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We have to find sound ways to change our recycling for ages mentality for the better.
Let Technology be just a helpful tool for doing something meaningful, until we will be able to naturally augment our limited human perceptions of the ever-changing world, and ourselves in it.

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• A reply on Conversation: People who can see only what is near their noses are actually blind and deaf. Why are they so sure of that flat screen of their reality?

  Jul 11 2012: Well, I love to be challenged, even if I have to constantly challenge myself when life spares me for some short period of time.

• A comment on Conversation: People who can see only what is near their noses are actually blind and deaf. Why are they so sure of that flat screen of their reality?

  Jul 11 2012: Well, I'm with you in terms of seeing lots of nonsense, repetitive tricks and ideas, and just simply loud junk in arts, as the majority understands Arts. Funny as it is - I am an artist myself. I stay intentionally away from those "arts". I call Glenn's quot controversial.
  
  I trust that Glenn Gould means that only creative ways is the best form to communicate and coexist. However, this is only possible for the most rare great artists in arts, sciences, philosophy and in all sorts of sound craftsmanship .
  
  I do mean that in order to be great in any filed one has to be a daring, authentically creative artist. The arts we know is so slaving for "historical" "important" descriptions and stupid fame that it is degraded to the point O, in innovation and meaningful creativity. I have been working on human perceptions since I remember myself....
  
  I have come to the point NO MATTER HOW GOOD OR BAD WE ARE IN CREATING OUR REALITIES WE MUST BE ARTISTIC for the sake of survival in the endless turmoils of Change. Our only way to somehow survive and evolve is to use our abilities in adjusting in our ever changing environment. It is this quint essential art, no living creature can avoid as long as it lives. Well, I understand Art differently, not as commonly as many people do. We are already a society of artists and loots of us are horrifically bad artists.
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  A reply on Conversation: People who can see only what is near their noses are actually blind and deaf. Why are they so sure of that flat screen of their reality?

  Jul 11 2012: Happy to hear from you, dear Colleen! It is a hard job to stay independent even just to think differently...
  Yes, it SEEMS "easier to stay in the little, structured reality we have created for ourselves, rather than explore "outside the box" but it is not really easy because everyone has a hard work to adjust to the brainless rules and people always break these rules however knowing nothing else. It seems to me that people commonly create their very stiff rules for to break them! It gives more comfort to follow my rules which are usually very harmless to others. Best Regards!

• A reply on Conversation: People who can see only what is near their noses are actually blind and deaf. Why are they so sure of that flat screen of their reality?

  Jul 11 2012: Grateful for your post, Carolina. Not only individuals who are not able to use their talent and intuition to create a better world within and without, but also our stiff man-made systems are designed to fight new, denying new knowledge and old wisdom as well. Since I was a very young student of my life I wondered how come that our civilization has been "developed" based on no-go ideas of the old politician Plato, while ignoring the meaning of Heraclitus' Change and Protagoras' unavoidable Limitations of our perceptions? People follow not wisdom that demands thinking but dogmatic, ready-to-go concepts. Even sciences in our days still use the same mentality of proving "reality" based on what they "see" on the surface!! The most great ideas and works are still demolishing along with their authors. In our unique times of non-stop screaming madness the best of the best is still doomed - because real wisdom or grace cannot scream, they cannot be loud. IS this possible to see people learning to respect original and unique as something that can be turned into their own salvation? A physically blind person may "see" in the dark, while we, sighted creatures do not see what is happening in front of our eyes. Will people ever learn to learn?
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  A comment on Conversation: People who can see only what is near their noses are actually blind and deaf. Why are they so sure of that flat screen of their reality?

  Jul 11 2012: Good to hear from you! Thank you so much for your great post! I believe that no living form has the same reality as others. Years ago as a little art student, I came to this conclusion: no one can sense a thing unless one constantly compares his sensations, images, thoughts etc., in order to create a composition of "things" we have to Select from what we perceive into a group of "things" or details. Then we focus our emotional/mental attention on whatever attracts us the most. We must Frame what we observe in our own order, putting everything else on a vague background, just like we do in classical paintings. In order to apply our logic and see some connections we have to limit our observations, Frame them, or otherwise our logic would disappear in the endless ocean of everything, like a tiny fish.... .
  
  This is what I think about reality in general - we are creators of our realities. Whether we are good, fantastic or very poor artist, we are all given Our Perceptions as artist's "tools".
  
  I trust that we have superb Primary subconscious perceptions and very limited Secondary, "physical" perceptions. These Secondary perceptions additionally digest our reality through our physical bodies. This process limits our subconscious perceptions and create what we call our "physical" reality. It is a poor secondary reality. I rendered a picture of a mind and my sketch showed how I explained a mind's "geography" and I also pointed why some blockage from bodily corporeal perceptions can Not open for us different, more augmented perception of reality . I understand that some drugs can do some little job toning down crude physical perceptions, releasing our deep very powerful subconscious sensations.
  
  
  Sorry, This conversation will be closed in a few hours. We can open a similar one.
  
