Thomas Jockin

The heart is not a pump. Or rather, it is a pump in the same way that a smartphone is a flashlight. Yes, it performs that function. But it is so much more. The heart possesses its own intrinsic nervous system, containing approximately 40,000 sensory neurons, called sensory neurites, that form what cardiologists now call the heart's "little brain". The heart generates the largest electromagnetic field in the body. Its electrical field is approximately 60 times greater in amplitude than the electrical activity generated by the brain. The magnetic field produced by the heart is more than 100 times greater in strength than the field generated by the brain and can be detected up to three feet away from the body in all directions using SQUID-based magnetometers. HeartMath Institute research has demonstrated that the timing between pulses of the heart's magnetic field is modulated by different emotional states, and crucially, that these magnetic signals have the capacity to affect the physiological systems of individuals around us. This is not metaphor. The heart broadcasts electromagnetic information about your emotional state into the environment at the speed of light, and the nervous systems of other people act as antennae, tuned to and responsive to these signals.

The problem isn't that machines seem to be able to replicate something like human intelligence (an admittedly very interesting technical achievement). The problem is that many humans don't seem to be capable of exercising anything beyond something like machine intelligence (no nous, only a bit of dianoia, a challenge which a cultural, political, and philosophical, not technical).

The problem isn't that machines seem to be able to replicate something like human intelligence (an admittedly very interesting technical achievement). The problem is that many humans don't seem to be capable of exercising anything beyond something like machine intelligence (no nous, only a bit of dianoia, a challenge which a cultural, political, and philosophical, not technical).

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You can’t will yourself to forgive. There’s no tool or exercise. It doesn’t happen because someone, including a therapist, says you should. That leads only to denial & unconscious resentment Forgiveness is never a legitimate therapy goal. It may come about—but it can’t be a goal

You are just talking about Virtue. There's no need to even make this women/men distinction. Any time we give some 'attribute' , it always comes down to virtue, and virtue is always related to health, because it is the dominant analogy Aristotle ascribes to it.

Dear compatibilist friends, I have a question for you: Suppose it turns out that quantum randomness in my brain makes it 50/50 whether I choose tea or coffee (which could be the case if the brain is a classically chaotic system). Is that still compatible with my choosing, say, tea? If "yes", could you please say a bit more to counter the intuition that the randomness undermines this being a genuine choice?

Extraordinary video. Too many extraordinary things to count. Most won't understand