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  1. The ten thousand things
    Reflected in morning's dew
    Then, vanishing

    Only memories remain
    Wayward thoughts returning
    home

    #tao
    #zen
    #tanka
    #poetry
    #buddhism

  2. Fun fact:

    🇷🇴 Romania’s president, Nicușor Dan, was one of the 11 students to solve the legendary Problem 6 at the 1988 IMO.

    He scored a perfect 42/42 that year, alongside future Fields Medalist 🇻🇳 Ngô Bảo Châu. 🇨🇦 Ravi Vakil also solved it.

    🇦🇺 Terence Tao, aged just 13, got 1/7 on that problem, aced almost everything else, and still won a gold medal. @tao

    In fact, Dan won two consecutive perfect-score gold medals at IMO (1987 & 1988).

    #Romania #NicușorDan #TerenceTao #Tao #Dan #IMO #1988IMO #RaviVakil #NgôBảoChâu #GoldMedal #Meritocracy #MathLegend #MathematicianInPolitics

  3. @samuelpepys

    " ... talking with my wife, sometimes angry and ended pleased, and I hope to bring our matters to a better posture in a little time ... "

    Not sure whether "and ended pleased" here means "and I was pleased because I got what I wanted" or "and we were pleased because we'd cleared the air." I like to think it's the latter.

    Our friend Samuel is far from perfect, and his wife has to put up with a lot of things from him. But ultimately Sam and Liz are really rather good at making things work out.

    And I love the poetry of saying "to bring our matters to a better posture"!

    From now on, each time I deal with a matter of contention, I shall ask myself, "how can I bring this matter to a better posture?" This is very #Tao.

    #Pepys #ElisabethPepys #BringToABetterPosture

  4. Most AI companies are building closed ecosystems. 🔒🤖

    Bittensor is betting on open intelligence networks instead. 🌐🧠

    That alone makes it worth paying attention to. ⚡

    #TAO #Bittensor #DecentralizedAI #AI #OpenSource

  5. ✝️ Blind Faith with a Gnostic Deist — new reflection now live.

    Jeremiah, Jonah, and Proverbs walk with us through judgment, surrender, and renewal.
    Empires fall, storms calm, and faith endures the contraction.

    ✍️ New post drops 5 PM ET → open.substack.com/pub/wittgens

    #BlindFaith #Faith #Philosophy #GnosticDeist #Tao #Jeremiah #Jonah #Proverbs

  6. "Celui qui facilite les débuts se prépare à des lendemains d’autant plus difficiles."

    "Le précepte à donner au peintre peut se formuler simplement par ces mots : Observe du bambou pendant dix ans, deviens bambou toi-même, puis oublie tout et peins !"

    Herrigel, Le Zen dans l’art chevaleresque du Tir à l’Arc.
    __________
    Retrouvez la Note contemplative :
    sites.google.com/view/mardiphi
    #Philosophie #Contemplation #Zen #Arc #Bouddha #Tao #LaoTseu

  7. 20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers. #20books #20Books20Days #books #rolandbarthes #discourse #gay #love #tao #zen #lgbtq #bookstodon 16/20

  8. In the cloud?

    Thomas Metzinger suggests that the global neural correlate of consciousness (the minimal set of neuronal events and mechanisms sufficient for the occurrence of the mental states to which they are related (Wikipedia))

    …is like an island emerging from the sea—as noted, it is a large set of neural properties underlying consciousness as a whole, underpinning your experiential model of the world in its totality at any given moment. The global NCC has many different levels of description: Dynamically, we can describe it as a coherent island, made of densely coupled relations of cause and effect, emerging from the waters of a much less coherent flow of neural activity. Or we could adopt a neurocomputational perspective and look at the global NCC as something that results from information-processing in the brain and hence functions as a carrier of information. At this point, it becomes something more abstract, which we might envision as an information cloud hovering above a neurobiological substrate. The “border” of this information cloud is functional, not physical; the cloud is physically realized by widely distributed firing neurons in your head. Just like a real cloud, which is made of tiny water droplets suspended in the air, the neuronal activation pattern underlying the totality of your conscious experience is made of millions of tiny electrical discharges and chemical transitions at the synapses. In strict terms, it has no fixed location in the brain, though it is coherent.

    Thomas Metzinger, The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self

    Now this is, as Metzinger would be the first to admit, highly abstract language to describe the warm, luminous immediacy that is the lived experience of phenomena. The scent of a lover’s hair, the golden light of sunset, damp air on the skin at dawn – an information cloud hovering above a neurobiological substrate? And yet how else could one experience these things?

    Oddly enough, for me at least, Metzinger’s technical language comes closer to expressing what might be thought of as one’s soul than any Cartesian plug-in ghost. The beautiful world that is our necessary home is as much the gift of who we are as it is a place “out there”; we are not, and never have been, visitors. Like everything else, we are just what causality does: “the self is but one of the countless manifestations of the Tao. It is an extension of the cosmos.” (David Y F Ho (PDF))

    #awareness #consciousness #DavidYFHo #philosophy #RenéDescartes #Tao #ThomasMetzinger #Wikipedia