on another subject.
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Aug 15 15 12:43 PM
In just about every dystopian film where robots have taken over, they’ve gotten to their dominance over humanity by being able to self-replicate and get better with each new model. Once they’ve become self-aware, they use their superior machine intelligence to make, faster, better, stronger versions of themselves. Scientists at the University of Cambridge have seemingly doomed us to this fate: They’ve designed a robot that builds baby robots, and uses natural selection to determine which one is best to make more of.
Aug 15 15 1:48 PM
Aug 17 15 10:17 AM
icepick wrote:Hi Pen;They're totally dead on about people developing a laziness of the brain, but way off about us getting dumber. Especially the part about genetics. Just more scientists trying to write a paper that has an impact. We are really getting lazy though, and it's completely true that intelligent machines are tasked with replicating themselves. Tell you anything in particular?Tim
Aug 17 15 10:18 AM
Read more @ http://deadline.com/2015/08/homeland-isis-charlie-hebdo-putin-snowden-season-5-1201497368/
Aug 17 15 3:12 PM
Aug 17 15 4:11 PM
icepick wrote:Which is why I said that about their research. Being acclimated to be dumber, does not equate to becoming genetically dumber. Somebody wants to remove hope in my opinion.
Aug 18 15 8:31 AM
Aug 25 15 2:56 PM
http://thenightshirt.com/?p=3297
Its what I have been saying for years.....
Aug 26 15 8:00 AM
Aug 31 15 10:50 AM
May, 1964: The Virgin Islands Dr. John C. Lilly floats on his back in 10 inches of seawater heated to 93.5 degrees fahrenheit. Outside the tank, the warm Caribbean air blows through the trees and open windows of his custom built beachfront island laboratory. Below him, a pair of bottlenose dolphins drift together in specially designed pools, floating like the scientist upstairs. John has injected himself with 100 micrograms of LSD-25, courtesy of the United States government. No one has ever taken LSD in an environment like the sensory deprivation tank before. No sound, no light, no gravity, virtually no external sensations whatsoever. There is nothing for the mind to focus on but itself. A wave of terror washes over him. It has occurred to him that he might die from this experiment, there is no one to help him should he lose control of his body and allow his face to sink below the surface of the pool. As the drug takes effect, the overwhelming fear coalesces into a brilliant blinding ball of light that suddenly explodes, propelling him like a rocket out of his body, out of the solar system, blasting him into another reality.His consciousness is no longer that of Dr. John C. Lilly, scientist, inventor, human resident of planet earth. He has become something older, wiser, more powerful and as vast as the universe. He soars through infinite space and nebulous clouds of living energy radiating pure joy. He senses the presence of other beings like him. He has seen beings like them before – they watched over him throughout his childhood. This time he feels that he is one of them. John C Lilly was a born scientist. At age 13, the boy nicknamed “Einstein Jr.” already had a penchant for experimentation. He had a habit of building bombs from household chemicals and detonating them in the wilderness outside his family home. He liked to stay late in the school science lab, mixing and measuring, hypothesizing and observing. Despite his father’s wishes for him to become a banker, he studied physics at CalTech, biology at Dartmouth, and Medicine at Penn State. He became a doctor of neurophysiology, a licensed psychotherapist, and an inventor of numerous medical instruments, technologies, and methodologies, many of which are still in use in the field today. He invented a device called the Bavatron which he used to become the first scientist to measure and record multiple bio-electrical impulses across the brain’s surface. His cetacean studies reintroduced to the west the knowledge that dolphins were creatures of extraordinary intelligence capable of forming close relationships with humans and even mimicking speech. But he is perhaps most famous for his experiments with psychoactive drugs and the isolation tank, which he invented at the National Institute of Mental Health in Maryland in 1954. The dominant psychological paradigm of the day was behaviorism, which took all emphasis off of the subjective mental states and the study of the conscious and unconscious mind, focusing instead solely on observable behavior. Joseph B. Watson, one of the leading behaviorists of the early 20th century, summed up the basic tenets of the philosophy of behaviorism as follows: “Behaviorism…holds that the subject matter of human psychology is the behavior of the human being. Behaviorism claims that consciousness is neither a definite nor a usable concept. The behaviorist, who has been trained always as an experimentalist, holds, further, that belief in the existence of consciousness goes back to the ancient days of superstition and magic.” Lilly was never a believer of behaviorism – he had his own theories of mind and reality which he would for the most part keep to himself. Then as now, the fields of science and academia were hostile to radical ideas, or any ideas at all, that challenged the dogmatic assumptions of the dominant paradigm. If a scientist was to succeed, it was best to keep such ideas private, which Lilly did for many years until publishing some of them in a report for the NIMH which was later released as a book entitled Progamming and Metaprogamming in the Human Biocomputer in 1972.
