duality
duality
Now-a-days we think of time as a continuum. Start
time, 13.81 billion years ago
and continuing for a very long time with the present being a dimensionless
point moving
along this background. Space-Time.
objective time
sequential time
universal time --
present system ( present,
past, future )
its the same
time everywhere
process in time
ascending from the
material universe
left brain ( a linear , process
view )
Now
right here . The ongoing present.
dimensionless timeless
- - its
always been now and will always be now
- -
subjective , the present
moment -- aorist
system
wholeness Nowness
outside of time an experience
descending
from the consciousness universe
right brain ( an in the
moment view )
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2 opposing perspectives
2 cognitive
systems
the left brain and the right
brain think differently
, complimentarily
Left brain
verbs = present system imperfective Analog
Right brain
verbs = aorist
system
perfective Digital
imperfective =
uncompleted sequential process
she is wearing high heals
the belt drops
perfective =
completed
wholeness awareness
she has
worn high heals
the belt
has dropped
the Left
Brain
linear , sequential
, past ,
present , language
judgment ,
punishment , deception
, defines boundaries
judges right-wrong
, master of details ,
differences , dissimilarities
the voice
in the head
, control agent
the Right
Brain
in the
moment , perceiving ,
experiencing , awareness
inflection of
voice ,
big picture , similarities ,
compassion , intergration
intention , awareness
in the head experiencer
yin yang
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enjoy the present
moment
Pamela Chang
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opposition effectuates the electricityenergy
in the mind
+ -
Vedic Active Voice
- Middle Voice
agent - experiencer
earth
and heaven
earth is
the outer objective world explicit
heaven is
the inner subjective world implicit
the
outer world is
verifiable
that is
a nipple
Active Voice
the
inner world is non verifiable(private) do you love me Middle Voice
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Present System vs
Aorist Systemand perfect
Present System , left brain
, Time ascending from
the Big Bang flow of time
Aorist System
, right brain , Now
Present System process unfolding in
time
Aorist System (
and Perfect ) observation(experience) no mention
of time
we have
a pair of minds
*
a complimentary pairhemispheres.
left brain deals
with the world
in Time
right brain
deals with Now
the left brain - an agent
does things in time
the right brain - an experiencer
observes, feels, understands
the Proto
Indo-European Mind
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time travel
say
we have 2
times
external
internal
internal
time is always
now
today
i
buy a sports car
tomorrow
it is still
now , so what i did now
changed
history
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theory of
mind
i
believe
the parent language
of Vedic Sanskrit was
the first self-conscious
language-culture on this planet
last spoken 4500
years ago
its
daughter languages ; Vedic ,
Greek , Latin , German , Slavic etc.
disseminated a
new mental Operating System
the
signature of this new mental
Operating System
is the
constant chatter of
self
this
constant self-chatter creates
a continuity of
self-awareness
throughout ones day and ones life
a continuity
of memory
the
Proto Indo European not only
gave us this gift of self chatter
self consciousness
but also meditation
which i believe is
the subject of
the older half of the
Rig Veda
meditative practices
meditative experiences
Vedic
uses terms like
consciate
instead of meditate caketa
consciation instead
of meditation pracetas
this meditationconsciation
uses the bi-cameral
nature of our
2 hemispheres
using
the language functionality of the left
brain
in tandem with
the awareness functionality of the right brain
resulting
in conscious thought
the
Conscious Thinker (Agni) can
then be in
control of our
Meditative Adventure
who calls
the Conscious Mind
to the meditative
Party
mirroring the
prefrontal neo-cortex action
now-a-days
, in referring to the agent
of our thoughts (subject of our sentences) ,
we
use the singular.
such as
i talk now
and i talk
tomorrow
as the
same agent ego
in
the Rig Veda , our
agent(s) of thought (subconscious
thought)
are referred
to in the plural
at meditation time
when beginning
our meditative adventure
the smart
thinkers-agents in the plural (naras) set the table
for the
Conscious Thinker in the singular (agni)
the writtenspoken
words in the
Rig Veda
in meditationbreathe the
internal spokenwords of skillful
smart agents
whowith words
launch us
to the Conscious Thinker
then
he/she takes over the mind
attention/awareness
this
seems to be their game plan
the
Proto Indo-Europeans developedinvented the
modern mind
around 5000
years ago
the same
mind that we
have today
before the Aryans, the 2
hemispheres were not a team
imagine
a car battery
charge it up
the charger
does the work
of pushing apart
the + and
-
like stretching
out a rubber
band
this new(5000 years ago) mental Operating System
uses
energy of the 2
hemispheres to push
apart; to create
opposition complementarily
objective
world and subjective world
ascending
time and descending time
flow of
time and Now
language and
experience
agent and
experiencer
analog i and
metaphor me
and of
course
imperfective and perfective
opposing perspectives
an eagernessas with boy and sexy girl
a pair
of minds
i do
not believe in Advaita Vedanta
brahman alone
is real
nor
some Science that
says
consciousness is emergent
from the brain
but
that consciousness and
the brain are of
the Two Workds
.
the
mind is
the heirarchical layered
interface between them
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duality
matter - energy
*
consciousness and the
brain as equal partnersyin-yang
complementary
it takes
2 to tango
consciousness surely
has a spectacular universal
quality
not
of the material
3 dimensions we
all know
notas
science believes ; emergent from
the brain
but
outside space and time the
electricity-light-knowledge
duality stimulating
action
on
the 2 sides
of the coin
we have matter
and energy
or brain
and consciousness
the
coin is made
up of information
information has
structure
the mind
has structure
an information
matrix-fabric
the
mind is an interfacebridge
between brain and
consciousness
an event horizon with a
subtle structurepatterns
probably octaval , crystalline
, mathematical , Mandelbrotal
fractal patterns
it
follows that
an A.I.
or Aliens mind (at some level) would be similar
to ours
using the sameor
similar interface
theory
of mind
the mind is
where the materialbrain and consciousness meetinterface
antarikṣa
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consciousness is
the most interesting
thing in the
universe
Patti Shelton
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Vedic grammar
exudes hemispherical opposition
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2 worlds
Space-Time Now
Space-Time is
in the world
of our 4
dimensions of space-time
objective
Now is dimensionless
subjective
to
operate in this world
we need
2 minds(2
hemispheres) to deal with
these 2 worlds.
right brainmind deals
with now, experience
left brainmind deals
with things and events
in space-time
married through
a low bandwidth connection
the corpus
callosum
the low bandwidth is
set just right to give
2 separate minds 2 hemispheres
but still keep
them a complimentary pair
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Dualism
Psychology
we
have 2 separate neocortexes of
maybe 40 billion neurons each
they are joined by maybe
240 million axons ( corpus callosum )
axons are biased
information flows in
one direction only
our 2
neo-cortexes are fairly
independent
we have
2 minds
in a yin
yang relationship
in a
single circular containment
a complimentary
pair.
imagine
your thumb of one hand and
the index finger of the
other in a rubber band
you stretch
the rubberband by
pulling the thumb and finger apart
lets say
the thumb is
honesty and the
finger is deception
dualist
psychology, might say they
exist
in an equal relation,
equal tension like the rubberband
50 -
50 because of
the 2 hemispheres
so
the more honest
someone appears
the more
deception 50 - 50
right down
the middle
the
more one loves
their religion
the more
they despise other
religions
the
more one loves
their race
the less
respect for other races
the
more pride one
has for oneself
the more
disgust to others
lovers
put their children
in a 4 wheel drive
SUV
at the expense of
the other family
in the smaller and lower Honda
in a
wreck, that Honda
family might slide
under and get
crushed
the more
you love the
more you could kill
the
more giving
the more
superior one feels
Dualism
doesnt see a
single person, a
single soul with
qualities
but a
dynamic complimentary pair
how would a
Dualist psychologist judge
or analyze a
human being ?
my guess would
be as we
would analyze a
building
buildings have
much hidden
basements, wires,
pipes, rebar
some buildings
are better built
then others
some of
higher quality
some are
more enjoyable to
be in
some you
just like better
there is
2 sides of
the coin
heads and
tails
all aminals have
2 brains
because they need
to operate in 2
worlds
the world of
space-time left brain
the world of now right
brain
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be
here nowism
the elegance
of being a
be here
nowist
is
that there need
not be any
beliefs
no anxiety
over matters needing
to be substantiated
simply ,
shoo away the
thoughts
and be
awake in the
present moment
live in
the world of
immediate experience and
action
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lately ive fallen in love
with some yoga
words like
present moment
now
conscious
and some
neuroscience words like
prefrontal cortex
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55
years ago, when
reading Science Fiction,
i developed
a life long interest
in
the Philosophy of Mind
of
late, some interesting
things have come
about
that I
would call
a Modern
Philosophy of Mind
the god father
of this new
Philosophy is
Albert Einstein
the active
philosophers are
Ben Goertzel
Ray Kurzweil
and others
but lately
with
the exponential growth
of population
there are
now millions of educated
Philosophers
in Aristotles
and Platos day
there was
only a hand full
around
150-200 years
there was
an explosion of
intellect
ala Charles
Darwin
an explosion
of Science and
Technology
Einstein
at the
center of his
Relativity thing
was the
Observer
the Observer
is related directly
to pre-frontal cortex
activity
imagine youobserver are
on Earth with
a bunch of telescopes
looking out in all directions
the further
you look
the younger
the universe gets
it keeps
getting younger and
younger
until say
13.81 billion light
years away in
all directions
you get to the big bang
the Big Bang
appears to be a canopy around
our universe
but the
Big Bang was-is a quantum sized event
it
appears that the
observer and his
telescopes are looking
into a
larger and
larger universe
but theyre
really looking into
a smaller and
smaller universe
the universe
has been expanding
from a
quantum sized explosion
and
no matter
where the observer
goes in this
universe
he is
always at the
center
he will
see the same
thing in his telescopes
the Big
Bang will always
be 13.81 billion
light years away
the
Observer does not
live in the
world of Space-Time
the Observer
does not have
a location
now
imagine you are
on a flat
hot Arizona desert
you
turn around and
see a bunch
of 55 gallon
barrels
stacked upright
together in a
single layer
500,000 of
them
no matter
where you look
it all
seems pretty much
the same
barrels stacked
together
now
imagine the neocortex
spread out to
the size of a large
pizza
everywhere you
look its pretty much
the same
500,000 neural
columns ,
stacked together just
like the barrels
in a
single layer about
a tenth of an inch thick
each
neural column has 60,000
neurons
more
importantly regarding the
mind
each
neural column has 600
mini columns
each with
100 neurons
the
inner structure of
each mini column
is determined
by DNA not
by learning
the
outer connections are
grown by learning
where possibly
3 mini columns
will recognize the
letter A
Ben
Goertzel
and Ray Kurzweil
call these mini columns
pattern recognizers
they are
the foundational structure
of the mind
goertzelesk
the
chess player Kazparov, when
playing Big Blue
it was
found out that
he had
memorized 100,000
chessboard patterns
so when
looking at a
chessboard game
he doesnt
have to search
them one at
a time
or find them
all 100,000
patterns are online
hard wired
he had
more neural maps
online
his education and
who knows what
else
so when
looking at a chessboard
he had
a million learned
neural maps
lit
up, online, simultaneously working
being apart of
experience
action
Kasparov
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tension between
the 2 hemispheres
imagine
your
thumb of left
hand and the
index finger of the right hand
in a
rubber band
..pulling apart
say that
your thumb is
love
and your
finger is possessiveness/selfishness
the
more you love
.the
more selfish
equally 50-50
a
complementary pair like yin - yang
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a scantily
clothed Heroine dismounts
and
slays the dragon
the Dragon
is
when you get
drawn into a
stream of thoughts
and lose
your identity
but
the
Heroine slays the
dragon
after a taste
arrogantly hands
Awareness over to the
Conscious Mind
having slain
the dragon
the
ubhermench
directs attention to
a state of
intense awareness
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the
Mind consists in
a hierarchy of
layers
the
bottom levels being
the physical neurons
mini columns neural columns
an
upper level , possibly
a software level
the Central Executive
or maybe
higher up the
Observer
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in
meditation
.being the Observer
you may
become aware
that you
are aware of
whats going on
in the mind
that you
can use thought
consciously
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as
an Evolutionary
..
