All they have in common are the first three letters.
You can disassemble clocks. You can reduce them to their parts, then put them back together. You can't do that with clouds. Therein lies the difference between reductionism and emergent systems, as well as reductionism & the unnameable. It depends on your point of view.
As P.W. Anderson had it, here is a broken symmetry. A new level of understanding must be created before we can move on to the next level. You cannot be explained in terms of the particles which compose you.
You are here in the Milky Way Galaxy, 1 of about 100 billion in the visible universe. This is not science-fiction.
But we sleep all the way. From the womb to the grave, we are never thoroughly awake.(John Donne, Sermons)
In 1851, Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (1819-1868) demonstrated the Earth turning. At the Paris Pantheon, the pendulum revealed reality not as it seems. Human kind
cannot bear very much reality, said TS Eliot. People are comfortable in the way things seem. Some guests in 1851 thought the pendulum moved with Earth stationary. But gravity kept it moving in the same plane as Earth turned along with the building from which it hung. They felt none of it, just as we feel none of the following phenomena. Earth rotates about 1000 mph (1680 kph) on its axis. At 66,000 mph it fully orbits the sun once a year. With Earth & other planets in tow, the sun orbits our Milky Way galaxy at 483,000 mph, completing the orbit every 230 million years. Somehow the pendulum ignores these "local" motions and aligns with its original orientation. How can this be? Nobody understands why it swings relative to the universe as a whole, but that seems to be the case.
Mind Shadows Home The Anterior Cingulate & BuddhismI call them "empathy neurons" or "Dalai Llama neurons," says V.S. Ramachandran about mirror neuron cells in the brain's anterior cingulate. They fire when a patient is being poked with a needle. Surprisingly, UCLA researchers found they also fire in the same patient when he watches somebody else being poked by a needle.
Ramachandran observes that many ethical and mystical teachings address the distinction between "I" and "Thou" and dissolving it These mirror neurons provide a physiological basis for understanding religious and ethical beliefs.
The same mirror neurons, believes Ramachandran, provide a means to understand other human mind abilities. As well as empathy, these include “mind reading,” imitation-learning, and even language. Mirror neurons fire when a monkey observes another monkey, or even the experimenter, tasting a peanut. More
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I can imagine Jack The Ripper also saying this. John
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