13 hours ago: Look at it this way.
The evolution of nature created man.
The evolution of men created culture.
The evolution of culture created technology.
The evolution of technology creates something new.
In total it is the evolution of self-awareness from consciousness.
May 23 2013: I agree Orlando that learning depends on experience but at the same time do I know that not all experience can be described.
For something to become knowledge it has to be clad into words, for by this the mind can record, store and reproduce it.
Words refer to common notions we share about images that our senses tell us by which to present a world that we share and that appears outside.
Reality however is one system only that we experience as being. Within this being that we call universe any point of focus finds itself at any time on a particular place embodied as an organism equipped with more or less sensory organs to depict its particular view on that totality.
The picture any one organism produces has been developed over all generations of life in accordance with the enhancements on the sensory system over time. What it depicts is everything necessary to sustain life and procreate.
It doesn't show what is nor what we are but just what we are equipped to.
To see what is, can be done by changing the direction of focus from what we think is outside to the inside. Close all senses, center our focus and hold all attention to the source of thoughts.
This experience can show everything in one glimpse. This can't be described nor read out, for it contains all connectedness, the solution of all contradictions, all light and the clearness of being itself. Consciousness contains all thoughts from all times from all living beings and to peek into this gives you an perspective that can impossible be outlaid in words for it will need at least as much time as any living thing has spend on this earth.
What is, is information that we add to with every living moment and at a moment of absolute consciousness it can all be seen in one view and all time will be experienced as one moment that fills one point of unborn space.
May 22 2013: Thank you Colleen for your nice response, the joy however is mutual.
Your purpose as you see it, is life's purpose as I see it and will always harmonize into beauty that we can enjoy.
I've seen your garden.
To participate here much is rather time-consuming for me as my English isn't fluent enough to express my thoughts in a natural way. I feel crippled by it but I love to see how many comments of yours express my thoughts in a most eloquent way.
May 21 2013: I largely agree with the professor you mentioned and disagree with the idea that science can ever describe what the world really is.
Scientific discoveries aren't in conflict with metaphysics as they only light up some views to the mind from a limited perspective.
To think that we can reason our way to the right answers as Sam Harris advocates is scary and arrogant.
Wisdom comes from love and it is love that we have to install in in our hearts to give it without exception and most of all to our children that will change the coming world.
There's no right, nor wrong. There's only love or lack of it.
May 13 2013: Helen, I do understand that infinity doesn't exist. All in existence is finite.
Infinity is the source of existence, generating all change in being.
Apr 22 2013: What infliction? Being born with a brain slightly different than the average?
The reason that it becomes visible after about age 15 is because children can cope relatively well as child life is more simple and structured with all support from elders and teachers.
Parents mostly knew all along that something was not as usual.
Mar 15 2013: Of course you're right.
If the habitat of any one species is lost the animal can be seen as extinct even though there are many in captivity.
Breeding them outside their natural world will change them over generations.
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A comment on Conversation: Does evolution destroy us?
The evolution of nature created man.
The evolution of men created culture.
The evolution of culture created technology.
The evolution of technology creates something new.
In total it is the evolution of self-awareness from consciousness.
A comment on Conversation: How do(did) you raise your kids?
A reply on Conversation: Is it time for philosophy to do away with metaphysics?
For something to become knowledge it has to be clad into words, for by this the mind can record, store and reproduce it.
Words refer to common notions we share about images that our senses tell us by which to present a world that we share and that appears outside.
Reality however is one system only that we experience as being. Within this being that we call universe any point of focus finds itself at any time on a particular place embodied as an organism equipped with more or less sensory organs to depict its particular view on that totality.
The picture any one organism produces has been developed over all generations of life in accordance with the enhancements on the sensory system over time. What it depicts is everything necessary to sustain life and procreate.
It doesn't show what is nor what we are but just what we are equipped to.
To see what is, can be done by changing the direction of focus from what we think is outside to the inside. Close all senses, center our focus and hold all attention to the source of thoughts.
This experience can show everything in one glimpse. This can't be described nor read out, for it contains all connectedness, the solution of all contradictions, all light and the clearness of being itself. Consciousness contains all thoughts from all times from all living beings and to peek into this gives you an perspective that can impossible be outlaid in words for it will need at least as much time as any living thing has spend on this earth.
What is, is information that we add to with every living moment and at a moment of absolute consciousness it can all be seen in one view and all time will be experienced as one moment that fills one point of unborn space.
A reply on Conversation: What is the purpose of life?
Your purpose as you see it, is life's purpose as I see it and will always harmonize into beauty that we can enjoy.
I've seen your garden.
To participate here much is rather time-consuming for me as my English isn't fluent enough to express my thoughts in a natural way. I feel crippled by it but I love to see how many comments of yours express my thoughts in a most eloquent way.
A comment on Conversation: What is the purpose of life?
A comment on Conversation: Is it time for philosophy to do away with metaphysics?
Scientific discoveries aren't in conflict with metaphysics as they only light up some views to the mind from a limited perspective.
To think that we can reason our way to the right answers as Sam Harris advocates is scary and arrogant.
Wisdom comes from love and it is love that we have to install in in our hearts to give it without exception and most of all to our children that will change the coming world.
There's no right, nor wrong. There's only love or lack of it.
A reply on Conversation: Infinity exists regardless of mankind's ability to conceptualize it.
Infinity is the source of existence, generating all change in being.
A comment on Conversation: What are the problems facing Third World countries?
A reply on Talk: Thomas Insel: Toward a new understanding of mental illness
The reason that it becomes visible after about age 15 is because children can cope relatively well as child life is more simple and structured with all support from elders and teachers.
Parents mostly knew all along that something was not as usual.
A reply on Talk: Stewart Brand: The dawn of de-extinction. Are you ready?
If the habitat of any one species is lost the animal can be seen as extinct even though there are many in captivity.
Breeding them outside their natural world will change them over generations.