one would
certainly want to be
operating from the
highest level of mind possible
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quantum
people talk about
the Observer
einstein talked
about the Observer
yoginīs suggest
to Observe the
breath
but
those times
when
the Observer turns
towards the mind
and
notices no thoughts
about
i think this
is a very special
state of mind
a
very high level
of mind
in the
hierarchy of layers
that make up
the mind
possibly touching consciousness
the
lower layers touching
the material
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ben goertzel
choice
joy
growth
-------------
a pleasant
day is preferred
not having
an unpleasant day
is my Anthem
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many of
our beliefs we
except as fact
but which in fact
are just beliefs
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Diamond Sutra
vajrachedikā prajρāpāramitā sūtra
of the mahāyāna
the essential original
nature of things
is empty
not
all Nihilists are
right wingers
some
are left wingers -
liberals
im one
of those
imagine
yourself on a spaceship
its
out of fuel
youre
slowly drifting towards
a sun
with
left wing Nihilists its
lets
party
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Ben Goertzel has a
great take on
Nihilism
hes saying
that words and
ideas do lack
a soul
an ultimate
essential reality
and
but
words and
ideas do have
a fuzzy meaning-essence
* and
that this fuzzy
world is plenty
of fun
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minds within
minds
the
brain may have a central executive upper
layermind
and have
many more lower
minds
minds all over the place doing
all kinds of things
in the brain
minds within
minds within minds
but how
about the other
way
the
brain 170 billion
neurons with a mind
the
galaxy 170 billion
stars with a mind
the
universe 170 billion
galaxies with a mind
the Milky Way knows
the Andromeda galaxy
the pictures of
galaxies colliding
is it a
battle ?
is it sex
?
im
rooting for sex
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computer metaphor
we
have a powerful
metaphor available to
us today
that previous
philosophers didnt
computer = brain program = mind
the
computer has a cpu , working
memory , hard drive
and physical structure
a
program , say , windows 8
; sits on the
hard drive
this program
isnt physical , it
is information
we flip
the switch on
and
Windows 8 then
causes all kinds of
physical activity
the Mind ,
stored in memory ( hard drive ) gets
busy when
the switch
is switched on
it can
cause all kinds of
things to happen
in the physical
brain
the mind
is information
that runs
on the brain
or on both
brains ( we have 2 )
before this
metaphor , it was
more difficult to
describe the mind
to experience ,
one needs an
active brain
attention can
be manipulated by
the mindwords
something might
cause several millionsbillions of
neurons to fire
synchronously
this bundle
then has the umph to make
it
to working
memory where
attention, the bundle
and consciousness are
experienced
a meme
is not conscious
but can come
to light in
working memory
but it
has to make
it there
information can
cause the material
to arrange and
act
in particular
ways
after a computer is used
it goes back to its original
state
after a brain is used
there could be a lot of new
brain growth
maybe new
permanent patterns
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how
many TV comercials have been permanently placed
into your brain ?
your brain
have been fucked
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neural lag
working memory
stretches out
the now a
second or two
or three
stimulation
the more
synchronized firing neurons
the brighter the
light bulb
the brighter
the experience
no
firing neurons
no experience
when you stare at a
bright object for a bit
then close
your eye lids
you can
still see a
trace of it
for 2 or
3 seconds
this neural
lag must be
central to how
the brain-mind works
especiallyWorking
Memory
if you space-out
for more then 2.5
seconds
something else
will probably enter
Working Memory
maintaining a
meditative focus attentional
focus
requires staying
alert
in a
2.5 second world
to
fully grasp whats going
around us
we
need 2.5 seconds
to
go through all
the brain areas
hallucinating a world from
limited bits of information
in the form of
neural pulses
staying focused
should be
helped
by having
a large orchestra
of supportive activestimulated neural
columns
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a
neuron must get
an accumulatively large enough
number of
firing orders
to overcome
a threshold and
fire
she either
says yes or
its no
if she
says yes in
the morning
you surely will
have a spring
in your step all day
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the mind
straddles
a digital
linearcontrol hierarchical structure
an analog associativememory
heterarchical
structure
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we
live in 2
worlds
Space-Time and
Now
our 2
separate neo-cortexes deal
with each
left brain
Space-Time
right brain Now
consciousness and
the brain are a complementary
pair
like yin yang
consciousness and
the brain are
joined by the
mind
the mind
is structuredconstructed of
layers
in an
hierarchy
each layer
interfacing with its
higher and lower neighbor
lower layers
are molecules and
neurons
a
higher layer might
be a software
layer central executive
the lower
level touches the
material
the higher
level touches consciousness
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many people ask a question
then
proceed to answer it
as if its obvious that the question is valid
yugh
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were
not nearly as smart as we think
we
use words
always assuming
their meanings mean
something
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words must be
connectedassociated with
patterns
more at
the story level
then physical level
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a Buddhist
i have
come to believe
that what i have come
to believe
is not
true
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it take
2 to tango
negative
- positive
north -
south poles
matter
- energy
male
- female
wave
- particle
analog
- digital
quantum
- Einstein
left brain
- right brain
this duality
stimulates the universe
animals are bilaterial
2 brains
we
think that there
is one brain
in our skull
but there
is really 2
connected hemispheres
with
the left cortex
areas dealing with
languageprocess
right
complimentary cortex areas
dealing with awarenesswitnessing
filling in the
non-verbal stuff in
communication
the
yin-yang action between
the two
stimulates our mindaction
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more and
more i like the
idea and feel
of subtle structures and energies
like crystals
and auras chimes and
gongs
energy centers healing
it makes
sense
as with
a subtle structure
to mind
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the
Aryan grammar had
2 verbal
systems , for these 2
hemispherical oppositions
present
system for the
language producing area
- left
hemisphere
tense
the
aoristperfect
dealing with the
immediacy of awareness
- right hemisphere
aspect
and
Active
voice dealing with
the objective world
Middle
voice dealing with
the subjective world
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left
brain i as
analog actor agent
doer
right brain me as
metaphor
experiencer observer
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me
having observed my mind for a while
i have come to
the conclusion
that i have
2 friendly natures.
directly
mirroring the 2
hemispheres
my
left brains nature is one of
a gentleman, considerate,
organized, interested
my
right brains nature is one of
orneyness, doesnt give a shit, enjoys
sexy women,
smokes weed
fortunately,
my left brain has control of my eyelids.
although,
my right brain has control of my eyes.
it seems like a 50
50 deal
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Anthem
when youre
old
every second
counts
you no
longer care how
fucked up everything
is
or how
fucked up people
are
fuck the
negative
lets party
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Hitman
imagine that we are at home
theres a knock at the door
we open the door to discover a Hit man standing
there
he pulls
a mouse out of his pocket
and says
that his boss wants me to teach
it algebra or
else
i would
say go ahead and shoot me,
understanding algebra is beyond the capacity of a mouses
brain
i believe
that our
understanding of things
like Consciousness
is beyond the capacity of our brain-mind
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Proto-Indo-European was
last spoken 4500
years ago around
the Caspian Sea
Baltic and
Slavic drifting north
Indic drifting
south
Indic branched
into Avestan and
Sanskrit around 4200
years ago
Vedic last
spoken 3600 years
ago
the Rig Veda
(3200 years ago)
contains some
Aryan thought
the main
theme - Meditation yajρa
sitting down , closing the
eyes and
using
voice
going from
Smart Talk to Conscious Talk
adding awareness to
language
synchronized with skillful
language directing awareness
the Conscious Thinkerlanguage
can be
brought to birth
in the meditators
mind
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its
like , before Proto Indo-European
the right
brain was running
a Mac operating system
the left
brain was running
a dosPC operating system
2
different minds with
little co-ordinationno
shared memory
along
comes Proto Indo-European
bringing a
new mental Operating System
both hemispheres cooperating
as a team
electrified like
the + and
- of a
battery
and
now the right
brain can add awareness
to thought (
of left
brain )
and
the left brain
can control attention ( of right brain
) with words
we
can now bring-to-birth a conscious being
άbermensch
with a
new decision making
paradigm
a new
feel
more awake
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when
describing awareness
it
seems that there
is a perceiver
a witness a
subject
an
observerof thoughts
the
2 brains 2 perspectives
thing
along with neural
lag
may explain
the witness
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why do animals
have 2 brains hemispheres ?
its because
the world comes
dual
* Now
* Time
events in the
flow of time
our right
brain experiences the
world
our left
brain acts in
the world
the
material world is
in the space-time
dimension
Now-consciousness-experience world
is dimensionless
to
operate in this
dual world
our 2
brains-minds cooperate and
mesh these dissimilar
worlds
with the
help of the
corpus callosum and
what not
both
the sensory and
motor cortexes control
opposite sides of the body
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We live in 2 worlds, which is why we
have 2 hemispheres
Space-time and Now
our state rich-poor, educated-uneducated, good
family-good job-good wife
People
understanding the state theyre in
This is a
right brain view
what was done, what is done,
what is to be done
This is left
brain stuff
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one has
to experience the
world
experience only happens now
one has
to deal with
the world
which happens
in space-time
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life
after death
or
death
after live
--------------------------
i am a
plagiarist
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instationation
of attention
if
one were to
view the older
half of the
Rig Veda without religious
hyperbole
without
gods and heavens
and see
it as a
description of meditative
practices and experiences
where they
maybe twice a day
, sat
down , closed
eyes , and looked
inward
stepping out
of self-chatter mind
into the conscious
mind
wanting to
experience desirable and benificial
states of mind
in meditation
Aryan psychology
now a days
we attribute
the thoughts and
experiences in our
head
to single
agent me
i was
16 and she
was 15
i remember
every detail
i more then just remember
every detail
the Aryans
didnt know where
thoughts and experiences
came from
looking inward,
thay
saw
thoughts were
born the thinkers
were in the
plural
the conscious
thinker was brought
to birth called
one invitedcommanded
a
conscious experience to be
experienced
the
Aryans prospered around
the 6000-4500 years
ago
along the
rivers flowing south
into the
Black and Caspian Seas
cowboys
they
told stories, drank beer
and smoked pot (
found in kurgan graves)
and
enjoyed
getting into the
conscious states of
mind
sitting down ,
closing the eyes
using
smart thought to
direct attention to
Working Memory
holding it
there - keeping it
online ( long enough )
for multiple
neural networks to join-in
sync up -
join the orchestra (
where all are
pulsing in synchrony )
experiencing conscious
states of awareness
with the
prefrontal cortex lit
up and firing
to experience
one needs
at least a
brain
working just
right
attentional focus
the Rig
Veda has a
model
has a game plan
controls attentional
focus
first with smart
voice
then with conscious
voice
then conscious
awareness
conscious actiondoing
girl watching
attention needs
to be instantiated
in working memory
a few smart
words could help
then stimulate
multiple neural nodes
to join in
getting
a good
number of small
and large neural columns
firing in orchestrationrhythm
the more the
merrier
on a computer
to
use a web browser
an instance
of the web browser
needs to be
brought up into
working memory
-----------------------------------------------------------------
shall
we
encourage
future desired behavior
make new
memories
make future
memories
write new
scripts
the more
passion and interest
in the action
the better
doing
yoga at home
by oneself is
much less
effective
then doing
yoga with a
group
a rich ,
interesting , and stimulating
experience makes stronger
memories
passion smiles flirting conversation humor
this is
in contrast to
withdrawing
to a cave
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what you do
influences what
you will do
ones behavior
in the present
moment
is where
future behavior is
influenced
our behavior
in this present
moment
has consequences
beyond this present
moment
different kinds of memory
episodic memory
- recall what you
had for dinner,
who was there
info. - what
is her phone number
skills - foreplay
working memory
- the realm
of Consciousness, Awareness,
self
DNA and
other processes
------------------------------------------------------------------------
I used to think I was the strangest
person in the world but
then I thought there are so many
people in the world,
there must be someone just like me
who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do.
