Selfless — Mushin ?
In my blog, I’ve been talking about the way of conditioning our brain to omit the process of the amygdala where the tagging of the incoming signal to the “Self” would be made. In the normal way, we can separate the particular face or person to such as my wife, kids or my friend etc. against the other nobody. Or the certain possession, or the occurrence to mine or my concern otherwise to no interest. Therefore, if we do negate this tagging process, everything would lose significance and become a remote landscape. —– to a certain extent, as everything become to detached object, a worry to lose them or want more kind of greed would be no longer there. So does the emotional trouble of up and down in the relationship would be gone. (How boring you might say.) 😀 —– A bit more serious front, where the situation is a fight or flight. It is the moment to be or not to be. Yet still, we can be free from such trouble by avoiding to be overwhelmed. —– We can be cool.
Amygdala is a part of the limbic system = primitive part of the brain. = It’s mean, they are common with other animal and in fact, those primitive part alone can manage the primitive life. (Only human needs a big brain) In the limited narrow environment, and as the limited life form, such as a small reptile can live their perfect life. They may not have a complexed communication system or accumulated information system still, enough DNA information to navigate the environment and the response to the life’s each needs = where to live, how to eat, how to mate, where to lay eggs etc etc. As long as the one lives their life as their life, the life existing as a complete life form. Only very few creatures imagine the situation beyond what their existence is. (Other than human, such as the monkey use the tools, even crow knows to drop a shell from the air to clack it and eat = speculated expectation made by the brain power)
The funny origin of the Buddhists “No-self” was that it was conceived against the Vedic / Hindu idea of the Atoman (perpetual soul) still, not only that, from the point of Karma (interrelationship of cause and effect) how the soul can exist after the own body’s death, and from the observation of the facts that is we are walking, working without having clear conscious, and such state must be the state of the truth to be with Dharma. So, to do the things without having conscious, became the point to achieve. —– The remarkable achievement under such state (of Mushin) is the by-products of later days.
When the coming signal was diverted from the amygdala, where they goes ? = they might be treated as nothing or nobody and as it got no pre-tagging, it could be made to quite illational connection. As the amygdala could make very rational established responce, but, once it was diverted, the signal could be treated quite wiled way = this is the very hot bed of the creativity or known to be open-minded situation. —– When the signal couldn’t find its natural nest of “Mine or Ego” the stray info’ end-up in the bizzerre fancy shop ! 😀
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Dorkbot London 95
Dorkbot is a strange social gathering — they says the gathering of the people doing strange things in electronics. Superficially it is the Geeks gathering yet in reality, some people are overlapping with computer hacker, anarchist, social activists etc etc. sometime a kind beyond the ordinary brain. Its mean, for certain situation, they are quite resorceful and effective people.
==== Jem Finer ====
“Longplayer and Supercomputer: Keeping things going”
Both a question and a proposition. Both are projects which would welcome wider collaboration and the ingenuity that Dorkbot may bring.
longplayer.org / supercomputer.org.uk / @jemfiner
==== Emma Winston ====
“Tell Me I Can Fix This On My Own: songwriting with code as a non-programmer”
How accidentally live-coding an album let one woman fall back in love with learning to program, and how (maybe) it can do the same for you.
emmawinston.me / deerful.com / @deer_ful
==== Nicola Plant ====
“Parallax”
Parallax is a movement-based interactive VR artwork. The audience communicate with one another by intuitively performing hand expressions and gestures that sculpt a shared malleable object existing in the virtual space between them.
Dr Nicola Plant is a movement artist, coder and researcher with a PhD in Media Art and Technology at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London.
nicolaplant.co.uk / @nicolaplant
==== Petre Brownell ==== (aka greenman)
(Sorry I couldn’t find the info’ of his talking — Somewhat the implication of Net system to the business system or their relation as he himself is an entrepreneur = aske him please)
>>> theorganization.com
==== Nicola Plant ====
“Parallax”
Parallax is a movement-based interactive VR artwork. The audience communicate with one another by intuitively performing hand expressions and gestures that sculpt a shared malleable object existing in the virtual space between them.
