Tors Modus Operandi Cerebri

Torsdag 2021-05-20 våknet jeg etter meget god nattesøvn (kl 24-0700) med krystallklare tanker om mine hjernetilstander:

Mitt sentralnervesystem har tre virkemåter:

• • JEG: den rasjonelle; den bevisste tenkning

  • MEG: den intuitive; JEG med følelser, samt nervesystem og mikrobiom

  • DEN: mine nevroner danser på egenhånd uten at JEG medvirker (både krystallklar tanke og dyp depresjon er i denne modus).

DEN fungerer på samme måte som paradoksikal søvn (REM-søvn, dypsøvn), men i våken tilstand…‽

DEN opptrer oftest når jeg mosjonerer i naturen, eller idet jeg våkner fra dypsøvn, men også mange ganger når jeg er alene med mine tanker…

Det oppleves litt som å se seg selv utenfra; samtidig opplever jeg en intens nærkontakt med kroppen og sansene…

Noen ganger vet jeg at JEG må forsøke å styre DEN…

Hvis DEN blir for vilter, kan alkohol virke dempende eller føre til at DEN river MEG med i den viltre dansen…

Det snodige er at JEG opplever DEN…‽

Kloke ord om tenkning, mm.…

(hentet fra min lille sitatsamling som er en del av minMEMEX)

"​Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.​"

—Henry Ford​ (1863-1947)

"You can't think about thinking without thinking about thinking about something".

— Seymour Papert (1928-2016)

"Education in a deepest sense has always been about doing rather than about knowing."

― Roger Schank

“Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.”

― Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)

"Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies."

― Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)

“We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.”

― Edward O. Wilson

"I hate the way people use PowerPoints instead of thinking"

— Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

"Humans simply aren’t moved to action by 'data dumps,' dense PowerPoint slides, or spreadsheets packed with figures. People are moved by emotion. The best way to emotionally connect other people to our agenda begins with 'Once upon a time'"

— Jonathan Gottschall

"Good design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible"

― Edward R. Tufte

"Thinking can really be the enemy of action, and thinking can be the enemy of reality."

― Merlin Mann

“Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.”

― Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)

“Emotion is inseparable from the body in which it is felt, and emotion is also the basis for our engagement with the world.”

― Iain McGilchrist

“So thinking is prior to language. What language contributes is to firm up certain particular ways of seeing the world and give fixity to them. This has its good side, and its bad. It aids consistency of reference over time and space. But it can also exert a restrictive force on what and how we think. It represents a more fixed version of the world: it shapes, rather than grounds, our thinking.”

― Iain McGilchrist

"The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge. Otherwise he – with his specialized knowledge – more closely resembles a well-trained dog than a harmoniously developed person"

—Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

“No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.”

― Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

“Most people avoid thinking if they can, some of us are addicted to thinking, but Von Neumann actually enjoyed thinking, maybe even to the exclusion of everything else.” 

― Edward Teller (1908-2003)

"We live in an extraordinary time. We are caught up in a pace of social and technological change that makes our work, our business and education, sources of anxiety and unfulfillment. Thinking about our thinking and observing our observations can bring us a new world in which work becomes a place for innovation, and in which peace, wisdom, friendship, companionship and community can exist. Let us design this world together."

— Fernando Flores

“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”

― C.G. Jung (1875-1961)

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

― Jonathan Haidt

"Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all."

― Jonathan Haidt

“What do you need in the New Year? You need a dream; your dream needs an action; and your action needs right thinking! Without right thinking, you can have only unrealised dreams!”

― Mehmet Murat İldan

“Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.”

― Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”

― Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

"Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred."

― Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

"The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality."

― Arthur Koestler (1905-1983)

“It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it.”

—Darrell Huff (1913-2001)

“If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant past

Security in human systems we're told will always always last

Emotions are the sail and blind faith is the mast

Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast."

― Sting

"The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do"

—Technology Liberation Front

THINK

Thomas J. Watson Sr.

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