Think SIMPLY!

Why was the cosmos created? Without reason. Isn't that illogical?

What/ who created the cosmos? Nothing. Isn't that unscientific?
Can the material explain the immaterial? But matter is just a product of the mind!
Can the body die and the mind live? But there is no body!

You are thinking too much. And this is not always a good thing.
The illogical could have a simple illogical solution.
Search inside you in order to find it.

The cosmos exists. Why shouldn't it?
The cosmos exists as you experience it. Why not?
The cosmos was created by someone/ something. Could it be any other way?

We can understand the cosmos.
How can we if we are not similar to the one who created it?
Why was the cosmos created? Because God wanted us to participate in His joy…
Isn't that logical? Isn't that why you have children? Because you love them before you even have them?

You believe in logic. But was it logic which helped you choose your wife?
No matter how bad the world is, you will live for ever if you are a good person.
It sounds illogical. And simple. Why don't you believe it?
Could love and spirit ever die?

These are not objects (αντι-κείμενα) around you.
They are things (πράγματα < πραγματώνω).
These are not other people around you.
It is you.
There is only one God.
And we are all made in His image.
You cannot die because He is everywhere.
Accept the present.
Accept your body.
Who tells you it ends up at your skin?
Christ was resurrected with it.
Matter is not inferior or superior.
Everything is blessed.
I am still in Kythera. [Harmonia Philosophica]
Tips of the waves, based on a common sea. [Schrödinger]
Religion is based on empiricism.
You live your experience with God.

Stop thinking.
Stop analyzing things. [Science: One -> Many]

Just love.
Συγ-χώρα. [Religion: Many -> One]
Empty your mind.
Leave space to be filled with the cosmos.

Sit by the beach for a coffee.
Spend time with your loved ones.
Those moments, are Paradise.
Eternal life is here.
Here and now.
And they will be "here" and "now" for ever.
Take a time machine and you will be "there" to see it!

Be.

Eternal life is HERE and NOW as Christ said.

For ever...

[written on 09/2014]

Philosophy Wire: All the same! Everything different.

'You all look alike to me' is hard-wired in us when we see people from other races, research finds. We are hard-wired to process - or not process - facial differences based on race. And that process occurs in the earliest stages of our thought process, according to newly published research. [1] Our mind is programmed to see similarities. We are destined to see patterns. Categorizing everything into entities that exist only in our mind. Poor man. How many similarities do you need to discover? Before you understand that everything is unique? How many differences must you witness? Before you realize that everything is the same?

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Philosophy Wire: Communicating in a foreign language. Emotion. Decision making. Hating… you.

Communicating in a foreign language takes emotion out of decision-making. [1] Speaking in a language you are not so familiar with, makes you think more on how to formulate the sentences you want to say. And that extra-thinking seems to take away the truly human edge of the decision-making process: emotion. The more we think, the more we become machines. It is something evident to children. You do not need too much thinking to love or hate. And yet, we still believe that thinking more is the solution to everything. We hate ourselves. And we have not even sat down to think why…

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Philosophy Wire: Human brain. Multiple dimensions. Earth and stars.

Using algebraic topology in a way that it has never been used before in neuroscience, a team from the Blue Brain Project has uncovered a universe of multi-dimensional geometrical structures and spaces within the networks of the brain.

The research, published in Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, shows that these structures arise when a group of neurons forms a clique: cliques of progressively higher dimensions assembled momentarily to enclose high-dimensional holes, that the researchers refer to as cavities. "It is as if the brain reacts to a stimulus by building then razing a tower of multi-dimensional blocks, starting with rods (1D), then planks (2D), then cubes (3D), and then more complex geometries with 4D, 5D, etc. The progression of activity through the brain resembles a multi-dimensional sandcastle that materializes out of the sand and then disintegrates", [after our thought is completed] [1]

Thinking in multiple dimensions.
In ways invisible in the naked eye.
There is magic in the world.
Look at the beach.
A kid is building castles on the sand…

As soon as it is finished, the castle will disappear.

And yet, this is what will give meaning to his life...