Dr Nicola Plant is a movement artist, coder and researcher with a PhD in Media Art and Technology at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London.
nicolaplant.co.uk / @nicolaplant
==== Annie Tådne ====
“Boberg 1”
Boberg 1. is a hands-on interplay between material and computational properties, where music is composed through visual means. In a performance, physical objects are translated into sounds and controlled through manual calibration.
They are the regulars, friends. —– (Those photos were taken by the 100year oled Kodak Vest pocket camera lens on Nikon Z7 = sorry about the focus, it was to scueez its pantograph )
I’ve been with them —– gosh, over 15 years ! ?
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Norman the evil AI
With a commonsense, we think that the word or notion “Scientific” is a synonym to “Rational” and often (quite opportunistically) think its nature IS virtuous, while forgetting a lots of evil science like atomic bomb. And believe that the ultimate intelligence / AI could solve all the problem of human being. Though, same to the Great Nature, the Science and the Rationalism is value-free. To see or use it for good or evil is completely up to us. Now the Australian is desperately wanting a stormy rain, even though it has been killing thousand of people in India. The rain itself was caused and acting completely out of poor human emotion = simply, too much moisture in the air has to come down in any manner. Even AI wouldn’t change this. (May give better weather forecast though) 😀
AI or Artificial Intelligence will work based on the all the information and all the ideas or theories known to the human society (that’s what they says). Then use all those data to generate the answer to the question. (It’s a famous story, when a Chinese institute asked AI about their country, the AI answered “You are silly to live in this country. Emigrate to Canada” — Chinese authority shut down the institute.) So, people think that like the all-known God the AI can give the best and ultimate answer to human —– but it was found to be not necessary true. —– Like a poor human, even AI can not necessary be rational and virtuous = it could be fatally biased by the first information like us misjudge by the wrong first impression.
AI-Powered Psychopath — Report by MIT
We present you Norman, world’s first psychopath AI. Norman is born from the fact that the data that is used to teach a machine learning algorithm can significantly influence its behavior. So when people talk about AI algorithms being biased and unfair, the culprit is often not the algorithm itself, but the biased data that was fed to it. The same method can see very different things in an image, even sick things, if trained on the wrong (or, the right!) data set. Norman suffered from extended exposure to the darkest corners of Reddit, and represents a case study on the dangers of Artificial Intelligence gone wrong when biased data is used in machine learning algorithms.
Norman is an AI that is trained to perform image captioning; a popular deep learning method of generating a textual description of an image. We trained Norman on image captions from an infamous subreddit (the name is redacted due to its graphic content) that is dedicated to document and observe the disturbing reality of death. Then, we compared Norman’s responses with a standard image captioning neural network (trained on MSCOCO dataset) on Rorschach inkblots; a test that is used to detect underlying thought disorders.
Note: Due to the ethical concerns, we only introduced bias in terms of image captions from the subreddit which are later matched with randomly generated inkblots (therefore, no image of a real person dying was utilized in this experiment).
Browse what Norman sees, or help Norman to fix himself by taking our survey.
Self — Subconsciousness
With the incredible advancement of the technology, medical science etc, now we are becoming aware what is the Self in totally different aspect. (Though, those stories were based on the net news, Youtube kind = second, third source. Take this lightly.)
With the forefront study of the monocular biology and the brain science using MRI kind of scanning = observing the activity of the brain, in relation to the internal flora of the bacteria, virus, even the parasite in our guts, are becoming clear. —— Why guts and the brain is linked ? you may say, = those organism in our guts are making many chemicals and those are circulating in our blood and reaching, affecting the brain, and the emotion, even high level decision-making and the behavior pattern.