May, 1964: The Virgin Islands
Dr. John C. Lilly floats on his back in 10 inches of seawater heated to 93.5 degrees fahrenheit. Outside the tank, the warm Caribbean air blows through the trees and open windows of his custom built beachfront island laboratory. Below him, a pair of bottlenose dolphins drift together in specially designed pools, floating like the scientist upstairs.
John has injected himself with 100 micrograms of LSD-25, courtesy of the United States government. No one has ever taken LSD in an environment like the sensory deprivation tank before. No sound, no light, no gravity, virtually no external sensations whatsoever. There is nothing for the mind to focus on but itself.
A wave of terror washes over him. It has occurred to him that he might die from this experiment, there is no one to help him should he lose control of his body and allow his face to sink below the surface of the pool. As the drug takes effect, the overwhelming fear coalesces into a brilliant blinding ball of light that suddenly explodes, propelling him like a rocket out of his body, out of the solar system, blasting him into another reality.
His consciousness is no longer that of Dr. John C. Lilly, scientist, inventor, human resident of planet earth. He has become something older, wiser, more powerful and as vast as the universe. He soars through infinite space and nebulous clouds of living energy radiating pure joy. He senses the presence of other beings like him. He has seen beings like them before – they watched over him throughout his childhood. This time he feels that he is one of them.
John C Lilly was a born scientist. At age 13, the boy nicknamed “Einstein Jr.” already had a penchant for experimentation. He had a habit of building bombs from household chemicals and detonating them in the wilderness outside his family home. He liked to stay late in the school science lab, mixing and measuring, hypothesizing and observing. Despite his father’s wishes for him to become a banker, he studied physics at CalTech, biology at Dartmouth, and Medicine at Penn State. He became a doctor of neurophysiology, a licensed psychotherapist, and an inventor of numerous medical instruments, technologies, and methodologies, many of which are still in use in the field today. He invented a device called the Bavatron which he used to become the first scientist to measure and record multiple bio-electrical impulses across the brain’s surface. His cetacean studies reintroduced to the west the knowledge that dolphins were creatures of extraordinary intelligence capable of forming close relationships with humans and even mimicking speech. But he is perhaps most famous for his experiments with psychoactive drugs and the isolation tank, which he invented at the National Institute of Mental Health in Maryland in 1954.
The dominant psychological paradigm of the day was behaviorism, which took all emphasis off of the subjective mental states and the study of the conscious and unconscious mind, focusing instead solely on observable behavior. Joseph B. Watson, one of the leading behaviorists of the early 20th century, summed up the basic tenets of the philosophy of behaviorism as follows:
“Behaviorism…holds that the subject matter of human psychology is the behavior of the human being. Behaviorism claims that consciousness is neither a definite nor a usable concept. The behaviorist, who has been trained always as an experimentalist, holds, further, that belief in the existence of consciousness goes back to the ancient days of superstition and magic.”
Lilly was never a believer of behaviorism – he had his own theories of mind and reality which he would for the most part keep to himself. Then as now, the fields of science and academia were hostile to radical ideas, or any ideas at all, that challenged the dogmatic assumptions of the dominant paradigm. If a scientist was to succeed, it was best to keep such ideas private, which Lilly did for many years until publishing some of them in a report for the NIMH which was later released as a book entitled Progamming and Metaprogamming in the Human Biocomputer in 1972.
