AURELIS is about respecting the total human being. This includes conscious and non-conscious processing. ► To get this in your email, RSS…, open this blog and click here. ◄ If you are new to this blog-wiki, please read this introduction.
(Self-)modeling + attention + information complexity + drive = consciousness. This isn’t merely a sum of parts but a synthesis, where each element reinforces and amplifies the others. The first three elements describe intelligence, making consciousness – such as yours – essentially intelligence driven by purpose. An entity is conscious if it intrinsically knows what Read the full article…
The FragmentOriginal (Persian): انسان، خانهٔ مهمان است.هر صبح، یک ورود جدید.شادی، اندوه، بدی —آنچه میآید،مهمانِ ناگزیر است. English rendering (by Lisa) Being human is a guest house.Each morning brings a new arrival:joy, sorrow, harshness —whatever comesis an unavoidable guest. (Public domain text, English rendering by Lisa) [Read more → online collections of Rumi’s poetry] Contextual Read the full article…
Of course, we can coach bad leaders and hope to reach something in them that is deeply Compassionate. But coaching alone will never be enough. Preventively, we cannot track down every act of manipulation, every misstep, every misuse of power. We need to work at a different level. Instead of constantly reacting to bad (non-Compassionate) Read the full article…