You might heard the story of the parasite who manipulates the brain of ant to go top of a grass, in order to be eaten by a sheep, then lay their eggs there and it will be spread by the sheep’s droppings then go into the ant again = So, this cycle will be repeated and continues. —– those organisms can produce quite sophisticated chemicals, enzymes which can manipulate even our brain’s thinking and the emotion. Though, who designed this incredible system is nothing but THE mystery.
Our mood, emotion which affects our thinking, behavior could easily be influenced by those chemicals, brain transmitters, hormones. (Though, we may not know what IS the condition of “Without” = co-havitating bacteria and its chemicals could be the NORM of our existence.) = Remember, “Mitochondria” in our body-cells, they are in fact, just co-havitating foreign organism = we didn’t create them = they got their own DNA !
Long since, we human has been using the term / words, such as Guts Feeling, Intuition etc = we can not clearly know but only vaguely feel the effect, the invisible influence or resulting deep mind, which we call “Subconsciousness” —– IS in reality, a result of the balance of the neuro hormones include the chemicals from those bacteria, parasite, and not much to do with spirituality. So, true Self could be a product of the bacteria or parasite you are harboring in your guts. Sound great isn’t it ? 😀
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Baby baby
Yesterday I went to see my friends and their three months old babies. Those babies are the cousins each other and born only a day apart. (This photo = Pinhole)
When I saw them, I noticed that one of them had very hard birth from the shape of his head. Dady explained me, it was a 40 hours battle.
The baby having the face amazingly resembles to his parent = that’s because of their Gene, yet still the babies having big head despite the mother’s passage he had to came through hadn’t been evolved accordingly, was because the our (or ancestor’s) choice. = We human changed from herbivore to omnivore started to scavenge animal carcass, borne marrow etc. resulting our brain grow bigger. (omnivore needs to process much more information too = needs more brain power. —– And to compensate a such painful trouble of giving a birth, a pleasure the woman can get from the sex is far more = otherwise the woman would say “Oh no, never again” and the human race had been extinct long ago. )
Funny tendency of our attitude is, that we accept the physical appearance of the baby such as the face, and do know that the lines on the palm is fixed on the birth, still wouldn’t accept that the basic character (such as expressed on the line on the palm, the tendency in the emotion, a type of the brain, or Ego etc) = accordingly a kind of the life that the person will have, IS also fixed. (People doesn’t like to be fixed or been told by the others, and hope to have a hope = expect good luck, and the effort would change the fate = be optimistic.) It’s not a matter of Gene, but the Karma which was specifically given to the person. Otherwise why the person was made to be exist as this person. = It IS the same person since he was born.
(Those photos were by modified Olympus Pen-F 38mm F1.8 on Sony A7R)
( by PEN-F 38mm lens)
(by the Fun camera lens on A7R)
(Fun camera lens again)
So, they were the camera and the lenses I used here = Olympus Pen-F 38mm on Sony A7R, Fun camera lens, Pinhole (equivalent of 21mm lens view and about F125) and the lens from a Toy camera. ( The point is, I could carry all of them in my pocket. Why do I need to go back to a heavy DSLR. )
This Pinhole photo showing about 90 degree view and heavy vignettes (corner fall off) — ISO was 25600. Think, if this photo was ordinary sharp image, would it be useful for you ? — I don’t think so, since we are not seeing the world in its detail, anyway.
Yet another baby photo by a Pinhole (ISO 25600) on a DLR train — the girl wanted to touch the camera.
You see, a Pinhole was usable even for general snap shot. 😀 (Of course, such as the ISO 25600 — in full color ! — was never possible without having a processing power of the digital technology. —– So, I’m not insisting the pure analog in its own sake. I just want to have the image I want, not the image what the manufacturer recommends. = What they recommend was the style of the mass market of which they make and sell in millions. )
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Very Funny !
Very very funny indeed. I’m living in England long enough to know the English expressions, the meaning and its hidden venom. (learned with a pain and a disgust) And I actuary told or faced with this words “Very funny” = in fact, when people said this, the real meaning was “What a hell of this = I wish, I spit you if I could” (When the man in charge with the matter faced to a strong inquiry or complaint, in order to sway the trouble, he use this word. = didn’t respond straight therefore the trouble was not exists still at least responded therefore in its appearance, didn’t ignore the matter — still no answer or admission was given. = World is still peaceful as before (to him or his company) !
