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  Death Doesn't Exist And May Just Be An Illusion, According To Quantum Physics (msn.com) I am beginning to like this Biocentrism perspective. It is pretty much a perfect fit for what I have come up with organically as just another slob on the bus who never figured out algebra and science classes were just one fucking long hour in high school. It has just enough scientific pizzazz to sound cool yet negates the fearful aspects of religious faith and guys in robes saying scary stuff they just make up. Dr. Lanza appears to be a pretty smart guy too and discovered all kinds of stuff in medicine. For sure he is smarter than I am, and I am betting he can do himself some pretty fancy ciphering.  It all goes back to my core belief that everything we know has to be filtered through our own consciousness and five puny senses. Einstein has even referenced the 'Hard Problem' in several instances, and nobody was smarter than him. We are all guessing at the end of the day.

  The 10 Best Yoga Poses To Do Every Day, According To The Pros (bustle.com) I was never a very good hippie considering I was raised in the heartland of hippiedom at the height of its gestation period. I was pretty good at the taking drugs part and growing fashionably long hair, but most of the spiritual and political stuff didn't take root in my brain. I remember when Yoga first got popular and dating a girl who actually taught it, but I never paid it much attention. Then it became a fad with middle class housewives in the 80's along with all the other exercise routines that rode on the back of everyone owning VHR machines and the popularity of exercise tapes. I have an exercise routine and walk my 10k steps per day, but neither of those activities target range of motion as effectively as yoga does. If there is one thing I learned as a geriatric CNA it is that once you can't get up off the floor on your own without clinging to furniture you are on your way down that slippe

  Most US Teens Use Generative AI. Most of Their Parents Don’t Know | WIRED When the Chatbots started showing up awhile back I felt it was one of those huge turning points in the interaction between technology and humanity. Now when I search anything Bing's Chatbot automatically pops up on the right with a concise and well written treatise on the subject, even somewhat apologizing it did not know more about it. The writing is getting better and better too and has a warmth it was missing just a few short months ago. As an official old man now, I don't have a clue how school even works these days? It certainly couldn't resemble the educational model I was raised on. I find it amusing and ironic that one of the tools to detect if students are using AI to help them write is an AI program. The foxes are guarding the henhouse.

 My buddy Melissa and my movie this week was the original 2014 'John Wick'. Neither of us had ever seen any of the John Wick franchise flicks, and we figured we better at least see the original for our own pop culture literacy. I am terrible at keeping up on this stuff. I have never even seen a Star Wars movie. When people hear that they always give me a shocked look like I just announced I am the Anti-Christ. When movies get that big you almost absorb them by osmosis anyway by the constant cultural referencing.  This one also interested me as a newly minted gun nut. I had read where it truly follows how guns work in a gunfight situation. The guns' clips ran out of ammo when they were supposed to, they held their pistols correctly for greatest efficiency, shot at as close a range as they could get, moved laterally between shots, two to the chest, one to the head, etc. No sidewise gangbanger or cowboy hip shooting here, or the endless rounds coming out of a six-shooter in a

  The birth of pop: How catchy, disposable songs came to dominate the music industry - Big Think We forget that pop music is a business first and closely connected to the technology of its time. It wasn't that long ago that there was no recorded music, and the money was made by selling the songs themselves in sheet music form. I am old enough to remember when every home seemed to have a piano so mom could bang out some horrible, soulless show tunes we all had to listen to. Then came the electric organs a few years later for a new level of torture. That was the precursor to the electric guitar riff master's that were a staple of every music store in the 70's playing "Stairway to Heaven".  Of course, the only good pop music is produced generally between the ages of 15 to 25. I have a feeling that is because that is when we are running at our peak physically and experiencing all kinds of things for the first time, and that becomes the soundtrack to that brief span of

  Scientists can't decide if consciousness is real or fake (msn.com) I was just discussing this topic with my Lazy Boy Recliner today. Hey, any theory of consciousness is as good as any other theory when all you have to study it with is consciousness. I personally believe our whole Universe is just an atom in a rat's ass. A really big rat. At least relatively speaking.