Saturday, July 11, 2015
WEEK 9 - SYNTHESIZING PHYSICS - "AS ABOVE, SO BELOW"?
I think that there is a very real possibility that a central processing center, conveniently called the "God spot" may respond to a variety of inputs from the senses with a universal characteristic output. The God'spot output, in the form of wellbeing, connectedness and even divine love, may very well help us to understand the sense of beauty, how beauty may be linked to survival and how the physical body and the "soul body" may be connected. As above, so below...
WEEK 9 - MY E-PRIME DAY
Waking up feeling great.
At 9ish, a good sandwich.
Prepared, i turn on the engine of my truck to drive to the school
After learned and earned some acknowledge, i drove back home, feeling satisfy.
Fed my dog, and the dinner almost ready.
Some shows on Tv, and now almost 10 at night, falling sleepy.
Goodnight everyone!
At 9ish, a good sandwich.
Prepared, i turn on the engine of my truck to drive to the school
After learned and earned some acknowledge, i drove back home, feeling satisfy.
Fed my dog, and the dinner almost ready.
Some shows on Tv, and now almost 10 at night, falling sleepy.
Goodnight everyone!
WEEK 8 - DESCARTES HAS A LOT TO ANSWER FOR!
The Real Distinction Argument
Descartes formulates this argument in many different ways, which has led many scholars to believe there are several different real distinction arguments. However, it is more accurate to consider these formulations as different versions of one and the same argument. The fundamental premise of each is identical: each has the fundamental premise that the natures of mind and body are completely different from one another.
The first version:
I have a clear and distinct idea of the mind as a thinking, non-extended thing.
I have a clear and distinct idea of body as an extended, non-thinking thing.
Therefore, the mind is really distinct from the body and can exist without it.
The second version: This argument can be reformulated as follows, replacing “mind” for “I” as in the first version:
I understand the mind to be indivisible by its very nature.
I understand body to be divisible by its very nature.
Therefore, the mind is completely different from the body.
The consequences of this problem are very serious for Descartes, because it undermines his claim to have a clear and distinct understanding of the mind without the body. For humans do have sensations and voluntarily move some of their bodily limbs and, if Gassendi and Elizabeth are correct, this requires a surface and contact. Since the mind must have a surface and a capacity for motion, the mind must also be extended and, therefore, mind and body are not completely different. This means the “clear and distinct” ideas of mind and body, as mutually exclusive natures, must be false in order for mind-body causal interaction to occur. Hence, Descartes has not adequately established that mind and body are two really distinct substances.
Descartes formulates this argument in many different ways, which has led many scholars to believe there are several different real distinction arguments. However, it is more accurate to consider these formulations as different versions of one and the same argument. The fundamental premise of each is identical: each has the fundamental premise that the natures of mind and body are completely different from one another.
The first version:
I have a clear and distinct idea of the mind as a thinking, non-extended thing.
I have a clear and distinct idea of body as an extended, non-thinking thing.
Therefore, the mind is really distinct from the body and can exist without it.
The second version: This argument can be reformulated as follows, replacing “mind” for “I” as in the first version:
I understand the mind to be indivisible by its very nature.
I understand body to be divisible by its very nature.
Therefore, the mind is completely different from the body.
The consequences of this problem are very serious for Descartes, because it undermines his claim to have a clear and distinct understanding of the mind without the body. For humans do have sensations and voluntarily move some of their bodily limbs and, if Gassendi and Elizabeth are correct, this requires a surface and contact. Since the mind must have a surface and a capacity for motion, the mind must also be extended and, therefore, mind and body are not completely different. This means the “clear and distinct” ideas of mind and body, as mutually exclusive natures, must be false in order for mind-body causal interaction to occur. Hence, Descartes has not adequately established that mind and body are two really distinct substances.
WEEK 8 - OUR "ENERGY EFFICIENT" CULTURE
Where people make intentional choices to save energy not because they are told to but because they want to…they understand the value it provides to them as individuals, to their organization and to the common good.
Reduce energy costs• Differentiate your organization• Create / maintain jobs• Decrease carbon footprint• Be part of the club• It’s the right thing to do
The most energy-efficient organizations in America use 35% less energy, on average, than their competitors.• It is estimated that every dollar spent on energy efficiency creates an average of $2.84 in benefits over the life of the improvement – that’s a 184% return on investment!• Research shows that up to 30% of energy use can be recovered through behavior and operational strategies.
