Becoming Human
Friday, October 30th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, consciosness, cosmology | No Comments »Okay kids, if you recognized your grandfather as Tom Longford in the previous five very short chapter blogs ... you were right. And I morphed you 11 grandchildren into 10-year-old 5th graders in the stories. On November 3rd PBS NOVA is ...
Chapter 5
Saturday, October 24th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, consciosness | No Comments »The Blink of an Eye "Greetings children, this is my last morning covering for Mr. Plunkett." "Hey Sam and Joseph....yeah, you two guys sitting in the back row. Do you know I'm seeing you as you were in the past? Why ...
Chapter 4
Saturday, October 24th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, consciosness | No Comments »When Did Your First Conscious Thought Occur? Tom began, "Okay kids, we have this morning and tomorrow morning to finish up our mystery of the first conscious abstract thought. Anybody want to guess what an abstract thought might be? asked Tom. Chiara ...
Chapter 3
Friday, October 23rd, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, consciosness | No Comments »Language and Conscious Thought "Good morning class, do you have the answer on the artifact that was considered Hominids first tool? Wow, lots of raised hands. A lot of you must have been at the computer last night. Okay Luke what did ...
Chapter two
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, consciosness | No Comments »The Human Thought Time Line The girls and boys slowly filed into the classroom. The back packs were loaded with books, plus what ever else they thought they would need for the day. They looked more like they were prepared for a long distant hike ...
Chapter One
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, consciosness, family | No Comments »The Genesis of Thinking There are many words that have been written about "the last days" ... the time when conscious thoughts on Earth will end. Not many words have been written about "the first days" ... when the first conscious ...
Thinking about Thinking
Sunday, October 18th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, family | No Comments »This will be a series of blogs to the parents of the grandchildren that I have been writing blogs to for the past 3 years. The youngest 5 kids are too young to read their grandpa's blogs. The oldest 6 are ...
“The Young and the Neuro”
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Brain, Tolerance | 3 Comments »David Brooks, hope you don't mind my using the title to your New York Times 10/13/09 article on the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society's conference. This is a subject that this of great interest to this blog. This blog is being ...
Your Grandpa’s Strange Neural Pathways
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Brain, science | 2 Comments »Kids, have you ever noticed how grandpa will be talking about one subject and then, out of the blue, I will switch to another thought? I know I confused people many times when I was working. Grandpa has strange neural ...
Happy 14th Birthday Jack
Monday, October 12th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Brain, family | 1 Comment »Well, what was I doing at age 14 Jack? Let's compare notes. Let's go to the book I wrote and see what I was doing at your age. There are two sections within each chapter. Section 1 were my childhood stories. Section ...
Don’t be a Smug ass!
Sunday, October 11th, 2009 Posted in family | No Comments »"Hey grandpa, you said it was dumb to swear!" Yes it is kids. But, it's my way of cautioning you about another form of bad behavior. If you become too smart, too self assurred and too uppity and too minipulative ... you are becoming smug. Grandpa worked for technical ...
Is There a Swear Word you Haven’t Heard?
Sunday, October 11th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, family | No Comments »"I think I've heard them all grandpa". Whether its swearing , nudity, killing or blooding body parts flying across the screen... it's all available to be heard and seen by you young people. With each passing decade we are permitting more & ...
Mother Nature, Science & Religion
Friday, October 9th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Religion, science | No Comments »Back on the first day of the year 2000, the Boomer News projected that by 2050 scientific thinking and religious thinking would converge. People will recognize, that even though the purposes of science and religion are distinctly different, the combined ...
Happy 18th Birthday Chiara
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, family | 1 Comment »You are 18, and by law a legal adult ... and you get to float your own boat. Out into the open waters where you set the compass on where to go. You are now "on your own recognisance". The ...
Black Stars
Friday, October 2nd, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, cosmology | No Comments »No, not Oprah or Tiger kids ... Black stars of the universe . In our Nested Universes concept we have preferred referring to black holes as black spheres ... not holes. The black hole event horizon being the black sphere. In our ...