AvatarIzzie AguilarFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo“Don’t Try”: Charles Bukowski’s Concise Philosophy of Art and Lifeopenculture.com - OCIn 1994, Charles Bukowski was buried in a Los Angeles cemetery, beneath a simple gravestone. The stone memorializes the poet’s name. It …
AvatarIzzie AguilarFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoThe Psychology of Time and the Paradox of How Impulsivity and Self-Control Mediate Our Capacity for Presenceverified_publisherbrainpickings.org - Maria Popova“Consciousness is tied to corporeality and temporality: I experience myself as existing with a body over time.”“Reality is never and nowhere more …
AvatarIzzie AguilarFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoNobel-Winning Physicist Frank Wilczek on Complementarity as the Quantum of Life and Why Reality Is Woven of Opposing Truthsverified_publisherbrainpickings.org - Maria Popova“You can recognize a deep truth by the feature that its opposite is also a deep truth.”“The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really …
AvatarIzzie AguilarFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoTrailblazing Philosopher Susanne Langer on How Our Questions Shape Our Answers and Direct Our Orientation of Mindverified_publisherbrainpickings.org - Maria Popova“The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it — right or wrong — may be given.”“To maintain the state of doubt …
AvatarIzzie AguilarAvatarAvatarAre We Living in a Computer Simulation?Live Science - By Clara MoskowitzNEW YORK — If you, me and every person and thing in the cosmos were actually characters in some giant computer game, we would not necessarily know …