Tag: experience

• Why is Wonder?

  Sometimes I am accosted by the strangest questions; they remind me of the unanswerable ‘why’ questions that so often bubble out of 3 year olds -the only difference, I suppose, is that I would no longer be satisfied with the unadorned ‘just because’ answers I’m sure I used to get from my frustrated parents. But […]

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  May 5, 2021

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  Aeon.co, art, City University of New York, emergent phenomenon, emotion, experience, gratitude, Jesse Prinz, knowledge, Paul TIllich, prayer, purpose, questions, religion, René Descartes, retirement, Science, signatures, spiritual, Wonder

• The Me of Science

  This is going to sound trite, but have you ever wondered about your role in Science? Really. I mean that of your consciousness in apprehending and interpreting that which is measured: the ‘Me’-ness which separates each of us from whatever we’re doing -or, rather, which joins us to it: joins us to the other? I […]

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  November 20, 2019

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  Adam Frank, Aeon.com, Alfred North Whitehead, blind spot of science, Dartmouth College New Hampshire, emergent phenomena, Evan Thompson, experience, God’s-eye view, Husserl, lived experience, Marcelo Gleiser, Mind, reality, Science, University of British Columbia, University of Rochester

• The Wisdom of Experience

  Sometimes, I feel like a fake. I suppose the ability to see oneself from various angles is a gift of age, but I rather enjoyed myself more when I was sure of who I was –or at least didn’t trouble myself with the question. And yet, to dig for the core is to taste the […]

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  May 30, 2014

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  Age, alternative therapies, doctors, experience, listening, menopause, menopause treatments, Wisdom