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In one sense it’s not hard to quiet your default mode network: just do something that requires concentration. Do a crossword puzzle or try to juggle three tennis balls. Until you get to a point where juggling is second nature, you probably won’t be fantasizing about the attractive person in the cubicle next to yours. What’s hard is to abandon the default mode network when you’re not doing much of anything—like, say, when you’re sitting in a meditation hall with your eyes closed. That’s why you try to focus on the breath: the mind needs some object of focus to wean it from its habitual meandering.
Why Buddhism Is True
Robert Wright
As human civilization has evolved, so too has our ability to intentionally and creatively design our environment. This creative capacity is referred to as “ontological design, as the worlds we construct influence the type of people we will become.
Who Gets to Build the Republic?
Bonnitta Roy
Yet information is not synonymous with symbols.
Information is the raw stuff of difference. Information is data. Symbols are formalized information, presented in only certain ways. Where data is meant to be literal, symbols are meta. Symbols stand for extra-literal differences. Symbols are classes of created information, like the alphabet. As a result, to interrelate symbols as being of the same context so they can be chained, some extra material information is also needed to encode a symbol.
Metamodern Choice – A Lee – Medium
A Lee
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