Over 130 of the fortune 500 companies have a Chief Sustainability Officer.• Kohls Department Stores has reached another milestone in its aggressive sustainability campaign: 500 stores in the retail chain have now earned the Energy Star label.• Sears Holdings Awarded 2011 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year by EPA• Millennials - They advocate for the environment and social justice.
“Wal-Mart: Making Its Suppliers Go Green”. What are your manufacturers and suppliers doing to be energy efficient. Find out – then tell the story.• Option 2 – Create and implement your own internal comprehensive asset improvement and behavioral energy efficiency program, track and measure results, then tell your story.
Energy efficiency is the responsibility of engineers andbuilding operators and is achieved through asset projectsand controls.• “Let’s install ??? to be more energy efficient.” – Energy management systems – A new boiler – Photovoltaics / solar panels – Wind turbines
Energy efficiency is an organizational commitmentthat is achieved by changing the way everyone viewsand consumes energy. – Individual actions on a daily basis – Efficient building operation – Energy efficient asset projects – Rational choices for renewable supply
Engineers: Organizations mustexamine their performance,strategy, processes, andsystems to understand whatchanges need to be made. Convergence over time = CHANGE MANAGEMENT Psychologists: Organizations must understand the implications of a change on its employees given their culture, values, history, and capacity for change.
Application of either approach, in isolation, generally proves unsuccessful.• An exclusively “engineering” approach results in solutions that are not adequately implemented or supported by employees.• An exclusively “psychologist” approach results in a lack of appreciation or understanding for what must actually change to produce the desired outcome.
Reduce energy costs• Differentiate your organization• Create / maintain jobs• Decrease carbon footprint• Be part of the club• It’s the right thing to do
The most energy-efficient organizations in America use 35% less energy, on average, than their competitors.• It is estimated that every dollar spent on energy efficiency creates an average of $2.84 in benefits over the life of the improvement – that’s a 184% return on investment!• Research shows that up to 30% of energy use can be recovered through behavior and operational strategies.
Over 130 of the fortune 500 companies have a Chief Sustainability Officer.• Kohls Department Stores has reached another milestone in its aggressive sustainability campaign: 500 stores in the retail chain have now earned the Energy Star label.• Sears Holdings Awarded 2011 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year by EPA• Millennials - They advocate for the environment and social justice.
“Wal-Mart: Making Its Suppliers Go Green”. What are your manufacturers and suppliers doing to be energy efficient. Find out – then tell the story.• Option 2 – Create and implement your own internal comprehensive asset improvement and behavioral energy efficiency program, track and measure results, then tell your story.
Energy efficiency is the responsibility of engineers andbuilding operators and is achieved through asset projectsand controls.• “Let’s install ??? to be more energy efficient.” – Energy management systems – A new boiler – Photovoltaics / solar panels – Wind turbines
Energy efficiency is an organizational commitmentthat is achieved by changing the way everyone viewsand consumes energy. – Individual actions on a daily basis – Efficient building operation – Energy efficient asset projects – Rational choices for renewable supply
Engineers: Organizations mustexamine their performance,strategy, processes, andsystems to understand whatchanges need to be made. Convergence over time = CHANGE MANAGEMENT Psychologists: Organizations must understand the implications of a change on its employees given their culture, values, history, and capacity for change.
Application of either approach, in isolation, generally proves unsuccessful.• An exclusively “engineering” approach results in solutions that are not adequately implemented or supported by employees.• An exclusively “psychologist” approach results in a lack of appreciation or understanding for what must actually change to produce the desired outcome.
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
week 8 - NEWTON'S THREE LAWS AND ME
THE FIRST LAW IT SAYS THAT OBJECTS AT REST REMAIN AT REST, AND OBJECTS IN MOTION REMAIN IN MOTION IN A STRAIGHT LINE AT CONSTANT VELOCITY. A FORCE MUST BE APPLIED TO CHANGE THE STATE OF A MOTION OF AN OBJECT. THATS IS WHEN I GO AND START MY CAR TO GO TO OAKLAND!!!
SECOND LAW IS THE ACCELERATION OF AN OBJECT IS DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE FORCE ACTING ON IT, AND INVERSELY PROPORTIONAL TO ITS MASS.
THE THIRD LAW IS IF TWO OBJECTS INTERACT, SAY IN A COLLISION, THE FORCE EXERTED BY OBJECT ONE IN OBJECT TWO IS MATCHED BY A FORCE OF EXERTED BY OBJECT TWO ON OBJECT ONE OF THE SAME SIZE, BUT IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION.
