5 Tweets and my 7 min audio commentary
Tweets follow.
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Climate change – Malcolm Turnbull MP (Aust)
Is the proposed ETS in Australia any better than the NZ one, which the NZ Greens say is a scam to make the rich richer & won’t do anything for climate?
Are the NZ Greens right?
Malcolm Turnbull makes sense, (who thought I’d be quoting an Aussie Liberal!)
First, let’s get this straight. You cannot cut emissions without a cost. To replace dirty coal fired power stations with cleaner gas fired ones, or renewables like wind let alone nuclear power or even coal fired power with carbon capture and storage is all going to cost money.
Meditation, the brain, Dalai Lama – Scientific American
Interesting, compelling? What do you think?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=meditation-on-demand-nov09
Elaborating, the spiritual leader of Tibet explained to the audience of scientists that although he meditates for four hours every morning, it is hard work. He divulged that if neuroscientists could find a way to put electrodes in his brain and create the same outcome he gets from meditating, he would be an eager volunteer. Now a set of experiments from researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University moves us a step closer to making his wish a reality. The neuroscientists managed to induce in mice a brain-wave pattern associated with meditation—answering a long- standing question about how this pattern is generated and theoretically laying the groundwork for a cognitive-enhancement technology that could mimic meditation’s effects.
Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecturers
Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecturers:
List of all the lectures. And to my delight, many are in mp3!
Later
Here is a pdf of Albert Ellis
Links to more follow later in this months posts.
Weekly Digest of Tweets 2009-12-06
Another lot; This one has #waltzzztv items
Alfred Korzybski: Writing
This book, Alfred Korzybski: Collected Writings, 1920-1950, from 1990 is only available second-hand – too expensive. I then found the Google edition below.
Later:
This book and all of Korzybski’s books are for sale cheaply at General Semantics Institute online
Later
I a Bought Science & Sanity from GSI – arrived in days! It is also online here.
Alfred Korzybski: Collected Writings, 1920-1950 follows (embedded)
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RET, Albert Ellis and general semantics
IGS Discussion Forums: Albert Ellis in the News:
Dr. Albert Ellis gave the Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture in 1991 in New York City. It was all about the parallels between his Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET) and General Semantics. He stated, “I was distinctly influenced, when formulating and developing RET, by several of Korzybski’s ideas.” (General Semantics Bulletin #58, p. 25)
General semantics – Outline
GENERAL SEMANTICS: An Outline Survey
by Kenneth G. Johnson 3rd Edition Revised
A very interesting Outline! This is by the same guy who I quoted earlier.
11.4 “ ‘You’d be interested to know,’ he (the psychiatrist) said, ‘how many people come to me with troubles that are largely a matter of nomenclature. They suffer the tortures of the damned at the idea that a particular label may fit them or may not fit them. ‘Am I a man? Am I a coward? Am I a failure? Am I an invert? Sometimes, simply, am I a lunatic?’ If you could only get it through your head that it’s you, only you, who’s pinning the label on or taking it off, you’d have your problem half licked.’ ”
– Louis Auchincloss [14]
Why language matters!
I just quoted Moreno on Korzybski, and they are both right. Language used in a certain way leads to inaction, and a false belief that we are not acting beings at all times.
The passage I found & that I have quoted below makes clear.
I know I have coached people to use EMA, English Minus Absolutism without rationally knowing why, or understanding the principle, I feel grateful and excited to discover this deeper principle. Also to see more clearly how it is related to Psychodrama and action.
Using E-Prime and English Minus Absolutisms to provide self-empathy.
Quote and some discussion follows.
Domination Systems
http://www.noogenesis.com/malama/nvc/domination.html
The video is interesting. As well as the site.