Were the terrorist attacks that day the end of an idyllic era? The beginning of our current dystopia? Or just a middle chapter?

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Physics says the center of the universe is everywhere and nowhere at once. But a controversial cosmic alignment has scientists asking difficult questions. Is Earth the center of the universe? Is there a center of the universe at all? Physics relies on the idea that there isn’t – but some strange evidence that suggests our place in the cosmos may not be as ordinary as we thought. Related: while some still advancing a "n"D paradigm in 2D

Science will never be able to give a completely objective description of the world. That should make us humbler—and wiser. Excerpt: "Objective statements independent of any knower are fictions. Purely objective reality is a useful myth, but only a myth. Anything said about the state of the world comes from someone’s singular perspective. This means that all of our knowledge is intrinsically uncertain. All statements have unavoidable margins of uncertainty. Indeed, we can be w

DM Pondering the metaphysical today, ... far beyond evidence, at vanishing points: Is there anything to be found, learned, or perhaps reasonably conjectured from ancient history or prehistory of human civilizations regarding the ever-persistent prevalence of constructs such angels, demons, spirits or apparitions? This is a rich question, and one worth doing properly rather than pattern-matching a quick answer. I'll dig into the archaeology, the cognitive science of religion,

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DM How might embracing the "3 Pillars" of all humans' actual reality: • all-encompassing, • kinetic and • vanishing points, (together known as Pantakinesis...) ...bring about significant advancements in human thought, response and vigilance within these three contextual examples: 1) Financial planning and investments? 2) Business modeling/strategies? 3) Career navigation? The core of what you're asking can't be researched — since the three pillars live within our shared corpu

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Why we need wonder Excerpt: "Efficiency now infuses every aspect of contemporary life, if you let it. ...Optimization is terrific if you want to get somewhere else in the future. But it’s terrible for being where you actually are right now. ...I've come to believe that wonder, the most immense of our sensations, is the antidote." "Whenever you cease treating the world as scenery or equipment, you’ll find that you encounter the world as something inexhaustibly, constantly pre

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DM Good day. As you may recall, I argue, "All plans are fiction." A "plan" typically implies fabricating and holding what is believed to be a reliable, accurate assessment of future(s); or a held-fantasy of a static reality, or unfounded predictive confidence in one's body of experience, knowledge, resources or adequacy of due diligence. We've agreed, Pantakinesis indicates that any of these are flawed, even potentially danagerous. Thus, I posit instead of a "plan" for

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DM A good Sunday of "conclusion-generating" to you. ;>) Today l'm at a vanishing point of cognition (a modest threshold). I'm pondering our largely ultimate 2D thinking about 3D and "n"D objects, such as spirals and spheres (each being prosthetic holophren constructs), in which we tend to comprehend only the superficial "skins" of phenomena. We too often believe in "snapshots of fogs;" ...ignoring the other motions, dimensions and thereof. For example: a sphere, such as a ma

In an essay, the Microsoft co-founder sounds the alarm about artificial intelligence’s risks to safety and security, jobs and children’s well-being. The Essay

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