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True, I have been a typist, and using that skill for fifty years, but honestly, my fingers know where the letters are, but my brain hasn't a clue. If we get a question in the pub-quiz about the keyboard, I cannot tell you what letter comes between two others, without typing out 'The quick brown fox...etc'.Interbane:
The amount of sense datum that reaches our conscious is a fraction of what our brain is processing at any given time. Most is unconscious, filtered, ignored.
Casey, 'Thinking Fast and Slow' is, I think, a very relevant book. I don't know why I am finding it so depressing and it is perhaps just the take on it we're following. Having merely read the introduction and talked at some length on here, I've just set it aside for awhile, to read 'Dark Nature' by Lyall Watson. It it is doing the trick and lifting my spirits, so I'll just type out the blurb for you all, so that you know why I have been temporarily diverted:-
When violence threatens to become epidemic and genocide and organised rape take the place of diplomacy, the usual moral, religious and philosophical explanations for human behaviour seem inadequate. To help us understand what is happening, Lyall Watson redefines good and evil in biological terms. Drawing on the latest insights of evolutionary ethology, anthropology and psychology, he takes a fresh look at life and the problems our species faces as a result of being too numerous, too greedy or too mobile.
Taking evil out of the realm of monsters and demons and putting it back where it can be controlled - in our lives - Dark Nature is a vital and timely antidote to despair.
You might like it Youkrst.
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I can't put it down. It is awhile since I found a book which I try to read whilst doing the ironing.
A couple of things which have delighted me, are:- 1) That mathematics, precision, geometry are already there in nature. Man didn't invent maths, he just discovered what was already there!!!! 2) We, as humans, are not just flesh animated by the life-force, as we are taught, religiously speaking, but we are the life force manifesting itself.
I don't really know why I want to give three hearty cheers on reading this.
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