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  • Empathic care and empathic distress cluster nicely into positive and negative affective connotation.

    The group of researchers discovering the different systems involved in empathic care and empthic distress, also conducted a cluster analysis on the associated feelings:

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  • Sometimes you can see people’s thinking. The left barrier they identified for the problem somehow rests in their left hip. The right barrier rests in their right hip. Then the rest of their torso works to operate their mouth in an ever louder and more vehement fashion, repeating what they said ten times before to nourish their notion that some people were still too dumb or undisciplined …

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  • I just found another interesting article by Marzenna Jakubczak, who discusses the concept of an ego-maker in classical Samkhya and Yoga in the light of the mind-body problem. Comparing the two, a distinction between a mind-body problem (western philosophy) and a mind-consciousness problem (eastern philosophy) can be made. And making some fun of Lisa Feldman Barrett. SCNR. …

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  • In my proceedings about fragile and antifragile IT systems, I describe a hard border between two realms whose configuration requires fundamentally different strategies to operate in. Their intersection has been loosely based on the Cynefin model. I argue that this boundary is part of a bigger picture that is at the roots of all science and knowledge generation: turning the unknown into the known. …

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  • Sometimes in terms of meditation, or non-attachment, the metaphor is used that one should remember looking at things like a child. People may mistakenly deduct, that the process of meditation tries to reverse thinking. This assumption is grounded in false, mechanistic thinking.

    When thinking in mechanical terms, processes need to be reversible …

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