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Jun 30, 2007

Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It

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Via Networked Performance   "(W)e are living a fusion of real and unreal time, an ongoing undulation of overlays and intersections...It's most like the way good old-fashioned thinking and imagining work in relation to sensing and perceiving ... It says that back before representational technologies developed, before literacy itself, people were also living in a fusion of real and unreal time because they were daydreaming while they were doing this or that. Just having a mind is to be in unreal time as well as in real time ... What that says is that representational...

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Jun 30, 2007

Are you Living in a Computer Simulation?

Via Networked Performance   Are you Living in a Computer Simulation? by Nick Bostrom , Department of Philosophy, Oxford University.   ABSTRACT: This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a "posthuman" stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a...

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Jun 29, 2007

Neural correlates of attentional expertise in long-term meditation practitioners

Neural correlates of attentional expertise in long-term meditation practitioners. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Jun 27; Authors: Brefczynski-Lewis JA, Lutz A, Schaefer HS, Levinson...

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Jun 29, 2007

Meditation among incarcerated individuals

Jun 29, 2007

Cerebellar activity evoked by common tool-use execution and imagery tasks

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