Flexible work schedules and technology-based reminders can help those in early stages of cognitive decline and dementia keep working

DM Good morning. I've incubated for many weeks regarding where emotions and personality may reside within the Universal Holophren™, particularly the human version of it. Before I offer my conjecture, where do you believe these to be (...inclusive of genetic, epigenetic and experiential aspects), based upon our multitudes of prior-related conversations? I also attach the graphical representations to date of both The Universal Holophren and its "human version" (two PDF graphics

Pollan has waded into ideas about the inner workings of the mind. Now, with his forthcoming book, “A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness,” which will arrive this month, he has jumped into the deep end.

With America disengaging, Russia might be ready for new war much sooner than previously estimated

The breakup is focused on sensitive matters now considered national-security issues, including semiconductors, food and energy

Honeybees have never been in danger of extinction. But scientists are finding that they can accelerate the demise of native bee populations.

The paper of record for the nation’s capital cut a third of its staff this week. It didn’t have to be like this.

In a sense, the decline of book reviews, like the decline of newspapers themselves, is a story about disaggregation.

DM This morning I've water on my mind.  Not literally, but in the realm of hydrology (and perhap beyond). I've a modest understanding of Bejan's Constructal Law (CL), ...at least in a two dimensional context. Today I'm pondering it in a three dimensional context, both in contexts of evaporation and absorption.  Are CL phenomena taking place as "currents" of evaporation into the air around and above us from bodies of water (creeks, springs, brooks, rivers, lakes and oceans)?

The U.S. leadership is erasing the country's shared understanding.

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The mainstreaming of transgressive ideas is the culmination of a yearslong conservative project.

DM Please offer your estimated perspectives of a diverse sampling of thinkers regarding: 1) Pantakinesis'™ 3 pillars for a more optimal basis of human cognition, 2) The Universal Holophren™ to unify and understand sentience/agency, 3)The Realm of the Present-Now™(RPN) of on-going creation, 4) 4Chairs.Life™ communities of inquiry and hubris reduction, 5) The rigor, effort (and pehaps eudaimonia) of Enjoying Ignorance™ via UII, 6) Hubris as addiction.   The thinkers are: A. Ein

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His first year at the Pentagon has been marked by uncomplicated celebrations of death.

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The standout performance last night was about a mom reconsidering her political views.

DM I noticed Montaigne in one essay referred to Troglodytes living on the west side of the Red Sea. Who were they, and were they homo sapiens? This is a wonderful question that touches on classical geography, ethnography, and the way ancient writers categorized peoples they considered exotic or peripheral. The Troglodytes of Classical Literature The "Troglodytes" Montaigne references were a real population that ancient Greek and Roman writers described living along what they