Philosophy Wire: Fasting… Sleeping… Surprising!

Research uncovers previously unknown effects of fasting, including notably increased metabolic activity and possible anti-aging effects. [1] People despise religion today. Because we are born with logic. People like science today. Because we are designed to see patterns. And yet, a world full of patterns begs to be surprised. A cosmos giving birth to logic, can only be unreasonable. Stop thinking. And your needs to think will surge. Stop trying to understand everything. And your capacity to do so will rise. Break the structure of everything. And you will see that the lack of structure is their structure. In a cosmos full of phenomena, the essence can be nothing more than the unseen. Listen to those preaching belief. And you will see the only proof of reason. Stop caring for your body. And your aging will seize. Want to live. And you will die young. Stop eating. (Leave the apple) And your needs to eat will increase… (Leave that apple!) 

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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: Lack of dreams… People dead…

The lack of dreams could be messing with your mind. Modern life is squeezing dreams out of our sleep and it could be having serious effects on our brain power and mental well-being. [1] It is the fake which determines what is true. The wrong which defines what is right. The illogical which governs the realm of logic. Look at your dreams to understand your reality. Stop dreaming, and reality will collapse in a world of “truth”. Eternal and yet void…

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Philosophy Wire: Communications. One. Parmenides. Ghosts.

Communication is a two-way street. Thanks to quantum mechanics, that adage applies even if you’ve got only one particle to transmit messages with. Using a single photon, two people can simultaneously send information to one another, scientists report in a pair of papers. The feat relies on superposition, a phenomenon of quantum mechanics through which particles can effectively occupy two places simultaneously. [1] Everything is part of One. We may experience it in diverse ways. We may see 0, 1 or infinite. We may count numbers or even see numbers which are not there (π). And yet, only One exists. Soon we will realize that communication, like mathematics, is just a set of tautologies cancelling each other to the point of nothingness. There is nothing to discover. There is nothing to know. There is nothing to experience. At the end, there is nothing to communicate. Start speaking. And you will create ghosts that will haunt you forever…

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Philosophy Wire: Day-dreaming. Easy tasks. Difficult existence.

A study suggested that daydreaming during meetings isn't necessarily a bad thing. It might be a sign that you're really smart and creative. People with efficient brains may have too much brain capacity to stop their minds from wandering. Schumacher – an associate psychology professor who co-authored the study – said higher efficiency means more capacity to think, and the brain may mind wander when performing easy tasks. [1] But what is easy? At the end and with enough practice, everything is. The hard part is not to let your mind wander when it is bored. The hard part is to make your brain not work without making your mind work. To convince yourself not to be himself without referring to him in the first person. To clap with one hand while in a silent forest. To go crazy in an illogical world. To be via not-being. To dream while still being awake…

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Philosophy Wire: What can be proved? Not the things which matter anyway…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2017-02-21]: One should be a good and ethical person. Difficult to prove why. And that is why being good is so important. The most important things in life cannot be proved by nature. The truth does not need proof. But we need the truth more than ever. A truth which cannot fit in the small little boxes we have built with logic in our small little heads. Search for untenable. The unproven. The crazy. There you will find certainty. Safety. Logic...

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Philosophy Wire: Entangled particles in the past…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2016-03-15]: Scientists claim that they can perform intractable computations by sending entangled particles into the past. [1] But if you think about it everything is impossible. And yet everything is possible as well. Why should something happen after all? On the other hand, why shouldn’t it happen? An irrational world. A world which for no reason makes sense. In a paranoid dark way…

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Philosophy Wire: Stress. Doing nothing. Life via death…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2015-10-01]: Stress can affect our decisions and make us more prone to succumb to the temptation of an unhealthy food – a chocolate for example. [1] Forget that you can also affect things. Accept that you are only affected by things. Die. Let go. And in the whirlpool of death, you will meet life. Where everything is under control. With your affected-by-everything mind and brain. Without your mind and brain that influences everything in return. Write random things. Everything is irrational. Don’t think too much. Or try to control stress. You will do it. Only to be affected by something else (your stubbornness to not be stressed?). Be calm. With no will. You need a powerful will to achieve that…

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Philosophy Wire: Sweat… Dirt… Life…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2015-05-23]: Humans may be able to communicate positive emotions like happiness through the smell of our sweat, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science [1]. We have learnt that we need to be clean. (health) We have learnt that as observers we must not affect what we observe. (science) We have learnt that we should not affect our environment. (ecology) We have learnt to be rational and not let our thought be affected by external factors. (rationalism) We have learnt not to live. But to live means to get dirty. To affect things. To get affected. To be irrational. To sweat…

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Philosophy Wire: A warning. Bad science. Bland people.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2015-01-02]: ''Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite.", warned Eisenhower some decades ago... [1, 2] Now the warning is forgotten. Now science is our new religion. What is "scientific" is now sacred. Since it is... scientific! Stupid majorities ready to accept the unacceptable. Just because someone said so. Jesus accepted His enemies. Science claims it does not even have worthy enemies. Stop thinking scientifically. And you will understand the Cosmos.

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Philosophy Wire: Being everywhere. Crazy. Thus true.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-10-23]:

An electron, in Newtonian mechanics, can be stuck on one side of an impenetrable barrier. In quantum mechanics (QM), however, its wave function can be partly on one side of a barrier and partly on the other side at the same time, which allows for the possibility of "quantum tunneling" [1], i.e. passing through the barrier instantly (which means that the "part" of the wave function beyond the barrier will "materialize") - a common effect in semiconductors.

