Philosophy Wire: Mini brains. Understanding. Whole. Parts…

Revealing details of the internal structure of 'mini-brains' could help accelerate drug studies and may offer alternatives to some animal testing. [1] Humans. Always looking into the parts to understand the whole. But there would be no parts or mini-brains, without the brain itself. There can be no humans without the cosmos. There can be no God without us. God. Always looking into the whole to understand the parts. But there can be no whole without the parts. Poor Adam. You never truly understood. You didn't disobey anyone while eating that apple. But yourself...

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Philosophy Wire: Irrelevant information… Hubris!

According to new research from behavioral economists, irrelevant information or unavailable options often cause people to make bad choices. When both elements are present, the probability of a poor decision is even greater. Through an experiment involving 222 individual tests each consisting of more than 40 questions, research revealed that decisions made in an environment of irrelevant information carry time, cognitive, and consequence costs. [1] Humans trying to decipher the cosmos. Trying to decide what to do. Trying to analyze things and think of the next step. But they fail to see that there is nowhere to go. Where you are is where you will always be. Discard of all those useless choices. Stand tall. Crying out for the cosmos to Be: Our greatest hubris was not a choice we made! But our belief that we even had one!

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Philosophy Wire: God…

Excavations on the south coast of South Africa have uncovered evidence of human occupations from the end of the last ice age, approximately 35,000 years ago, through the complex transition to the modern time, known as the Holocene and adaptions that were key to our species ability to survive wide climate and environmental fluctuations. [1] Run to the hills. The sea is coming. Run to the hills. The wind is blowing. A fierce storm raging. And in the middle of the sea, a man alone wandering. "I am not afraid!". Whispering, while heading to the bottom of the deep sea. "I am God"...

(Why can’t you believe in me?)

Fossils in the middle of the steep hill.

Who are those looking at me?

Parents crying.

A new storm raging in the midst of the sea…

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Philosophy Wire: Brain. Humans. Gods.

A team of researchers from UTSA's Neurosciences Institute is challenging the historical belief that the organization of the cortical circuit of GABAergic neurons is exclusively local. [1] Locality. The gravest of the principles governing all sciences. We believe we are tiny. But it is not because we believe that distant galaxies cannot affect us. But mainly because we do not believe that we can affect them. Because if we did, we would be responsible for the cosmos. Coward. Look at your hands. Don't you see you can touch the air?

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Philosophy Wire: Bacteria. Humans. Change. Whispers…

A simple theoretical model seeks to explain why bacteria remain roughly the same size and shape. The work by chemists could offer new insight into diseases, including cancer. [1] Bacteria staying stable. In a constantly changing cosmos, it is the worms that make flowers grow. Humans. Trying to change. Humans. Trying to stay the same. Bacteria. On top of humans. Wise. Eternal. Unchanged. Whispering to the wind. "No, we cannot sense humans beneath us..." (…)

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Philosophy Wire: Proud. Down to ashes…

A new study finds that rude emails at work can lead to significant distress for employees. Researchers say that 'active' email rudeness is overloaded with strong negative emotions. By comparison, 'passive' email rudeness leaves people struggling with uncertainty. Passive email rudeness may create problems for employees' sleep, which further puts them in a negative emotional state the next morning, thus creating a vicious cycle. [11] Proud humans. Reduced into nothingness by others. Gods. Turned into ash by dripping water. Stop reading your emails. You are more than just an employee. Breath. Close your eyes. Breath. (Your emails are being updated)

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Philosophy Wire: Until death…

Researchers show that the wives of men with major cardiovascular disease risk factors, namely hypertension, diabetes, and dyslipidemia, are more prone to suffer from the same disorders. [1] We are affected by out close ones. We live and we die together. Not only with our parents, wives, children. But with our Sun. With the Moon and the sky. Along with the fish and the bears and the crickets. Along with the jasmine and the apple. Together with the trees and rivers. Things eternal. Things ephemeral. And in all these years, we never thought of the obvious: Who can perceive both if not their creator? Don’t cry. You can make the Sun rise tomorrow. Unless you die…

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Philosophy Wire: Worms. Humans. God(s).