I would imagine her, and imagine that
she must be out there thinking of me too.
Well, I hope that if you are out there
and read this and know that, yes,
it's true I'm here, and I'm just as
strange as you.
―
Frida Kahlo
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hyperbole and religion
a
state of mind
that is
quiet , focused ,
bright , in the
now
sounds like
a healthy mind
a
person with a
healthy mind
focused around
the present moment
sounds like
a healthyhappy person
that
inner world of experience
is private
unexaminable by
others
if i say
that Ive seen
a ghost
how can
I be proven
wrong ???
I can
say that Im
enlightened
or that i talk with
god
100 different religions have
100 different
descriptions of life-after-death
how can
they be proven
wrong ???
at 70
years old, i really
want to believe
in life-after-death
but whom
am i
to believe
how am i to believe
when there
is no ( zero ) proof
zip not-a-smidgen no
evidence
zero = none
God , send me
a sign
drop those panties
--------------------------------------------------------
I
believe the older half
of the Rig Veda
talks about
meditative practices and
experiences
states of
mind
not descriptions
with a
language expressing 2
different perspectives
2 natures
left-brain and
right-brain
opposition
objective world
and the inner
private subjective world
the
Now and the
not Now
----------------------------------------------------------------------
the
right brain does not normally have much
responsibility for linguistic
processes
such as
phonology ,
morphology , syntax
sounds ,
words , grammar
, sentences
but
the behind-the-scenes stuff
like
humor ,
sarcasm , metaphors
, indirect meanings
, emotions behind
the words
communication usually
extends beyond a
single sentence
the left
brain builds sentences
sequentially
sentence meaning
the right
brain sees the
intent globally ,
themes , discourse
cohesion
speaker meaning
lets look
at the brain
as having 4
main areas
left-front , left-back
and right back
, right-front
in
electronics we have
a term called
bias
a
transistor allows electricity
to flow in
one direction only
= bias
a
neuron has bias
electrical signals
flow into the
axon and out
the dendrites
in
one direction only
neural
columns have bias
and
it turns out
that these 4
brain areas have
bias
looking
down on the
brain
information flows
counter-clockwise
right-frontal cortex
to left-frontalmore one
direction across corpus callosm
left-frontal to
left-anterior
left-anterior to
right-anterior
and back
to right-frontal
the
awareness of the
right pre frontal
cortex
flows into
the language of
the left pre frontal
cortex
then back
to the Wernicke
area , where it
is heard
on around
the cortex
where
awareness lights up
the words
it now
feels as if there
is a speaker
a me
Julian Jaynesvisionary talks
about how
these
2 hemispheres were
uncooperative
lived in different
neighborhoods
that people
used to have
auditory hallucinations
voices
from the gods
- voices from
the right hemisphere
voices not
self-generated
He
argued that 4000
years ago , people
were bicameral
having 2
mostly separate and
distinct cognitive systems
it
was the Proto
Indo-European culture and
language
that developed
this new softwareoperating
system
around 5000
years ago
along the
rivers flowing into
the Black and
Caspian Seas
in southern Russia
were running
the same software
today
changed a
little of course
------------------------------------------------------------
the modern
mind was developedinvented by
Aryans 6000 - 4500 years
ago
in southern Russia Ukraine
--------------------------------------------------------------
Goertzelesk
the
mind straddlessuperpositions
a digital
linearcontrol hierarchical structure
an analog
associativememory heterarchical structure
high structures
function
at the
pattern-story level
not at
the detailsynaptic level
there would
be a machine
language interface between
detail-synapse level
and a software language
of pattern-story level
the
mind seems to
love Octives
so, there
would be 7
levels of some kind
each with interfaces
to its higher
and lower neighbor
between the
central executive and molecules
=====================
im a
small letterboobs kind of guy
small s
self
small e
enlightened
small l
liberated
----------------------------------------------------
experience only
happens Now
------------------------------
being fully awake and alive is
awesome.
it takes effort to stay present
but so worth
it to see all the
beauty around
Antonella
----------------------------------------
to function in this world our
immediate experience must be
intimate with
immediate
memory and immediate imaginationprediction.
say
- im going out for a pass she throws the
football.
i
must view the ball in flight
have
the memory of the initial
trajectory
imagine the rest of the
trajectory
this is working memory
being able to use the immediate
time space around the experiencing moment
around 2.5
seconds
a brain function
developed by evolution and natural selection
made possible
with neural lag
and
a heirarchy
of processes
a signature
human quality
======================================================================
the gray mattercortex in our brain , spread out ,
is about the size of 4 sheets
of typing papers
1/9th of an inch thick, containing
around 85 billion neurons
the white matter is
zillions of wires, connecting all
these neurons
each neuron
can have several
thousand input wires and
several thousand
output wires
these wires mostly
get hard wired when we are
young children
language is
primarily how its
done
most brain
structure and memories are
somewhat permanent
our brain
to some degree
becomes fixed, hard wired
the brain is a very busy
place
your head is hummin and it wont go in case you dont know
lead zepplin
the
brain may contain
around 170 billion neurons
there may be
around 170 billion
stars in our
galaxy
also may be around
170 billion galaxies
in our universe
this could
be a Chaos-Complexity threshold
number
where the
light bulb turns
on
observe the mind and
you will see sentences
streaming by
one after the other after
the other after the other
can we
become masters of our mind
can we control our thoughts
can
we change what our mind will do
can we
improve the health
of our mind
more
so from higher states of mind i think
we have
at least 3 memory
systems
working memory
short term memory
long term
memory
these memory
systems feed the
language machine ( our thoughts )
the working
memory system is
different and
we can use it
its a
short space 2 to
2.5 seconds
this is
where we can meditate
make conscious
observations
make conscious
sentences - thoughts
a thought
resulting in a verb
and a
couple of nouns
this is the working memory-mind, the meditative mind
a 2
second world
this is where we can ( for a while ) choose
to be conscious
or the
Central Executive in the Prefrontal Cortex chooses
to be conscious
until the dark
forces overwhelm of course
dark forces
being the flood
of subconsciously generated thoughts
sitting down
to meditate
we
can be aware of our
immediate mind space
we can
see thoughts entering
this area and
dismiss them
we can
master our mind
space
*********************************************************************
the
Rig Veda has around
1000 hymns
i dont
think hymn is
the right name
for these things
song , poem
doesnt work either
i like
mantra a little
better - heres
why
in computers
we have a
term instance
when you
call up a
program into working memory
its called
an instance
when you
click on the
web browser globe
youre instantiating
an instance of the
web browser
into working memory
if you
click it again,
you call up
another separate instance
so
these mantras
arent things like
hymns, songs, or
poems
but
processes - a
process of calling-up
an instance into working
memory
of hopefullyconscious thoughtthinker ~
awareness
********************************************************
my passion has always
been freedom of mind
to think
to imagine
to experience
that of my choosing
-----------------------
2 brains
that
Proto-Indo-European and Vedic Sanskrit having
2 verbal systems
has
lead me to
believe that their
mind
began
a complimentary bicameral
polarity
the
left brain
linear ,
sequential , linguistic present system
gentleman
the
right brain
perceiving ,
experiential , momentary aorist system
orney
-
some
think that we
can multitask 2
things rather easily
but when
you add a
third task, it
crashes
some say
that each hemisphere
can multitask 2
things
PET
scans have shown
that this is
the case
because of
our having 2
hemispheres
-
the
Rig Veda may have
2 types of
hymns
praise-invitesmart
thoughts and
experience
they
may have nailed
the 2 hemisphere
thing
inventing our
modern mind
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bias
in electronics we
have a principle known as
bias
the flow of elections is
allowed to flow in one
direction only
some research
has purported that
our brain has bias
looking
down on
brain
the vast majority
of electron flow is
from the
right prefrontal across the corpus colossus(mostly in one
direction)
to the
left prefrontal
then back
and around to the right prefrontal
and back
around
in time while still
neural fresh
Im convinced ,
that this half-second
delay
is where
we get the
feeling
of a witness
of thoughts and words
I believe that
this situation is
what the Aryans
brought to this planet
a
new mental Operation System
that causes
electrons to flow in a counter clockwise direction around
the brain
the left brain
involved with language
the right brain
involved with awareness,
observation
the right brain
appears to be controlling
the creation of
thoughts
but is
usually a half
a second behind
------------------------------------
a goertzelesk train
how
limited are our
choices ?
which train ?
our state
of mind should be
our own responsibility
and where do
we go ?
our
choices
presented to
us by our
brains buzz of
information patterns
that
we habitually call
reality
she
hides her nipple
but not that
tattoo on her
right breast
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
i feel intelligence
when reading Ben Goertzels hidden
pattern
--------------------
Darwin
Nor should we
overlook the probability
of the
constant inculcation
of a belief
in God on the
minds
of children producing
so strong and
perhaps
inherited effect
on their brains
not fully
developed , that
it would be
as difficult for
them to
throw
off their belief
in god , as
for a monkey
to
throw
off its instinctive
fear of snakes
---------------------------------------------------------------------
thoughts are limiting
---------------------
limitations
young children
inundated with language
grow a
language machine in the brain
trillions of
eventually permanent connections-pathways
axons and
dendrites get laid
down
later growth
happens more at the synapses
beliefs could be axonal
and dendrital
details synaptical
after
the brain becomes
somewhat hard wired
at the axonal
and dendrital levels
changing beliefs
might be tuff
losing syntactical
detail may take
a shrink
but
adding new syntactical
pathways-associations
should be easy
television
how many commercials have you seen in your entire life ?
those commercials wereare
craftily
and permanently placed
in our brain
our brains
has been fucked
------------------------------------------
Friedrick
Nietzsche
2350
years ago Pyrrhus
accompanied Alexander
on his conquest of Northern India
he
was upper class and educated
but
then all men
were drafted into
the Army
when
there he studied
Buddhism
upon
his return to Greece
he
started the school
of Skepticism
Skepticism
is a practice ,
not so much
a philosophy
where
one suspends
thoughts and
beliefs in the non-evident
suspends beliefs
in matters that can not be
substantiated
cease
or suspend judgment
about claims beyond
the present immediate experience
angst
and suffering is
felt
when thinking
about ambiguous non-evident
stuff
basically
eschew thoughts
and beliefs
and live
in the world of immediate
experience
Skepticism
was quite popular
in Rome and
Greece
until pushed
into oblivion by
Christianity
and
in India
until pushed
into oblivion by
Hinduism
Buddhism (skeptic
like) also was
pushed out of
India
Nietzsche
was a noted
professor of ancient
Greek philology
and reignited
Skepticism .