I THINK ALL OF US EXPERIENCED ALL THESE 3 LAWS EVERYDAY IN OUR LIVES, FROM THE MOMENT WE WOKE UP UNTIL THE TIME TO GO TO BED.
SECOND LAW IS THE ACCELERATION OF AN OBJECT IS DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE FORCE ACTING ON IT, AND INVERSELY PROPORTIONAL TO ITS MASS.
THE THIRD LAW IS IF TWO OBJECTS INTERACT, SAY IN A COLLISION, THE FORCE EXERTED BY OBJECT ONE IN OBJECT TWO IS MATCHED BY A FORCE OF EXERTED BY OBJECT TWO ON OBJECT ONE OF THE SAME SIZE, BUT IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION.
I THINK ALL OF US EXPERIENCED ALL THESE 3 LAWS EVERYDAY IN OUR LIVES, FROM THE MOMENT WE WOKE UP UNTIL THE TIME TO GO TO BED.
Edmilson Da Cruz
June 30, 2015
ENERGY, QI AND TECHNOLOGY
THE FUTURE OF ACUPUNCTURE
ONE OF THE BEST INDICATORS OF WHERE THE FUTURE OF ACUPUNCTURE LIES MAY BE FOUND IN THE WORK OF JOIE JONES PhD, A PHYSICS PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, HE HAS RECENTLY DEMONSTRATED SCIENTIFICALLY THE REALITY OF THE MERIDIANS, ALSO SHOWN THAT DIFFERENT FORMS OF STIMULI CAN BE USED TO AFFECT THEM. BY EXPERIMENTING WITH BOTH ULTRASOUND AND MRI, HE HAS SHOWN THAT MANY DIFFERENT FORMS OF MERIDIAN THERAPY PRODUCE A RESPONSE IN THE REGION OF THE BRAIN PRECISELY CORRESPONDING TO THE PART OF THE BODY BEING TREATED.
WORKING WITH BOTH ULTRASONICS AND MRI, DR. JONES HAS BEEN ABLE TO SIMULTANEOUSLY LOCATE, TREAT, AND MONITOR THE EFFECTS OF ACUPUNCTURE POINT STIMULATION. HE HAS DISCOVERED THAT STIMULATING POINTS WITH ULTRASOUND APPEARS TO BE JUST AS EFFECTIVE AS NEEDLE TREATMENT, AND THAT BOTH ELICIT THE SAME RESPONSE IN CORRESPONDING PARTS OF THE NEUROANATOMY. IN ONE EXAMPLE HE USES THE POINT BL-67, WHICH WHEN STIMULATED, AFFECTS THE VISUAL CORTEX REGION OF THE BRAIN. BL 67 IS LOCATE ON THE LITTLE TOE AT THE OPPOSITE END OF THE CHANNEL THAT BEGINS AT THE INNER CORNER OF THE EYE, IS A COMMONLY-KNOWN POINT FOR TREATING CONDITIONS OF THE EYE ITSELF, AND DR. JONES’ WORK CLEARLY CONFIRM THIS.
EVEN BEYOND SUCH A VALUABLE FINDINGS, HIS WORK HAS FURTHER DEMONSTRATED THAT POINTS CAN BE NOT ONLY TREATED BUT ALSO ACTUALLY LOCATED USING ULTRASOUND DEVICES. HE HYPOTHESIZES THAT IN THE FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES SUCH AS ULTRASOUND MAY BE USED TO PROVIDE THE PRACTITIONER WITH A PRECISE MEANS BOTH POINT LOCATION AND TREATMENT. HE BELIEVES THAT THE LESS-THAN-STELLAR RESPONSE TO ACUPUNCTURE MAY SOMETIMES BE DUE TO THE PRACTITIONER’S INABILITY TO ACCURATELY FIND THE RIGHT POINTS, LET ALONE BEING ABLE TO SELECT THE CORRECT ONES TO TREAT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
AFTER RESEARCHING OTHER FORMS OF MERIDIAN TREATMENT AS WELL, HAS COME TO CONCLUSION THAT A VARIETY OF ENERGETIC STIMULI ARE EFFECTIVE IN CREATING SIMILAR RESPONSES, AND BELIEVES THAT IN THE FUTURE OF THE ACUPUNCTURE THERAPIST MAY EVEN LEAVE NEEDLES BEHIND AND PROGRESS TO HIGHLY EFFECTIVE FORMS OF TREATMENT THAT ARE PAINLESS AND CARRY NO RISK OF INJURY OR INFECTION CAUSED BY NEEDLES. IT SHOULD BE REMEMBERED THAT THERE ARE NO LESS THAN 71 ACUPUNCTURE MERIDIANS, ALL INTERCONNECTED SO AS TO SUPPLY EVERY PORTION OF THE BODY WITH VITALITY.
