How each of us identifies self, the purpose and the meaning of own life. What is identity? Body can change. Personality can change too. What is it then? The record in a state archive? The memory of other people? You memory?
This engraving is about 13,800 years old, but I cannot resist the feeling of connection with the person – an artist, who made it. It was found in Spain, about 30 miles west of Barcelona. The huts in the engraving are arranged in three levels across a slab that measures 7 inches wide and 3 […]
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, […]
Civilization and its development depend on the availability of the resources and the skills to utilize them. The Middle East and Europe had in this respect a definite advantage.
Big thanks to Volodia Timofeev who responded to my previous blog Elephant Inside by sending me pictures of Kopeikin’s paintings with elephants. One of my readers told me 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 […]
Emotions help, but should not control us. Recently, we have adjusted our understanding of the role of our emotions and the extent to which we can consider ourselves to be rational beings in certain circumstances
The dream, that you are behind the train and cannot catch up with it, familiar to many. A group provides for the identification of the individual. How can a teenager (and actually many adults as well) answer the question, who are you?