The Scientific & Medical NetworkCategory: News
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Mind, Consciousness and Time: an Integrated Overview
I suggest here that ‘mind’ can usefully be viewed as a process of integrating environmental dynamics with brain dynamics. It is probably expressed in brains in fractal patterns of ionic fluxes, especially calcium ion fluxes. Consciousness may be founded in a neutral monism at the basis of reality. As manifest in us however, it could…
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Event – The Beshara Lecture 2019: Ecosystems as Love Processes
Two doctrines rule our times: Neo-Darwinism and Neoliberalism, which are deeply connected and together form one overwhelming ideology of inevitable competition and deadly strife. Biological life, however, is never about one winning, but rather an endless celebration of reciprocity.
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Diversity and Inclusion: A Living Systems Approach – Katherine Long
Our understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion owes a huge debt to the countless individuals and communities all around the world who have struggled and campaigned and highlighted the profound injustices and disparities within our systems past and present. Yet the challenge remains to consider what else might be transformed through the creation of new…
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Toward a Postmaterialist Psychology: Theory, Research, and Applications
In this article, we review two categories of empirical evidence that support a shift toward a postmaterialist psychology. We argue that the transmission hypothesis of the mind-brain relationship can account for all the evidence presented in this article. We also discuss the emerging postmaterialist paradigm and its potential implications for the evolution of psychology.
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Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time?
When a star scientist dies, outsiders often tackle mainstream questions in the field by leveraging new ideas that arise in other domains. Knowledge accumulation — the process by which new research builds upon prior research — is central to scientific progress, but the way this process works is not well understood. In Does Science…
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Evolution and the Self-Realising Universe – Tim Freke
Tim Freke shares his new understanding of reality at the 2019 Science and Spirituality Summit.
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New Concepts of Matter, Life and Mind
In light of the current, revolutionary advances in the natural sciences and in the study of consciousness, the concepts of matter, life, and mind have under-gone major changes. This paper outlines some basic aspects of these changes, taking in turn the emerging concept of matter, of life, and of human mind and consciousness. The concept…
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Was Buddha Just a Nice Guy? – Dean Radin
Did Buddha’s teachings survive and thrive because he was more attractive or charismatic than most, or because he was a great teacher and a tireless advocate of the poor? Asking such questions about revered religious icons is asking for trouble, so we may consider a more contemporary figure – the Dalai Lama. Does the Dalai…
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Science is Ready for Consciousness: Federico Faggin
In this fascinating interview Federico Faggin, designer of the first commercial microprocessor and pioneer in the movement to base mathematical theory on consciousness, urges science to embrace consciousness to explain the weirdness of quantum physics, and use it as the instrument of scientific investigation. “There need no longer be a duality between mind and matter,”…
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A (very) Brief History of Certainty
The future is uncertain; this is true for the nature we describe and this is true on the level of our own existence. But this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity. Time becomes ‘construction’ and creativity a way to participate in this construction.
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Time, Chaos and the Laws of Physics: A 1995 Dialogue
One of the overall conclusions of a rich day was that we are not at the end of physics, but rather at the end of predictability and certainty, which means including novelty and creativity. And a science in which creativity and participation in the construction of the world are intrinsic is a science, which overcomes…