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Staring at the problem, it appears there is no separation but rather a fluid movement between different qualities of attention. Habit, being a type of...

By what? And what is it that makes us feel like we are planning and choosing?

I have, you just want to continue denying it. Heck, I'm not here to convince you to drop your religious faith. Live as you wish. If you want to be a c...

If course this is a matter of definition, but for me art is a manner of self-expression and dancing and Tai Chi would be every bit as artistic as any ...

Determinism has all kinds of flavors as deterministic philosophers and scientists try to figure out how to leave some meaning in their lives (they do ...

Observe yourself during the sleep/dream process. Are you aware of your physical body? If not (I am not) them this is how you might imagine it. Daydrea...

Motivation is the impulse (will) from the mind towards some action. Depending upon the action there may more or less will. For example the mind is mor...

There is a huge difference between what science is capable of stating and what individual or group of scientist actually state, on particularly in the...

Nowadays, with every inch of our world so polluted by money b and the desire by science to get some of that windfall of money (being printed incessant...

Waking up from sleep is less than walking up into birth. With walking from sleep there is memory of this life (physical memory) as well as past (learn...

To clarify, the actual act of going into a sleep state and coming out of a sleep state just happens. They are not willful acts.

The origin creativity is in the mind itself. It is what it is involved with throughout its existence. Spiritual creativity, or art as a self-expressio...

I wish you hadn't written this. Do you suppose Stephen Hawkins will survive longer than the scientists who promote such silliness? Life is far far mor...

I was a consultant. Once you begin mixing art, with audience, with money, it becomes something else. Some mashing of lots of things. I keep my art sim...

Something for every career artist to read. What people like matters when trying to develop a career in any profession.

In practice, they become equivalent. It matters to someone if they like it, and you have to figure out what they like and please them. That's what sal...

I spent my whole career doing this. Basically it is figuring v out what people want and v giving it to them - in my case confirming their views. It is...

If an artist decided that what they want to learn is how to please others, then that is what they will learn. Nothing wrong with that. That's what it ...

One learns.

Expression is the act of revealing the inner creative self. I enjoy my art and it really doesn't matter to me if others do it don't.

Absolutely. I am basically doing that now. I create to express and learn, not to please or get validation. The two approaches are in opposition to eac...

One way to perceive death is a state of renewal. We go to sleep each night without any intention and we wake up without intention. It is cyclical, and...

There is always dissenting opinions. Unfortunately, such opinions are usually suppressed in science and dissenters ostracized until there is overwhelm...

This is my audience, and all I care about is my experience as I continue to create and learn. The search for validation always pollutes the artistic e...

Probably the first word was Mama.

It is an interesting story. As you pointed out, your husband was surprised and so were you. There were changes but outcomes are always unpredictable. ...

No problem sharing if one wishes (I don't feel the urge), but then do you try to please? If you need validation for your art, I am afraid all may be l...

To learn and create something new takes lots of patience. I am still practicing drawing ovals as I learn how to draw. It is only frustrating or empty ...

There are always pressures, no matter what. One can minimize pressures as best they can and get on with their art. Pressures to avoid may be to please...

The fundamental issue that you are inquiring into is whether STR should be elevated to an ontology. The answer is no, though some science fiction writ...

Have you actually experimented with this idea? From what I've observed it doesn't work, but the idea is somewhat in vogue. Changing perspective does a...

If art is the act of creative self-expression, then globalization has no impact, it remains the same. What does change is curation. Whereas in the pas...

Philosophy as an endeavor has always been an aspect of the human psyche to understand, whether it be the nature of the seasons or the nature of nature...

Introvert/extrovert are just different things to do in life. It was interesting for me to try out being an extrovert, but it was always me. I was funn...

There are many ways to describe it I guess. One way might be that it is more comfortable being introverted or extraverted. And it does take a lot of e...

Providing the highest quality does not mean random. If indeed it was random, one can toss Schrodinger's equation out the window. All technology depend...

Wrong decisions, right decisions. Who knows? It is the Daoist story of the Farmer and his Son. Everything is in flux. Bad today good tomorrow.

Robots follow specific instructions created by a mind(s). Robots are as much alive as possible a nucleus throwing off quanta energy. There is novelty,...

Do you feel that you are acting randomly in life? Random presupposes no influences. This probably doesn't exist in the universe we live in. Quanta beh...

In terms of life as we experience it, probability is a result of habitual behavior (which is approximately repetitive) and an impulse (novelty) from t...

More of my speculation. Self-awareness without external awareness is what we might feel in a dream state. Hamlet's famous "To be or not to be" soliloq...

Dancing (Latin and Ballroom), pencil drawing, water color, piano playing, some singing, and Tai Chi. I also played lots of sports when I was younger. ...

66. Haven't been to a doctor in 36 years. I practice my philosophy in a very practical manner. I don't make a computer of myself because that would no...

Go ahead.

Can I ask how old are you?

You need a brain to reveal. The mind/memory might still be there without awareness. So, the question is what might it feel like when someone is brain-...

There is evidence in every day life. There is mind and it is directing movement - making choices. And memories of this creative learning process persi...

The quantum stuff (I hesitate to call if anything, though Bohm named it the Quantum Potential) leaves open the possibility that at the deepest level o...

This is the basis of this article and accompanying video. Ultimately no distinction or boundary can be found. It is implied by quantum physics. The ar...

Interesting.