Though, in this case, the situation was much funnier than any cynical meanings. Please refer to the original story. = when I try to contact a Tripod manufacturer Manfrotto, about their crumbling disintegrating aluminium parts, I needed to fill their complaint form with my full personal data. And to the space, I put the photos which showed cracked, crumbling aluminium die-cast. —– It seemed the photos were just gone before I pressed a button to transmit the complaint text. And today I received a thanks from Google Map for me to up-load the photo(S). = How funny ! ? ? ?
—– the photo was intended to prove what was the real situation to the man in Manfrotto who gave me a rather empty response which indicates that they haven’t seen the photo hence doesn’t aware how it was serious. = So, instead, I put the photos of crumbling die-cast into my blog post (otherwise there was no way else to show the photo to them) —– The funniest part of this story was, that why a part of the Manfrotto complaint form was addressed to the Google Map. And one of the most inteligent organization, who got the most sophisticated image recognition program yet able to distinguish the block of aluminium to town-scape / landscape even to a block of building.
So, the Google Map IS proudly showing the aluminium die-cast with Manfrotto address to the world. Very very funny. = (to Mr Google and Mt Manfrotto)
—– I wonder, on their Map, what is this photo going to do ? Ha ha ha 😀
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Stitch Work (1)
Coming to the time hard to thread the sawing needle, I became
aware what I learned from my mother when I was young.
My mother used to make the Kimonos herself. Often using very
rare expensive silk such as Oshima-tsumugi. You may feel strange
though, I was sitting and watching her work and when she needed
I thread the needle for her. Make Kimono is of course done by the
hand stitching. (Even now, all the Japanese Kimono was made by hand
= a kind of tourists souvenir, Happi Kimono may be made by a sawing
machine (in China) but Japanese doesn’t see them are Kimono at all.)
—– Sawing, hand stitching is nothing but an utterly laborious work.
And virtually all the sawing in the Kimono-making is straight line.
Only the exception sometime is the end of Tamoto in Furisode Kimono
(= long sagged down sleeves). Its mean, no innovative variation or
inventive shortcut kind could ever exist = just keep stitching straight.
= If it was not straight, the fabric distort, so it looks funny and make a
person wearing feel ashamed. So,to a Kimono-maker or needle woman
to become able to do an adequate stitch, it may need to make at least
10 Kimonos for a practice. (if it was an expensive silk, de-thread and
remake again — very fine needle will not damage the fablic.)
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In the all the traditional crafts or art kind, how the novice to learn is
by way of watching and mimic = to copy what the master does.
Not mention the stitching work, which is push the needle, front to the
back and to the front again ~ ~ ~, mimicking and copy is nothing but
the repeating the same action again and again.
= IS to program the pattern into the brain. = (When the pattern was
imprinted in the brain, the action, include the speech become
automatic = automatic mean “No self”) When the level of learning =
copying deepen to such automatic level, it’s standard or the quality
reaches to the perfection. Because the body moves like a precise
machine without the interference of useless thought or emotion.
In this level, there couldn’t be any Ego = no emotion or high-level
thought. — so, you might wonder, what IS the motivation to do it ?
“Motivation ? What’s the Motivation ?”
— When the task is on front = there wouldn’t be any choice but to DO.
(This situation has been misunderstood as the “Concentration” or
so-called “Mindfulness”. 😀 )
And, is the task really there ? How DO I know when myself is not there =
nor any mind, observing it. (The people who mistook that the Zen
is a matter of awareness = A way of different thinking, couldn’t
emancipates this trap of thinking therefore couldn’t be escaped from
this dichotomy = “Observing vs Observed Self” — When the SELF is
not there, WHO is observing or aware of it ?) = It’s mean, as long as
a notion of Zen is there (or you think, you are doing a Zen),
it is not Zen at all. Zen is being in no-mind = Mushin.