Wrinkles on the skin of a microscopic worm might provide the key to a longer, healthier life for humans. Working with Caenorhabditis elegans, a transparent nematode found in soil, researchers found that the nervous system controls the tiny worm's cuticle, a skin-like exterior barrier, in response to bacterial infections. [1] Looking for the source of immortality in worms. But we are not gods because we can live longer. But exactly because we die. When Jesus died as a man, many worms just kept on roaming the Earth for many years to come. When Jesus rose as a God, many worms just kept on roaming the Earth for many years to come…

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Philosophy Wire: Aspirations…

A new study shows that the elementary school a child attends has almost no influence on their desire to progress to higher education -- as factors including parental aspirations, academic support from their mother and having a desk to work on are much more important. [1] Why do we want to reach the stars? If we haven’t ever left the ground? How could we wish to swim? If we haven’t already reached the deepest depths of the abyss? How could we even dream of God? Without being Him? Look at anything you do. And you will never see yourself in the mirror again…

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Philosophy Wire: Paying off…

According to a research, investing in love and affection pays off for species that mate for life. [1]

But what is important for love is that you love someone without it paying off.
Otherwise it is nothing more than a transaction.
Poor man. You want so much to be God.
You try so hard to be like Him. To love and show compassion.
But you will never understand that you will be God…
Only once you stop thinking that you need to be God…

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Philosophy Wire: Create life. By letting it die…

The algorithms that underlie much of the modern world have grown so complex that we can’t always predict what they’ll do. Iyad Rahwan’s radical idea: The best way to understand them is to observe their behavior in the wild. [1] We create robots. We are proud to bring life into inanimate matter. Believing consciousness is about thinking. Believing thinking is about thinking. And believing pure matter as we define it can have anything to do with the above. Iyad is wrong that we have yet succeeded in doing so. But he is right in another thing. When we do create life, we should let it go. For it is only the possibility of death that gives life any meaning. From Zeus to Cronus, from God to humans, one can never truly create anything. Until he lets it alone to die…

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Philosophy Wire: Dark matter. Big Bang. Existence.

Dark matter, which researchers believe make up about 80% of the universe's mass, is one of the most elusive mysteries in modern physics. What exactly it is and how it came to be is a mystery, but a new study now suggests that dark matter may have existed before the Big Bang. [1] What a fascinating cosmos. Full of existence. Existence spreading a veil of importance on the unimportant. An existence covering the important with a cloak of triviality. No it doesn't matter how old is the universe. Nor how old dark matter is. It doesn't even matter if matter exists at all! Even in a newborn universe, you would be the most important being. A mirror breathing life in everything. Only if we see our self. And realize there is nothing to mirror…

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Philosophy Wire: Punishing children… Arrogant adults…

Children as young as three years old are willing to punish others' bad behavior, even at personal cost, finds a new study by psychology researchers at New York University. The work adds to growing evidence that human beings distinguish between right and wrong at a very young age and are willing to pay a personal cost to encourage positive behavior in others. [1]

We feel obliged to impose order.
We feel a duty to be good and nice.

But in a cosmos void of everything, how could this make any sense?

No, you do not have the power to punish.
How could you anyway?
And yet, here you are.
Sensing that power to punish…

Believing in it. Perhaps exactly because it shouldn’t be there in the first place!

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Philosophy Wire: Walk on water… Miracles without miracles…

Researchers not only reveal the physics of how elastic spheres interact with water, but they also lay the foundation for the future design of water-walking drones. [1] We like to defy miracles. We are proud to ridicule the nonsensical. We believe only in hard science and data. And yet, it is the miracles which drive our efforts every day. And our eagerness to achieve them. One day we will manage to achieve them. One day we will be able to do everything. One day we will declare our self ‘God’ in the place of God. And in our enthusiasm, we will not see Him crying out of pride while watching us...

