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I find it astonishing and inspiring: how (young) children: try, fail, practice, succeed, again and again, without hesitations (until they learn; or until their mother shouts at them that they should stop taking other women's shoes [as happened here] :-)).
But why do we stick out our tongue when we endeavor?
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Thanks to c0gnate for the cognition!
Do you know the feeling that you think since a long time about a problem. And suddenly you have the cognition - like out of the nothing?!? And in the same moment it gives you the creeps and you know: it's true what you've distinguished: that's the touch of an angel.
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And now the technical part:
I'm at the moment on the search of the 'nature of the things': not easy ;-)
One idea for the photography is to use an ISO speed of 1600, flash, exposure bias and an aperture ~ 8. So I can get a white (overexposed) background and strong foreground without to bother me or Photoshop....
Trick or Treat, the "Spirits " roamed free ; they're on the right side ...
I Believe In the Great Pumpkin,I started carving & went Culture hunting ...
I'm getting this Round - Help yourselves to the Spirits galore !
You don't have to watch me Carving the Great Pumpkin ...
☼ இڿڰۣ-ڰۣ—...இڿڰۣ-ڰۣ— 🌻🌻🌻 இڿڰۣ-ڰۣ—...இڿڰۣ-ڰۣ— 🌻🌻🌻☼
Acknowledging Festivities of Yesteryears
“At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.” Nicolas Flamel
Folklore is not just fun,I always delve into different layers of depth to learn how spiritual traditions and popular cultures have developed in Anthropology.
How interesting to know that Halloween originates from ancient Celtic harvest festivals, particularly the Gaelic festival Samhain,which lasted for three days and nights and marked the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter. Literally translated,Samhain means "Summer's End".
The Celts recognized only two seasons,summer and winter.
Many of the traditions of Halloween derive from Pagan and Druid customs.Samhain was known in Ireland as the "Lord of Darkness" and the Druid religion was practised by ancient Celtic tribes that populated Ireland and parts of Europe.
Samhain was a time of prophesies,of disguising oneself to avert evil,of performing rites of protection from the dead and Otherworldly spirits.The ancient Druid practice was to circle the tribal Samhain bonfire with the skulls of their ancestors,who would protect the tribe from demons.The veil between this world and the World of the Ancestors was drawn aside on these nights,and for those who were prepared,journeys could be made in safety to the 'other side'. The Druid rites, therefore, were concerned with making contact with the spirits of the departed, who were seen as sources of guidance and inspiration rather than as sources of dread.
Robert Burns - Halloween
Druid dance on Samhain
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKK6XUE2Khs
And,by carving the Pumpkin deeper and deeper,I discovered the Greek connection of Ancient Druids,who were ancient religious leaders, mystics, philosophers and tribal judges of the Celts in Britain, Ireland and Gaul (major part of modern day Western Europe).
There are a number of points that seem to connect Druids with the ancient Greek civilisation.They got their name from the Greek word for the oak tree,which is “driis” (in Greek ΔΡΥΣ).
Since time immemorial, the oak tree was a sacred tree for ancient Greeks.It was the sacred tree of the Greek Royal families of Macedonia.Many of the Macedonian crowns or wreaths found in Royal tombs in Greece depict oak branches and leafs. The oak tree was also the sacred tree of ancient Greek deities Gaia and Zeus.
Also, an oak tree,which was believed that had prophetic powers, stood by the ancient oracle of Dodoni.
Much of the information we have about Druids comes from roman times when the Romans were expanding their empire towards the west.From the Gaellic Wars, a book written in Roman times by Julius Caesar, we can find evidence that Druids used the Greek characters in their public and private transactions.
References to the Druids were also made by the Greek Stoic philosopher Poseidonius,who early in the first century B.C. began an ambitious and dangerous journey into the little-known lands of the Celts. A man of great intellectual curiosity and considerable daring, Posidonius travelled from the Greek island of Rhodes to Rome.From there Posidonius planned to investigate for himself the mysterious Celts.His journey would be one of the great adventures of the ancient world.
Posidonius journeyed deep into the heart of the Celtic lands in Gaul. There he discovered that the Celts were a sophisticated people who studied the stars, composed beautiful poetry, and venerated a priestly caste known as the Druids.They were a highly complex and intellectual group whose influence transcended religion and reached into the realms of secular power and politics.
Reliable sources :
Celtic Lore-keepers, including Druids -
Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies, 1988
The Celtic Ethnography of Posidonius
Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature
And sources of Other Worlds ...
Lebor Gabála Érenn - The Book of the Taking of Ireland -
It is an ancient Irish collection of poems and narratives, which refers to the Greek Partholon who reached Ireland after the big flood.He was an early invader who cleared forests and diverted rivers and he became a Law maker.He came from Macedonia or central Greece with his wife,his three sons and their wives and three Druids, Fios, Eólas, Fochmarc. The names of the three Druids mean :
Cognition, Knowledge and Inquiry.
What we don’t understand, we ascribe to myth ...
Myths always carry a core of truth ...
My Halloween Pumpkin was deeply carved,then I mashed the pulp and wrote my story ...
We are always learning, always discovering.We are a landscape of all we have seen ...
PS : Omit my long-winded,verbose commentary & enjoy Robert Burns' poem & the mystic Druid dance video
Lately Dot has been forgoing her afternoon nap to keep me company during my afternoon linguistics class on Zoom.
I think Dot is more interested in linguistic theory than I am.
Here, Dot ponders a slide that combines current events with high-falutin' concepts about linguistic relativity, "a principle claiming that the structure of a language affects its speakers' world view or cognition." Meow!
Ocean Park, Washington.
Research has shown that human beings, when placed in a completely silent environment, do not function well. In Engineering it is well understood that the presence of white noise can reveal signals that were not previously detectable. Cognitive scientists say that the same principle applies in the brain - some forms of cognition require distinct external stimulus to succeed. This is why you work better in a busy coffee shop than in your silent cubicle :)
According to the experts, similar principles apply in photography - using noise or grain as a post-processing tool can reveal details or textures that were not visible in the original. I'm trying to explore that in selective images. If you have any examples of this, please consider posting to the group Along the Grain www.flickr.com/groups/2665594@N20/
The ability to detect electrical activity in the brain through the scalp, and to control it, will soon transform medicine and change society in profound ways. Patterns of electrical activity in the brain can reveal a person’s cognition—normal and abnormal. New methods to stimulate specific brain circuits can treat neurological and mental illnesses and control behavior. In crossing this threshold of great promise, difficult ethical quandaries confront us.
