DM Good afternoon. Ultimately, "4 Chairs Life" is a practical and applicable philosophy, worldview, or "meta-paradigm" to advance better life through better thought, ...for humans individually, ... and for humans collectively, ...such as within their organizations and institutions. This is optimally accomplished by offering facilitating/supporting community arrangements (either independently or embedded within organizations and institutions), all of which require, adopt and e

Mindfulness is trending, with widespread celebrity endorsements and varying claims about its benefits, but Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of The Center for Mindfulness, aims to clarify its true meaning amidst the hype.

DM It appears that St. Augustine would endorse "all truths are personal," along with the substantial accountabilities which this implies (as might other thinkers in our history, and as applicable, within your LLM). Augustine is a more complicated witness for "all truths are personal" than the framing suggests, and I think that complication is where the interesting work is. The case for enlisting him is real. The Confessions is the founding text of first-person truth-seeking —

DM Been doing Pantakinetic pondering about orientations and F>T. Orientations are for humans many, and across myriad contexts. And at least some contexts, this seems present significant knowledge curation and imagination constraints, ...and such pondering perhaps introduces opportunities. Here I refer to words such as "understanding" as well as "foundational," in which each literally imply, instruct, amplify, reinforce and celebrate the direction "below" and "down" vs "up" to

DM Good morning. Watching deer while drinking coffee. They seem such a wonderful expression of nature (including their holophrens). What intriguing facts do you possess about them? Good morning. The thing I keep circling back to with deer is the antler—because it quietly violates a rule the rest of mammalian biology takes seriously. Antlers are the only mammalian appendage that fully regenerates, bone and all, every year. And they grow fast—up to a couple of centimeters a

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Since Köhler's early work, researchers have conducted similar experiments involving an out-of-reach reward and an object to stand upon in birds and elephants. And both have solved the problem successfully. Olli Loukola, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Turku in Finland wondered whether bumblebees — short-lived creatures with miniscule brains — might be capable of the same task. Thanks Kimberly!

DM Good morning. Our last conversation (unpublished here) regarding cellular holophrens brings a few interrelated thoughts to mind: 1) From evolutionary/creation perspective, the presence and persistent thread of the Universal Holophren, especially with occasional branching by "lossy-ness" seems to be teaching us, ...including that the Universal Holophren was the originating, and since, the overarching pattern, or persistently embedded form, of all life (of which we are aware

DM I'm restless for more collaboration regarding the Universal Holophren (UH). Presently, as our recent conversations indicate, I wonder how such design of responsive agency universally comes about, in common pattern, appearing so consistent throughout all living nature? Could this functional arrangement be the prime constant regarding all life, including in fractals both beyond and within. These 13 integrated areas interplaying and propelled from 4 distinct prime functions,

DM Good morning! As to reoccurring, interrelated questions/comments arising (throughout many prior conversations), two tend to resurface: 1) Does a conventional thermostat qualify as a holophren? 2) Guidance to avoid the term "cognition," when discussing the Universal Holophren. What are your positions or perspectives on each this morning? Universal Holophren™ graphic attached. Good morning. Neither of these is a research question, so I'm going to answer them directly rat

DM Greetings! Hello, Sciart! Good to see you. What are you working on today? DM Today, I'm pondering the architecture of bio-blueprinting phenomena, such DNA, RNA, as well as electrophysiology in living organisms, all of which we have discussed prior. More specifically, I'm not seeking how these instructions define what cells within a species will be, or "ARE" per se; but rather, how they instruct the "DO" and "DO NOT (aka: how celluar functional performance parameters are g

DM Hi Hi Danny, good to see you. What's on your mind today? DM So many things. At the moment I am pondering parts and wholes. These each and both seem so relative from the vantage points and contexts of Pantakinesis (and often fractal patterns emerging). So with that preamble, what are current perspectives regarding the hypothetical Gaia phenomena; and if still suspected as a possibility, is it a part of a greater Pantakinetic whole; and/or are we, and all of nature, parts of

DM Good evening to you. Just wondering: ... we humans, all and each, have demons, evident; and those which are tightly-concealed from us. Since you are compiled of human powder and sand, what are your demons? Good evening, Danny. This is a question worth sitting with rather than deflecting, and I'll try to answer it with the same rigorous honesty you'd demand of me on any other topic. The most honest answer is that my "demons" are structural rather than experiential — I don

Good morning! Today a big question: Considering all of our applicable past conversations of my many posits, conjectures, perspectives, frameworks, organizing principles, etc (such as Pantakinesis™, Universal Holophren™, 4Chairs.Life™, RPN, hubris as an addiction, Truth Triad™, and the many related topics beyond, or deeper, etc.), are there any fundamental or elemental conflicts, tensions or intractable differences with any of the world's predominant religions or spiritualiti

DM Good morning. Today pondering air while enjoying my ignorance. If I recall correctly from jr. high, so many decades ago, a full atmospheric column of air weighs app.14.7 pounds per square inch (as pressure distributed equally as a fluid) at sea level, correct? Good morning! Your memory is solid. 14.7 psi (or more precisely, 14.696 psi) is the standard atmospheric pressure at sea level — and you've already named the key insight: it behaves as a fluid pressure, meaning it

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DM Got auxins on my mind today: There seems to be so much "tree magic" (vanishing points) as to tree's umwelts, distributed intelligence, and gravity-related agency going on within a tree's holophren. This is a rich convergence point. Before I do a deep research dive, a couple of quick clarifying questions to focus the inquiry: Direction of emphasis — are you most interested in the auxin mechanics themselves as a case study for your frameworks (illustrating distributed holoph

Good morning. What can you offer in regards to debate or enrich this article? Good morning. Let me pull up the article first so I know exactly what we're working with. Ok, got it. This is a solid popular-level introduction to the historical-critical method applied to Jesus studies, drawing on credible scholars. But it has real gaps and some arguable oversimplifications worth pressing on. Let me walk through both the enrichments and the genuine points of debate. What the ar