Although the advancement of technology on our planet has provided many benefits, it has also resulted in the loss of earlier technology and wisdom. For example, Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was a British nurse, social reformer, statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. She made statements that today would be quite controversial: “There are no specific […]
“Cognitive” is a word relating to mental functioning, including logic. “Dissonance” when used in a musical sense refers to the unpleasant combination of discordant notes. So “cognitive dissonance” is a mental conflict, disharmony and discomfort, especially when beliefs or assumptions are contradicted by new information. This is one of the primary barriers to progress in today’s […]
Everyone envisions events they want to happen and tries to make them become reality. We all want to make our dreams come true. This is done using imagination and action. But too many barriers can blunt both. When things have become too complex and confusing, people can focus on the past rather than dream their […]
A category is a group of things, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria. Both humans and computers use categories to think or compute. Problems are often solved by separating the parts of each problem into categories. Categories are important to sanity. The process of reducing sanity […]
Unless a hypnotist gets the subject to agree with him, hypnosis cannot happen. We are all hypnotized to the degree that we unknowingly agree to things that go against our own determinism or sense of ethics. Agreement goes wrong when it is enforced. When one is part of a group, there is a force or […]
One of the most exciting aspects of ExoTech is that it will provide an uncensored platform to help expose lies and liars who are manipulating global communications and information. As I have discussed previously, our biggest barrier seems to be insufficient money. But that would not be true if most of the value of money […]
Indifference is a state of being unconcerned, uninterested, apathetic or not making a difference. The word is derived from words meaning “not setting apart.” An apathetic person has difficulty setting things apart and keeping things apart, especially within his own mind. One might hear an apathetic person say, “Nothing matters. It’s all the same.” The […]
Some years ago I wrote, sang and recorded a song called “Victim of Life.” It is a wild and ridiculous blues song – I have a passion for ridiculous creations. The song is intended to make fun of the idea of being a victim. I believe each person causes everything that happens to him and […]
I like amazing things. I watch videos about people who do amazing things, like a man who recited pi to 22,514 digits in just over 5 hours. He learned the extremely difficult Icelandic language in one week to the point where he engaged in a fluent conversation on Icelandic national TV, a task thought to […]
A gradient is a degree of slope or incline. It is easier to walk along a road with a slope of ten degrees than one going straight up at ninety degrees. It is easier to become able to do something by practicing it using gradually increasing levels of difficulty. A weightlifter does not double the […]