An experimental personal conceptual knowledgebase.
A blog-based commonplace book.
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01, 2009
dukkha
suffering, unsatisfactoriness, or misery; directly translated, "stuck like a potter’s [...]
17
09, 2007
Role of/dealing with (negative) emotions
Negative emotions are like alarm clocks: their purpose is to [...]
24
07, 2005
Meditation as strengthening exercise for “virtual machine” of human consciousness
Dennett, Consciousness Explained: “Conscious human minds are more-or-less serial virtual machines implemented [...]
7
07, 2005
Units of biological & cultural evolution
Biological EvolutionReplication of genesphenotypes = bodies.Cultural EvolutionReplication of memesphenotype = [...]
28
06, 2005
9 basic emotions
The main emotions that can be differentiated & recognized across [...]
24
10, 2004
Small doses or large?
Perhaps everyone must experience a fixed amount of negative feeling [...]
6
07, 2003
Why – What – How in teleological hierarchies
In a hierarchy of goals (purposes, objectives, targets, missions), the [...]
6
07, 2003
Values as constraints in an organizational goal hierarchy
Values are orthogonal to a goal hierarchy. Values constrain the [...]