Read more @ http://realitysandwich.com/219385/the-unlimited-mind-of-doctor-john-c-lilly/
Sep 7 15 4:44 PM
BOOKING, paying, and rating electricians with an Uber-like app, teaching virtual yoga classes over Skype, and getting a medical diagnosis from a computer. These are just some of the ways technology is predicted to impact Australian jobs in the future, according to the author of a new study.Demographer Bernard Salt has unveiled his report ‘Super connected jobs’, commissioned by NBN, which looks at how jobs will change as we move further into the digital age.Mr Salt said the first, most glaring point, is that we will simply need more jobs, everywhere.“There’s going to be another five million Australians by 2030, so we need another three million workers,” he told AAP.But it’s where those jobs can be found that is interesting.Jobs are already being shed in agriculture and manufacturing, but expanding in health and education. Mr Salt says regardless of how technology changes, we are always going to need doctors, accountants, dentists, urban planners and teachers.It’s just the way they conduct their work that might change. “The sort of work they do and how they do it will be augmented by new technology.” For example, Mr Salt says the IBM supercomputer Watson, which won US game show Jeopardy in 2011, has since gone to medical school and is already being trialled as diagnostician.
BOOKING, paying, and rating electricians with an Uber-like app, teaching virtual yoga classes over Skype, and getting a medical diagnosis from a computer.
These are just some of the ways technology is predicted to impact Australian jobs in the future, according to the author of a new study.
Demographer Bernard Salt has unveiled his report ‘Super connected jobs’, commissioned by NBN, which looks at how jobs will change as we move further into the digital age.
Mr Salt said the first, most glaring point, is that we will simply need more jobs, everywhere.
“There’s going to be another five million Australians by 2030, so we need another three million workers,” he told AAP.
But it’s where those jobs can be found that is interesting.
Jobs are already being shed in agriculture and manufacturing, but expanding in health and education.
Mr Salt says regardless of how technology changes, we are always going to need doctors, accountants, dentists, urban planners and teachers.
It’s just the way they conduct their work that might change. “The sort of work they do and how they do it will be augmented by new technology.” For example, Mr Salt says the IBM supercomputer Watson, which won US game show Jeopardy in 2011, has since gone to medical school and is already being trialled as diagnostician.
Read more @ http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/the-future-of-australian-jobs/story-fnkgbb3b-1227515703732
Sep 8 15 6:14 PM
Sep 9 15 1:48 PM
HUMAN teleportation WILL be possible in the future insists a scientist who specialises in investigating if the impossible really is impossible.Professor Michio Kaku of City University, New York, maintains the technology to teleport a living person to another part of the Earth or even space could be available within decades - or at least by the next century.Prof Kaku, known as Mr Parallel Universe for his futuristic claims, which also include the possibility of real time travel and invisibility, has studied various sci-fi technologies deemed impossible and concluded some will eventually happen.He said: "A lot of things you see on Star Trek will in fact be possible - like the teleporter."You know the expression beam me up Scotty, we used to laugh at it. We physicists used to laugh when someone talked about teleportation and invisabilty, something like that, but we don't laugh anymore we realised we were wrong on this one.
Professor Michio Kaku of City University, New York, maintains the technology to teleport a living person to another part of the Earth or even space could be available within decades - or at least by the next century.
Prof Kaku, known as Mr Parallel Universe for his futuristic claims, which also include the possibility of real time travel and invisibility, has studied various sci-fi technologies deemed impossible and concluded some will eventually happen.
He said: "A lot of things you see on Star Trek will in fact be possible - like the teleporter.
"You know the expression beam me up Scotty, we used to laugh at it. We physicists used to laugh when someone talked about teleportation and invisabilty, something like that, but we don't laugh anymore we realised we were wrong on this one.
Read more @ http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/602529/Human-teleportation-is-possible-and-your-great-GRANDCHILDREN-will-do-it-claims-scientist
Sep 9 15 1:49 PM
icepick wrote:Sounds like they're counting on humans always being needed for new ideas, but is that really a reality?
Sep 9 15 2:48 PM