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1. The birds aren't moving. This is driving me insane. 2. I stopped because I became paranoid that with 0:15 seconds, the website was going to rick-roll me.
- Alright, calm down
- What if my monitor goes into power saving mode?
- It's only 2 minutes, I'm sure power save is set for longer than 2 minutes.
- I wonder what the default setting for power saving is in Windows 7.
- Concentrate!
- (looking at the horizon on the right below the clouds) I wonder what it would be like to be a world traveler by way of boat.
- Hey, what are those birds doing there?
- Try to remember your thoughts to post on HN after the 2 minutes is up.
- Look at that swell. I wonder how that works, exactly.
- (distracting noise in background) Feeling tense again!
- I think the wife and kid are watching me take this seriously, and have probably lost a sliver of respect for me.
- (mind drifts into nothing for a bit)
- Well, that was calming. I like looking at the horizon.
- I wonder what I get for beating this.
Concentration is a skill that requires practice, like anything else.
Did anyone else catch Sam Harris' response to Edge's 2011 question, "What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?"? I found it quite interesting. http://www.edge.org/q2011/q11_12.html#harriss "I invite you to pay attention to anything — the sight of this text, the sensation of breathing, the feeling of your body resting against your chair — for a mere sixty seconds without getting distracted b…
That's actually quite simple. Mushrooms, LSD, or any number of other psychedelics should do the job. For the more industrious, meditation will do it too.
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I haven't logged in to comment for 37 days and this little essay is such utter garbage. The fact that it takes him just 7 paragraphs to completely dismiss all potential religious truth as "clearly false" should set off anyone's dogma-alert flag. Being focused in the present is awesome, but the fact that we have the ability to pay attention on things other than reality is not a problem, but in fact essential to the he…
As far as I remember Sam Harris does know quite a lot about Neuroscience in fact he is a PhD in that very area. With regards to potential religious truths then the problem of course is that you can't verify religious claims thus the very idea of talking about truth in this context seems rather misguided.
Did anyone else catch Sam Harris' response to Edge's 2011 question, "What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?"? I found it quite interesting. http://www.edge.org/q2011/q11_12.html#harriss "I invite you to pay attention to anything — the sight of this text, the sensation of breathing, the feeling of your body resting against your chair — for a mere sixty seconds without getting distracted b…
I haven't logged in to comment for 37 days and this little essay is such utter garbage. The fact that it takes him just 7 paragraphs to completely dismiss all potential religious truth as "clearly false" should set off anyone's dogma-alert flag. Being focused in the present is awesome, but the fact that we have the ability to pay attention on things other than reality is not a problem, but in fact essential to the he…
You'd probably do something to improve your reality rather than try and replace a miserable life with some form of escapism (not picking only on religion here, even World of Warcraft fits the bill).