which rings
familiar to eastern
philosophies
Nietzsches
ubermench
was not a
superman
but a
conscious man
one who lives
in the real
world
His
first publications were
about an ancient
Greek
named
Diogenes Lertius
who wrote a book
called
the Lives
and Opinions of Eminent
Philosophers
Diogenes
went around Athens
listening to eminent philosophers
- the twisted path -
Diogenes was
rich but a
dolt, an idiot
after
listening to philosophers
he came
home and dictated
to his slaves
who wrote
this stuff down on papyrus ( short lasting )
recopied on
papyrus , eventually paper
by many
people, including Christian monks
- the problem
what
did the philosophers
really say
how
accurate is the
final rendition
The Rig
Veda
codified
orally for over
1500 years
i wander :
did any of
these memorizers
have mental problems
memory problems
emotional problems
political problems
religious problems
woman problems
IQ problems
i like
Nietzsche
for proving
to meDiogenes that -
the Rig Vedic
rendition we have
today
is estranged
from the
mental world it
quotes
i like
Nietzsche
for awakening
in me the understanding
that the
real world can
be found in
the Now
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
take charge of your mind
elevate your perspective
----------------------------------------
when the prefrontal
cortex is firing and
lite up
youre probably in
a conscious state
of mind
-----------------------------------
x
yoga y yoga
x
yoga - beautiful gratitude ,
compassion , prayer , surrender , empathy , service
y
yoga - in meditation heroic effort ,
conquer , battle , win ,
dominate , rule , victory
i have
a masculine nature
and relate to y
yoga
taking control of
my mind and
reveling in the
victory
arrogantly enjoy
the conscious mind
winning a
clear mind, is
fucking fun
the
older half of the Rig Veda
was y yoga
Nietzschean
the
newer half started the
movement towards x yoga
in
my opinion
-------------------------------------------------------------
meditation
say
the mind can attend
to only one thing
at a time
this state of
mind is usually
accompanied with a
feeling
meditation
self regulateschooses whatwhere that attentionstate
is
meditation
we
go from mind
concerned with not-now
to now
to the
more conscious
and maybe
choose enjoymentmy
favorite
meditation
works
best in a group, with
a guide
i prefer 90% - 95%
silence
meditation
notice
a clear mind
become aware
of being awake
in the conscious
mind
and feel arrogant
victory
or
choose another feeling
meditation
observe
the mind
notice that there are no
thoughts
-------------------------------------------
yajρa
meditation practice
starting with smart talk
and then
proceeds to conscious
talk
the
conscious thinker invites
indra
to the meditation
party
indra, the
conscious mind, correlates
to
prefrontal cortex
activity
* conscious
of whats in the
mind
* conscious
action
swat away intruding
subconscious shit
the choice is
yours
being central executive is
orgasmic i think
pracetā vīrasvarā
a
virile conscious voice
------------------------------
Hot
Yoga
imagine
a yoginī guiding
the meditation
she does
some relaxing stuff and then
might say
observe the
floor underneath you
a
few minutes later she
might say
observe your
hands
a
few minutes
later she might
say
observe your
breath
a
few minutes later she
might say
observe your
mind
a
few minutes later
she might say
observe the
absence of thought
a
few minutes later
she might say
observe your
mind
that woman
knows how to
party !!!
-----------------------------------
unasking with
caffeine
many
meditators like to
relax to a state of
peace
others may
take the path
of conquest
taking
responsibility for our
thoughts
choose experience
wide awake
fight for
clarity
rule the
mind
prefrontal cortex of
both hemispheres in
action
left brain actor agent
right brain experiencer
the
right brains mind is aware
of what is
going on in the mind
is aware of
whats being experienced
the left
brains mind will docontrol
action
swat away
the intrudingsubconscious
chooses whats
going on in the mind
keeping predominant
neural activity in
the prefrontal cortex
----------------------------
i believe
the older half
of the Rig Veda
was written by
brāmin priests
some 400-500 years
after
Vedic had
melted away into Prākritic
cultures.
and is
a religious recollection
of an older
(foreign-bardic) line of thoughtsong
Aryans never
talked about soul,
life after death or morality
They talked
about (conscious) states of beingmind
and how
to achieve and enjoy
them
Vedic
was last spoken
maybe 3600 - 3700 years
ago
the Rig
Veda started compiling
about 3200 years
ago
in my opinion
---------------------------------------
drum circle
it seems neurologically,
that we live in a
2 second worldworking memory
a reminder
drum beat every 2 seconds
could be the
sweet spot
we need
around 2 seconds
to subjectively understand
an event
says neuroscience
-------------------------------------------
self deception
our
senses , subconscious
and unconscious certainly
give us misinformation
but
could you call
it deception ?
can
we consciously deceive
ourselves ? !
the
French philosopher Pascal
came up with
an argument
saying that
it could be
rational to do so
such as
the case of
believing in god
one might
not believe in god ,
because of the
absence of evidence
but Pascal
says that even
if there is only a .001
% chance
that god exists
one might
want to consciously
deceive oneself here
because of
the immense consequences
believing in
god means spending
eternity in heaven
not believing
means spending eternity
in hell
can a
person just choose
what to believe
?
republicans believe
that they are more patriotic
then democrats
they define
the word and
then say that
they are more
patriotic
but are
they deceiving themselves
?
is
there a patriotism or
is it just
made up by
the mind ?
is there
a self to
be deceived or
is it just
made up by
the mind
~!!!!!!!
we might
be in a
situation where
a something that
is made up
by the mind
is
being beguiled by
something that is
made up by
the mind
~
-----------------------------------------------------------
what if
theres no after
life
----------------------
Supervenience
The theory
of Supervenience
states that
there is
a hierarchy of
properties in a
system.
Where lower
properties determine the
distribution
and structure
of higher properties.
And that
the higher order
properties supervene on
the lower properties.
such
as
chemical properties
determine the distribution
and structure of the
brain,
The
brain determines the
distribution and structure
of the first
order mind.
The
first order mind determines
the distribution and structure
of the second
order mind.
contrariwise
The
second order mind can supervene
on the first order mind.
The
first order mind
supervenes on the
brain.
The
brain supervenes on
chemicals
the
universe mind supervenes
on galactic mind
the
galactic mind supervenes on
earth mind
---
theres probably
a cultural mind involved
also
both historical
and contemporaneous
additionally the
future has Strange Attractorschaos pulling
our minds
interface with our
individual memorypatterns
as well
as our cultural
memorypatterns
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
i wonder if the reason that some
music makes it to the top of
the charts
is because
of some similar pattern
in the
collective unconscious
in some
subtle pattern process
that was
established from some
previous culturial deed
--------------------------------------------------
thoughts
may trick us into believing that
other people cause our suffering
when , more likely
its , our thoughts
cause our suffering
---------------------------------------
the brain
is very creative
with its sense
data
then
we add language
with
language we communicate
with others
and
ourselves
when
we talk with
ourselves
is
our right brain witnessing the
language centers of
the left brain
adding a
touch of awarenesswitness to
the words
she hide
her nipple but
not that tattoo
---------------------------------------------------
the bottom line
is state
of mind
---------------------------------------------------
quantum
people talk about
the Observer
einstein talked
about the Observer
yoginīs suggest
to Observe the
breath
but
those times
when
the Observer turns
towards the mind
-------------------------------------
the
older half of theRig Veda may
be describing a
technique of meditation
using the
Prefrontal cortex and working memory
to Wake-up,
step into conscious
experiences
to
get into the
Here and Now
not a
permanent change
but sitting down
twice a day
and meditating
with the
Will to be
Awake
Meditation was
seen as enjoyable
stepping out
of incessant self chatter
into the conscious
mind
Meditation is
done by controlling
attention ( the Offering ,
havis )
initially with
voice
guiding attention
to conscious thoughts
and conscious
awarenesses
if
we attach ourselves to a stream of thoughts
we leave
the realm of experience
detaching ourselves
from this stream of thoughts ( stream of English sentences )
we can get back to the realm
of experience
but this is a mind without
memory
how do
we remember being here
just on the edges of our present
moment
this Working Memory function of
the brain
is where
heaven and earth meet
the realm
of the awaremind
thanks to evolution and
natural selection
surviving human beings developed a
brain function called working memory
probably using neural
lag
located in the prefrontal cortex home of the
Central Executive - our
light bulb
it possess
a little leeway (
some room) around the present moment
a second or 2
or 3
this
can be the realm of
Agni, the
conscious thinker
he can
set the table
for conscious
experiences
for conscious
functions
possibly conscious
journeys
4500
years ago, the
Aryans saw a
different world
they didnt
know what the
sun was
or that
the earth rotated
but
outside of thought -
outside the thinking mind
there are experiences common
to all human beings
like sex ,
the site of
a beautiful woman,
ice cream
universal expriences
in particular
, meditation -
a state of
mind
the Rig Veda could
then be understood
if
a quiet,
alert, awareconscious mind -
is what theyre
talkin
about
and it
could be because
this state
of mind is a common
natural human experience
a special
state of mind
- blissful
------------------------------------------
Take charge of your
mind
--------------------
In language there are 2 main
categories of words
verbs and
nouns
left brain -
verbs right brain -
nouns
Nouns are an understanding
of some thing (no
time )
Verbs
set action ( in
time )
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rap music
now a days when someone
writes an article
it is put in writing
and published
it stays
in that form
forever
we
project this process
onto the oral
tradition
4000
years ago
we
imagine someone composing
a hymn or story at
a certain time
publishing it (
memorized by some
people )
and repeated
accurately? for 1500
years
very doubtful
scenario
rather a
Bardic tradition
Milman Parry
and others have
put forth a much
more likely Bardic
scenario
called the
Oral Formulaic Hypothesis
where an
original story or
hymn had a
general theme
thousands of
phrases were memorized
and remixed
on the spot
remixed formulisticly
using some
repeated clauses
modular like
phrases
synonyms
and some
Chomsky
where a
semantic idea generates
an appropriate
phrase
all done
within the formula
, metre
, and
what not
from a
large group of
memorized phrases
the bard
was creative not
with semantics but
with syntax
they rearranged
memorized phrases at
each performance
the themes
stayed pretty much
the same
the bards
had some impromptu
some of
these people were
undoubtedly rock stars
rap music
our memories
are stored at
the micro-molecular level
but the
memory system functions
at the story
level
we recall
a memory at the story
level
then access
the finer grain stuff
they
would use the
story to get
at the finer
grained
words and
phrases
with some
on-the-fly composition
using for
the most part ,
ready made modules
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there are
lots of mentalworlds to get lost into
the Now
is probably the
best bet
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the condom
there
could be 17
fundamental elements;
quarks up charm top
down strange bottom
leptons e-neutrino m-neutrino t-neutrino
electron muan tau
bosons photon z w gluon higgs
At
the heart of
each of the
17 fundamental elements
that make up
our universe
is
a one dimensional
vibrating string
each of the
17 strings
vibrate differently
this string
resides in a
sphere sheath condom
from
earth we can
look out in
every direction
the farther
we look, the
younger the universe
looks
until we
get to the big
bang
and say
at 13.81 billion
light years away
( no matter
where we
are in the universe, we are always at the center )
we reach
the Big Bang in
all directions
what appears to be a canopy surrounding
the universe
is really
that tiny quantum sized sphere
surrounding the
fundamental string
they are
one and the same
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that shining
conscious awareness in
our eyes
must
be universal
not separate
sources
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experience only happens
now
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interesting words are
fuzzy
theyre lacking
a capital M
Meaning
theyre soulless
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information is
non-material
the
mind happens with
neural activity
the mind
could be information
processing other information
effecting information at
other levels
biased activity (one direction)
processes happening
at different levels
layers interfacing with
its neighbors
information amongst
information
information within
information
information may be stored
in memory
but there
needs to be neuralactivity for
the mind to be
mind = information
patterns being processed
intelligentlywith
some conscious
the mind
interfaces the brain
and consciousness
and may
have 7 layers
with octavesovertones going
in both ways
maybe our
upper layer of
mind
where the self
is experienced
where experience is
experienced
overtones to
the cosmic scale
cosmic overtones
resonating down to
our head
each layer
in the Hierarchy
being friendsinterfacing with its
neighbors
the mind manomayakośa would not
understand or speak
the deeperlanguage at
the synaptic level
annamayakośa
but more so
with neighbors below feelings prānamayakośa
above intellect vijρānamayakośa
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i am most conscious, awake, self-aware
when the colors and textures of
the world
are there
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Emotions are viral programs running in the subconscious recesses of the mind
Feeling
are new fresh
of the moment
Villoldo
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superposition
And Or
(Or) the
left brain is
Hierarchical
the Army
general
colonel
major
captain
lieutenant
foot soldiers
each
layer has it own action
algorithms
a control
structure
each layer
manipulating different information
each in control
and effective with its own
predictions
higher levels
can direct and
discipline lower levels
lower levels
provide feedback - results
to higher levels
linear biasdirectional
(And) right
brain lives in a
world of
patterns
physiological associations
fractal
memory network
clusters within
clusters within clusters
within clusters
memory associations(analogies) at the story
level
layered down
to the physicalsynaptic
level
patterns flowing
into a region of state
the "strange attractor." such as - the
result of a
google search
who was
the movie star
in Prometheus ?
the question
who am i
would be the
strange attractor
associatedfound
patterns whirling information(concept) into the
vortex
the answer
wegemini are in
the chariotmind pulled
by 2 spirited horseshemispheres
one horse named
And
the other Or
her eyes made me forget
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it
seems like i have
2 equal and
friendly personas-natures
relating directly
to the 2
hemispheres
When
i
stop my car for
a lady to
cross the street ,
half
of me is a
considerate gentleman ,
the
other half of me is
checking out what
wiggles.