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Philosophy Wire: Jupiter. Journey. Life. Death.

The giant planet Jupiter was formed four times further from the sun than its current orbit, and migrated inwards in the solar system over a period of 700,000 years. Researchers found proof of this incredible journey thanks to a group of asteroids close to Jupiter. [1] We started our journey from our mother’s womb. And the only way through was by killing the king. Kronus… Zeus… All kings came into power only by killing the king before them. But the king we kill is not a human king. In the beginning nothing existed. And if we did nothing, nothing would. But we chose to see things. And we decided to kill the only one who could stop us from doing so. Our self…

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Philosophy Wire: Relics of life…

A relic cloud of gas, orphaned after the Big Bang, has been discovered in the distant universe by astronomers using the world's most powerful optical telescope, the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaii. [1] We seek the past. We seek the future. We seek the present. Trying to live. Trying to die. And yet we always fail. Seeking for constants where there is only shifting sand. Seeking for change in a cosmos which is solid as a rock. A cosmos crying loud that it never was. That it will never be. That it is not. The only relic of existence can be death. The only relic of Being can be silence. And we are talking so loudly, that we cannot listen to it. A small man sitting on the sand. Seeking the universe. For there is nothing to seek but himself… 

Readers tip: The man is the universe himself, or else he would never be able to even talk about it. 

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Philosophy Wire: Science. To the stars. So? Touch me…

Science promises to send us to the stars. [1] We used to be on earth. Touching the cosmos with our hands. Now we want to go away. Where we can touch nothing. Why are you afraid my child? We want to grow up. And we believe this means that we have to abandon our father. How little we know of Him. Still a child He is. Crying every time we laugh…

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Philosophy Wire: Plants. Sun. Darkness.

Plants need sunlight or other light sources to power the chemical reactions of photosynthesis and make food for themselves. But some plants rely on others to make food for them and can survive without sunlight. Parasitic plants take nutrients directly from other plants. For example, the many species of the genus Cuscuta, commonly called dodder or witch’s hair, use structures called haustoria to pierce the stems of other plants. Once contact has been made, the dodder's own roots disappear, and its thin vines, with only vestigial leaves, grow using the host plant's resources. [1] Once upon a time we were trees. Then we decided to eat that apple (Tree of Knowledge). And we became dependent of another tree (Tree of Life). Deciding to cut off our own roots to reality and rely on our senses and logic to see through the veil of existence. Once upon a time we needed light to grow. Now we can survive in the darkness. Once upon a time we were hungry. Now we are just eating apples. Once upon a time we were gods. Now we are just humans…

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Philosophy Wire: Balance. Life. Existence.

Biologists know a lot about how life works, but they are still figuring out why life exists, why it takes various shapes and sizes, and how life is able to adapt to fill every place on Earth. An interdisciplinary team of researchers has discovered that the answers to these questions may lie in the ability of life to find a middle ground, balancing between robustness and adaptability. [1] Balance between stability and instability. Between change and permanency. A cosmos on the brink of destruction. A universe on the edge of eternal life. In the middle: humans. Masters of being on the border of existence. Having the power to make everything go. Or bind everything in a perpetual loop of presence. Open your mouth. Choose your words carefully. You may make the Sun stop…

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Philosophy Wire: Close to the Sun…

Using data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, an international team has discovered a new exoplanet twice the size of Earth. It orbits its star every six days and is thus very close to it, about 10 times closer than Mercury is to the Sun. [1] How close are you to the Sun? Or, how close is the Sun to you? It really doesn’t matter. For rationality kills the Sun. Not the Sun you see. But the Sun you used to have burning inside your heart. Stop staring at the stars with awe. No, you do not shine because the stars are near you. The stars burn because you are close to them…

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