Contact: The Sci-Fi Movie About Finding Faith - Collider

The Pentagon is finally acknowledging the existence of "unidentified aerial phenomena," and China recently reported one of its radio telescopes may have picked up signals from a galaxy far, far away. In 1987, astronomer Carl Sagan wrote Contact, a novel about how the world might react to a similar situation, and in July 1997, Robert Zemeckis' adaption of Sagan's novel hit the big screen. While not an atheist, Sagan repeatedly stressed that he saw no evidence for the existence of God...

Summari - Screens and our relationship with them

Screens - Mind Matters podcast episodeScreens - Mind Matters podcast episode ・ Apr 15, 2022Our obsession today with screens is often unintentionally taking us to places we regretWe use these windows into the world for hours every day, often unaware how intentional content creators and app designers are in shaping our decisions and forming harmful habits.Thankfully, we can begin to go from unintentional with our screen use to intentional flipping that imbalance back into our favor, reclaimin...

The Quantum Biosemiosphere

Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison have, once again, broken through into a new realm of environmental research with their latest mind-bending work, The Quantum Biosemiosphere. This complex undertaking offers readers an opportunity to explore some of the most intricate ideas ever composed in the ecological literary pantheon. The authors challenge readers to stretch the "evolutionary boundaries" of our ecological understanding and connect to an existing but previously unseen means of...

Allen Ginsberg on Poetry, Voice, Democracy, and More by John Madera

https://bigother.com/2022/06/03/allen-ginsberg-on-poetry-voice-democracy-and-more-3/ "Whoever controls the media—the images—controls the culture.""Wanting credentials, wanting confirmation, wanting approval is a kind of aggression."

The Theory of Two Truths in Tibet - RSS

[Revised entry by Sonam Thakchoe on May 28, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Tibetan philosophers argue that the two truths theory is not only core ontological doctrine as it is understood within the Indian Buddhist thought, it also makes the central theory behind epistemology and soteriology. The Indian Buddhist schools are named after the theories of the two truths they each upheld as in the entry on the theory of the two truths in India. The same cannot be said about the schools ...

Philosophy of Systems and Synthetic Biology - RSS

[Revised entry by Sara Green on May 11, 2022. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] This entry aims to clarify how systems and synthetic biology contribute to and extend discussions within philosophy of science. Unlike fields such as developmental biology or molecular biology, systems and synthetic biology are not easily demarcated by a focus on a specific subject area or level of organization. Rather, they are characterized by the development and application of mathematical, compu...

The Sound of Magic Ending Explained

Adapted from a webtoon called Annarasumanara, Netflix’s latest Korean-language release, The Sound of Magic, is a quick watch at only six episodes—much shorter than most K-drama fare. For that runtime, the drama bites off a bit more than it can chew in terms of storyline, which makes the final episode action-packed with plot points, including reveals concerning magician Ri-eul’s past and the identity of Seo Ha-yoon’s murderer. The ending also must wrap up Ah-yi and Il-deung’s respective storie...

Molech

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Molech (thing) See all of Molech, there is 1 more in this node. (thing) by Demerick Fri Sep 22 2006 at 3:44:50 Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.Leviticus 20:2 The Name The name Molech (sometimes spelled Moloch, Milcom...

The Secret Scheme of Screens

The Secret Scheme of ScreensSourceURL: https://mindmatters.ai/podcast/ep182/ The Secret Scheme of Screens Andrew McDiarmidApril 14, 2022 Our obsession today with screens is, often unintentionally, taking us to places we regret. We use these windows into the world for hours every day, often unaware how intentional content creators and app designers are in shaping our decisions and forming harmful habits. Andrew McDiarmid interviews Doug Smith, author of the bo...

Time, Entropy, and Cognition Are All the Same Thing (idea) by anima - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Time, Entropy, and Cognition Are All the Same Thing (idea) See all of Time, Entropy, and Cognition Are All the Same Thing, no other writeups in this node. (idea) by anima Sat Mar 17 2001 at 2:44:10 Why does time go forward? What's with the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and entropy, and all that? Why do I remember the past, and not the future? These are all really the same question. We can think of the "direction" of time as being ...

The Fault in Our Star Names

The International Astronomical Union has established a committee to finalize a list of official star names. Some companies offer unofficial naming rights for purchase. But the voices of certain communities are often left behind. By accident of Earth's 23.5-degree tilt and the specific geography of our view of space, amateur astronomers and travelers who find themselves lost in the Northern hemisphere have long searched for Ursa Major, the great bear, whose torso is formed by the conspicuous...

What the Mouse Knows - by Simon Sarris

What the Mouse KnowsConsider the little mouse, how sage an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.— Titus Maccius PlautusIt is not down in any map; true places never are.— Ishmael, Moby DickI am fond of the mouse. Everywhere beset by larger powers, he succeeds with a wisdom of his own. He prospers by careful study of the world, and his profit is the knowledge overlooked by the bigger creatures. Humans may have built the house, but it is the mouse who knows all its passage...