A haunting blanket of indigo incandescence
Whispering echoes of effulgent truths
Lost intuition and cognition
Graffiti Grove
For art like this you need no optician
It's in your face, instant cognition
Graffiti is art without permission
And there's no greater treasure trove
Than Waterloo Station's Graffiti Grove
A bit of London set apart
For wild daubs and urban art
But wait, my friend, what's happening here
Should fill street artists with mortal fear
For when such work has official sanction
Its funeral rites have been said and done
Guerilla art is no longer plied
Official endorsement is suicide
Was lying in bed the other night, wide awake, staring at the ceiling. Suddenly the stillness was broken by a faint rustling noise. Sounded like the flapping of little wings, or maybe tiny feet racing across the floor of the attic directly over my head. Maybe a mouse I wondered, but I hadn't heard it before now. Maybe a critter just moved in. But then it occurred to me that I'm normally not sleepless at this hour. Maybe the mouse runs across the attic every night and I simply don't hear it. Recently a portion of almost every night is spent this way. I think about the millions of other people that are also lying awake staring at their bedroom ceilings. The pandemic has upended lives and changed how we look at just about everything. Lately I worry about the longterm effect of unrelenting anxiety. Normally the proverbial valleys of daily life are counterbalanced by peaks. Bad days are interspersed with good ones and that helps us balance the books, so to speak, in terms of mental health. But now it seems there are no peaks as we've driven over a precipice into an enormous valley. The next big peak seems distant and very conditional (if we do this or that, if a vaccine is developed, if, if if). The negative effects are widespread and far reaching. Economy depressed, closed schools and businesses; people withdrawn from society. Even basic grocery shopping has become an anxiety-inducing experience. And all of that pales in comparison to the staggering death toll. And it worries me how the daily death counts have are becoming increasingly abstract. The mind just cannot fathom the numbers anymore as the bar for shock is raised on a daily basis. A mental numbness sets in through the constant repitition of the news cycle. I force myself to tune out for a portion of the day to prevent overload and being overwhelmed. I suppose a reset like this was inevitable. It's goin g to end, sooner or later. We'll emerge into a new normal. But it won't be the old one. Many adaptations are probably here to stay. Almost every day something surfaces in my life to remind me of the time before all of this. Trivial things like old photos, emails, notes and letters that remind me how priorities have shifted so drastically. Things that reveal the pettiness of my prior annoyances and problems in the present context. I would gladly embrace all of those issues now in exchange for the present reality. Everything is relative. I expect I haven't heard the last of my attic sounds. They are like a metaphor for the virus itself. Whatever the hell is making those noises, I hope it can't get inside.
Hi there everyone.
I remember when I was studying Shakespeare in the US how difficult it was to grasp the meanings of old English. I do remember struggling with the history and language trying to understand what I was reading. I mean imagine that I read some lines, then watch the play recorded on a video tape and then discover that there was a joke said and that I could even guess it was a joke. I remember that it usually took me two weeks of continuous reading to finish reading one play. I am talking here about reading the text not the criticism and the history of the play.
I tried hard to translate some Arabic lines of poetry to you. Being no poet at all, this was very difficult. I then chose to ask our great friend Google about some trials of translating Arabic poetry to English. I found a great site and want to tell you about it. On this site, a hundred Arabic love lines of poetry are translated into English. You may love them, you may not. Remember that this is a different culture than yours. Remember also that it is very difficult to translate a line of poetry to another language. I mean we are not taking about translating words. Read here to know what is invloved in translating poetry:
“Poetry translation may be defined as relaying poetry into another language. Poetry's features can be sound-based, syntactic or structural or pragmatic in nature. Apart from transforming text, poetry translation also involves cognition, discourse, and action by and between human and textual actors in a physical and social setting. A poetry translation project usually aims to publicize a poet or poets. Poetry translation is typically overt. Poetry translators are concerned to interpret a source poem's layers of meaning, to relay this interpretation reliably, and/or to ‘create a poem in the target language which is readable and enjoyable as an independent, literary text. Poetry translation involves challenges and these are highlighted in this article. Poetry accounts for a tiny proportion of world translation output. Case studies and examples taken from poetry, however, have dominated theory-building in translation studies at the expense of more frequently translated genres.”
www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/97801992393...
I chose some lines from this site vb.3dlat.com/showthread.php?t=140764 I did include the Arabic line of poetry and the translation of it. I Hope you enjoy these lines:
وما كنتُ ممن يدخلُ العشقُ قلبَهُ = ولكنّ من يُبصِرْ جفونكِ يَعشقُ
Love was never able to enter my heart; but seeing your eyes one inevitably falls in love
وما عجبي موت المحبينَ في الهوى = و لكن بقاءَ العاشقينَ عجيبُ
I never wonder why lovers die of love; but I am amazed how those who fall in love can remain alive
وإني لأهوى النومَ في غير حينهِ = لعلَ لقاءً في المنامِ يكونُ
O, how I desire to fall asleep at any moment, perchance I may see the beloved in my dreams
نقـّلْ فؤادكَ حيث شئتَ من الهوى = ما الحبُّ إلا للحبيبِ الأولِ
Let your heart roam and browse in fields of affection, true and lasting love, however, belongs only to the first love.
إذا شئتَ أن تلقى المحاسنَ كلها = ففي وجه من تهوى جميعُ المحاسنِ
If you wish to see all the charming and beautiful things in the world, you need not look beyond the face of your beloved.
رأيتُ بها بدراً على الأرض ماشياً = ولم أرَ بدراً قـّط يمشي على الأرض
In her, I saw a full moon walking on earth, though never before have I seen a moon on earth walking
ضممتكِ حتى قلتُ ناري قد انطفتْ = فلمْ تـُطفَ نيراني وزيدَ وقودها
When I embraced you so close, I thought the fire of my passion would die down; my fires never subsided, their flames roared instead
و قلتُ شهودي في هواكِ كثيرة ٌ = وأَصدَقهَا قلبي ودمعي مسفوحُ.
I said there are many who bear witness to my love for you; most truthful are my heart and my copious tears
Parliament Of Worms.
Compréhension consciente impressions précises précisions luttes,
Conceptualized engagierte Prozesse Betrunkenen Allwissenheit unerreichbar sensorischen Extremen,
nodau tystiolaeth cyfarwyddo merwino anymwybodol gwybodaeth eirfa continwwm integreiddio deddfau,
lactentes conceitos discriminatórios objetivismo realidade pensamento olhos borrada foco mental lascada língua,
волевое переменного разведки неявные бормотание внимательные факты принципы свободы топали,
Pro rationis identitatis inaestimandus consilium data facultate sciendi phantasiae cognitiones radices,
concettualizzazioni coinvolgenti cruciali prospettive fatti meccanismo di riduzioni inammissibili errori umani,
التشابه تطفو على السطح ألسنة بلاغة الفلاسفة الشريط الحدودي الخلافات خيارات مبررات التناقضات,
antecedente nonaxiomatic essências ilógicas imitações proposições oponentes construindo polêmicas sociais egoístas,
虚偽の書類の引用の残りの部分を伝える引用する文おなじみの階層基本法則.
Steve.D.Hammond.
African Elephant & Baobab trees, Kruger Park, South Africa_w_6167
The Kruger National Park The largest game reserve in South Africa, Kruger National Park is basically a synonym for the word "safari." Home to over 500 bird species, 100 reptiles, nearly 150 mammals, multiple archaeological sites, and a stunningly diversity of trees and flowers, Kruger is the country's flagship national park.