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dont be a victum of your thoughts
elevate your perspective
be the
Thinker of your thoughts
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rodasī
we
live in 2
worlds
heaven and
earth
the world
of Now and the
world of Time
Now =
is the only
place where we
can experience
Now
verbs do not
express time
Time =
things and events
in Space-Time
Time verbs express
time
the Now
exists outside of
Space-Time
Now is
dimensionless
consciousness does not
have a location
i believe
that this why
we have 2
complimentary hemispheres
right brain/mind
deals with Now
left brain/mind deals
with events in
time
melded by
the corpus callosum
operating in these 2
complimentary worlds
we experience and
act
say we
have 2 people
standing inside a big rubber band
they push
apart
creating a
tension or pull
they remain
separate observers
but share
an equal experience
this
shared experience is the interface
between 2 complimentary
pairs
yin yang
consciousness brain
Now Time
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3 dimensional
chess
the
2 hemispheres of
our brain may
reflect the world
that we see .
matter -
energy , particle -
wave , digital -
analog
the
left brain does
language , agent
the
right brain does
awareness , experiencer
the
Proto Indo-Europeans used
the
Present System for left
brain verbal expression
Aorist perfect System for
right brain verbal
expression
it
was not unusual
for them to
use a sentence
with 2 clauses
subordinate clause
- main clause
one
clause could use
a Present System verb
the other
an Aorist System
verb
in
one sentence , they
could convey both
views
sort of
like 3 dimensional
chess
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the
singular Big Bang is to the
billions of Black Holes
as the self
to the billions
of neurons
universal
structures
simple
to complex
complex to
simple
no
Absolutes
no
start or finish
to the universe
but
Relativity
brain ~
mind
or
brain ~
consciousness
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there
are over 100,000,000
processors
at the
small(100 neurons) column cortical
level
each one
does algorithms
input - processing output
the
patterns at this
level
are grandparents
to the central
executive level
like
in Apocalypse Now
helicopters saying
death from above
well,
it turns out
its death
from both ways
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My case for
the Vedic Verb
Last spoken 3700
years ago, Vedic was a natural spoken language
with no
cadence , with word
accent
music and
poetry have cadence
Classical Sanskrit was
not a spoken vernacular
language
but a
formal, literary, poetic language
with cadence
and no word
accent
its quite different from a
vernacular language like
English
many things
were reduced in
Classical
the Aorist
and the Perfect systems
were dropped.
And
when they used
the Perfect form,
it was changed
to a type
of simple past
The
Present System was
also greatly simplified,
by using lots of
participles
the beautiful
complex Vedic verbal
system was destroyed
and replaced
by a simpler
system of participles and
gerunds
aghh
im making
the case that
the Vedic Verbal
system was rich
in Information
i
see the Vedic
Verbal system as
representing 2 cognitive
systems
tense time of
event ascending time
imperfective
aspect shape of event
descending time perfective
Middle
voice dealt with
the subjective perspective
Active voice
dealt with the
objective perspective
in
the old days
they may have
distinguished different kinds
of Past
before today
today the
18 hours of
contiguous awareness
this 18
hour period has
a Past, Present,
Anticipation
Meditative period
of say 30
minutes ( Rig Veda )
this 30
minute period has
a Past, Present,
Anticipation
the all important Working Memory of
2 to 3
seconds
this 2
to 3 second
period has a
Past, Present, Anticipation
Working Memory can
stretch out the
Now for the
mind to work
the sand
box of Consciousness , Awareness, Experience
now a days we
see events happening
in the Future
We go
to the events
in Vedic
times they saw
events coming to
them in the
Now
anticipation of
something happening here
they didnt
have a Future
Tense
but the subjunctive
( expectation )
Tense
also has a
reference point
Now
the other side
of the coin
Aspect =
shape of an
event
The
human mind seems
to see 7
distinctions
7 colors
in the spectrum
7 notes
in the scale
7 declensions
of nouns
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7 types
of intelligence
1. Verbal-linguistic
2. Musical
3. Math- Logic
4. Athletic
5. Artistic
visual-spatial
think in pictures
6. Social
emotions
understands feelings
of others
7. Self-awareness
philosophers
daydreamers
aware of
inner activities
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the
mathematics of the mind
should be built
around the Octave
the
higher levels would
be software
the lower
levels would be
material
probably 7
levels but many octives
crystalline one would think
Mandelbrot
where the
harmonics of an
Octave
repeat in both directions
folding back onto
itself eventually
13.7 billion light years away
each octave
being understood or known
by it neighbor
patterns within
patterns within patterns
within patterns
the piano
player always sits
at the middle of
the Octaves
makes
you wonder,,, if
you keep going
in both directions
do you finally
get back to where you started
likely
there is
no meeting place
no base
no ultimate
explanation
no there there
but
a continuum of
some kind
relativity
there probably
is no Theory
of Everything
no pot
of gold at the end of
the rainbow
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life is
not sad because
there is no
Santa Clausgod
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life
is exciting, fun,
interesting
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consciousness adds lightintelligence
to the material or
lower levels
--------
if
the universe is
a collection of interrelatedharmonic
patterns
then
each patterns imageoctave may be
familiar with its
surrounding patterns
close patterns can
interface
in hierarchy
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assuming there
are different kinds of
IQs
the
IQ in understanding the experience youre
in
Jenna has that
i think
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possibly 7 distinctions of
Aspect
1. instantaneous a
gun shot momentanious
2. continuous
3. end of process i divorced
her fuzzy until
divorce
4. start of process i married
her marriage then
fuzzy
5. iterative repetitive intensive
6. change of
state
7. culmination resulting state
the
Aorist system expresses
Aspect
i add that
the 7 classes
of the Present System
are also
involved describing an
event
the Aorist
is a right
brain verbal expression perfective Descending time
the Present System is
a left brain
expression imperfective
- Ascending time
the
viewpoint of the
perfective is of
the whole complete
with the
end points of the
event in view
the
viewpoint of the
imperfective is of
process
internal stuff
of an event
the event boundaries
outside of view
the
Perfect
a State
or achievement
that is
the result of
a completed past
event
i ate(past tense) says
that i ateprocess at
some time
i have
eaten(perfect) says that i have eaten
and am im still
sitting at the
table
some
hubris
i have
arrived says that i have arrived
and im right
here
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yin yang
Yin left brain
Yang right brain
voice decends with
Yin
ascends with
Yang
complimentary
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some statements
those 2
nipples are a pair
can be
verified
there
is a ghost
in that house
evidence please
there
is life after
death
i really want
to believe in this
one
god , send me
a sign
drop those
panties
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the center of
the universe
we
are standing at
the middle
the
Universe can talk
to us from
2 directions
from
above
from
below
we
assume that (from above)
and (from below) had
starting points
starting places
but
many philosophers
for-at-least 2400 years disagree
Relativity is the
cool philosophy
above and
below are relative
no matter
how many
floors the elevator
takes you
youre always at the middle
as with
Time
before and after
this moment
were always at the middle
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hierarchy
quantum, atomic,
synapse, neuron,
small column(100 neurons)
large column(100 small columns)
each
level having its
own algorithms
interfaced via machine
language with its neighbor
simple
to complex
or
is it complex
to simple ??
or both ??
is
there an universal
structure of mind ?
of machine language
of algorithms
emergent from
physical structurepatterns
this is
really fucking with
my mind
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machinery of the mind
the
shape of information-patterns is probably
done at the
molecular level
several
layers up , the
small columns(100 neurons)
are
probably the prime
engines of the
patterns of mind
a
strange combo of
simple to complex
and complex
to simple
a
vector on up
to the central
executive layer
bottom up
and top down
more intelligence
at the top
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patterns on one level
have an harmonic
relationship with
its neighbours
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the physical
is significantly shaped
by atoms and
molecules
in
a soup, there
are many trillions
of atoms and
molecules
out
of the soup
of billions of
atoms
patterns emerge
chemistry
determines a basic building
block to the
mind
its patterns
reflecting octavely upward
a
Maserati and a
pinto
may actually
emit their own
vibes
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thingswords do
not have a soul
no ultimate
reality
but instead
fuzzy did she say
yes ?
the A.I.
people define things
as patterns of
processes
multilayered processes
that exist in
an orchestra
with
2 conductors
one at
the top
and a
crap ton at
the bottom
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in
English we have a word
for Wolf, wolf
it
is found in the dictionary and
can be easily retrieved from
memory
in
Sanskrit we can
also use the
memory form of vṛkṣa
but
Sanskrit offers
more
you
can also refer
to wolf by
its qualities
building a
word from roots
on the fly
a
scary thing with
big teeth
instead of being restricted
by your memory
paradigms
you can
think more outside of the box
think more
consciously
instead
of memorizing vocabulary
build
a word-phrase from a root
focusing more
on roots and
its modifications
2
different paths
the
stories in the Indo-European
languages have Heros
i think
that these heroic
stories originated from
a culture where
Bards
went around
entertaining ( rapping ) like
rap music
about heros
the Greeks
kept more of
the cowboy hero
consciousgod like behavior in the world
the Indians
went more for
the mental hero
consciousgod like experience in the mind
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(
theory 1)
is that
3500 4500 years ago the human
mind made a big change.
from 2 uncomplimentaryuncooperating hemispheres
to a
cooperating team
a mind
of self
chatter and polar
stimulation + -
this change
was initialized by the Proto Indo-European language
uniting the
2 hemispheres
the awareness
of the right
brain
lighting up
the language of
the left brain
a speaker of the sentence
was born
a me
this language
created a new Central Operating System in the brain-mind.
a single memory
system, built around a me
outside of this language,
peoples minds had 2
Operating Systems.
a dosPC on
the left side
a Mac on
the right
2 different memory systems
each
unaware of the other. ( like our
dream memories )
the Proto Indo-European language was
the softwarerunning
on the brain
the Present
verbal System is
of the left
hemisphere
the Aorist
aware System is
of the right
hemisphere
opposition
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(
second theory )
various philosophies suggest that we can make decisions
that we can choose between chocolate
and vanilla
between a chaotic
mind and a clear-alert mind
that we can decide to lose weight
that we
can be the
master of our mind.
so,
why cant people
lose weight ?
