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Found : Where perverse impulses and urges come from Perverse impulses seem to arise when people focus intensely on avoiding specific errors or taboos. The theory is straightforward: to avoid blurting out that a colleague is a raging hypocrite, the brain must first imagine just that; the very presence of that catastrophic insult, in turn,…
Read MoreFound : Backward Causation Sometimes also called retro-causation. A common feature of our world seems to be that in all cases of causation, the cause and the effect are placed in time so that the cause precedes its effect temporally. Our normal understanding of causation assumes this feature to such a degree that we intuitively…
Read MoreFound : A toke a day keeps memory loss at bay Small doses of marijuana improve the function of aging brains, scientists find Turns out a few dances with Mary Jane can do wonders for an aging brain. Yes, a daily toke in later-middle and old age can help slow memory loss, or the onset…
Read MoreFound : When It Is Good To Be Bad : Medieval Indo-Tibetan Tantric Buddhist Apologetics (PDF) Antinomianism comes in at least two forms: strong or weak. Weak antinomianism is permissive: one may do what is bad and nevertheless somehow remain not guilty. Strong antinomianism is normative: one is compelled to commit an offence, with the…
Read MoreFound : The medieval church, heresy and memes I find it a little ironic that the conceptualization of ideas as infectious diseases dates back far beyond The Selfish Gene. In fact, one of the first notable observations of this ideology is from the medieval Catholic Church, circa 12th century. Heresy was considered to be an…
Read MoreFound : God Wants You Dead God is a collective memetic organism. Such organisms influence large numbers of people to behave as a group. Copies in the minds of individual human beings work together the way a multi-celled animal's component cells do, producing unified behavior. Countries, corporations, philosophies, and other "Higher Powers" that cause people…
Read MoreFound : ARCHETYPAL DIMENSIONS OF WORLD EVENTS Being atemporal, archetypes exist outside of time. They bleed through, irrupt, and unfold into and through time so as to incarnate and reveal themselves. Archetypes become visible by arranging and magnetically attracting events into themselves like atemporal, self-organizing fields. Archetypes synchronistically configure events in the outer world so…
Read MoreFound : Human Zoos As has been well-documented on this site, America imprisons more people than any other nation. The state takes away inmates' liberty, controlling every moment of their lives, and locking them up in cages. For some reason, we've forgotten that maybe, just maybe, throwing hundreds of thousands of violent people together in…
Read MoreFound : Perspectives on the structure of the superverse and implications for its transit and other means of exploitation In early 2003 space appears to possibly be infinite in its depth and distance, even if mankind can only ‘see’ with his instruments out to as many lightyears as has been possible for light to travel…
Read MoreFound : What Happened Before the Big Bang? : Paul Davies …given an infinite amount of time, anything that can happen will already have happened, for if a physical process is likely to occur with a certain nonzero probability – however small-then given an infinite amount of time the process must occur…
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