Teaching Memory
How do we remember? Is there an inherent danger is misremembering? If we learn by thinking, is the preserved result of that process our saved memories?
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A Semiotic History of Playing with Brains
Why are we obsessed with playing with our brains? Is it because we understand the least about our thought processes and that unknown threatens us? Does God live in the mind? If we puncture the blood-brain barrier, have we finally captured the magic behind the red velvet rope line?
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No Idea is Forever
We know a promise only lives as long as the one making the promise, and today we must confess that no idea is forever.
Panopticonic Thought and Military Thinking
Do we create our thoughts? If we create them, do we own them? The United States Army is working on new “thought helmets” where “thought synthesis” between soldiers will be immediate an unspoken.
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The Mechanization of Memory
As we are swallowed by the technology we create, we are losing our emotional tether to history as human memory is mechanized into the ether of our invisible material world.
Never Write the Moment, Write the Memory
Many authors are taught to write in the now and to write in the moment — and while that idea is good and fine — it does not always allow for introspection from the distance of time.
If we write from memory, instead of from the moment, we immediately enrich our lives, and the experience for the reader, because wisdom and yearning are embedded in the word.
Memes and their memories create shared intelligence.
Memory imbues intellect and emotion belies meaning.
Memory leads us onto paths we share, but have yet to discover, while emotion — made of fuzziness and heartache — confuses and misleads us by bending light.
Going Great Guns
A Life Left to Live: How We Remember
I am always fascinated how we choose to remember things and events in our lives as well as how involuntary memories are pressed within us.
Memory sustains us while emotion destroys us. Do we choose our memories or do they choose us?
Cheating to Get Ahead
There is no greater harm to intellect or the education process than plagiarizing.
When you steal or purchase the thoughts of others and claim them as your own — the entire salvation of the world crumbles to ash.
We were thrilled to learn this week that Google have refused to accept advertising from Paper Mills as reported by Chronicle.com:
Term-paper and essay-writing services join prostitutes, firearms dealers, and hacking sites in Google’s forbidden-advertising zone, the company announced yesterday. Academic paper-writing services, or “paper mills,” will no longer be able to buy search terms in the Google AdWords program, and thus their ads will no longer pop up in the
“sponsored links” sections of a Google search-results page. (Links to those sites could still be found among the results on the main part of the page, however.)The paper mills, which offer buyers papers written to order for a fee, have been the subject of sharp complaints from universities, which view them as sources of plagiarism. But the companies themselves have a different view.
It is only in the free discussion of ideas that thought gains purpose over emotion and instinct.
We are humanized by our minds and the facts of our shared human memory.
The Danger of Emotion Over Memory
To live is to remember. To die is to decay in emotion. We have become lost. We value inconsistent emotion over verifiable shared memory and the result of that dissolution of appropriate duty is the loss of cultural immortality as a cogent people.
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