Elephant cognition is the study of animal cognition as present in elephants. Most contemporary ethologists view the elephant as one of the world's most intelligent animals. With a mass of just over 5 kg (11lb), an elephant's brain has more mass than that of any other land animal, and although the largest whales have body masses twenty times those of a typical elephant, a whale's brain is barely twice the mass of an elephant's brain. In addition, elephants have around 257 billion neurons. Elephant brains are similar to humans' and many other mammals' in terms of general connectivity and functional areas, with several unique structural differences. Although initially estimated to have as many neurons as a human brain, the elephant's cortex has about one-third of the number of neurons as a human brain.
Elephants manifest a wide variety of behaviours, including those associated with grief, learning, mimicry, play, altruism, use of tools, compassion, cooperation, self-awareness, memory, and communication. Further, evidence suggests elephants may understand pointing: the ability to nonverbally communicate an object by extending a finger, or equivalent. It is thought they are equal with cetaceans and primates in this regard. Due to such claims of high intelligence and due to strong family ties of elephants, some researchers argue it is morally wrong for humans to cull them.
Aristotle described the elephant as "the animal that surpasses all others in wit and mind."
ISS046e003522 (12/29/2015) --- NASA astronaut Tim Kopra powers on the Human Research Facility (HRF) PC 3 for the ongoing Cognition test. The ongoing study includes a battery of tests that measure how spaceflight-related physical changes, such as microgravity and lack of sleep, can affect cognitive performance. Cognition includes ten brief computerized tests that cover a wide range of cognitive functions, and provides immediate feedback on current and past test results. The software allows for real-time measurement of cognitive performance while in space.
Some people claim that masking impairs their brain, reducing cognition ( ability to concentrate and focus ). It might rarely cause this but if you catch the COVID virus it definitely causes brain impairment so better to stay masked!
Brain fog is very common to patients on multiple medications including anti-anxiety (benzodiazepines) anti-pain (narcotics) anti -neuropathy (anticonvulsant-Lyrica) anti-psychotic (quetiapine-Seroquel) and especially cannabinoids (tetrahydrocannabinol-THC, not CBD).
Ravens are among the most intelligent birds - often exhibiting behaviors requiring more intelligence and problem solving than many mammals. One famous test that most ravens master on the very first try is the meat on a string on a stick test. A piece of meat is hung off a perch via a string, which is a situation never seen in the wild. Ravens pull up the string with their beaks and then hold the collected string with their feet, and repeat this process until the meat is within reach. This demonstrates a high level of cognition and problem solving. Ravens have been known to lead wolves to kills, so that they can break open the hide while feeding, thereby allowing the ravens access to the meat. Ravens in Yellowstone National Park re-established this behavior when wolves were re-introduced to the park, despite these ravens not having shared a habitat with wolves for many generations. They are also among the most playful of birds, and have been seen sliding down snowbanks, seemingly just for fun, and will break sticks off of trees to engage in social play with other ravens, thus making their own "toys". They have among the largest brains amonst birds.
day three-hundred-and-twenty-one.
repetition.
repetition.
repetition.
oh, cognition.
r e p e t i t i o n.
who wants to go jump on the back of a train with me? let's just go.
here’s a house. or an almost house. which led me to ask some questions:
is it being built or deconstructed?
what utility does it have in it’s extant form?
when we look at it are we seeing it for what it is or what it represents in terms of potential?
how do we overlook what it actually is (a bunch of wood, cobbled together) and only see what it represents (a potentially finished house)?
what amazing cognition is involved in extrapolating from a bunch of wood into a finished house?
does it have aesthetic merit in it’s extant form, and if so what?
etc.
see ‘7’.
it’s an interesting challenge, i think, to see this construction for what it is, divorced of any potential infused future utility.... tmblr.co/ZHkOLwmUDBk1
iss067e372874 (Sept. 19, 2022) --- ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut and Expedition 67 Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti participates in a cognition test and practices on a computer the simulated robotic capture of cargo craft. The test is part of the Behavioral Core Measures investigation that seeks to measure a crew member’s ability to perform robotic activities in microgravity conditions possibly informing future spacecraft and space habitat designs.
Tanzania 2015
Elephant cognition is the study of animal cognition as present in elephants. Most contemporary ethologists view the elephant as one of the world's most intelligent animals. With a mass of just over 5 kg (11lb), an elephant's brain has more mass than that of any other land animal, and although the largest whales have body masses twenty times those of a typical elephant, a whale's brain is barely twice the mass of an elephant's brain. In addition, elephants have around 257 billion neurons. Elephant brains are similar to humans' and many other mammals' in terms of general connectivity and functional areas, with several unique structural differences. Although initially estimated to have as many neurons as a human brain, the elephant's cortex has about one-third of the number of neurons as a human brain.
Elephants manifest a wide variety of behaviours, including those associated with grief, learning, mimicry, play, altruism, use of tools, compassion, cooperation, self-awareness, memory, and communication. Further, evidence suggests elephants may understand pointing: the ability to nonverbally communicate an object by extending a finger, or equivalent. It is thought they are equal with cetaceans and primates in this regard. Due to such claims of high intelligence and due to strong family ties of elephants, some researchers argue it is morally wrong for humans to cull them.
Aristotle described the elephant as "the animal that surpasses all others in wit and mind."
According to Michaelina Wautier scholar Katlijne Van der Stighelen, the greatest and most important work of the baroque master Wautier is her Triumph of Bacchus, an overlooked example of her genius, parallelled only by a few of the Old Masters.
"Old Master" never actually meant European white men, except in art history books. Of course, there were people playing the role who were not European men, like Hokusai, for example, and there were European men who did not act the part and who were denied access to the same canonical writings which slammed their gilded doors in the face of Wautier, Artemisia Gentileschi, and thousands of other artists whose personal identifications did not directly fit the bill.
In 1993, the Anthony Van Dyck scholar Stighelen happened to see the Triumph of Bacchus while attending a symposium at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Her original plan was to see a possible Van Dyck in a storage space when, Stighelen writes, "A curator led me down long corridors in which ‘second class’ Flemish paintings were stored. As I was leaving the stores, my eye fell upon a monumental piece I hadn’t seen before"–Triumph of Bacchus. Stighelen's subsequent attention to Wautier has made a permanent impact on the study of art history.
One of many reasons that the university system in the United States and Europe is so heavily focused on getting as wasted, sloshed, or sauced as possible is that it is directly based on the "symposium" tradition of the ancient Greeks, an alcohol-soaked, ethically loose, intellectual party tradition with an orthodox religious justification. Greek culture explicitly encouraged welcoming attitudes toward drinking and sexual behavior, which are shockingly inappropriate to most people today. This is because the ancient Greek religious and mythological system that features the naughty Bacchus is no longer as dominant as it was, due to the rise of Abrahamic faiths which consider the Greek and Roman faiths to be idol-worship.
