Articles related to : Consciousness

We have a model of the world in our mind. It guides us and helps to plan ahead. But it tends to grow beyond what we need for the task at hand and takes the resources that might be needed for the survival. Does it weaken us as a species? Professor Hoffman thinks so.

Recently, the company I worked for was acquired by another company, and the new owner decided to close Denver office. Suddenly, I had to face the unpleasant necessity to sell myself on the job market again. Last time I did it five years ago and, since then, the programming job landscape has changed. The most […]

Aubrey De Grey, a Cambridge University researcher, who is also a head of the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) project (“senescence” is scientific jargon for aging), defines seven causes of aging, all of which he thinks can be dealt with. As the result, he estimates that 25 years from now, people will start living […]

For quite awhile, we are already connected via the internet and multitudes of communication devices, so the idea of connection straight between brains comes naturally. But the progress of the implementation is staggering. It is actually already here. Boy, I am looking forward to stop writing you and starting just thinking together! On July 9, […]

I have visited and stayed for some time in several European countries, lived in Russia, Ukraine and now in the US. And in every of the countries, I observed that people there felt special as a nation. Which is quite understandable - each of us feels somewhat special and unique. We have privileged access to […]

Big thanks to those who responded to my previous blog about Elephant Inside by pointing out that this metaphor can go only so far. The comment was that the animal inside is independent only as long as the task at hand is not aligned with our main purpose in life. Because, as soon as it […]

To manage yourself, to be able to do what has to be done any time, to perform duties with pleasure - is not it a dream? Everyone finds their own way to achieve this ideal state. Some were taught by their parents or the school, others learn it under the pressure of army discipline or […]

What “contradictions” is associated with in your mind? Something negative, correct? Oxford Thesaurus lists the following synonyms for contradiction: conflict, clash, disagreement, opposition, inconsistency, mismatch, and variance. It used to have negative connotation for me too. But it somehow evolved due to my activity as a scientist. In the science, as you know, a contradiction […]