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This is the situation WHAT the Buddhists call VOID.
— Which I’ve learned from the stitching work when my conscious
was absorbed into the moving needle.
= Effectively my mother taught me the most crucial essence of Zen
without saying even a single word of Zen or Buddhism.(Of course,there
was no word of Zen or even a name of Buddhism exists on the time of
Lord Buddha. He only showed the way to DO and what he told was the
jokes, then took a rest while sitting quiet. When the teachings were
“Selfless” it couldn’t be taught using the word “Self” as it’s not exists.
So, he only showed the way to DO without SELF.)
The people who was not there and only heard about had mistaken that
the sitting (and assumed to be thinking) was the matter.
Then all the misconception and the nix-up were bore out from here.
( — Sitting was just having a rest).
So, you were trapped here. Are you watching the stitches, or
something encircled by the stitches ?
Oh, naughty you, what are you thinking. It’s just a cloth and the
stitches, still it’s better to be a naughty as we can have a laugh.
Ha ha ha 😀
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Lord Buddha’s Stance
When Lord Buddha got his Enlightenment under a pepal (bodhi) tree, he received
a milk porridge from a village girl Sujata and eat it. Since he has broken rank from
heard austere, denying their way, such as torturing the body wouldn’t bring any
supreme understanding of the Truth, so better remain to be ordinary,
this was his fundamental stance. — So that, in his earliest basic teachings such
as the Four Noble Truth, the Life was defined as in a suffering. Although the way
to make oneself free from such sufferings was taught, it was not telling like a
transcended vision, but showing a way of the living (of daily life = never staged-up
like walk on the water, or move a mountain but how to handle the things we are
dealing with every day’s life while living together with followers).
= This stance was the very foundation of the Mahayana Buddhism.
(The reason why in the early days of the Buddhism appear to have so-called
Hinayana style was, probably the influence of one of the disciple Maha Kashapa
who was originally a hard austere monk. (Buddhism took 5 hundreds years to
realize this mistake).
Another reason why such mistake was made was, that the core of the teachings
was to train one’s subconscious, not a word to memorize. = Buddhism is NOT the
theory/theology or IDEA, but the way how we see the things, react to the situation
or handle the things “without thinking”. ( = Just Doing)
The way to DO or to LIVE in this way can be learned only by the practice therefore
no point to explain it in the word. = Very difficult to teach, let alone to learn.
(To explain or to question nullify the point = like, to explain to be silent.)
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The back ground of those teachings was that our brain process the matter
unconsciously — consciousness comes far later after the intervention of the loads
of “considerations” such as own gain, desire, manipulative trick, etc etc.
What Lord Buddha found was That all of our sufferings were emanated from those
“consideration” or Thinking, therefore to eliminate those thinking and live on the
Moment (you can only see “The Moment” = before or after/future exists only in
your mind/thinking.) you can eliminate Sufferings, also the products of
thinking/imagination = fear, delusion, evil idea etc etc.
Do or Live without thinking IS nothing other than the MUSHIN.
This mindset was described by the Mahayana Script writers as the VOID.
—– So that, the teachings of
Lord Buddha was nothing to do with a fancy stories of Deity or Devil, Angel
let alone fancy “Spiritual” vision, but the practice. And the everyday’s our life
is the reality of our life = rather messy ugly phenomena. This was why
Lord Buddha liked to mix with people, eat the same food (he died for
food poisoning of rotten fish = he ate anything = not a vegetarian).
And to live in MUSHIN in what life ? = Just in our life = as it is, nothing special
= just ordinary life — What a dog shit. But this IS what the Enlightenment.
Lord Buddha didn’t tell anything peculiar or supernatural stories because,
that was not where he stood. (He was not a magician nor spin doctor but an
Enlightened man = Buddha. Enlightened wise man tells useful real stories, not
the useless crazy fantasies.) 🙂
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What is MUSHIN ?
