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“The Neural Buddhists” - NYT Op-Ed

By Lee Clemmer | 1 Comment »

Just read an amazing Op-Ed column on newyorktimes.com by David Brooks titled “The Neural Buddhists.”  He puts into words and really crystallizes what I have been feeling and thinking for some time while making some profound insights.  He writes:
And yet my guess is that the atheism debate is going to be a sideshow. The cognitive […]

DNA Unraveled: Unlocking the Mysteries of Your Genome

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Whenever I go to my local grocery store, I check the front page of the newspapers to get a pulse of what the chattering class is chattering about (in print anyway). One New York Times cover story in particular caught my attention: “My Genome, Myself: Seeking Clues in DNA,” an excellent article by […]

E8 and the Theory of Everything

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Here are a couple of articles to blow your mind. Most fascinating to me is this exotic mathematic structure known as E8. It actually has the same structure that a number of my drawings have, as well as the circles found on Indian cloths; coincidence? I think not. On a subconscious level, […]

Inorganic Life in Space?

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I’ll have more to write about his later after I read the full journal article, but appears that researchers have found evidence that dust-particles in space are forming into helical structures which exhibit characteristics associated with living things.  In other words, inorganic life.
Some questions that naturally arise are: what is life? What is consciousness, and […]