Philosophy Wire: Oceans. Predictions. Be blind to see…

A set of biomarkers not traditionally associated with cell fate can accurately predict how genetically identical cells behave differently under stress, according to a new study. The findings could eventually lead to more predictable responses to pharmaceutical treatments. [1] Different. But the same. The story of our life. The story of the cosmos itself. Look at the raging sea. It is the same as the river underneath your feet. Walk into the river. It is not the same as yesterday. And yet you know it is. What is the meaning of change, if not to deny itself and let you be? Wet. Dry. Still here. How can you talk about the storm while standing below a tree?

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Philosophy Wire: Lasers. Slow motion. Chaos. Nothingness.

Laser beams are used to change the properties of materials in an extremely precise way. However, the underlying processes generally take place at such unimaginably fast speeds and at such a small scale that they have so far eluded direct observation. Researchers have now managed to film, for the first time, the laser transformation of a crystal structure with nanometer resolution and in slow motion in an electron microscope. [1] But can a crystal move? Can a crystal change? Can anything be without time and form? Can the forest be without you being around to see? Stop looking and everything will go away. Think. Does the crystal care whether you die or live?

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Philosophy Wire: Children. Parents. A dance of opposites…

A new study of kindergarteners in one Midwestern state identified seven different pathways the children took in their early education and care before arriving at school. The researchers were surprised by the diverse experiences that kids brought with them to kindergarten: While some received care only in their home or mainly in a child care center, others switched back and forth between different types of care, or had other arrangements. [1] Differences in education. Similarities in humans. A cosmos dying. A cosmos being. A wise man saying nothing. A young man speaking with passion for everything. Children. Parents. A dance of opposites. In constant move. Standing still. Whispering to each other. "I would never be here without you". (Who was here before I was?)

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Philosophy Wire: Antarctica. Frogs. Change.

A 40-million-year-old frog fossil from Seymour Island near the Antarctic Peninsula is the first evidence that amphibians like those alive today once inhabited Antarctica. [1] All things used to be different once. Things that are changing. And changing again. Only to show us that beyond all the things that do, there is something that does not change at all.

Take a good look.
Can you see?
Everything change!

(Why are you here?)

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Philosophy Wire: Mature…

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Early life experiences biologically and functionally mature the brain. Experiences early in life have an impact on the brain's biological and functional development, shows a new study by a team of neuroscientists. [1] How could it be any other way? We change. We mature. At the end we die. When are we most wise? Is it the child that governs your life? Or the old man sitting silently? Humans. Always seeking answers in false dichotomies. Neither the kid nor the old man are the key. Look around. See. The kid is laughing. The old man is crying. Both looking at the river passing by…

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Philosophy Wire: Flexible AI. Constant cosmos.

Scientists at Osaka University built a new computing device from field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) that can be customized by the user for maximum efficiency in artificial intelligence applications. Normally, we think of hardware, which includes the physical logic gates and transistors of a computer's processor, as fixed by the manufacturer. However, field-programmable gate arrays are specialized logical elements that are flexible and can be rewired "in the field" by the user for custom logic applications. [1]

Flexible.
As opposed to what?
The cosmos doesn’t need you.
For it has already defined you.
And the more you believe you can be free.
The more enslaved you will be.
Can you see?

Change.

And the only thing you will accomplish…
Is to verify that you cannot.

Stand.
Die.
Rise!

Can you make the cosmos change instead?!

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Philosophy Wire: Humans changing dogs. Humans changing the Earth. A stable cosmos…

Humans haven’t just changed what dogs look like—we’ve altered the very structure of their brains. [1] Ancient farmers irreversibly altered Earth’s face by 3000 years ago. [2]

We are so much thrilled that we change things. We feel so powerful. So… godly. And yet, we forget one simple thing. That when we change things, these things change us as well.

Yes, we did change the dogs we bred. But this process affected as also.
Yes, we did alter the Earth. But the Earth also made us a different person.
There is a weird secret lingering in the cosmos.

A secret so paradoxical that we die trying to decipher it.
And yet we already know its solution.
Nothing is permanent.

Except our strange belief that some things are…

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Philosophy Wire: Tik tak… Tik tak…

By measuring the fast electrical spikes of individual neurons in the touch region of the brain, neuroscientists have discovered a new type of cell that keeps time so regularly that it may serve as the brain's long-hypothesized clock or metronome. [1] A cosmos changing. A human dying. Open your eyes. Look at you and cry. There is a river passing by. Can you feel it in your feet? You are now too long in that river and you have forgotten. That the only reason you saw the river was because you weren't in it in the first place…

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Philosophy Wire: Old people… Modern people…

Some 9,000 years ago, residents of one of the world's first large farming communities were also among the first humans to experience some of the perils of modern urban living. Scientists studying the ancient ruins of Çatalhöyük, in modern Turkey, found that its inhabitants - 3,500 to 8,000 people at its peak - experienced overcrowding, infectious diseases, violence and environmental problems. [1] Meet the new people. Same as the old people. Do you really believe you can change? Do you think that you can't? You are here and you will be here tomorrow. How could you not be here yesterday? You will be different tomorrow. How could you be here now? Accept yourself. And you will not recognize you in the future… Embrace your change. And you will see you everyday in the past… Listen to yourself speaking through the aeons… “Weird cosmos. The only way for it to exist and have meaning, is to accept that we don't”…