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Philosophy Wire: I see. As we say “I analyze”…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2016-01-04]:

Scientists examine the data of an X-ray burst from a black hole…

After careful scrutiny of the data, the astronomers realized they were seeing the ejection, and eventual collapse, of the black hole's corona.

"The corona gathered inward at first and then launched upwards like a jet," said Wilkins. "We still don't know how jets in black holes form, but it's an exciting possibility that this black hole's corona was beginning to form the base of a jet before it collapsed."

How could the researchers tell the corona moved? The corona gives off X-ray light that has a slightly different spectrum -- X-ray "colors" -- than the light coming from the disk around the black hole. By analyzing a spectrum of X-ray light from Mrk 335 across a range of wavelengths observed by both Swift and NuSTAR, the researchers could tell that the corona X-ray light had brightened -- and that this brightening was due to the motion of the corona. Coronas can move very fast. The corona associated with Mrk 335, according to the scientists, was traveling at about 20 percent the speed of light. When this happens, and the corona launches in our direction, its light is brightened in an effect called relativistic Doppler boosting.

Putting this all together, the results show that the X-ray flare from this black hole was caused by the ejected corona. [1]

“I see” 

We think it is so simple. So clear. And yet it is not.

“I see” 

As if saying “I analyze, I think, I document the possibilities, I decide, I deduce conclusions”…

There is no empirical data. Only thought. 

Do you see now?

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Philosophy Wire: The dominance of men over women. And it’s disastrous results in philosophy…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2015-07-03]:

The first woman as an Oxford director. The first woman as dean of Sorbonne. The first woman as a director of IMF. We are in 2015 and we still listen of the “first women” who do things which are in no way weird for a woman to do.

Men dominate life today. But how bad is for philosophy the fact that men are the dominant sex? Too bad if you ask me.

Once upon a time there were woman priest. Women who could feel the cosmos. Now men just try to explain it.

Once upon a time there were wise women. Women who followed their intuition. Now men are trying to follow their logic.

Once upon a time humans worshiped women. Men wise enough to know they are not wise. Now men are arrogant enough to believe they are gods.

In an irrational world, we chose to rely on our arbitrary logic than on our hyperlogos (transcendental) intuition. We chose to think rather than feel. We chose to become gods rather than accept that we already are. Slowly but steadily we are becoming alienated from our true selves. And only if we give up the power we think we have will we be strong once more.

Try to see carefully.

In your wife.
In your grandmother.
In your mother.
In your girlfriend.

The world has been singing to you. But you were too busy thinking to listen…

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Philosophy Wire: See more. See less.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2015-01-11]: Science textbooks say we can’t see infrared light. But an international team of researchers has found that under certain conditions, the retina can sense infrared light after all. [1] We so much want to see more. That we have forgotten that the most important things are seen with your eyes closed...

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Philosophy Wire: The inner voice...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-12-09]: Scientists develop a method to record the voice inside your head [1] But who talks to our self? Who calls me? Are there other people? Or just me? Are we many in One? Or just One? You just listen to others. But you feel your self. The most irrational answer sounds frighteningly familiar. Listen to your self. Only he exists. You are alone. And yet the whole universe talks to you...

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Philosophy Wire: Violins, senses, prejudice...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-05-18]: Not even the very best violin soloists could understand a 300-year-old Italian Stradivarius in the context of a blind test. [1] Out senses are dictated by our thoughts. Not the other way around...

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Philosophy Wire: Universe, Structures, Nous.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-02-28]: A gas and dark matter structure stretches along the whole universe, dictating where galaxies will appear. [1] The universe, the galaxies, our lives are dictated by invisible structures. Call it "society", call it "gas pockets", call it anything you want. Think though. If you do, if you really call them anything you want, could it be that these structures are just in our mind? Are WE the makers of our own universe? In a few years science will have changed and we will not "see" the same structures but other ones. And after some years other ones. Maybe there is just nothing out there. Maybe we are in a dream, fabricating on our own the web which entraps us... Stop thinking. And the web will disappear...

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Philosophy Wire: Emotions. Thoughts. Language.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-02-10]: Emotions mapped in the body. [1] Senses directed by thought. Thought directed by language. Wittgenstein. Oh, wise Wittgenstein!