12 PRIMARY MERIDIANS - BILATERAL CHANNELS
12 INTERNAL MERIDIANS - CONNECTING EACH CHANNEL WITH ITS ASSOCIATED ORGAN
8 EXTRAORDINARY - CONSIDERED TO BE THE CORE RESERVOIR OF ENERGY FOR THE ENTIRE MERIDIAN SYSTEM
15 LUO MERIDIANS - CONNECTING THE YIN AND YANG PAIRS OF CHANNELS
12 DIVERGENT MERIDIANS - BRANCHING OFF THE MAIN CHANNELS
12 MUSCULO-TENDENO MERIDIANS - RESPONSIBLE FOR THE HEALTH OF THE MUSCLES AND INITIAL DEFENSE.
WITHOUT ANY DOUBT, THERE HAVE BEEN OTHERS NUMEROUS STUDIES IN THIS FIELD CONDUCTED ALL OVER THE WORLD, (ACUPUNCTURE HAVE MORE THAN 2.500 YEARS !) AND THESE PROJECTS WILL CONTINUE TO EXPAND OUR KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING IN THE REALM OF SUBTLE ENERGY.
REFERENCE
QUANTUM ACUPUNCTURE, BY RONALD HENRY DC, ND, PAGS XXV, 2011
QI E ENERGIA, SIBRA CELIA, 2014, PAGS 65,66
Monday, June 29, 2015
RUBBER PENCIL EXPERIMENT
What to do?
Take the pencil in one of your hands and hold it tightly between your thumb and forefinger, in front of your monitor. Hold the pencil so it is vertical, very close to the monitor.
Now wave the the pencil back and forth in front of the monitor. Does it stay straight? Does it curve? Does speed of movement change the pencils behavior?
Now hold the pencil horizontally and repeat the above step. Does anything happen?
What is happening
The monitor redraws the screen from top to bottom at a rate near 60 Hz. This means that it will act like a strobe light, and allow you to "stop" fast motion. But since it is drawn from top to bottom, it will stop the motion at different points! So it will look like the pencil has curved: the top will be stopped at one time, and the bottom at another time!
When you hold the pencil horizontally, this does not happen. Why not?
(Note: we have been doing this with Mac monitors, where it works really well. We are not sure it works with PCs too, but we guess that it does. If you find any cool or unusual effects, let us know! You can write to us using the form here.)
SO COOL, I REMEMBER MY FATHER DOING THIS "TRICK" FOR US, EITHER WAY, VERTICAL OR HORIZONTAL, WHEN YOU MOVING WITH CERTAIN ABILITY , THE PENCIL CURVES A LOT! EVEN GET SMALLER, WAS FUN TO DO THIS AGAIN AND REMEMBERING MY POPS!!!
Take the pencil in one of your hands and hold it tightly between your thumb and forefinger, in front of your monitor. Hold the pencil so it is vertical, very close to the monitor.
Now wave the the pencil back and forth in front of the monitor. Does it stay straight? Does it curve? Does speed of movement change the pencils behavior?
Now hold the pencil horizontally and repeat the above step. Does anything happen?
What is happening
The monitor redraws the screen from top to bottom at a rate near 60 Hz. This means that it will act like a strobe light, and allow you to "stop" fast motion. But since it is drawn from top to bottom, it will stop the motion at different points! So it will look like the pencil has curved: the top will be stopped at one time, and the bottom at another time!
When you hold the pencil horizontally, this does not happen. Why not?
(Note: we have been doing this with Mac monitors, where it works really well. We are not sure it works with PCs too, but we guess that it does. If you find any cool or unusual effects, let us know! You can write to us using the form here.)
SO COOL, I REMEMBER MY FATHER DOING THIS "TRICK" FOR US, EITHER WAY, VERTICAL OR HORIZONTAL, WHEN YOU MOVING WITH CERTAIN ABILITY , THE PENCIL CURVES A LOT! EVEN GET SMALLER, WAS FUN TO DO THIS AGAIN AND REMEMBERING MY POPS!!!
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