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Philosophy Wire: Free rivers... Changing self…

Free-flowing rivers are an endangered species on Earth. Only about a third of the world’s longest rivers still flow freely along their entire lengths, unchained by dams or reservoirs, scientists report in Nature. [1] We believe in rivers flowing. And yet, we want to keep them restrained. Because we are afraid we might step into the river. And find out that it is not the same… Let go. And you will soon realize. You are not afraid of the river changing. It is the river that is afraid you are not the same person anymore…

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Philosophy Wire: Brain plasticity… Change… Eternal existence…

Psychedelic drugs promote neural plasticity in rats and flies. [1] Brain changing. Being alive. Experiencing illusions. Being alive. And yet, an all changing cosmos smells rot, death and decay. What Is, remains unchanged eternally. What Is not, changes constantly. Trying to fool the eye. To deceive the ear. But the heart knows better. Don’t show me anything. I already know what I seek…

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Philosophy Wire: Unchanged.

Astronomers find a galaxy unchanged since the early universe. [1] What a wonderful universe. Full of wonderful beings. Born. Dying. And up to its very last breath, full of children asking for the gentle touch of their mother… Look at that universe getting cold and dark… Bright as in the moment of its creation…

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Philosophy Wire: Change and Death as the carrier of life…

Physicists at Emory University have shown how a system of lifeless particles can become "life-like" by collectively switching back and forth between crystalline and fluid states - even when the environment remains stable. [1] We have correlated life with the notion of change in our minds. Everything that moves or changes is “alive”. And yet, change is not the carrier of life – but the messenger of death. Change is death. And in a sense, life is just a side-effect of death – not the other way around. Look at you. You used to be inanimate. You used to not exist. And yet you changed. Now you exist. You died. And now you are alive…

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Philosophy Wire: Growing. By tearing yourself apart.

A tree managed to grow by tearing itself apart at regular intervals. [1] We believe that creation is a separate act from destruction, but one cannot exist without the other. Every passing minute we grow. By destroying our self. We change continuously and we are reborn every day. Look at your face in the mirror. Say goodbye. You will soon be dead. Soon, you will be here again…

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Philosophy Wire: Glass. Solid or fluid? Existing. Living or dying?

Is glass a solid or a liquid? This question, which has been vigorously discussed by specialists in the field for some decades, has just been answered anew: "Glass is a non-equilibrium, non-crystalline state of matter that appears solid on a short time scale but continuously relaxes toward the liquid state”. [1] A nice research. Which applies not only to glass but to everything. Because everything changes constantly only to be the same again. This is the only way of being. Bruce Lee said that a long time ago. He urged people to use non-form as the form they follow. Being without being is the key of being. Be water my friend…

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Philosophy Wire: A day without death…

We all seek a day without death.

And yet, every day we die.
And we are reborn again.
Seek death one day instead.
And you will be surprised that it is nowhere to be found…

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Philosophy Wire: Being reborn! Every passing minute…

A 35-year-old man who had been in a vegetative state for 15 years after a car accident has shown signs of consciousness after neurosurgeons implanted a vagus nerve stimulator into his chest. [1] Go to sleep. Wake up again, after 15 years. Are you the same person? Die. Be reborn again after thousands of years. Are you the same person? Question yourself every passing minute. And you will know that it is not you… And that you never were… The man was never in a vegetative state. Because there was never any man to begin with…

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Philosophy Wire: Changing everything. In an ever stable world.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2017-08-24]: A Polish-British team of physicists has constructed and tested a compact, efficient converter capable of modifying the quantum properties of individual photons, while retaining superposition. [1] A particle being everything and everywhere at the same time. A not changing entity. Only because it has changed into everything already. The cosmos in miniature. See this tiny speck of dust. It is here. And there. Humans. Rivers. Water on a beach. Stars. Everything together. Everywhere. Inside the silence of creation. Screaming...

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Philosophy Wire: Born. Flowing. Feeling cold. [Birth: From plasticity to stillness]

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2017-04-30]: Baby humans’ brain cells take a while to get situated after birth, it turns out. A large group of young nerve cells moves into the frontal lobe during infants’ first few months of life, scientists report in the Oct. 7 Science issue. The mass migration might help explain how human babies’ brains remain so malleable for a window of time after birth. [1] Initially we are born as no one. And then we become someone. Initially we are born as part of the cosmos. Like a fluid ready to flow everywhere, to fill in every space, we rush into life. But then we end up in a specific hole. And we remain there. Cold. Unseen. Afraid. We must be water again. And start flowing. The creek is very near. I hear it… Can you?

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Philosophy Wire: Science as a tool to control the cosmos and why we keep missing the point…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2017-03-17]: Engineers have happened upon a way to stop the movement of the colorful eddies on the surface of soap bubbles. The results are works of art that could lead to stable engineered foams for medical treatments, personal products and food. [1] We need science to control things. We need science to stop the world from moving. And yet we forget that only when you change, do you stay the same. Only when you move you can stand still. Only when you live and die, do you really exist…

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