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Philosophy Wire: Kant, gorillas, categorizations...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-09-25]: New evidence shows that orangutans and gorillas can match images based on biological categories. [1] Kant would be delighted for this dicsovery…

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Philosophy Wire: Fish, thought, mistake celebrations…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-02-01]: Japanese researchers announce that they managed to read the thoughts of a fish. [source: web news] But visualizing the activity of neurons is NOT reading thoughts! Neurons activity is "neurons acticity". "Movement of particles" is "movement of particles". A "thought" is a "thought". Different words. Different things. As simple as that.

 

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Philosophy Wire: Dogs, civilization, leftovers, pariahs...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-01-24]: The dog has evolved from wolves through the waste bin of humans. Eating from the leftovers of humans has shaped the dog into what it is today. [source: BBC News] Human civilization is very much alike. It feeds from the leftovers of misunderstood (at their time) geniuses. We live in our oblivion, wandering around, without thinking too much of what we throw to the waste bin of our thoughts. If we are lucky, we barely catch the glimpse of some precious gems in the waste bin of outcasts who eat from our leftovers... Because the most precious thoughts are the ones which you pass by easily, the simple, the seemingly "useless"...

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Philosophy Wire: Emoto, rice and how Thinking formulates Reality

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-04-24]:

Masaru Emoto conducted an experiment with rice: Boil rice and put some rice in two jars. Put a label "I hate you" on one jar and a label "I love you" on the other. Then every day and for 30 seconds, open each jar and start talking to the rice inside - repeat "I love you" and "I hate you" in the respective jars. After some time you will see that the rice to which you shouted "I hate you" will be moldy and rotten, while the other rice which you "loved" would be almost unchanged.

Think positive...

It may shape reality in a much more "real" way than you expect...

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Philosophy Wire: Ship, philosophy, shipwreck…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-01-14]: A cruise ship ran aground off Italy, resulting in 3 people dead and about 4,000 others being evacuated [source: BBC News]. Both in philosophy and in navigating a ship, the same applies: the danger of making a mistake lies in the “simple” and “ordinary”…

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Philosophy Wire: Catastrophes, Mayas, stupidity…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-12-04]: Scientists claim that the story of Maya predicting the end of the world in 2012 is false [source: web news]. It all comes down to a misunderstanding after all: people of the western civilization and based on the “Messianic” culture, have the tendency to see everywhere “disasters” and constantly seek the “end of the world”…

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Philosophy Wire: Giotto, the Demon, seeking and finding…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-11-08]: A devil's face hidden for centuries has been revealed in a fresco by the Italian renaissance master Giotto [source: BBC News]. A face that no one saw for many years is now visible… It was there forever. But only now did someone seek the demon and found him. Only now can we “see” him…

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Philosophy Wire: Google StreetView, reality and imagination

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-10-29]: Google StreetView is entering the stores [source: BBC News]. It will not take long for the same service to enter houses and – why not? – our own brain. Life exceeds the most vivid imagination. And it does so in such a frequency that makes one wander: is fantasy something that exaggerates reality is it merely a more mild version of reality? Maybe this is a way to know what will happen: what do you think is “crazy” or “improbable” today?

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Philosophy Wire: Turing award, computer AI and the arrogance of "non-dogmatic" scientists

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-03-11]: This year's Turing Award was given to a professor at Harvard, "whose work laid the foundations for machines that learn and imitate human thought" [source: web news]. Very interesting news to think about. But... wait a minute! Have we discovered how the human mind works, so that we can know when a machine imitates it ?!?!? How much arrogance can we afford by "scientists" whose main characteristic is supposedly to "not be dogmatic" ? Philosophy has for centuries failed to find a solution to the question, while an increasing number of scientists (with Penrose leading the way) believe that human thought is non-algorithmic but based on quantum phenomena of superposition, based also on the theorem of  non-completeness by Godel (see Philosophy of Science and Religion). Less arrogance, more objectivity, is always better... It is not certain that computers have started thinking like people, but certainly some people make every effort to think like computers...

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