Interestingly, this theory does not only apply to subatomic particles, but also to macroscopic objects like me, you, and Donald Trump’s hair. Since our bodies are composed of particles, each of which are just wave functions, your body is simply the superposition of these zillions of wave functions, thereby creating its own “macroscopic” wave function. Theoretically, for this reason, you have a finite probability of passing through a wooden door, much like the electron tunneling effect. But, don’t try it. Because, when you sum up all of your constituent particles’ wave functions, there is a mathematical tendency for the probabilities of large-scale anomalous quantum effects to be extremely small. It is analogous to flipping pennies. The odds that a single penny comes up heads (electron passes through the barrier) is 50-50, but the odds that 1000 pennies all come up heads (you pass through the door) is 2^^1000 (equivalent to a 1 followed by 301 zeros, an impossible to imagine large number) to 1. And you have a helluva lot more than 1000 subatomic particles in your body. [2]

It reminds me of an old mystery series where one was stuck in a wall...

We are here.
We are there.
We are everywhere.

Once upon a time some "crazy" and "illiterate" people knew that.

But now we are "logical" and "educated" and we "know" this can't be true...

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Philosophy Wire: Robots writing. Insane. Illogical.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-08-19]: Associated Press will use robots to write articles. [1] In an era of dehumanization, this is the only logical next step. Search for the irrational. Look out for the illogical. It is the only human characteristic left to us. We do not think algorithmically [Penrose]. Start writing. Start reading. Only what does not make sense... "Love your enemy". What?! Look out for the insane. And you will be sure humans wrote it...

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Philosophy Wire: Genetic code, language, illogical...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-07-01]: It has long been assumed that there is only one 'canonical' genetic code, so each word means the same thing to every organism. Now, this paradigm has been challenged by the discovery of large numbers of exceptions from the canonical genetic code. Researchers found that the stop codon interpretation varies widely. [1] The meaning of words is defined by us. And then we try to derive the meaning based on... words! What?!? Humpty Dumpty in "Through the Looking Glass" states, "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less".  But in what words is he thinking of the meaning he wants to give? Puzzling... Or totally liberating someone "illogical" might say...

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Philosophy Wire: Measles as a cure. Illogical as the solution.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-06-28]: Measles could be a cure for cancer. [1, 2] What you see white is black. What you see as black is white. You are healthy. Is that... good? Think irrationally.

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Philosophy Wire: The best punishment is no punishment?!

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-06-19]:

A man can do a lot of things in 13 years.

Cornealious "Mike" Anderson was able to open several construction businesses, start a family, coach his son's football team and volunteer at his church. What he wasn't doing most of that time was serving jail time. Convicted of taking part in a robbery at a Burger King in St. Charles, Missouri, in 1999, Anderson was given a 13-year sentence. When his appeals ran out in 2002, he was supposed to report to prison, but the call never came.

Corrections officials didn't discover the clerical error until July, when his original sentence would have ended, and they sent U.S. marshals to arrest him. On Monday, Anderson walked out of the Mississippi County Courthouse a free man, given credit for the 4,794 days between his conviction and when he was arrested last year.

"I walked by faith this whole time, my family and I," Anderson told CNN's "New Day" on Tuesday.
Judge Terry Brown said he didn't see any point in keeping Anderson, 36, in prison. "I believe continuing to incarcerate you serves no purpose, would be a waste of taxpayer dollars and punish a good man," Brown said at a 10-minute court session. [1]

The best punishment, is no punishment...
Under the condition that you really want to change.
If you don't, then again... the best punishment is no punishment.
After all, you will not be "corrected" in any way... ;)

In the old days there were no prisons.
In the old days there was only exhile. (ok, and death in some cases, but let's not be that crude)
Look into the past to find the answers you fool modern man!
Who want's to go to... Mars? :)

Could that be the "not punishment" we seek?
Could a gift be the best way to punish?
Listen to Jesus.
How illogical does he sound...

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Philosophy Wire: Hahahahah!!! Hmmmm....

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-06-16]: Laughter works like meditation in the brain. [1] Stop being serious. The world in hillariously illogical. Laugh. And you will see the truth...

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Philosophy Wire: Bacteria, health, sickness. Definitions. Living.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-05-28]: A new look at the Human Microbiome Project shows wide variation in the types of bacteria found in healthy people. Based on their findings, there is no single healthy microbiome. Rather each person harbors a unique and varied collection of bacteria that’s the result of life history as well their interactions with the environment, diet and medication use. [1] We define what is life. We define what disease is. We define what is healthy. Why not call everything life? Why not call everything healthy? We are all sick. And we are all alive! Start thinking crazy. And you will find the answers.

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Philosophy Wire: Gravity. Handkerchiefs. One.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-05-25]: Gravitational waves. Bending spacetime. [1] Everything can be everywhere. Anytime can be anytime. Only if we twist things a little. And yes, they can be twisted... The whole world on a handkerchief. Illogical. Thus, so true...

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Philosophy Wire: Beginning, One, Logic, Light. Thoughts.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-05-17]:

Scientists try to recreate the primordial soup of elementary particles which consisted the universe in its initial steps. [1]
We try to recompose the whole from its parts.
We believe things change.
We think time as moving forward.
We believe that SOMETHING existed in the Beginning.
Scientific thought?
Intuition?
Faith?
Or simply... logical?
Simple thoughts.
Shinning through layers of modern dogmatism...
There is no time.
Things do not change.
The whole cannot be divided into parts.
Scientific thought?
Intuition?
Faith?
Or simply... logical?
Simple thoughts.
Shinning through layers of modern dogmatism...

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Philosophy Wire: Alternative medicine. Not for laughs…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-05-16]: Humor and laughter as a medicine. [1] Open up your self. Feel the universe. Laugh at its absurdness. You are here. For ever. Laughing...

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