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28.02.2021

“A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence” by Jeff Hawkins

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"A bestselling author, neuroscientist, and computer engineer unveils a theory of intelligence that will revolutionize our understanding of the brain and the future of AI. For all of neuroscience's advances, we've made little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence? Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses maplike structures to build a model of the world-not just one model, but hundreds of thousands of models of everything we know. This discovery allows Hawkins to answer important questions about how we perceive the world, why we have a sense of self, and the origin of high-level thought. A Thousand Brains heralds a revolution in the...>>

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28.02.2021

“The Two Chief Motors of Our Existence: Food and Sex” by Clare Mingins

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"This booklet explores aspects of the teaching of G.I.Gurdjieff in terms of "the two chief motors" of our existence, the digestive function and the sexual function. The contents were originally published as a paper in the Proceedings of the 2010 "All and Everything International Humanities Conference." According to Gurdjieff, sex energy is the final result of the transformation of our ordinary food and drink. It is also the source of all higher energy and of Will, and is necessary to create a soul. The ordinary person carries out incomplete absorption and transformation of active elements from the three being-foods. The small amount of energy produced is either automatically used up, wasted, or tainted. Ordinary...>>

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27.02.2021

“The Dark Triad: How the Psychopaths Took Control” by Steve Madison

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"The world is not ruled by wise and benevolent people. The opposite is true. Humanity is ruled by the psychopathic, the narcissistic and the Machiavellian – the malevolent Dark Triad. For humanity to progress, it needs to learn how to beat these people, how to identify them early and stop them getting to the top. The Dark Triad types are always entropic and extreme individualists (they are all-consumingly selfish and care exclusively about themselves). We need to get the Light Triad to the top – the Compassionate and Empathic (the opposite of psychopaths); the Altruistic (those who care about others, hence aren’t self-obsessed like the narcissists); and the Philosopher Kings and Queens (the opposite of...>>

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27.02.2021

“The Quality Agenda: The Search for Excellence” by Steve Madison

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"It’s not about surviving, it’s about thriving. It’s not about muddling along, it’s about undergoing an alchemical transmutation, a glorious transformation, a metamorphosis from a grub into a wondrous, iridescent butterfly ("psyche", to use the ancient Greek term). It’s about going through a phase change, altering from a humdrum human into a world-historic shaper of destiny. It’s time to enact the Quality Agenda, to pursue excellence to its uttermost extent. It’s time for the glory of Meritocracy, the system that will change everything. Don’t you want the best of all possible worlds – an optimized State, composed of optimized citizens? What could be superior to that? Reboot the world. Revalue all values. Thus spoke Zarathustra."...>>

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27.02.2021

“The Story of Your Life” by Steve Madison

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"And so the time has come for you to tell the story of your life. How will you do it? A straightforward, linear narrative? Perhaps you will adopt an experimental approach. Do you aim to produce something of great artistic merit? Will you tell the story simply, or do you want to convey something complex and beguiling? Will you be scrupulously truthful, or do you intend to embroider the facts and events? Perhaps you want to present a fantasy version of your life rather than the real thing. Perhaps you want others to admire you and respect you, so you will censor all the unsavory and disreputable things you did. You definitely won’t be presenting...>>

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