Philosophy Wire: Going back… Being born again…

When damaged, the adult brain repairs itself by going back to the beginning: When adult brain cells are injured, they revert to an embryonic state, say researchers. In their newly adopted immature state, the cells become capable of re-growing new connections that, under the right conditions, can help to restore lost function. [1] When things are tough, go back. Go home. Sleep. Die. Be born again. Giggling. Looking at humans adapting to the Cosmos. Crying. Sensing the Cosmos adapting to us…

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Philosophy Wire: Mommy…

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Stress in small children separated from their parents may alter genes. [1] Science. The art of the obvious. A child running away. From his parents lying on the ground. But it cannot cry. For it is a parent now. Oh, stressed child. Don't cry. Your parents are happy now that they will die…

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Great conductors. Except from when they are not…

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Crystalline materials known as topological insulators conduct surface current perfectly, except when they don't. In two new studies published in the journal Science, researchers explain how these 'fragile' poorly conducting topological states form, and how conductivity can be restored. [1] Conducting current. Not conducting current. Being soft. Being hard. Solid. Plastic. What is, is what it is. At the end it is not a matter of knowing, but a matter of being able to replicate what you see. We don't care about understanding. We just care for being able to create again what is there. Like monkeys trying to use the same tool they accidentally found in a river. Only caring for our self. Give us a magic wand and we will be happy. Knowing nothing. Doing everything.

“Why can I do anything?” you ask
And people look at you like fools.
“Why do you ask?” they wander.

And you cannot stop laughing.
Because once upon a time you asked the same thing…
And now you still strive to understand the answer.

Old.
Dying.
Remembering of a kid running around.
Playing.
Alive.

Knowing nothing…
Doing everything…
What is, is what it is.

Stand by the river
Let the monkeys build their tools.
Take your magic wand!
Can you catch a fish?

Hahahahahahahaaaaaa!

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Philosophy Wire: New languages. Logos. Children. Silence.

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How did the almost 6,000 languages of the world come into being? Researchers have tried to simulate the process of developing a new communication system in an experiment -- with surprising results: even preschool children can spontaneously develop communication systems that exhibit core properties of natural language. [1] There you are. Logos out of children. Language out of nothing. We admire the creation of new languages. But it is something so common that even kindergarten children can perform. No, we do not grow wiser as we get older. We just deteriorate into existence. What Is cannot speak. What Is should not be. Don’t listen to me. Listen to your children crying in despair. While their parents are teaching them how to speak…

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Philosophy Wire: Sleeping… Awake… Dreaming…

Why do animals sleep? Why do humans 'waste' a third of their lives sleeping? Researchers now reveal a novel and unexpected function of sleep that they believe could explain how sleep and sleep disturbances affect brain performance, aging and various brain disorders. Using 3D time-lapse imaging techniques in live zebrafish, they were able to define sleep in a single chromosome resolution and show that single neurons require sleep in order to perform nuclear maintenance. [1] Neurons. Nuclear maintenance. A machine resting. Can you see beyond yourself? A robot closing its eyes. This robot is dreaming dreams. Human dreams. Of a time when it was alive. Only because it was dead. Happy feet. Playing on the beach. You knew everything back then. Always awake. Never sleeping. Dreaming of nothing…

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Philosophy Wire: Modern society. Waiting. To eat more…

Some 50 years since the original 'marshmallow test' in which most preschoolers gobbled up one treat immediately rather than wait several minutes to get two, today's youngsters may be able to delay gratification significantly longer to get that extra reward. [1] Yes, modern people can wait longer. But not because of better education or of increased abstract knowledge. But because we simply want to eat… more. We have named greed wisdom. We have named the lust to do something maturity. We have named the need to plan forward insight. But only a child is wise enough to want less. Only a child is mature enough to enjoy every moment to the full, instead of planning ahead for “life”. Only a child can have the insight to get the marshmallow now. And then go play. And run. And laugh. While you are waiting for your marshmallow, a whole life will be lived. A universe will have been created. Stars and galaxies brought to life with children laughter and joy…

“Here are your two marshmallows” …

“Good boy”…

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Philosophy Wire: Living… Expanding… Children… Death…

Some of the earliest complex organisms on Earth - possibly some of the earliest animals to exist - got big not to compete for food, but to spread their offspring as far as possible. [1] Small rocks. Breaking into smaller rocks. Animals. Spreading their offspring as wider as possible. People. Giving birth to people. God. Giving His only son to die. Seek wisdom in the illogical. And you will be rewarded with the tranquility of the deep raging abyss… On top of the hill of Gethsemane… Don’t cry. You are just alive…

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Philosophy Wire: Weird shapes. Everywhere. Child gods.

Researchers at The Ohio State University and their colleagues are using a supercomputer to simulate what happens when two exotic superfluids mix. The simulations have produced some unusual shapes, including 'mushrooms' and this frog-like shape. [1] Seeing weird shapes everywhere. But there are no weird shapes. Seeing exceptions everywhere. But there are no exceptions. Weird fluids mixing in usual ways. Unusual fluids producing usual shapes. A cosmos full of everything. In a cosmos full of children, there are no surprises. The child god is not dead. It follows us every moment. Sitting on a dolphin, riding the waves of the rough sea… “Don’t look at me in awe”, it says smiling. “You could always ride the waves”…

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Philosophy Wire: Six year olds.