The character of Bacchus, also known as Dionysus, the son of Zeus, was revitalized with a distinctly mischievous, cheeky glee by Friedrich Nietzsche and the French novelist Georges Bataille. More recently, a surprising and deep current of scholarship in gender and women's studies has looked at Bacchus with new eyes. One of the pastimes of Bacchus was encouraging women to throw off their social roles and clothes. A book on Nietzsche and feminism describes Dionysus as the deity of "intoxication, demented flowering, of dance, music...beyond speech, beyond cognition." Wautier's incorporation of herself as one of the Bacchae, the female followers of Dionysus commemorated in the tragedy by Euripides, exposing one of her breasts and looking directly at us, is way ahead of it's time. Yet again, it is an example of a woman birthing an idea in visual art that would be re-deployed, to great profit and fanfare, by a male artist much, much later, without any recognition of the female originator. In this case, I am referring to Edouard Manet's galvanizing work depicting nude women staring directly at the viewer.
The art world is finally beginning to acknowledge Wautier's contributions, though. "The recent interest in Wautier’s oeuvre comes from a sale at a Koller auction in Zurich in March 2016, in which her 1654 portrait of Jesuit missionary Martino Martini sold for CHF400,000 ($399,800) with an estimate of CHF7,000—CHF10,000." This 2016 Koller auction is truly Dionysian in it's excess, as the buyer spent around forty times the estimated value of the Wautier.
Came across this photo the other day of an ornamental cast iron eagle. It was a quick pickup shot, one of about a hundred or so I took on the day my Dad moved out of the old house. It was a sad time for the family to say goodbye to this house that had been the scene of so many gatherings over the years. My mother had purchased the eagle back when I was a kid and it had adorned the house in which we had grown up. When my parents moved to a new house in later years, the eagle was reinstalled over the front door. I never gave it much thought until the day I stood beneath it to take this photo. There was some debris hanging from its wings, remnants of a roofing job, but otherwise it was in remarkably good condition. I snapped a couple of photos and just moved on. Every time I look at this photo I wonder why on earth I had not gotten a ladder and pulled the eagle off the wall. I left a family heirloom to the new owners without even much of a thought. I find it's very easy to become detached from reality once I get wrapped up in photography. I make it a point now to stop periodically during a session. It helps me get a better sense of my surroundings.
Let me take your hand, dear heart... Let me realize what you ignore. You try to live. You try to find the threads that connect a world divided by faults, fear and lack of joy...There are bridges, fragile yet strong. There are paths, beautiful yet secret. There is the cognition of co-existing, too. It counts, a lot. We are together, in the middle of this fascinating, dark vortex...
U Trich Zlatych Hvezd or The Three Gold Stars Restaurant. Old and historic restaurant. The first written records of the building date back to 1400. The house was completely destroyed by fire during the Hussite wars. After twelve years it was restored and in 1813 principally rebuilt. It is one of the few houses in Prague built in the Empire style.
The interior is decorated with full-wall murals from the book "Atlanta Fugiens" written in 1618 by Emperor Rudolph´s II personal doctor Michael Maier. He was an alchemist and member of the Knights of the Cross Order and served as a model for these paintings. The figures depict various stages of consciousness undergone by a novice of the great work on his road to cognition.
In medieval times there was a wooden “donkey” in the street outside with a sharp edged back… ladies of ill repute were made to sit astride the trestle as a punishment.
day three-hundred-and-forty-seven.
i'm about to obliterate all pieces of cognition onto whatever vacant pages are left in my sketchbook. it needs to be filled, and my mind needs to be expelled.
very shortly, i'll be indulged in a massive release.
[...] Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night [...]
-- Quote by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), "Eleonora"
Nikon D70, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8, 50mm - f/18 - 1/2500s - Flash Metz 45 CT-3
Rome, Italy (August, 2008)
Skin colour is usually gray, and may be masked by soil because of dusting and wallowing. Their wrinkled skin is movable and contains many nerve centers. It is smoother than that of African elephants, and may be depigmented on the trunk, ears, or neck. The epidermis and dermis of the body average 18 mm (0.71 in) thick; skin on the dorsum is 30 mm (1.2 in) thick providing protection against bites, bumps, and adverse weather. Its folds increase surface area for heat dissipation. They can tolerate cold better than excessive heat. Skin temperature varies from 24 to 32.9 °C (75.2 to 91.2 °F). Body temperature averages 35.9 °C (96.6 °F).
Intelligence
Main article: Elephant cognition
Asian elephants are highly intelligent and self-aware. They have a very large and highly convoluted neocortex, a trait also shared by humans, apes and certain dolphin species. Elephants have a greater volume of cerebral cortex available for cognitive processing than all other existing land animals, and extensive studies place elephants in the category of great apes in terms of cognitive abilities for tool use and tool making. They exhibit a wide variety of behaviours, including those associated with grief, learning, allomothering, mimicry, play, altruism, use of tools, compassion, cooperation, self-awareness, memory, and language. Elephants are reported to go to safer ground during natural disasters like tsunamis and earthquakes, although there have been no scientific records of this since it is hard to recreate or predict natural disasters.
I don't know about others, but I can easily get to a state where I find it impossible to move forward on certain things, because the end result is almost certain to be a binary yes/no.
Examples include:
• Needing to talk to someone about something really really important, but knowing/fearing that when you ask, they will either say "yes" to that talk or "no"
• Wanting to propose something that's kind of critical to your ongoing happiness/peace of mind/mental health, and (again) knowing/fearing that they will either say "yes" or "no"
• Having an idea for a big creative endeavour, that maybe you've been living with for years, and knowing/fearing that if you start to talk about this with people who can actually tell you whether or not it's any good, or has potential, that the answer will be "forget about it, it's crap" or "wow, what a brilliant idea"
• And this (one that is probably familiar to so many of you): you'd like to tell your partner that you crossdress/are on the trans* spectrum. Maybe they'll be completely accepting and welcoming. Or maybe they'll freak out and leave you/forbid it ever again. But so long as you don't tell them, those two extreme and opposite reactions (there are other possible reactions, of course) can co-exist.
I'm sure most of you know that Schrödinger's Cat is a "thought experiment" to explain quantum physics, and how something (in this instance, a cat in a box, hence above) can simultaneously have two completely opposing qualities (alive or dead) until it's observed.
Forgive me if this is over-simplistic; feel free to add your own interpretation of the "theory". Or just Google it.
So, all my above examples (which are more or less things I'm dealing with, aside from the last one) are trapped in that box, just like Schrödinger's Cat.
While they are in that box, unobserved (or at least unexposed to the world), they can can be simultaneously both "dead" and "alive", "yes" and "no", "brilliant" and "crap", "rejection" and "acceptance".
That means you can live with the idea that the talk will go ahead and will go brilliantly, that your proposal will be accepted, that you are a fucking artistic genius, that your partner will just love the idea of continuing a relationship with someone on the trans* spectrum.