May be I’ve talked about this ten of the times if not hundred.
—– Still, I was asked the same question.
So, this is the most up-to-dated straight answer.
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It is a well known medical symptom among the Alzheimer patients
who lost the nerval connection to the Emotional region in the Brain
lost the recognition related to the SELF such as to recognize own
possessions even to distinguish the face of the own family.
So, Emotion judge the interest of OWN — in other words, this is the
center of EGO, Greed, Well being, Safety, Security, all those Instincts.
Of course, they are the key to the survival though, the total amount
of the signal/Data the brain has to deal is burst, so that there is a
rationalized economical saving was designed = coming data was
selected according to its importance.
The harmless insignificant data or repeating same data, are ignored.
We wouldn’t pay any attention to the same boring TV CM etc. and when
we do the repeating same work, we do automatic without Emotion. = In
deed, in such a case, the Motor Region of the brain would be programed
to do such routine work automatic, involving no Emotion at all.
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So, if we block the data/signal reaching Emotional region, we can do
the job automatic, without the Emotion. (= With highest efficiency !)
Without Emotion mean without the feeling of “Mine” = SELF —
because of no feeling of Ego, Self interest (mean, no envy, jealousy to
others), Own Greed, even No Cling to own Life, be free from the SELF.
This state of Mind mean, no need to cling the past, nor need to imagine
a dream= in other words, just see the world on front of the eyes as it is
Now, without having any Thinking.—– This eyes IS clear eyes.
And this state of Mind IS the “Mind of No-Mind” = Mushin.
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In order to acquire “block the Emotional process” Buddhists use
the long repeating practice for the brain to learn “How to
Opt-out the signal process” and DO the job (or Life) automatic.
(Like, you can branding “The matter” same as to the boring TV CM
and make it no longer recognized to be exists —
we know it’s still there though, it became a remote landscape.)
In certain extent, Zen Buddhism is very cool, even cold.
But, use this to live the life very hot is the other stage of Zen.
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PS : The Related Readings :
Clear the Deck for 2013 Reverse Engineering of Zen
Emotion / Meditation —– they are good to read. = It’s amazing
how Google Algorithm worked out to see the contents !
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On this Planet
Time to time, I fond the very rare access to this blog, such as from
the Palestinian Territories or Bhutan. And learned, such as
Faroe Island who supposed be a part of Denmark was treated
as an independent country and has their own flag.
Of course, these days, even middle of desert such as in Mongolia,
the locals has electric generator and watching satellite TVs so,
nothing strange to have a computer connected to the Net
—– and stumbled my blog 🙂 (Where ever on this planet, be ever
so remote, still someone stumbled and read this blog is nothing but
a manifestation of the Karmic power.)
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Mankind is an incredibly resourceful animals. Longtime ago,
I heard from Afghan, in order to connect satellite mobile phone,
they improvised to use chicken-net to make a satellite dish.
And I heard that in Cuba, where under the trade sanction,
everything has to be homemade or improvised = engine-oil
was made by a washing-up liquid mixed with sugar !
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Nothing like their creativity, still, I had to improvised a bit to take
a photo above. = Long list of the countries.
On the beginning, I tried to collage scrolled 2 images though, it
wasn’t looks good. — So, I setup the screen upright and showed
whole list in one screen and took the very photo.
(the reason why I’m writing such trivial story was, “It’s so funny
— and difficult — to use a screen upright”)
= It’s better you try it by yourself. —> Go to Control Panel —>
Adjust Screen Resolution. (in there, you’ll see “Screen set-up
= Landscape : Portrait” Then click Portrait. = So, the image flicks.
But, when you try to use mouse or touch pad, you’ll see the hell.
(It may not happen, if the device was touch-screen type).
After having had a fun, Go to the Control panel and click back.
= everything back to the normal ! (You feel sigh !) 😀
(I couldn’t imagine that the Microsoft still having such incredible
shoddiness in their program === It was a DISCOVERY !)
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