Personhood in Classical Indian Philosophy - RSS

[New Entry by Monima Chadha on January 3, 2022.] Selves and persons are often used as synonyms in contemporary philosophy, and sometimes also in the history of Western philosophy. This is almost never the case in classical Indian philosophical traditions. The Sanskrit term 'ātman' properly translated as self stands for whatever it is that is the essence of individual humans (manuṣya) or the psychophysical complex (pudgala) which includes the mind, body and sense organs. There is di...

What It Means to See Jesus

A young man once told me that he had seen the face of Jesus in the trunk of a chestnut tree, the bark moving as if it were flesh. An older woman told me that Christ had appeared to her in the afternoon light that poured through her hospital window. A father who was dying of lung cancer confided that he had looked up at a crucifix years ago in a church and watched as the body hanging there writhed and wriggled, coming alive before his eyes; it had been so terrifying that he had never previousl...

The Illusion Of Decentralisation - HXA7241

The Illusion Of Decentralisation Harrison Ainsworth http://www.hxa.name hxa7241+articles (ατ) googlemail (dοτ) com 2015-01-18 Decentralisation is not really what we want. 1000 words (5 minutes) Decentralisation gives individuals power to decide and act. But to act coherently there must always be something over which individuals do not have choice. That is the defining problem: the two things people want are opposed. Everyone wants freedom, with...

Hebrews, Israelites, and Wicked Jews: An Onomastic Crux in ‘Andreas’ 161-67 | Traditio | Cambridge Core

Skip to main content Accessibility help We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings. Open global navigation Cambridge University Press Only search content I have access to Home Cart ( 0 ) Home>Journals>Traditio>Volume 32 Iss...

Rule breakers and systems makers: Lessons in disruption from Thomas Tuchel

‘Disruption’ is a key idea for entrepreneurs seeking to forge new business models that capture new markets. Yet, the paradox of disruption is that the rule-breakers have to become systems-makers. And the critical difference between sustainable success and failure, for those who create novel strategies, is that they must be flexible enough to change again. Thomas Tuchel, the former manager of leading football clubs like Mainz05 in Germany and PSG in France, is a great example. He’s now bee...

CGSA 2022 CfP and theme announcement!

View this email in your browser Version française ci-dessous. Call for Papers — Canadian Game Studies Association/L’Association Canadienne d'Études des Jeux (CGSA/ACÉJ) 2022 Annual Conference The 2022 Canadian Game Studies Association (CGSA/ACÉJ) annual conference will be held May 31 to June 4 through a virtual format. This virtual format will build on lessons from the 2021 conference and combine pre-recorded paper and panel presentations with synchronous Q&A discussion ...

A Digital Picture to Hold Us Captive

Haunted by the Other: Levinas, Derrida and the Persecutory Phantom | Film-Philosophy

Haunted by the Other: Levinas, Derrida and the Persecutory Phantom Abstract In this article, I explore what I call the persecutory trope – which underscores the alterity of the phantom and its relentless haunting and spectral oppression of the protagonists – in recent American ghost films, connecting it to the ethical thought of the continental philosophers, Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida. Films like The Ring (Gore Verbinski, 2002), The ...

The Golden Guide to Hallucinogenic Plants: Discover the 1977 Illustrated Guide Created by Harvard's Groundbreaking Ethnobotanist Richard Evan Schultes | Open Culture

The Golden Guide to Hallucinogenic Plants: Discover the 1977 Illustrated Guide Created by Harvard's Groundbreaking Ethnobotanist Richard Evan Schultes | Open Culture Online Courses Certificates ...

Steven Shapin - Opposite of a Secret

He who would keep a secret must keep it a secret that he hath a secret to keep.Sir Humphrey ApplebyWhat​ is the opposite of a secret? It can’t be something that everybody knows, since there’s nothing that’s known to everyone and all secrets are known to somebody. A secret is a bit of knowledge that certain people know and certain others are intended not to know. Information doesn’t want to be free – as Stewart Brand put it in the 1980s – but it does often require a lot of effort to select the...

The Paradox of Suspense - RSS

[Revised entry by Aaron Smuts on October 26, 2021. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] The ultimate success of Hollywood blockbusters is dependent upon repeat viewings. Fans return to theaters to see films multiple times and buy DVDs so they can watch movies yet again. Although it is something of a received dogma in philosophy and psychology that suspense requires uncertainty, many of the biggest box office successes are action movies that fans claim to find suspenseful on repeated viewings....

Read Weird Dreams Train Our Brains to Be Better Learners Online

Weird Dreams Train Our Brains to Be Better Learners by Jim Davies Oct 13, 2021 6 minutes Neural networks need to "dream" of weird, senseless examples to learn well. Maybe we do, too.Photo Illustration by MDV Edwards / ShutterstockFor many of us over the last year and more, our waking experience has, you might say, lost a bit of its variety. We spend more time with the same people, in our homes, and go to fewer places. Our stimuli these days,...

Wombs, Worms, and Wolves: Constructing Cancer in Early Modern England

A surgical operation to remove a malignant tumour from a man’s left breast and armpit in a Dublin drawing room, 1817. / Image courtesy Wellcome Images, Wikimedia Commons Understanding more fully how early modern people thought about cancer is significant for several reasons. By Dr. Alanna SkuseResearcherUniversity of Reading Abstract This essay examines medical and popular attitudes to cancer in the early modern period, c.1580–1720. Cancer, it is...