You know deep inside yourself that there's a very good chance that the opposite will happen, but you can still hang on to the hope (and dream) that everything will go well. One of those delusions we create to get by.
Because once these things come out, there's no going back, and your hopes and dreams and fantasies will be crushed. But but but ... just maybe they won't be.
So, here I am, in this pic, stuck in Schrödinger's (Cat)box, opening it up to see if I'm alive, not dead, that I can have that talk, that I am an undiscovered artistic genius.
Anyway at the very least, I can convince myself I've discovered a new branch of psychology (I did Google Schrödinger's Cat and psychology, and found this (which is not what I'm discussing): www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/how-quantum-co.... So, yay, such an original thinker!
Note: why the space and stars background? In Dan Simmonds brilliant Hyperion Canton sci-fi series, a major character was sentenced to death in a Schrödinger's Cat box in orbit around a planet; did he die or did he live? You'll have to read the books to find out...
According to Michaelina Wautier scholar Katlijne Van der Stighelen, the greatest and most important work of the baroque master Wautier is her Triumph of Bacchus, an overlooked example of her genius, parallelled only by a few of the Old Masters.
"Old Master" never actually meant European white men, except in art history books. Of course, there were people playing the role who were not European men, like Hokusai, for example, and there were European men who did not act the part and who were denied access to the same canonical writings which slammed their gilded doors in the face of Wautier, Artemisia Gentileschi, and thousands of other artists whose personal identifications did not directly fit the bill.
In 1993, the Anthony Van Dyck scholar Stighelen happened to see the Triumph of Bacchus while attending a symposium at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Her original plan was to see a possible Van Dyck in a storage space when, Stighelen writes, "A curator led me down long corridors in which ‘second class’ Flemish paintings were stored. As I was leaving the stores, my eye fell upon a monumental piece I hadn’t seen before"–Triumph of Bacchus. Stighelen's subsequent attention to Wautier has made a permanent impact on the study of art history.
One of many reasons that the university system in the United States and Europe is so heavily focused on getting as wasted, sloshed, or sauced as possible is that it is directly based on the "symposium" tradition of the ancient Greeks, an alcohol-soaked, ethically loose, intellectual party tradition with an orthodox religious justification. Greek culture explicitly encouraged welcoming attitudes toward drinking and sexual behavior, which are shockingly inappropriate to most people today. This is because the ancient Greek religious and mythological system that features the naughty Bacchus is no longer as dominant as it was, due to the rise of Abrahamic faiths which consider the Greek and Roman faiths to be idol-worship.
The character of Bacchus, also known as Dionysus, the son of Zeus, was revitalized with a distinctly mischievous, cheeky glee by Friedrich Nietzsche and the French novelist Georges Bataille. More recently, a surprising and deep current of scholarship in gender and women's studies has looked at Bacchus with new eyes. One of the pastimes of Bacchus was encouraging women to throw off their social roles and clothes. A book on Nietzsche and feminism describes Dionysus as the deity of "intoxication, demented flowering, of dance, music...beyond speech, beyond cognition." Wautier's incorporation of herself as one of the Bacchae, the female followers of Dionysus commemorated in the tragedy by Euripides, exposing one of her breasts and looking directly at us, is way ahead of it's time. Yet again, it is an example of a woman birthing an idea in visual art that would be re-deployed, to great profit and fanfare, by a male artist much, much later, without any recognition of the female originator. In this case, I am referring to Edouard Manet's galvanizing work depicting nude women staring directly at the viewer.
The art world is finally beginning to acknowledge Wautier's contributions, though. "The recent interest in Wautier’s oeuvre comes from a sale at a Koller auction in Zurich in March 2016, in which her 1654 portrait of Jesuit missionary Martino Martini sold for CHF400,000 ($399,800) with an estimate of CHF7,000—CHF10,000." This 2016 Koller auction is truly Dionysian in it's excess, as the buyer spent around forty times the estimated value of the Wautier.
Loneliness is a complex and usually unpleasant emotional response to isolation. Loneliness typically includes anxious feelings about a lack of connection or communication with other beings, both in the present and extending into the future. As such, loneliness can be felt even when surrounded by other people and one who feels lonely, is lonely. The causes of loneliness are varied and include social, mental, emotional, and physical factors.
Research has shown that loneliness is prevalent throughout society, including people in marriages, relationships, families, veterans, and those with successful careers.[1] It has been a long explored theme in the literature of human beings since Classical antiquity. Loneliness has also been described as social pain—a psychological mechanism meant to motivate an individual to seek social connections.[2] Loneliness is often defined in terms of one's connectedness to others, or more specifically as "the unpleasant experience that occurs when a person's network of social relations is deficient in some important way".[3]
Contents
1Common causes
2Typology
2.1Feeling lonely vs. being socially isolated
2.2Transient vs. chronic loneliness
2.3Loneliness as a human condition
3Frequency
4Effects
4.1Mental health
4.2Physical health
4.3Physiological mechanisms link to poor health
5Treatments and prevention
6See also
7References
8External links
Common causes[edit]
People can experience loneliness for many reasons, and many life events may cause it, such as a lack of friendship relations during childhood and adolescence, or the physical absence of meaningful people around a person. At the same time, loneliness may be a symptom of another social or psychological problem, such as chronic depression.
Many people experience loneliness for the first time when they are left alone as infants. It is also a very common, though normally temporary, consequence of a breakup, divorce, or loss of any important long-term relationship. In these cases, it may stem both from the loss of a specific person and from the withdrawal from social circles caused by the event or the associated sadness.