my theory, is that there is no captain of the ship
no decider in
there
there is
nobody in there
looking out of
our eyes
our eyes
are photon receptors
sending millions
of pulses through out the brain
neural pulses coming
in
language taught to children structure the brain
as a language
machine
this roaring
language engine creates
the illusion that
there is a
decider in there
and that
this mentallanguage world
is real
and of course,
we would feel
that world
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(
third theory )
the world
can be looked
at from 2
perspectives
Objective
cause and
effect
linear sequential
past -
present - future
( time )
more noun
oriented
left brain
Subjective
things happen
perception -
experience
the perspective
is from the
present moment
more verb
oriented
right brain
Vedic Sanskrit
had 2 cognitive systems
objective world
was described with
the Present System
the left-hemisphere perspective
subjective world
was described with
the Aorist System
the right-hemisphere perspective
the
Indo-European language may
have opened the
door between
the 2
hemispheres , enabling the
development of the
individual
the me
Homo-sapiens have
been around for
maybe 200,000 years.
the minds
of ancient peoples
were very different
from ours
the Rig Veda
gives us a
glimpse into a
mind around 4000
ago.
doesnt
go very far
back but still
interesting
the birth
of the individual may
have something to
do with
the experience
of consciousness
existential awareness
feeling responsible
and thinking about me
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religious people tend talk
of the capital
S Self
my
Theory of Mind is
more about the
little s self
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religion
godconsciousness created
the world
science
consciousness is
emergent from the
brain
Goertzel
these 2
positions are gross
oversimplifications
only partially helpful
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the
Rig Veda was composed
at a special time
as Indo-European
languages spread a
new mental Operating System
whose signature is
self chatter
brought about a
mental paradigm shift
to the
modern mind
cooperating hemispheres
relative hemispheres
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2 worlds
objective out there
subjective in there needs an awake me
left
brain perspective
the mind concerned with outer
things objects
right brain
perspective
the mind concerned with inner
things now
the theory
of everything
matter and
consciousness be 2
sides of a coin
and the
coin be made
up of information
the mind
interfacing the 2
artificial intelligence may
have the capacity
to figure this
mystery out
we certainly
need a healthy
functioning brain to
feel it
scientific instruments
can pinpoint the
prefrontal cortex as the
place
where our
conscious activities takes
place
like meditation,
mindfulness, decisions, planning,
making sentences, feeling
awake
our brain is
yin consciousness yang
a polar pair
the
Octave
the brain
likes to
distinguish 7s
7 rainbow
colors
7 notes
of scale
7 declensions
7 digit
phone number
7 aorists
7 present
system classes
1, 4, 6
2, 3, 7,
5 and 9 no 8
and 10 in
Vedic
trying to discover the
7 distinctions of the present system seems
reasonable
each class
probably having its
own semantic color
the aorist
and present system are
probably processed in
the working memory
(
equating the 7
thing with working memory )
sentences coming up from the subconscious are
processed differently
the
working memory constructs conscious
sentences or phrases
we think in phrases
Vedic
verbs are unique
in that they
are difficult to
memorize
there
are too many
verbal variations (thousands)
especially if
you were to
say anything very
meaningful
phrases , particularly
verbs need to be
created-constructed when
spoken
Vedic can also
be used as
a Conscious language
the prefrontal cortex needing
to be engaged
as opposed to the subconscious being
the generator of
thoughts
memory
working memory
- memory in the CPU
- immediate memory
short term
memory - memory
in RAM -
today
long term
memory - memory
on Hard Drive
i believe
that in our
prefrontal cortex, we have
special function
known as
Working Memory. At its
core is the
Central Executive
this is
where we can
consciously make sentences
where we
can experience being
Awake
where we
meditate
a
subject of ancient
Aryan poetry, i believe
- 4500 years ago -
some
human experiences are
equivalent - such
as
when the
mind is [ quiet,
alert, aware ] in
the here and
now kind of thing
we share
some common experiences
universal human
experiences , states of mind
that the
Rig Veda is describing
some common-universal experiences
is reasonable
because they , i think ,
are describing
states of mind
such as a
special state of
mind
and one shared
by humans of
all times
simply being consciously
awake in the
Present Moment
it by-passes beliefs ,
descriptions , and interpretations
this clean
state of mind
is basic philosophy,
psychology, meditation
a basic
human experience , enhanced
with regular meditation
this could
be the rosetta stone into
the proto-indo-european mind
a mind
that change the
world
i might
say a phrase
i like
your foibles
it feels
like the meaning
of the phrase
goes with it
but actually little
information actually goes with
the symbols
my immensely
complex mental system
says this
spitting out a
simple set of
symbols
i send
it to you
your
complex mind generates
your meaning
of the symbols
our minds
are different
as with
boy and girl
2 communicating computers
use web browsers to
do the work
on both ends
one receives
the symbols and
builds up the
intention
unlike
humans , the web browsers
are identical
the more
unlike 2 mind-structures are
the more
difficult the understanding
if the
Rig Veda is talking
about a natural
state of mind
the meditative
state of mind
( quiet, alert, aware ) in the present
moment kind of thing
not phraseswords
then the
Rosetta Stone analogy
might work
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everytime
I close my eyes, its like a dark
paradise
Antonella Del
rey
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its Sunday afternoon and
the cat starts
yowling and yowling
at the
smell of marijuana.
because he
knows the next thing
coming
is a can of
that gravy shit
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Vedic and
classical Sanskrit are different
Vedic is
a natural spoken language
no cadence but
with accents
Classical
Sanskrit is not
vernacular
but formal,
poetic, academic
with cadence
but no accents
no perfective
much
reduced
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a
verb has many
variations
prefix augment
root internal ablout strong-weak reduplication
derivational stem
suffixes
thematic a
voice
3 voices
moods
5 modes
person number
sex 9 persons,
3 numbers, 3
sexes
present -
aorist - perfect 7 presents,
7 aorists, 1
perfect
accent
The sheer
number of combinations
suggest that a
verb must be
constructed
on the
fly - consciously not from
memory
speaking Vedic
took effort ,
presence and education
there are
well over 2000
letter combinations with verbs
to express
her wiles
to get
passed see spot
run
took
an education
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our thoughts
may be tricking us
me
----------
the
real world
unattainable for
now
is
promised
nietzsche
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a world without
sexy women ~
would be bleak
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is
there a soul
in there looking out of the
eyes
and directly experiencing
the world
or
is information, in the form
of photons
entering the eye
and going through numerous neurons and
synapses,
cognized in some way by the brain
and seen moments
later
synapses have molecules
moving through liquid
(delay)
so instead
of direct experience, there is
a delay
an hundred
mph baseball is
really some inches
ahead of where
its seen
the brain has
neural lag
to Experience
you need a
working brain
hundreds of
millions of firing
neurons
how could direct experience be possible ?
ancient philosophers
described experience
in
various ways , in
mistaken ways
not knowing
that they were
having an experience
generated by the
brain-mind
- saying that
you are having
an experience outside
the working brain
-
well -
there is zero
proof that this
can happen -
could
it be 50 50 ?
the brain
will always be a
few steps behind the
present moment
it sure
seems like we
are looking out
of our eyes
philosophers of
old mistakenly thought
this
but science
tells us that
the eyes are
receptors
this process
of seeing has
been thoroughly studied
and is well
understood
there are
thousands of pictures
of the brain
areas that
are
involved in the prossess of seeing
without these
active brain areas,
there is no
seeing
the religious philosophies built
with this error
, should give
pause
some
religious people are
saying that
the earth
was created 6000 years
ago
science says
the earth is
around 5 billion
years old
there are
profound differences between
a
philosophy-psychology based on the
principle that there
is
someone in
there looking out of our eyes
and a philosophy-psychology based
on science
the older parts
of the Rig Veda , I think ,
have an unique
perspective
without defining
or speculating ( or
making the above error ) ,
they sought
happiness and
health of a
clear-alert mind through
meditation
their meditation
uses the working memory
of our prefrontal cortex
for conscious
thought and experience
so instead of
shooting for the
direct experience of
Now ( or
an explanation )
we might
seek the happiness given
by the little
n
now
provided by a
clear , alert , focused
mind in meditation
nothing supernatural, no promises of life
after death, just clean experience
using a
regular practice
voicing the desire
and respect for
meditation
for those believing in
science this theory
of older Vedic
thought has potential
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if
consciousness is separate
from matterbrain
then
a silicon based systemcomputer
should be
able to use
consciousness
much as
our carbon based
systems do
if
mind is where
matter and consciousness meet
if
this information systemmind has
universal structure
then
computers will meet
consciousness
much as
we do
the
interfacebridge
between matter and
consciousness
would have
similar formstructure
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It's a new day, and every potentiality is
available to you now !
It's a new day, and you are no longer IN the
past experiences that brought pain.
You are here, now, beautiful, capable and
amazing.
Let your focus stay on this moment and all of
the percolating possibilities that await.
Thoughts of doubt and fear and not good enough are like little threads or
tethers to that heavy weight you have
held.
When a fearful thought comes,
see yourself cutting the thread to it,
let it go, and remember again,
i am here now.
It is not possible to re-live then,
so with what that "then" taught me,
what do i want now ?
What will i focus
on now ?
And wow - it's a new day !
Dawn Torres
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Information Theory
talks about how
information
has a
life and energy
of its own
ideas (
packages of information,
memes ) when successful
can live and
replicate in many
minds for years
how many
words, sentences and ideas
of mine are
memes
living in
the world of language may
be inauthentic
the present
moment may be
the glowing jewel
for an authentic
experience
not quite
the direct experience
of Now but
the
brain is much
too active for a
person to stay focused
in the present
moment for long
too much control may even be unhealthy for
the brain and mind
the
Rig Veda talks about
a regular Meditative
practice where
the glowing
jewel of happiness,
health and clarity
can be enjoyed
and one
can authentically be
alert
, aware , in the
moment , without thoughts
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the fool
who wants to know
should trust
whom ?
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i am a
plagiarist
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your eyes
are not blue
there
are no colors
out in world
the sun
emits electromegnetic wavesparticles
that bounce
off things
that what
was bounced
enters
the eyes hitting
rods and cones
tri-sensored cones
transduce
electromagnetic wavesparticles to neural
pulses
which are sent
to areas in
the posterior cortex
where colors are
generated
we are
seeing a colorless
world
as it
was a quarter of a
second ago
with neural
lag , its never
live , never immediate
it takes
time for our senses
to be cognized in the
brain
through cells ,
synapses , membranes ,
molecules traveling through
liquid
how can
direct experience be
possible ?
if you
see a jet
airliner go by
its actually
some distance ahead
of where you
see it.