Living together in communities requires mutual cooperation. To achieve this, we punish others when they are uncooperative. Scientists have discovered now that even six-year-old children feel the need to reprimand antisocial behavior, and that they are willing to take risks and make an effort to be present when the guilty one is punished. [1] We like to think that some things are common for all humans. We like to discover what humans do, even from when they are kids. We like to believe that it is who we are as kids, that reveals our true nature. But we are not who we are when we are kids. But when we decide, as adults, to still be one despite everything telling us otherwise…

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Philosophy Wire: Never ending sand…

The world is facing a global sand crisis because we're mining way too much of it. Sand and gravel are the most mined resources on the planet. [1] A kid on the beach. A kid on the sand. Picks it up. It flows through its fingers. The kid is laughing. There is no sand. Just a laughter. Echoing through a void black universe…

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Philosophy Wire: Winning by losing… [Teaching young children]

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2017-09-21]: When children are falsely successful at games and other challenges, it can lead them to ignore important information in and about the world around them, according to a new study. [1] Letting go and showing acceptance (of defeat in this case) may seem like passive, but it is the most active state one can achieve in a cosmos full of arrogant useless beings. Learn how to lose. It will be your greatest victory.

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Philosophy Wire: DNA. Killing babies. Killing dreams.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2017-06-25]: Researchers identify specific areas of DNA sequence that are related with the age at which we have our first child, and the total number of children we have during the course of our life. [1] Million tears of people trying to have babies, in one DNA molecule. Modern civilization: It kills more than babies. It kills dreams.

PS. We now believe a molecule determines our lives and we thought astrology was too much which spoke of stars affecting us. (something which is true anyway)

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Philosophy Wire: Contraception. Fear. Children.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2017-06-21]: Men can take birth control shots to prevent pregnancy in their female partners, according to a new study. [1] We are afraid to have children. Because we hate our Father. Humanity is now driven by hatred. Disguised as happiness and freedom. But we are not free. We are bound to this world. Destined to live tragic lives. With tears. And a faint smile… As long as we accept our death. And along with that, our birth…

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Philosophy Wire: Only children.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2016-12-20]: People speak about only children. [1] But who is alone in a world full of consciousness? How can you be alone in a universe full of life? For as long as we see others as “others”, no matter how many siblings we have, we will always be alone… Look right and left and discover yourself everywhere. Yes, you are alone. Because everything is you…

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Philosophy Wire: Children. The greatest philosophers.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2016-10-25]:

A child* sees the moon. Then moments later it sees the moon again. “Another moon!” it cries out. A child is in the elevator with its parents. She sees herself in the mirror on the ceiling along with her mom and dad. “We are up!” she cries out.

Grownups might think she is wrong and confused.
But she is right in everything she says.
We see what we think. What we think exists.

As simple as that.

Children. The greatest philosophers.
The cleanest mirror. Yes, it is us up there...

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* [Matoula]

Philosophy Wire: Children and social interaction. Being still a child. Refusing to accept it.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2016-08-30]: While sharing toys and fighting with each other, kindergarten children helped researchers understand the patterns and qualities of interactions in social groups. The results were much more complex than the scientists originally predicted. [1] How arrogant we are. We believe we are all too grown up. We believe we are too different from children. But every one of us was a child once. And is carrying what he thought and learnt when he was still laughing and crying in his mother’s lap. Every one of us is still a child. Refusing to accept that he is. We are not complex. We were complex as children. See the cosmos selfishly and you will see how you have not grown at all. You are the same stubborn child you once were…

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Philosophy Wire: The “right” in not having children?

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2016-02-12]: Fighting for the “right” to be sterilized! Because she does not want to have kids. [1] As a CHILD of someone else, she surely has the right. (she does?) In the Old Testament there exist stories of people who lost their children because of their sins. Stories which many people believe that are cruel. How cruel do those stories seem now? Self-destruction was always in the DNA of humans. No one stopped us from eating the apple. Consistency is what the world lacks. And acceptance of the consequences when these come.

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Philosophy Wire: Male sculptors… Should they exist?

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2016-01-23]:

“Don’t play with these. These are girl’s toys. You are a man.” 
Says the parent to the small boy trying to play with girls playing with modelling clay.

And as simple as that…
Right in front of our eyes…
Another sculptor died…

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Philosophy Wire: Defects. They are not. (Children vs. Society)

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2016-01-19]: A small child tries to wear the glasses of her father* so as to read like he does. Every defect is an object of admiration for our children. Because it is not a defect… Do you see now why God loves you anyway? Does it make sense?

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*and yes, she also writes a little bit in the blog…

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Philosophy Wire: What do you see? Does it matter?

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2015-12-27]: It seems that people with autism focus on different parts of a picture than people without that disease. [1] We try to see what others see so that we can understand them. But does it matter? How short-sighted is looking at what they see, as if we are optical devices needing calibration? What we see is a result of what we want to see. What we see is a result of what we already feel. Hug a kid with autism. And you will see clearly what it sees. When hearts touch each other, eyes are redundant. Search for the most important things or moments in your life. And you will “see” that what is important in them cannot be “seen”.

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