  I like this provocative quote by Glenn Gould: "In the best of all possible worlds, art would be unnecessary...The audience would be the artist and their life would be art." OK

• A reply on Conversation: Revolution in education

  Jul 8 2012: I was bewildered since my early childhood by why was it impossible to fly through the wall, and why is that thing called "body" is so alien to me, heavy and clumsy. I could not make up my confidence in such experience at that age, this experience was myself, it came up within myself into my new alien environment. My earliest childhood impressions remain incomparable. When these memories occasionally emerge in brilliant light from the past, I feel as though I am awakening from the deep dull sleep that we call our 'daily routine'. Many of us call this sleep 'reality'.
  
  The questions that children ask, come from the perspective of independent
  observers. While they are still outsiders, newcomers, they have not yet become
  seriously involved in pretensions of our society and its scenarios, in attempting
  to fit into their limited categories. Very young children are our best teachers,
  before they become victims of our social habits of thinking and acting.
  
  As comical as those questions may seem to an adult, the essence of wonder itself
  remains the most precious quality of our nature and very often this wonder can
  take us to the most mysterious debts of our psychology.
  
  Often narrowing its range and decreasing its points with age that natural wonder
  leaves a mind in quite stiff condition when we get older. Sometimes we call this
  stiffness a tradition, experience or even knowledge. As we grow up we hardly
  distinguish those habits of thinking, from our real changing circumstances.
  
  I'd like to repeat this again, by discovering physical laws, including Newton's and Einstein's we discover our own unique conditions within ourselves. Every living form must have a mind (while brains are not that important) because minds must perceive or in other words, Interact and protect its own unique domains through limitations. It is the most vital process of conditioning and eventually creating our internal worlds, whether they are similar or drastically different.

• A reply on Conversation: Revolution in education

  Jul 8 2012: I appreciate that you keep in mind the agenda...Before i get to this point - I LOVE your dream but more than that I absolutely admire your perception of the dream. "What was surprising to me when I woke, was the fact, that I was not surprised to have this abilities in my dream, which was my reality when I was dreaming it. This, to some degree, made me realize that our minds would be able to adjust even to the most bizarre 'realities' if we were put into them by bith." I remember this very famous American cosmonaut was able to articulate his experience in great words, saying that he was struck to realize that there were no ups and downs, lefts or rights...... and here is your vacuum feather and a hummer..... getting close to the "out of brain experience".
  
  I think everything we've touched in our short posts is related, quite directly, to the possible revolution in our education and mentality. The more angles of observations we bring together for comparison the greater we might augment our vision. Language and grammar, sciences and math, arts and music as we explore these "subjects" in schools and in our social life are possible for us only because we have created conventional signs and special rules for them. It is about our collective "mentality" which does not really exist. Our knowledge as we articulate it is mainly about our crude approximations based on our collective experience. I hope that some day people would be able to understand that the nature's laws that govern our own perceptions are responsible for creating and conditioning what we call our physical reality with its gravitational, electromagnetic and other conditions. We do NOT discover universal laws but our internal laws within our unique realities and perceptions of these realities. A microbe would not even notice any table, its solidity or formation, or weight, it would not perceive its color or texture, or gravity that "puts" it on a floor, but a miicrobe would go through it

• A reply on Conversation: Revolution in education

  Jul 7 2012: This is a very "crazy", very controversial subject OBE, it is attracting more and more researchers. I would not refer to this experience if I was not sure what happened to me. It took me years to understand. Unlike many people who are scared to share this experience with others because they expect others (who have no idea of what it is) call these "Stories" and people themselves, crazy, I am open for thinking with others.
  
  If you do not trust me -- OK lets do not talk about it The main point however is that when we just dream while sleeping, our body is semi involved in dreams. People usually believe that our dreams when we sleep have physical influence, which is absolutely true.
  
  It is a drastically different case When your body is dead - your sense-perceptions are shut completely. Some drugs can create similar effects. If you are still curious I will try to engage common logic and explain what I think it is.
  
  It is different from 42.

• A reply on Conversation: Revolution in education

  Jul 7 2012: I trust that we have two "sets" of perceptions. As the rest of living creatures we have our PRIMARY deeply subconscious intuitive perceptions. Though we absolutely ignore their existence they can reveal how we initially may interact with our ever-changing External environment and why our environment is not ready-to-go pictorial or auditory in the first place. Our perceptions are our natural boundaries that are to protect us as somewhat unique individual living forms. We develop our Physical sense-perceptions only through interactions between our minds and their temporary vessels -what we call "physical bodies". It is a very challenging experience because, I think, our corporeal sense-perceptions are limited to burlesque....and often very painful. Why do we as mental living forms need this physical experience is a grand question. Boost our awareness? Maybe it is some illness to get this body as a composition of billions of viruses and microbes glued to our living minds? But I am trying to answer your question - I think that we develop our artificial sort of consciousness based on what we perceive though sense-perceptions, ignoring our subconscious perceiving. We lost our natural intuition and keep playing with devices that substitute our nature's given abilities. While many animals are superior to us in sensing their environment using no cell phones, compasses, flying jets, or instantly coordinating themselves in wilderness we re completely lost in this world without our artificial tools and devices. Is it intelligence really? I think that we shall try to learn from the nature's world how to augment our intuition and subconscious PRIMARY perceptions. If we do not realize how silly our concepts often are - we would not be able to evolve at all. We will make more toys to play, going absolutely nuts over our "inventions". We have not evolved our minds, bodies or recycling mentality since the old idealist Plato. Many Thanks for your posts!

• A reply on Conversation: Revolution in education

  Jul 7 2012: I love intelligent critique.