Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Nov 27
“In #perceiving and #experiencing the world, we ‘smuggle in’ our own fundamental self-survival goals. This is something we share with cats and worms and viruses. Whether this is also something we share with #artificialsystems is another story.” aeon.co/essays/why-y...

Why you need your whole body –...
Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think | Aeon Essays

Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought

janOct 21, 2024
Thinking and consciousness are not uniform. When we undertake to train our thinking, as we say we do in schools, we need to ask what aspect we are training, and what relation this aspect and training have to other aspects and other trainings. This picture of the mind is of a living unfolding entity. It is not prepackaged, defined, static, and determined. Our ways of thinking and perceiving change during the course of our growing to adulthood, and they continue to change, if we let them, throughout life.
—Mary C. Richards, Toward Wholeness
#thinking #perceiving #consciousness
Show threadjanDec 24, 2022
All we need do to begin is to open up and perceive. As M. C. [Richards] puts it, “it is not a concept that I wish to convey. It is, rather, an experience of nature which I wish to summon into consciousness. It comes in like a light, clearing the mind. . . . It is not a matter of ‘adding to’ but of ‘developing,’ of ‘evolving’” Light is a given; we are the receivers and, by imagination, rebirthers of the light. But first we must perceive this.
—Matthew Fox, Foreword to the Second Edition of Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person by Mary C. Richards. #maryrichards #perceiving #perceptions
bonDec 19, 2022
Do you imagine things the way others brought you up to imagine them OR do you imagine on your own? #perceiving #oldfalseperceptions #imagine
🇺🇸 Bewickwren 🇵🇹Dec 9, 2022
Climate change in particular plays to our weaknesses.
Much has been written about our #difficulties in #perceiving #climate #change due in part to inconsistencies in the information we receive and also stemming from the well-studied tendency to “discount” events that are perceived to occur far in the future or in geographically distant places.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/12/excerpt-from-minding-the-climate-by-ann-christine-duhaime
Excerpt from ‘Minding the Climate’ by Ann-Christine Duhaime

You believe in climate change but drive a gas-guzzler, don’t recycle. Why? Neuroscientist explores in new book.

Harvard Gazette