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If you look around the world you revolve in, there are a lot plain "gray" surfaces dotted all around the place... Most new designs of everything in our everyday life are what Billy Connolly refers to as "beige"; mass produced, cost effective, boring... nothing unique, no individuality outside one, maybe, provided/sold by the 'multinational' whoever... why not liven things up a bit? Give things we use everyday some personality, color, "zest", make your eyes happy...

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I just saw a talk, maybe a year ago, and I liked the talk and the website... but then life took the upper hand, and I haven't inquired into this much more, and then a couple months ago a friend posted another talk on facebook, and I got back into it... not much of a story...

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• A comment on Talk: Ariel Garten: Know thyself, with a brain scanner

  Jan 27 2012: I wonder how far can they zoom in on that brain wave?

• A comment on Talk: Julian Baggini: Is there a real you?

  Jan 23 2012: When it comes to Buddhism - when u get angry, who is it that's getting angry? and who is it realizing that you're getting angry? :) (and didn't he achieve his enlightenment by the river?)
  
  Basically we're like coral... but our brains are complex enough to become self aware... Born a clean slate and the brains develop based on individual experience, habits, etc... neurons group together more you use them, and the sensitivity grows in this or that area, certain natural talent is a separate issue... But, generally, and physiologically, we humans are all the same thing, same basic life forms, we all bleed red, and all the 7 billion brains are same "model"... It's just that they're designed(and I use this word very loosely, as a metaphor. not the Flinstones - creationism / puff, magic stuff) to be Very Very Very much adaptable to the environment, as are the bodies that go with them... so at the same time the more specific you get more different we become, as complexity grows until eventually everyone is completely unique and different from everyone else... it all depends on perspective...
  
  And of course we create our selves, we're made up of "n" number of selves all competing for the attention and some reality time no? all those desires, and memories, and beliefs, and experiences, and within all that neural net, we have a mind, on the thought level, the Will as philosophers refer to it, which can consciously choose to do this and not that, but what is that actually? I don't think we understand the nature of our reality well enough to accurately answer that question just yet... we could be a higher consciousness getting to experience the reality of physical life one second at a time? Or it's all just this awesome biological, physical, meat thing, which just got soo complex it created what it imagined... converted thought, pure nothing in real term, into action, and then affected things around that particular meat, so it became "self aware". Who knows?still, enjoy it

• A comment on Talk: Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex

  Jul 18 2011: I think one has to be certain one is right in the circumstance of an argument, otherwise it would be impossible... but that shouldn't be the constant state of mind... I was under the impression that trial and error was like a mental level up or down from "self-confidence" depending on the situation.
  
  In all this complexity, there might be situations when error is associated with a very high "cost", thus causing the god complex in ppl who are faced with difficult decisions...
  We are very adaptable species, and we get used to anything and everything, eventually it all becomes mundane, "usual" , and we take it for granted (whatever "it' might be) . . .
  -The biggest of which, by the way, is our human - o - centric view of everything around us... by now we should've figured out there's more than one way ... to anything & everything ;)
  
  And to those who say it's inefficient - Not if it's engineered in a way to streamline and accelerate the generations/number of trials, with a software, for example.
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  A reply on Talk: David Christian: The history of our world in 18 minutes

  May 29 2011: Universe makes complexity with "simple rules repeated without end" - Benoit Mandelbrot

• A reply on Conversation: LIVE TED Conversation: Join TED Speaker Sean Carroll

  May 19 2011: Thanks a lot... I have another question If I may...
  When it comes to our understanding of time(4th dimension, right?), in terms of physical equations do we assign a certain "speed" to time? we know it's direction, but what I'm trying to ask is, does our perception of the rate of it's progression affect the empirical/scientific approach to time?
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  A comment on Conversation: LIVE TED Conversation: Join TED Speaker Sean Carroll

  May 19 2011: I love your talks, all of them... just fantastic!
  I'm wondering one thing tho... in the whole world of cosmology/physics, does the Fractal geometry play any role? is the whole Mandelbrot Set idea taken into consideration somewhere?
  Cheers
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  A reply on Talk: Sirena Huang: An 11-year-old's magical violin

  Jun 9 2009: what does it mean to be the example to the rest of the world children? this is an example of creativity and talent being embraced and not shut down, and ignored... and I doubt the process of getting here is much helpful to all the world children, because no two people are alike, no two situations are alike, and I think the main thing is to understand to value creativity in children and to help them work on it and improve it, everyone will have their own way and their own specific situation and problem, i doubt you can take one person as a case study for how to be this or that, "truth is a pathless field" said Krishnamurti, these are people finding truth in their lives, let them find their own way, you can't confine people to one particular way, everyone is different ... just relax and enjoy it...
  Peace

• A comment on Talk: Liz Coleman's call to reinvent liberal arts education

  Jun 1 2009: Fantastic speech, i think... very informative... and just right... the whole idea of more and more specific expertise isn't very helpful to making decisions that have a overall positive impact, it's hard to calculate a "bigger picture", if one has never thought from that perspective... if all of the academic life has been about specifics, how can we expect the understanding of overall good?
  cheers