The loss of a significant person in one's life will typically initiate a grief response; in this situation, one might feel lonely, even while in the company of others. Loneliness may also occur after the birth of a child (often expressed in postpartum depression), after marriage, or following any other socially disruptive event, such as moving from one's home town into an unfamiliar community, leading to homesickness. Loneliness can occur within unstable marriages or other close relationships of a similar nature, in which feelings present may include anger or resentment, or in which the feeling of love cannot be given or received. Loneliness may represent a dysfunction of communication, and can also result from places with low population densities in which there are comparatively few people to interact with. Loneliness can also be seen as a social phenomenon, capable of spreading like a disease. When one person in a group begins to feel lonely, this feeling can spread to others, increasing everybody's risk for feelings of loneliness.[4] People can feel lonely even when they are surrounded by other people.[5]
A twin study found evidence that genetics account for approximately half of the measurable differences in loneliness among adults, which was similar to the heritability estimates found previously in children. These genes operate in a similar manner in males and females. The study found no common environmental contributions to adult loneliness.[6]
Typology[edit]
Feeling lonely vs. being socially isolated[edit]
There is a clear distinction between feeling lonely and being socially isolated (for example, a loner). In particular, one way of thinking about loneliness is as a discrepancy between one's necessary and achieved levels of social interaction,[1] while solitude is simply the lack of contact with people. Loneliness is therefore a subjective experience; if a person thinks they are lonely, then they are lonely. People can be lonely while in solitude, or in the middle of a crowd. What makes a person lonely is the fact that they need more social interaction or a certain type of social interaction that is not currently available. A person can be in the middle of a party and feel lonely due to not talking to enough people. Conversely, one can be alone and not feel lonely; even though there is no one around that person is not lonely because there is no desire for social interaction. There have also been suggestions that each person has their own optimal level of social interaction. If a person gets too little or too much social interaction, this could lead to feelings of loneliness or over-stimulation.[7]
Solitude can have positive effects on individuals. One study found that, although time spent alone tended to depress a person's mood and increase feelings of loneliness, it also helped to improve their cognitive state, such as improving concentration. Furthermore, once the alone time was over, people's moods tended to increase significantly.[8] Solitude is also associated with other positive growth experiences, religious experiences, and identity building such as solitary quests used in rites of passages for adolescents.[9]
Loneliness can also play an important role in the creative process. In some people, temporary or prolonged loneliness can lead to notable artistic and creative expression, for example, as was the case with poets Emily Dickinson and Isabella di Morra, and numerous musicians[who?]. This is not to imply that loneliness itself ensures this creativity, rather, it may have an influence on the subject matter of the artist and more likely be present in individuals engaged in creative activities.[citation needed]
Transient vs. chronic loneliness[edit]
The other important typology of loneliness focuses on the time perspective.[10] In this respect, loneliness can be viewed as either transient or chronic. It has also been referred to as state and trait loneliness.
Transient (state) loneliness is temporary in nature, caused by something in the environment, and is easily relieved. Chronic (trait) loneliness is more permanent, caused by the person, and is not easily relieved.[11] For example, when a person is sick and cannot socialize with friends would be a case of transient loneliness. Once the person got better it would be easy for them to alleviate their loneliness. A person who feels lonely regardless of if they are at a family gathering, with friends, or alone is experiencing chronic loneliness. It does not matter what goes on in the surrounding environment, the experience of loneliness is always there.
Loneliness as a human condition[edit]
The existentialist school of thought views loneliness as the essence of being human. Each human being comes into the world alone, travels through life as a separate person, and ultimately dies alone. Coping with this, accepting it, and learning how to direct our own lives with some degree of grace and satisfaction is the human condition.[12]
Some philosophers, such as Sartre, believe in an epistemic loneliness in which loneliness is a fundamental part of the human condition because of the paradox between people's consciousness desiring meaning in life and the isolation and nothingness of the universe.[13] Conversely, other existentialist thinkers argue that human beings might be said to actively engage each other and the universe as they communicate and create, and loneliness is merely the feeling of being cut off from this process.
In his recent text, Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence, Darius Bost draws from Heather Love's theorization of loneliness[14] to delineate the ways in which loneliness structures black gay feeling and literary, cultural productions. Bost limns, “As a form of negative affect, loneliness shores up the alienation, isolation, and pathologization of black gay men during the 1980s and early 1990s. But loneliness is also a form of bodily desire, a yearning for an attachment to the social and for a future beyond the forces that create someone’s alienation and isolation."[15]
Frequency[edit]
There are several estimates and indicators of loneliness. It has been estimated that approximately 60 million people in the United States, or 20% of the total population, feel lonely.[2] Another study found that 12% of Americans have no one with whom to spend free time or to discuss important matters.[16] Other research suggests that this rate has been increasing over time. The General Social Survey found that between 1985 and 2004, the number of people the average American discusses important matters with decreased from three to two. Additionally, the number of Americans with no one to discuss important matters with tripled[17] (though this particular study may be flawed[18]). In the UK research by Age UK shows half a million people more than 60 years old spend each day alone without social interaction and almost half a million more see and speak to no one for 5 or 6 days a week.[19] On the other hand, the Community Life Survey, 2016 to 2017, by the UK's Office for National Statistics, found that young adults in England aged 16 to 24 reported feeling lonely more often than those in older age groups.[20]
Loneliness appears to have intensified in every society in the world as modernization occurs. A certain amount of this loneliness appears to be related to greater migration, smaller household sizes, a larger degree of media consumption (all of which have positive sides as well in the form of more opportunities, more choice in family size, and better access to information), all of which relates to social capital.
Within developed nations, loneliness has shown the largest increases among two groups: seniors[21][22] and people living in low-density suburbs.[23][24] Seniors living in suburban areas are particularly vulnerable, for as they lose the ability to drive, they often become "stranded" and find it difficult to maintain interpersonal relationships.[25]
Loneliness is prevalent in vulnerable groups in society. In New Zealand the fourteen surveyed groups with the highest prevalence of loneliness most/all of the time in descending order are: disabled, recent migrants, low income households, unemployed, single parents, rural (rest of South Island), seniors aged 75+, not in the labour force, youth aged 15–24, no qualifications, not housing owner-occupier, not in a family nucleus, Māori, and low personal income.[26]
Americans seem to report more loneliness than any other country, though this finding may simply be an effect of greater research volume. A 2006 study in the American Sociological Review found that Americans on average had only two close friends in which to confide, which was down from an average of three in 1985. The percentage of people who noted having no such confidant rose from 10% to almost 25%, and an additional 19% said they had only a single confidant, often their spouse, thus raising the risk of serious loneliness if the relationship ended.[27] The modern office environment has been demonstrated to give rise to loneliness. This can be especially prevalent in individuals prone to social isolation who can interpret the business focus of co-workers for a deliberate ignoring of needs.[28]
Whether a correlation exists between Internet usage and loneliness is a subject of controversy, with some findings showing that Internet users are lonelier[29] and others showing that lonely people who use the Internet to keep in touch with loved ones (especially seniors) report less loneliness, but that those trying to make friends online became lonelier.[30] On the other hand, studies in 2002 and 2010 found that "Internet use was found to decrease loneliness and depression significantly, while perceived social support and self-esteem increased significantly"[31] and that the Internet "has an enabling and empowering role in people's lives, by increasing their sense of freedom and control, which has a positive impact on well-being or happiness."[32] The one apparently unequivocal finding of correlation is that long driving commutes correlate with dramatically higher reported feelings of loneliness (as well as other negative health impacts).[33][34]
Effects[edit]
Mental health[edit]
Loneliness by Hans Thoma (National Museum in Warsaw)
