CDS Journal

I'm going back over a yoga reference I have in my library and realizing that it's not about yoga specifically, but about all "mindfulness" practices. It's a CBC Tapestry podcast, a series that I find a lot of very well thought out and useful stuff from, so I took this one quite seriously. In the introduction, it says "What was once a spiritual teaching about wisdom and compassion and reducing suffering in the world has been collapsed into a relaxation technique. The focus on ethics and morality is missing from a lot of forms of modern mindfulness." Revisiting this has shown me that it is about exactly the same thing that I focus on in all the conversations I enjoy having with people... the study of ethics and morality and how those things are missing from people's lives. This podcast simply suggests that this problem extends to mindfulness practices as well. This has helped me refine the statement I made about the "essence" of what is being...

AI "Stop Button" Problem - Computerphile - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TYT1QfdfsM This video started to mean something new for me today because I immediately realized upon a repeat viewing of it that the only reason this "problem" exists is because of the need for Sociality... to organize multiple individuals into cooperative systems as a survival response to evolutionary pressures. "Sociality is the degree to which individuals in a population associate in social groups and form cooperative societies. Sociality is a survival response to evolutionary pressures." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociality