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A STUDY OF VISION IN RELATION TO THE MIND
AND HOW IT RELATES TO THE 'I' OR THE 'SELF'
Ayad Gharbawi
2008
INTRODUCTION
In this study, I will propose, that the relationship between Mind
and Vision can enable us to draw certain conclusions relevant to
one aspect of what constitutes the Mind, and therefrom, we may
seek a better understanding of what the 'I', or the 'Self' is. In
WHAT IS LIFE?
Ayad Gharbawi
This seems to be a simple enough question: what exactly constitutes the definition of ‘life’?
Let us begin, at the beginning – as they say.
‘WHO’ PRODUCES DREAMS IN THE MIND?
October 4, 2009
Ayad Gharbawi
This topic popped up as I (aka Dr. Z of www.MyLabYourLab.com) was working on putting together my itinerary for the upcoming annual meeting of the American Heart Association (AHA). Conferences are especially stimulating for me, as they represent a great intersection of people and ideas.
I had always though that refusal to get a flu vaccination was relatively harmless masochism. Refusal to vaccinate one's own children, on the other hand, should probably be prosecuted as child abuse, but at the least the negative consequences stay close to home.
If our essential functionality is probabilistic – any of an infinite number of synaptic connections may lead to one event or another within us – then our happiness must, in some measure, accommodate this chance-based essence. See, e.g., Gary Lynch (Big Brain).
Searching www.clinicaltrials.gov for current trials on BHD Syndrome reveals 3 studies; a) a genetic study of patients and families with BHD Sydrome; b) treatment of fibrofolliculomas with topical rapamycin and; c) another genetic study of patients with inherited urologic malignancies.
Here is a possible explanation for the Pioneer Anomaly.
The anomaly may be caused by the relativistic time dilation factor that should not be used with a coherent transponder link.
I have written a complete explanation on this site,
http://cafe.rapidus.net/remsimar/pioneeranomaly.doc
Your comments are welcome.
THanks, Remy
In the past I have pretty vehemently stated that I don't believe time is relative. That matter is relative, time is stable, and sometimes we mix up our perceptions or our lack of understanding of matter with our understanding of time, and as such get erroneous results when we perceive time to be relative.
Dissecting sloppy word usage and fundamentals in theoretical physics: Blog available here: http://badphysics.wordpress.com/
-S.C. Kavassalis
'WHO' AM ‘I’?
2 Persons Talking: 1 is Person One, and 2 is Person 2.
Ayad Gharbawi
1: What is your problem?
2: I don’t know ‘who’ I am?
1: ‘Who’ do you want to be?
2: I don’t know. I just don’t know what is ‘best’ for me’. Do you understand me?
Yesterday saw the release of the paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine containing the hotly awaited data concerning the RV144 HIV vaccine trial that took place in Thailand. There was already some discussion of the initial results, which were reported in September and discussed by Colin and Martin. As has already been discussed, there is a very cautious consensus due to the statistical analysis of the trial only *just* falling on the side of significant. Click here to read this post in its native environment, on Blue-Genes.net.
Vienna, 20. October 2009: AFFiRiS AG today announced that the primary endpoints have been met for the Phase I clinical studies of its two Alzheimer's vaccines AD01 and AD02, which demonstrated favourable safety and tolerability profiles. These results trigger a 10 million EUR milestone payment from licensee GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals.
An interest in puns has led me to start reading the literature on homophones. Interestingly, in appears that in the scientific literature "homophone" and "homograph" mean the same thing, which explains why there are so many papers about mispronouncing homophones.
For the first time, the capacity of soya plants to absorb nitrogen from the air has been precisely determined in dry areas of Eastern Austria. The primary aim of this project, backed by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, is to compare methods for determining nitrogen fixation levels and their application under conditions of drought stress.