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Bullshit
a
liar is
different from a bullshitter
a
Liar knows the
truth
and wants
to deceive you
a
Bullshitter
is unconcerned about
truth or untruth
his intention
is to impress
uses obscuration
fakes stuff
phony
misrepresents what
hes up to
leads astray
paints
an insincere picture
of himself to
another person in
words.
i suspect
that we are 50
- 50
left brain
dealing in truth - untruth
right braing dealing in
bullshit
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say
there is a
cat , dog, and
hummingbird in the
back yard
the cat
is sitting and
the dog is
running around
which
2 animals are
most alike
dog cat based on
looks
dog hummingbird based
on behavior
in
a complex system
like the brain
where trillions
of synaptic actions happen
every second
there
surely is a
hierarchy of machinery
some molecular
some inbetween
some at
story level
to determine a
specific state of
mind
say
of meditative focus
would be
fairly easy
with the attractorchaos
being a
simple focus of
awareness
but
say of a run of
subconscious thought
where predictive
outcomes are most
difficult
crap tons of
difficult dynamic chaos - complexity - feelings
designing an
attractor for meditation
( a swirling
implosion to consciousness, to
light, to awakesimplicity )
say of
a clear mind
an awareness
of being awake in the conscious mind
is solid
a Vortex
to simplicity and
pleasantness
awakeness
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The Brick
Wall
as
you keep going smallerelectons
you
dont eventually get to
a brick wallgod
as
you keep going largercosmos
you
dont eventually get to a
brick wallgod
there
is no absolute
there no Theory of Everything
no
this is it inside the
Big Bang or Black Hole
no
ultimate meaning underlying
this universe
but
smaller eventually runs
into larger (relativity)
when you
fall into a black hole
you may pop
out(or get pooped out) into the
cosmos as an
Hydrogen atom
possibly between
the Andromeda galaxy
and the Milky Way
maybe you
get pooped out of
the Big
Bang 13.81 billion
light years away
time has
no beginning no
ending
relativity
out of
the Big Bang
into a Black Hole
out of a Black Hole into the
Big Bang
relativity
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Vedic verbs
2 minds
conscious
subconscious
2 views
universal time -
things happen in this world
whether were here
or not
inner personal
time - the only
real experience is
in the present
moment
the world
seen from my
waking moment
experience felt from
this waking moment
time , aspect , mood may be represented differently
regarding the 2
views 2minds
some
describe the Vedic
verbal system as
having
2 tenses
past -
non-past
3 aspects
perfect -
retrospective state
aorist -
perfective - completed
event
imperfective - present, imperfect -
incomplete, continued, repeating
events
4 or 5 moods
indicative, imperative, injunctive,
optative, subjunctive
2 or 3 voices
active, middle,
passive is probably a function
of middle class 4
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nouns represent
descriptions of different
types of individuals and
substances
verbs represent descriptions of
different types of
situations-events
a root has
a large scope a general meaning
affix, suffix,
ablaut, , causative, desiderative, intensive,
voice
brings intention
to focus restricts meaning
but
without knowing
Vedic context good luck
finding what was
Meant
how would you know, if you found
the correct context.
the older half
of the Rig Veda
gives an obscure context
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the
language of a culture
probably has a
threshold for major
changes
the
threshold was probably
met after so
many generations
changes
happened rapidly and
then things
remained stable for
some generations
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unlike
monkeys, we have
2 cognitive systems
, each to its
hemisphere
hierarchical and heterarchical
thought
we
are able to
understand the information
in a pattern
symbolize it
use that
symbol in a
sentence
use that
sentence in a paragraph
use that
paragraph in a book
use that
book
use cultural
knowledge
and judge
its value
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kṛ cit
present stem aorist
stem perfect stem
present kṛ-ṇo-ti ---- ci-ket-a
past a-kṛ-ṇo-t a-kar-t a-ci-ket-t
injunctive kṛ-ṇo-t kar-t ci-ket-t
subjunctive kṛ-ṇav-a-t (i) kar-a-t (i) ci-ket-a-t (i)
optative kṛ-ṇu-yā-t
kur-yā-t ci-kit-yā-t
imperative kṛ-ṇu-hi kṛ-dhi ci-kid-dhi
ablout internal
vowel change, indicating aspect
zero grade kṛ present / imperfect
guna kar aorist
vṛitti ke perfect
zero a, - i, ī u, ū ṛ, ṛṛ
guna a,
ai ai (e) au (o) ar
vṛddhi ā, āi āi (ai) āu (au) ār
in Vedic e = ai o = au ai
= āi au - āu
moods
probably will happen, let it happen, may it happen, desire,
wish,
want, command, request,
advice, a direction, shall,
should,
might, must
probability possibility necessity
( speakers attitude ) to the content of a
proposition or possible worlds
language doesnt just
pinpoint and relate sitituations but
can propose
multiple possible situations
the
indicative is probably
dealing with the
objective world
the
other moods are
more subjective personal
subjunctive in assertive clauses
expresses future probability
probable state of
affairs
doubts, fears, predictions, hypothetical or guarded statements
injunctive
is a
finite verb whose only grammatical features are
aspect present /
aorist / perfect
voice middle / passive
person / number with
secondary, non-present endings
not marked for tense / mood
completed action irrespective of tense or mood
usually in main clause that
follows a verb ( in subordinate clause ) that
gives tense / mood
except for prohibitions with
mā
injunctives
dont occur by themselves, they
follow tense / mood verbs
rarely in subordinate
clauses
rarely in recent past
tense / mood is supplied by
Context or other words
parallelism
ca can join different
verbs in same tense/mood
or same verb with
different tense/mood
but injunctive can
conjoin with different
verbs in any tense/mood
imperfect advances narrative,
injunctive tells wrong
sequence
imperative
command, requests, prohibitions
optative
wishes, choices, preferences
indicative
make statements, recount facts,
past
a single event, repetitive, continual, instant,
duration, finished,
witnessed, remote,
simple, complex, temporary, permanent
recent, immediate,
just happened, state a fact,
Time
now a days, we
see Time in terms of past,
present, future
linguists say, Aryans
saw Time in terms of past
and non-past
but say
its always
been now and will always be now
then the
only time is now
the past
may be more like a memory ,
not a different
time
they might
be using 2 different
time systems
universal ( there
is one time
in the universe )
objective
mental (
time is seen
as the present moment ) subjective
the modern
Linguistic concept of time may be
regarded as a path structure, i.e.
as a structure
consisting of a strictly ordered infinite
set of immediately adjacent intervals,
all of
which are connected by one and only one
sub path
directed -
only one direction
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Descending time
start time is now
i am
a point of being - time moves past me.
things happen
now and become memories
the time that operates in the
mind
our memory records the passing
parade of life
passive experiences drifts
further and further into the past
desiring an event
to be
events are
relevant only to the time of mental functioning
to time that
is internal to the mind
time that is contained in the event
Vedic used Descenting time in
the subjective world
( aorist system )
Ascending time in
the objective world
( present system )
Ascending
time
start time
was 13.81 billion years ago
an event has begun in past
- eventually comes to completion in future
i will
reach the end of my life
i
am moving across the back ground of
time
active imagining events in the future
time outside the functioning mind
universal time
-- running to infinity
in both directions
time
that contains the event
universal time
there is one time in the
universe
this time flows the same
for everyone
descending time
everyone has their own
time
this moment
is personal and private
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i
bet that theres been lots of
people through the
years
whove wondered
about shit like
this
after theyve
smoked some weed
really, I do
believe that there
have been many
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Relativity
i do
not believe in God
or that
theres an ultimate
answer to Life, the Universe, and
Everything
or theres
a pot of gold
at the end
of the rainbow
or an
ultimate explanation
or an
ultimate meaning to
this universe
no Theory of Everything
there is
no inner absolute
there there
i believe
in Relativity
a dual
universe
brain and
consciousness
complementarity
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Tense and Aspect -
are fundamentally different
cognitive systems
different way of representing activities .
different mental systems or
stratified mental constructions
tense
the time
an action takes place,
often relating to present moment
Vedic may
have maybe 2
tenses Past ---
non-Past
English has
3 tenses. past present - future
aspect
probably 3
perfect - state
, retrospective
imperfect - ongoing
aorist -
completed
not concerned with
placing events on a time line, rather
makes distinction about kinds of actions
progressive, punctual, habitual,
state, achievement
imperfect
ongoing, habitual,
may be simultaneous or overlapping
perfect
strict sequence,
one event must be completed before the next
a state or condition that was caused by a previously completed
event
aorist
recently completed
event as seen
from the present moment
mood
indicative
relate facts
and objective statements
fuck suffering
fuck suffering
subjunctive
expresses probable
happenings
probable state
of affairs
doubts, fears,
predictions
optative
hypothetical or
contrary-to-fact
wished, choices, preferences
imperative
commands, requests,
prohibitions
injunctive
tenseless, moodless
a completed action
complements and
follows a verb that gives
time / mood
quite mysterious
maybe having
something to do with
the present moment
a lot
of this has
been written while
stoned
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Philosophy
once you
leave the present
moment and dive
into language
you find
yourself in the
world of
a brain-mind structured
and programmed by
culture
human traits
inherited from evolution
and natural selection
can philosophy
be done in
language ?
a loaded
or religious question like do
you believe in god ?
one might
answer i neither
believe nor disbelieve
in x
smokin weed
and meditating on
Sundays
is my
favorite time now
back when my
testosterone levels were higher
lovin was
my favorite time
indubitably
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existentialism
before
Nietzsche most westerners
had one view
of the self
an eternal
soul
that leaves the
body at death
the soul
was put here
by god
for a
purpose
but
what if this
is bunk
existentialists posit
a person , one day ,
waking up
and becoming aware
of her existence
with no
clue of purpose or
meaning
Nietzsche
might say
how you feel
is your responsibility
Dawn
might say
dont shrink in
that chair, grow
a pair , stand up
and do somethingpositive exciting
paraphrasing of
course
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transact
it is life living itself, ongoingly relating with what is and what is perceived to
be...
Bhavani
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music, mathematics, quantum
mechanics have structure
quarks and atoms have a universal
structure
information should have a
universal structure
as
software runs on a computer
the
mind runs on the brain
the
mind should have a structureas does
software
built around a
universal information
matrix-fabric
probably involving the Octave
an
Artificial Intelligence or an Aliens
mind should be similar to ours
because it would have to
fit the structure of mind
this
would give Jungs
collective unconscious some juice
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that
moment when all is
quiet and still
our only
soundtrack is heartbeat
and breath
Antonella
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2
types of verbs
State -
perfect (state of being) ( completed action, still relevant ) looking back
Event -
perfective aorist ( completed
action, an entire process )
- imperfective -
present tense imperfect tense
( ongoing, repeated, habitual
action )
Primary verbs -
from roots
Secondary verbs
- from root stem - from
nouns - Present System verbs
causative, intensive, desiderative, denominative
not conjugated in the Subjunctive or Optative moods
binary opposition
present vs.
past
subjective
proximate vs. objective proximate
narrative vs.
statement of fact
active voice - middle voice
objective vs.
subjective
imperfective vs.
perfective
order vs. chaos
multi-layer linear
control vs. association connectable patterns
primary vs. secondary
endings
mi, si, ti -----
m, s, t
perspectives
now
immediately before or after now
now relating to events
in this waking day
now relating to events in my life time
objective time linear
subjective time in the mind is seen from now from speaker
time parameters (
Reichenbach
)
1. E -
event time, the time during which the event unfolds
- run
time
2. R -
reference time, the
time referred to -
spoken about
3. P -
perspective time, the
now point -
evaluation time
4. S -
speech time, the actual
moment of utterance
present E
included in R,
P included in R
past perfect E
precedes R precedes
P
present perfect E
precedes R, P
is included in R
imperfect R precedes
P
aorist E precedes
Rr
r = ? recent past current
relevance resultive
Julia
arrived
simple past
Julia has
arrived present perfect
you would
think that there
were only 2
time parameters
Event
Time and Speech Time
but no, there
is a third. Reference Time
( time spoken about )
Julia arrived
happened before
Speech Time
E and R precedes S
Julia has
arrived happened before
and overlaps with
Speech Time
E and
R includes S
At midnight last night, Julia arrived, kissed Margaret, had a glass
of wine, and went to bed.