Loneliness has been linked with depression, and is thus a risk factor for suicide.[35] Émile Durkheim has described loneliness, specifically the inability or unwillingness to live for others, i.e. for friendships or altruistic ideas, as the main reason for what he called egoistic suicide.[36][unreliable source?] In adults, loneliness is a major precipitant of depression and alcoholism.[37] People who are socially isolated may report poor sleep quality, and thus have diminished restorative processes.[38] Loneliness has also been linked with a schizoid character type in which one may see the world differently and experience social alienation, described as the self in exile.[39]
While the long term effects of extended periods of loneliness are little understood, it has been noted that people who are isolated or experience loneliness for a long period of time fall into a “ontological crisis” or “ontological insecurity,” where they are not sure if they or their surroundings exist, and if they do, exactly who or what they are, creating torment, suffering, and despair to the point of palpability within the thoughts of the person.[40][41]
In children, a lack of social connections is directly linked to several forms of antisocial and self-destructive behavior, most notably hostile and delinquent behavior. In both children and adults, loneliness often has a negative impact on learning and memory. Its disruption of sleep patterns can have a significant impact on the ability to function in everyday life.[35]
Research from a large-scale study published in the journal Psychological Medicine, showed that "lonely millennials are more likely to have mental health problems, be out of work and feel pessimistic about their ability to succeed in life than their peers who feel connected to others, regardless of gender or wealth.”[42][43]
In 2004, the United States Department of Justice published a study indicating that loneliness increases suicide rates profoundly among juveniles, with 62% of all suicides that occurred within juvenile facilities being among those who either were, at the time of the suicide, in solitary confinement or among those with a history of being housed thereof.[40]
Pain, depression, and fatigue function as a symptom cluster and thus may share common risk factors. Two longitudinal studies with different populations demonstrated that loneliness was a risk factor for the development of the pain, depression, and fatigue symptom cluster over time. These data also highlight the health risks of loneliness; pain, depression, and fatigue often accompany serious illness and place people at risk for poor health and mortality.[44]
Physical health[edit]
Chronic loneliness can be a serious, life-threatening health condition. It has been found to be associated with an increased risk of stroke and cardiovascular disease.[45] Loneliness shows an increased incidence of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and obesity.[46]
Loneliness is shown to increase the concentration of cortisol levels in the body.[46] Prolonged, high cortisol levels can cause anxiety, depression, digestive problems, heart disease, sleep problems, and weight gain.[47]
″Loneliness has been associated with impaired cellular immunity as reflected in lower natural killer (NK) cell activity and higher antibody titers to the Epstein Barr Virus and human herpes viruses".[46] Because of impaired cellular immunity, loneliness among young adults shows vaccines, like the flu vaccine, to be less effective.[46] Data from studies on loneliness and HIV positive men suggests loneliness increases disease progression.[46]
Physiological mechanisms link to poor health[edit]
There are a number of potential physiological mechanisms linking loneliness to poor health outcomes. In 2005, results from the American Framingham Heart Study demonstrated that lonely men had raised levels of Interleukin 6 (IL-6), a blood chemical linked to heart disease. A 2006 study conducted by the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience at the University of Chicago found loneliness can add thirty points to a blood pressure reading for adults over the age of fifty. Another finding, from a survey conducted by John Cacioppo from the University of Chicago, is that doctors report providing better medical care to patients who have a strong network of family and friends than they do to patients who are alone. Cacioppo states that loneliness impairs cognition and willpower, alters DNA transcription in immune cells, and leads over time to high blood pressure.[2] Lonelier people are more likely to show evidence of viral reactivation than less lonely people.[48] Lonelier people also have stronger inflammatory responses to acute stress compared with less lonely people; inflammation is a well known risk factor for age-related diseases.[49]
When someone feels left out of a situation, they feel excluded and one possible side effect is for their body temperature to decrease. When people feel excluded blood vessels at the periphery of the body may narrow, preserving core body heat. This class protective mechanism is known as vasoconstriction.[50]
Treatments and prevention[edit]
There are many different ways used to treat loneliness, social isolation, and clinical depression. The first step that most doctors recommend to patients is therapy. Therapy is a common and effective way of treating loneliness and is often successful. Short-term therapy, the most common form for lonely or depressed patients, typically occurs over a period of ten to twenty weeks. During therapy, emphasis is put on understanding the cause of the problem, reversing the negative thoughts, feelings, and attitudes resulting from the problem, and exploring ways to help the patient feel connected. Some doctors also recommend group therapy as a means to connect with other sufferers and establish a support system.[51] Doctors also frequently prescribe anti-depressants to patients as a stand-alone treatment, or in conjunction with therapy. It may take several attempts before a suitable anti-depressant medication is found.[52]
Alternative approaches to treating depression are suggested by many doctors. These treatments include exercise, dieting, hypnosis, electro-shock therapy, acupuncture, and herbs, amongst others. Many patients find that participating in these activities fully or partially alleviates symptoms related to depression.[53]
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Another treatment for both loneliness and depression is pet therapy, or animal-assisted therapy, as it is more formally known. Studies and surveys, as well as anecdotal evidence provided by volunteer and community organizations, indicate that the presence of animal companions such as dogs, cats, rabbits, and guinea pigs can ease feelings of depression and loneliness among some sufferers. Beyond the companionship the animal itself provides there may also be increased opportunities for socializing with other pet owners. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention there are a number of other health benefits associated with pet ownership, including lowered blood pressure and decreased levels of cholesterol and triglycerides.[54]
Nostalgia has also been found to have a restorative effect, counteracting loneliness by increasing perceived social support.[55]
A 1989 study found that the social aspect of religion had a significant negative association with loneliness among elderly people. The effect was more consistent than the effect of social relationships with family and friends, and the subjective concept of religiosity had no significant effect on loneliness.[56]
One study compared the effectiveness of four interventions: improving social skills, enhancing social support, increasing opportunities for social interaction, addressing abnormal social cognition (faulty thoughts and patterns of thoughts). The results of the study indicated that all interventions were effective in reducing loneliness, possibly with the exception of social skill training. Results of the meta-analysis suggest that correcting maladaptive social cognition offers the best chance of reducing loneliness.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loneliness
Adam's Song" is a song recorded by the American rock band Blink-182 for its third studio album, Enema of the State (1999). It was released as the third and final single from Enema of the State on September 5, 2000 through MCA Records. "Adam's Song" shares writing credits between the band's guitarist Tom DeLonge and bassist Mark Hoppus, but Hoppus was the primary composer of the song. The track concerns suicide, depression and loneliness. It incorporates a piano in its bridge section, and was regarded as one of the most serious songs the band had written to that point.
Hoppus was inspired by the loneliness he experienced while on tour; while his bandmates had significant others to return home to, he was single. He was also influenced by a teen suicide letter he read in a magazine. The song takes the form of a suicide note, and contains lyrical allusions to the Nirvana song "Come as You Are". "Adam's Song" was one of the last songs to be written and recorded for Enema of the State, and it was nearly left off the album. Though Hoppus worried the subject matter was too depressing, his bandmates were receptive to its message. The song was produced by Jerry Finn.
"Adam's Song" peaked at number two on the US Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart; it was also a top 25 hit in Canada and Italy, but did not replicate its success on other charts. It received praise from music critics, who considered it a change of pace from the trio's more lighthearted singles. The single's music video, a hit on MTV, was directed by Liz Friedlander. Though the song was intended to inspire hope to those struggling with depression, it encountered controversy when a student of Columbine High School committed suicide with the track on repeat in 2000.
iss065e006548 (April 26, 2021) --- Expedition 65 Flight Engineers Shannon Walker and Thomas Pesquet pose for a portrait inside the Columbus laboratory module form the European Space Agency. Pesquet was setting up hardware to perform a series of dexterous manipulation tasks for the Grip study that may lead to improved spacecraft interfaces and deeper insights into human cognition in space.
