“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.”

hah! i'd forgotton that. Sometimes that show was very funny.

A kinda' interesting article on the brain: [link]

I really love this blogger's description of it, though.

A new study just published in the journal Neuron describes how the brain handles surprise. Exploding is far less common that you would expect.

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Well, you see, it HAS been proven.

So I asked, "where? who proved?"

"there's been studies!"

So I ask, "By whom? Have these studies/tests/experiments been verified by an independent lab? Who paid for these studies/tests/experiments?"

She's looking into it. Which is what I really wanted.

I'm writing a new book, and this piece is on a late night conversation about astral projection, my neighbor has been taking classes to learn how to do it and transport herself to the eighth dimension.

I often have difficulty explaining things. She was adamant that consciousness is energy, and since energy can be transferred, our consciousness can just separate itself from the body and hover around like a bee.

Often in whackjob concepts like astral projection, people use sciency terms and such to make it all sound more legit.

I often have difficulty explaining things. She was adamant that consciousness is energy, and since energy can be transferred, our consciousness can just separate itself from the body and hover around like a bee.

I've heard similar used to argue for life-after-death. Some told me, "Consciousness is energy, and energy can't be created or destroyed, so consciousness continues on forever after you die."

Often in whackjob concepts like astral projection, people use sciency terms and such to make it all sound more legit.

Yep²

my neighbor has been taking classes to learn how to do it and transport herself to the eighth dimension.

Did you ask her, "What's wrong with the fourth through seventh dimensions?"?

What are people doing this weekend?

tomorrow we are going to see the steve miller band in a private box sponsored by some vendor that DH deals with. It should be fun, but not as much fun as last night.

We saw Old Blind Dogs They are Scottish and play traditional music. They rocked the house. and I have a crush on the drummer.

I also think we will be working on the floor boards.

Happy Birthday Sue and Sophia

I think there have been some weird anecdotes where flatlining patients have described events in a surgery theatre that they couldn't have observed from their prone (and at the time, DEAD) position, but I haven't heard of any "proof" of people going wandering from their bodies at will like in Dr. Strange comics.

After thinking a bit more:

I've heard similar used to argue for life-after-death. Some told me, "Consciousness is energy, and energy can't be created or destroyed, so consciousness continues on forever after you die."

Well, you could say that consciousness is energy organized in a very particular fashion. Um, and it takes a very complex brain with all sorts of chemicals and electro-chemical reactions and synapses to maintain that organization and if you were to take that energy out of the brain it'd be like a very dim light bulb radiating heat into the cold outdoors.

"Consciousness is energy, and energy can't be created or destroyed, so consciousness continues on forever after you die."

Um. Consciousness IS energy? Or requires energy? I'm suddenly going "Well, you quit eating after you die, so there's no more energy coming IN..."

I'm writing a new book

It makes me so happy to see this.

I think there have been some weird anecdotes where flatlining patients have described events in a surgery theatre that they couldn't have observed from their prone (and at the time, DEAD) position, but I haven't heard of any "proof" of people going wandering from their bodies at will like in Dr. Strange comics.

Yeah. I've never seen any proof either. And didja' know that scientists know how to reproduce this sensation? It's an illusion of the brain, usually caused by a shortage of oxygen. Fighter pilots pulling high-g maneuvers (that reduce blood flow to the brain) sometimes experience it.