E times
are included in R
time
Aspect = a
type of relation between E
and R
Tense = R and
P / S
Tense
Present P
includes R evaluation / perspective time includes
reference time
Past
R precedes P
Aspect
Imperfective (
present, imperfect past ) R
includes E
Perfective ( aorist ) E
includes R event time includes
reference time
Anterior ( perfect ) E
partially includes R
Neutral R overlaps
E
Present tense and
Aorist aspect are rarely
used together
A very
meaningful phrase needs
both Aspect operators
and Tense operators
the Perfect
is not used for narration because
R is included
in P
even though the Perfect
places an event in the past,
a sequence of
perfects cannot provide the secessions
of R
times that
(drives
the narrative forward) because the R
times overlap
one event
does not precede the other - they
share same P time
the Imperfect
is used for
narration
each past
tense has its
own R time
they all
precede P
each reset
R time includes
a new E
time - successive
events
the
Imperfect is also used
for remote past , elsewhere
the
Aorist is restricted
to recent past
in virtue of its resultative
meaning
Aorist
is restricted to telic
( complete ) verbs, resultative in character, E
precedes R
you can make an atelic
verb Aorist by
adding s -
s aorist - perfectivizing
Verb
roots can be grouped into 3 Aktionsart types
1. Resultative ( aorist )
accomplishment achievement
vṛt turn vṛdh grow sthā stand up skand leap
krand cry out hṛ take bhū become dyut flash
bhī become scared budh wake up vap strew
jan be born ram calm
down tyaj leave
2. Irresultative state process
as
be
vas dwell śī lie ās lie
īṣ
move iṣ
desire bhā shine vā blow
rud weep plu float jiv live
3. Resultative / irresultative
bhar bring, carry kram step ruh climb
dhāv
run pū cleanse
aspectual contrast
between Aorist and
non-aorist Injunctives appears
in prohibitions
preventive prohibitions
take Aorist injunctive
inhibitive prohibitions take
Present / Imperfect injunctive
mā parā gās
dont go
away addressed to someone
who is present
ao. inj.
akṣai: mā dīvyas
dont gamble
( any more ) addressed to a gambler
inj.
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Grammatical aspect
Defines time flow
of event or state from point of view of speaker
is it bounded
( beginning and end ) , without reference to time flow during situation.
she
spanked me aorist
or
unbounded with reference to time flow
during situation
she was spanking me - she used to spank me imperfect
Lexical
aspect
A | B -----------C------------D |
E
A subject
in a position
before event (
prospective aspect )
B subject
in a position at the beginning of
event ( inceptive aspect )
C subject
with event
in progress ( progressive aspect )
D subject
in position of completing the event
( perfective aspect, aorist )
E subject
in a position after event ( perfect-retrospective aspect )
English aspect non-past past tense
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performative i speak i spoke
progressive i
am speaking i was speaking
retrospective i have spoken i had spoken
prospective i will
speak
i would speak
tense systems represent past and future as Universe Time
vast stretches of
time that contain events
aspect represents
past and future in terms
of Event Time
time with-in
the Event
present Perfect
aspect, event represented by the past participle only indicates
a past event because it is seen retrospectively from
the Present
past
tense , on the other hand, represents
event contained in past time
is separate and apart from the
Present
tense
universal time, time that contains the Event
location in time
characterizes the narrated event with reference to the
speech event
tenses are
typically deictic depends on context for meaning
in
that they relate time points to a
moment of speech
aspect
is not
concerned with relating the time of the situation to any other time-point
but rather
with the internal time with-in
event - Event Time
time contained in the
Event
characterizes the narrated
event without reference to speech
event
nature of action kind
of action
viewpoint
describes manner in
which an action change of state
condition
is
regarded by the speaker
time that is contained
in the Event
relationship between
described situation and time spoken
about
speakers perspective on
the internal time structure of a situation
type of action
psychological
temporal structure
perfective aspect --
completed situations
imperfective aspect -- in
progress situations
state
own 3
slaves, have known 32
ladies
* change of state
fight -
process
defeat -
change-of-state has a completion
* dynamic -- progress through time
hate -
state remains constant
walk -
dynamic evolves through time
often used with
adverbs like quickly
* punctual
-- instantaneous
come, win
- durative achievement
astonish -
punctual instantaneous achievement
* single event
know happens
once
kiss happens
frequently
frequency
relation between
reference time and event time
tense --
between reference time and local
evaluation time
Imperfective aspect
( present, imperfect )
Reference time includes event
time
when I knocked on the
door, she was masturbating
when I was reading,
she entered
he is dying action occurring in the present or in the past
Perfective aspect
( aorist )
Completed event before speech time, but still holds
Event time included in
reference time
i married her
but later went
somewhere else
he likes women who
have winked at him
to die action as a whole an occurrence in the past
Perfect aspect ( perfect )
Event time partially precedes or
co-exists with reference time
I have made love
with her, but
now its someone
else
the adulterer must
have entered, using the back door
she started walking because
she was late
to be dead occurred and effecting the present
Neutral aspect
General overlap between event
time and reference
while he was
dying, his gaze fell on her breasts
suddenly I knew that
something was wrong
The action of a verb can be
seen from different perspectives
Neutral
Subjective the feelings of a subject
prospective introspective - retrospective
usually Perfect
Objective ingressive progressive egresive
seen in its continuity, at some point in its development
initial point
end point , took place once or repeated
had an end or
result
can be complete or incomplete, durative,
inchoative, cursive,
terminative or iterative,
habitual, intensive
meaning
= layers of
form and function
meaning not only comes from verb form but also Context
aspectual meaning may
depend on
stem-system
voice
reduplication
ablaut
meaning of the
verb-stem itself
adverb-prepositional modifiers
transitive
- intransitive
secondary
verb-stems, causative denominative
desiderative - intensive
4 functions
recent past main clause
in the indicative
relating to prior
event in subordinate
clause
statement of fact usually with imperfects in reporting
narration
with injunctives in
mentioning
perfective aspect ,
telic, completed event -
in non-finite and modal verb
forms
non-finite = not limited
by a subject
missing- tense / aspect / mood / number / gender /
person
cant stand alone as main verb
infinitives , participles , gerunds,
ing
such as to do, doing
aorist and perfect divide
the readings of the English
perfect
1. Resultative: She
has caught the
flu. ( aorist )
2. Universal: I
havent had any
nookie in 5
years. (
perfect )
3. Existential: Jack has been to
Tibet.
( perfect )
4. Recent past: She
has woken up in this
bed at age 39.
( aorist )
5. Stative Present:
Ive got (= I have) something to tell you. ( perfect )
1. Resultative reading also
called state reading
accomplishment predicates such
as catch, hide
consists of an activity leading to a change of state
achievement predicates die, arrive
denotes an
event consisting of a
change of state
I have finally realized that she was a lesbian.
2. Existential reading
also known as the
experiential reading
is obtained when the whole event denoted by
a continuing ( atelic ) or
repeated ( telic ) events are contained
in E
Jack visited
Tibet one or more times during a period E
extending from some past time up to time R, but
not currently visiting
ive often
thought that she was a lesbian
3. Universal reading
or continuing reading
i continue
to know Rebekah from 2011 up to
R
needs an adverb
always, since
ive always known that she was a lesbian
4. Recent past
situates an event at a time which
verges on P time
and locates the result state at P
5. Present state
reference interval is included in the resulted state
change of state is not assigned a
time but remains implicit
Perfect anterior aspect
partially precedes co-extensive
with Reference Time
overlaps with
speech time she arrived
past perfect selects a past time as its evaluation time
present perfect reference time overlaps with evaluation
time
past completed action still
relevant
retrospective
situation that is obtained as a
result of an event
aspectually stative and presuppose a prior event.
a state or
achievement resulting from a previous event
actions of varying
completion that in some manner affect the present
completed action with a
continuing effect
resultative
intensive
achievement verb -
stative presents
predicates only the
state itself, not the change of state that brought it about
has strictly
present time reference
coordinated with
present tense verbs
imperfects denote
individual / collective ( single-event )
continuing
perfects denote
distinct multiple events
stative presents
such as
veda, ciketa knows
( from vid, cit find out ), jujoṣa enjoys , cakāna likes,
bibhāya fears , taṣṭhau stands , śiśrāya rests on ,
dadhāra holds , ānaśa has , babhva is
yabhyate is-fucked
yabh fuck yabhyate intransitive ?
aorist
a
completed event as
opposed to a divided event
has boundaries discrete completed events located in the immediate past
situations included in reference time
doesnt refer to time of action,
instead describes actions state of completion or singularity
a completed, singular action
has
no part that is outside the
reference time
event
has been terminated prior to
speech time
no exact notion of
duration
event happened at some indefinite time
in the past
punctual, monentary, instantaneous
to see to look, to
find to search, to hear to listen
first one is Aorist singular,
momentary, finite action, a beginning and end
second on is Imperfect ongoing process, repeated,
habitual
cannot be isolated to one moment or action
reference time is contained in the
event
emphasizes a state resulting from the completion of event, still holds at speech time
event time cannot
last longer then reference time
The Vedic Aorist often expresses
actions or processes which have occurred
in the past with reference to the present.
Immediate past
Not so much I did the action
but I was effected by the action.
Imperfect -- continuance
Perfect completeness
Aorist deals with neither continuance or completeness
rarely state or activity verbs or change-of-state or imperfective
momentaneous, no durational punctual-factual, single event
perfect --
state a fact
aorist --
statement of fact proximate
past
imperfect --
narration distant
past
aorist inj. Prohibitive -- situation stops before now
present inj. Prohibitive
-- situation stops
in the present
is the meaning of a sentence,
determined by its constituents ??
tense, aspect, mood are prime constituents
desiderative are usually
state verbs , having few Aorist
stems
past progressive reference time included in event time
I was winning the race
Simple past I won the race
Present system
ongoing action,
not complete, durative, continuative
does not say anything about
its completed nature
in the old days each Class probably had its own
aspectual significance
thematic 1,
4, 6
athematic 2,
3, 5, 7,
9 5 and 9 may be sisters
Class 3
may signify the iterative
jigāmi i make step after step
i am walking
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accented
nouns
strong declensions
= nom. acc.
weak declensions = inst.
dat. abl. gen.
loc.
if noun has
underlying accent, it
keeps the stress
if no
underlying accent
strong ending -
syllable immediately preceding it
takes stress
weak ending
- stress is in
ending
marut vac
marut marutas vāk vāca:
marutam maruta: vācam vāca:
marutā marudbhi: vācā vāgbhi:
marute marudbhya: vāce vāgbhya:
maruta: marudbhya: vāca: vāgbhya:
maruta: marutām vāca: vācam
maruti marutsu vāci vākṣu
vocative is unstressed - except sentence-initial, first
syllable stressed
if
no underlying accent -
first syllable receives stress
accent
verbs
main clause
verbs unaccented except
1. all sentence initial or pāda initial
words are accented
contiguous verbs
second verb is accented (
considered new sentence )
words between verbs
( belong to first verb ) second verb is
accented ( new sentence )
verbs preceded
by sentence initial Vocatives
are accented
2.
verb accented when
immediately preceding id indicates emphasis
subordinate clause
1. verbs
accented
antithetical clause
1.
first verb usually accented
anya anya ca
- ca vā -
vā
etā 2nd
pl. imp. come
1. when
following this verb in a clause
accented
clitic elements
tend to follow the sentence initial accented
word
with Vocative-initial words,
first syllable gets
accent agni instead
of agni
Vocatives are
usually unaccented
enclitics are
unaccented
( enclitic - depends on
preceeding
word )
iva like unaccented,
it follows the word with which
the comparison is made. treated as suffix
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Vedic clause
Assertive clause - knowledge shared by speaker and hearer - common ground
Directive clause - knowledge should be realized by hearer putting in order
Interrogative clause - mutually agree to attempt to answer -
possibility
MacDonell
The perfect characteristically expresses the
condition attained by the subject
as the result of a preceding
action.
If that action (often a
repeated or continuous one ) is continued into the
present so as to include the
latter, it may be translated by the
Present ;
if it is regarded as concluded
before the present, by the Present
Perfect.
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i know
this moment will
die, its so
wonderful
i will
miss life if i remember to
remember
footprints in
the sand
rage rage against
the dying of
the light
thank you
for reading my
stuff
these
phrases exploded out of my
near-last moments
of my non-existent
soul
Ben Darras