I was desperately searching all day for photographic inspiration for the day’s challenge at We’re Here! Our task is to post an image about Brains.
I thought about the MRI Department at the local hospital, but I was already thrown out of there for taking pictures once this week. I have no XRays of my brain – or anyone else’s brain, for that matter. I was wracking my little pea brain, and getting nothing. Finally I stopped by the library on my way home from work and picked up a Nova episode called, How Smart Can We Get?” The opening screen presented chapters, and the first one was “Einstein’s Brain”. Bingo – I finally had the start of an idea. But you might be surprised at how weird the story gets.
When Einstein died in 1955 the physician conducting the autopsy, Thomas Harvey, removed the brain – apparently without permission – and kept it for himself. He photographed the brain, and later dissected it into 240 cubes, preserved them, and stored them in a couple of large Mason jars. Harvey moved around the country a bit, and carried the jars with him, keeping them in basements and garages. When re-discovered in 1978 the jars had been in a cider box stashed under a beer cooler for years. In 2010 Harvey’s heirs finally turned the brain remnants and photographs over to the National Museum of Health and Medicine.
Dean Faulk, a neuroanthropologist who specializes in the evolution of the brain and cognition in higher primates, has made a study of 14 of the photographs. In the Nova program she explained that one very interesting feature of Einstein’s brain is the presence of an enlarged ‘knob’ that represents enlarged motor representation for the left hand. This is an unusual feature that is seen in some long-time right-handed violinists. Einstein was such a violinist.
“[W]henever he felt that he had come to the end of the road or into a difficult situation in his work, he would take refuge in music, and that would usually resolve all his difficulties," recalled his son Hans. (www.cbcmusic.ca/posts/18221/albert-einstein-birthday-10-t...)
So, it is interesting that Einstein obviously had an amazing brain., but that his exposure to music and many years of playing the violin had a formative impact on his brain.
I conclude this very long story about “Brains” with a quote which perhaps I now understand better, from the great man himself. In speaking about the Theory of Relativity Einstein said:
“It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.”
My portrait is by Ferdinand Schmutzer [Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons. The brain on the table is a screen shot from the PBS Nova program, “How Smart Can We Get?” The violin and music are mine.
And, here are some of the websites I visited in reading up on this topic:
www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/20/einsteins_brain_analysed/
phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/04/21/the-tragic-st...
www.sciencemag.org/news/2009/04/closer-look-einsteins-brain
“Any genuine encounter with reality is an encounter with the unknown…. [We] sense more than we can say.”
-Sophia: The Hidden Christ of Thomas Merton by Christopher Pramuk
Thus Heschel makes an elemental distinction (not separation) between the realm of objective divine reality and the human realm of conceptual and verbal cognition. The former is primary, and independent of the latter. “There is something which is far greater than my will to believe. Namely, God’s will that I believe.”113 We do not grasp the transcendent, “we are present to it, we witness it.”114 In short, the existence of God does not depend on human consciousness of it.
=Sophia: The Hidden Christ of Thomas Merton by Christopher Pramuk
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WORDS
I began to notice that a single word would come to mind as I worked. I would like to attribute cognition to this phenomenon but that would be a conceit. It seemed to be a reaction to something rather than a response and as such the accuracy of selection could be flawed, for as humans, we have greater acuity when the target is still as opposed to moving, which thoughts ever are.
This sequence of work came about while I was reading SUM by David Eagleman. I must also reference Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman. The acknowledgement will not be lost on those who have read these wonderful little books. For those who have not I highly recommend them.
«Everything that we call invention, discovery in the highest sense, is an outward manifestation, the realization of the original sense of truth, which, having developed long ago in silence, unexpectedly, with lightning speed, leads to fruitful cognition. It is on external things from within a developing revelation that gives a person a premonition of his god-likeness. This is a synthesis of the world and spirit, giving the most blissful confidence in the eternal harmony of being.»
(Goethe the doctrine of color. Theory of knowledge) See my video about this story youtu.be/aNE-pYMQNBY
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Taking pictures a tool (camera), not a photographer.
The choice of tool limits the possibilities.
Experience allows him (instrument) less and less to limit their capabilities.
The ability to see is given only when the observer allows ...
The moment of observation is the real find ...
Training and mastering it defies. Training leads to poor imitations of the original.
Often the result should ripen, like wine. Although time is the understanding of the mind, therefore it is very speculative.
The meaning of all this is the process!
Find someone who inspires shooting the camera!
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Often we are visited by thoughts that may reveal something unknown ... Our mind many times tries to solve a problem with known methods ... This is its main mistake! The path of the heart opens the doors that appear in our path. It is a pity that not everyone has the courage to insert the keys that are always with us ...
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1.Снимает инструмент (фотокамера),а не фотограф.
2.Выбор инструмента ограничивает возможности .
3.Опыт позволяет ему (инструменту )все меньше и меньше ограничивать свои возможности.
4.Возможность увидеть даётся только,когда наблюдатель позволяет...
5.Момент наблюдения и есть настоящая находка ...
6.Обучению и овладению это не поддаётся .Обучение приводит к плохим имитациям оригинала.
7.Часто результат должен вызреть,как вино.Хотя время -понятие ума ,потому -весьма умозрительное .
8.Смысл всего этого -сам процесс!
9.Быть !
After the polemic which appeared under my last image on Flickr ( www.flickr.com/photos/designldg/2342196105 ) controverting religious, philosophical and political matters concerning FREE TIBET, I hope that this one will bring peace and wisdom to those who refuted the fact there was an annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China in 1959...
This Shakyamuni Buddha is the central statue on the Altar of the Tibetan temple in Sarnath where I like to come often.
This place near Varanasi (Benaras) is full of peace, this is where the Buddha thus journeyed to Deer Park (Sarnath in Sanskrit), where he set in motion the Wheel of Dharma by delivering his first sermon to the group of five companions with whom he had previously sought enlightenment.
Buddhahood is defined as a state of omniscience (sarvajñä) that is freedom from the obstructions to liberation (or negative states of mind such as ignorance, hatred and desirous attachment) and the obstructions to omniscience (which are the imprints or 'stains' of delusions imagining inherent existence).
When one is freed from mental obscurations one is said to attain a state of continuous bliss mixed with a simultaneous cognition of the true nature of reality, where all limitations on one's ability to help all other living beings are removed.
This includes the attainment of omniscience - that is the removal of all obstructions to knowing all phenomena (or seeing the empty nature of each phenomenon as well as each of their relative characteristics).
From the perspective of Tibetan Buddhism, when one conceives of a particular object the mind gives rise to the appearance of that object.
In perceiving the empty nature of all phenomena as well as each of their relative characteristics, one becomes both omniscient and omnipresent.
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