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Reflection 317: Self-Reflection
Copyright © 2012 by Steve Perrin. Self-reflection is a process you go through to understand yourself better than you do now. In CONSCIOUSNESS: The Book, I call it introspection—looking inward....
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366. The Other AI (Authentic Intelligence)
Darwin’s interest 140 years ago was in comparing human minds to animal minds from the point of view of evolution. I devoted my last post to a brief treatment of his findings. My interest today is in...
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369. So Do We Invent Ourselves
We live by setting goals and striving to achieve them. Roughly speaking, our first life goal is to grow into competent human beings. Our second is to discover who we are and what we hope to accomplish....
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370. Do We Make it or Not?
Setting goals is how we guide ourselves in getting ahead, how we navigate this life of ours day-by-day. But gauging how close we come to attaining those goals is another matter entirely. To head off in...
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371. The Olympic Event We Call Life
Questions, always questions. Setting goals is absolutely no guarantee that we will fulfill our dreams. Hopes, wishes, desires, and all the rest are states of mind that spur us to action. Achieving...
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378. Wayfaring Day and Night
In the terminal moments of a dream I had on the morning of March 10, 2014, I found myself loaded with gear in both hands, struggling up a crowded escalator. I met a series of obstacles at every level,...
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391. Darwin Had It Almost Right
I see comparison as the common feature of a great many of our mental operations. In fact, it looms in my mind as the essential function of the brain in leading to consciousness. It is not any...
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400. Men Build Bridges; Women Build Relationships
Many of my projects are based on a close relationship to the natural history of the region in Maine where I live. Projects, in fact, establish a kind of intimate relationship, very much like building a...
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453. Families Give Us Room to Fall on Our Face
Memory is at the heart of learning through trial and error. We are born knowing very little; it’s all uphill from there. Families give us a leg-up by not having to be feral children dependent on...
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483. Summary in a Word: Consciousness
Engagements between self and other have been around since the early days of one-celled lifeforms drifting about in their aqueous environments. Which-was-which depended on your perspective, that of cell...
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