Thoughts & Quotes about Critical Thinking
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Brain, social science | 1 Comment »Kids, grandpa calls the beginning of the 16th century the beginning of science.That is when Nickalaus Copermicus wrote that the earth circled the sun ... rather than the other way around. At that time, Thomas Cardinal Wolsey said; "Be very, very ...
The Brain as a Hologram
Monday, December 28th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Brain, science | No Comments »Kids, the brain is as complex and complicated as the universe. The brain has as many neurons as there are stars in the universe and just as many unanswered questions. Karl Pilbram came up with idea of the brain as a hologram ...
The “Other-Than-Conscious Mind”
Saturday, December 26th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Brain, science | No Comments »The Other-than-conscious mind is also called the subconscious mind, or the unconscious mind ... or the non-conscious mind. It's an area of science still searching for a better word to describe the "other-than-conscious mind". For the sake of brevity kids, we will ...
What’s it all About Chpt. 9
Saturday, December 26th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Philosophy, social science | No Comments »Well kids, I'm not going to continue the experiment of analizing my beliefs using just my memories to see if I can detect erroneous beliefs. I am getting too heavily into religious beliefs. My mother equated God with nature. Nature is God's creation. ...
What’s it all About? Chpt 8
Saturday, December 26th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Philosophy, social science | No Comments »Since 1500 until the present time the speed of new technologies being by introduced by science has been mind boggling. The way humans think and their beliefs has not advanced quick enough to react and adjust to what humans are now doing to mother ...
What’s it all About? Chpt. 7
Friday, December 25th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Philosophy, social science | No Comments »As we move away from a period of enlightenment and Christ's birthday 2000 years ago, we move into a period that began about 400 AD to about the 1,300 century where there was in pause in the written word. It was like ...
What’s it all About? Chpt. 6
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Philosophy, social science | No Comments »The period from 5000 years ago to the birth of Christ still has a huge impact on our thinking and beliefs today. An era of intellectual excellence was occurring. Homo sapien, (we now refer to ourselves as humans), were braking new intellectual ...
What’s it all About? Chpt. 5
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Philosophy, social science | No Comments »Kids, a quick review of the objective of this series of blogs. I am using only the information in my hippo campus to investigate how I think and what I believe. And then at the end of this series of blogs, ...
What’s it all About Chpt. 4
Monday, December 14th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Philosophy, social science | No Comments »The miracle of creation was there to see, experience and contemplate during the birth of a new human being. Grandpa thinks that by 50,000 years ago humans had conscious thought and were acquiring language. Developing language was slow and difficult at first. But once ...
What’s it all About? Chpt. 3
Sunday, December 13th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Philosophy, social science | 2 Comments »Why not try to find answers to those great philosophical questions in your own mind kids? "What's it all about" is pretty broad-based question that covers a wide range of philosophical questions. Your grandpa choose two areas of inquiry for the Boomer News blog 3 ...
What’s it all About? Chpt. 2
Saturday, December 12th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Philosophy, social science | No Comments »Before we begin the journey & story of the Homo sapiens on the Coast of South Africa over 100,000 years ago, let's try to address the title of these blogs. "What's it all about" is just one of many philosophical ...
What’s it all About? Chpt.1
Friday, December 11th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Philosophy, social science | No Comments »Kids, this is a journey into my hippo-campus to investigate how I think and what I believe. My attempt to answer the question; "What's it all About" should reveal something about my thinking methodology and how I have arrived at ...