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	<title>IntrinsiMind</title>
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	<description>a philosophical aside</description>
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		<title>Vive hodie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Vive hodie&#8221; is Latin for &#8220;live today.&#8221; I agree with this perspective because tomorrow might not be there, waiting for my plans. But how practical is it? It depends on the consequences. Usually, living for today amounts to making the most of working in my cubicle. It amounts to making the most of opening as many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://intrinsitivity.com/mind/2010/05/21/vive-hodie/</link>
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		<title>Awareness and evolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It fascinates me that, right at the point where technology and biology begin to intersect and coevolve, we are also beginning to understand how we came to exist, using  such discoveries as chaos theory, fractals, and cybernetics. Yet, from a slightly broader perspective, this seemingly remarkable timing makes perfect sense given that science and technology have always [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://intrinsitivity.com/mind/2010/01/18/awareness-and-evolution/</link>
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		<title>Multiplication and division</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What does it mean to ask why one exists? It seems wiser to ask why the universe exists, since we are part of it. And what could it possibly mean to ask that? Using organic life as a guide, purpose relates to procreation or, more generally perhaps, multiplication and division. We are here to prove [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://intrinsitivity.com/mind/2010/01/14/multiplication-and-division/</link>
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		<title>If I could control the world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If I could control the world, I would want countries competing, with strong national identities and unique sensibilities about core values. The goal is noble, to foster progress. But it comes at the expense of individual happiness, which is what all critics of governments oppose. Unfortunately, a world at peace is a world in stagnation.]]></description>
		<link>http://intrinsitivity.com/mind/2009/08/17/if-i-could-control-the-world/</link>
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		<title>Do We Understand Quantity?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The concept of quantity presupposes the concept of identical entities, which do not exist in nature (i.e., having all of the same properties, since at least one spatial dimension must differ to perceive discreteness). So, quantity must be a purely abstract concept, being a property of nature, but not part of it directly. This also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://intrinsitivity.com/mind/2009/07/10/do-we-understand-quantity/</link>
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		<title>Temporal Survival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If the perception of time is subjective, then temporal perception is, in a strange way, a survival mechanism. This suggests that our everchanging perception of time is, like our everchanging perception of space, governed by our immediate survival needs. As a basic example, if time seems to slow down, then this might be the brain&#8217;s way [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://intrinsitivity.com/mind/2009/06/26/temporal-survival/</link>
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		<title>Catching a Waterfall in a Paper Cup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Among those of us, typically cited as 1/5 (but probably now 1/4) of world&#8217;s population, who have access, and are typically addicted, to the Internet, one of our biggest problems is information overload and, because of it, time management. Even without the Internet, time management is a real problem for people, but the Internet severely compounds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://intrinsitivity.com/mind/2009/06/22/catching-a-waterfall-in-a-paper-cup/</link>
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		<title>If a Plant Could Walk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If a plant could walk, would it have free will?]]></description>
		<link>http://intrinsitivity.com/mind/2009/04/19/if-a-plant-could-walk/</link>
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		<title>Energy Equivalence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The conversion of chemical into mechanical energy &#8211; muscle or emotion? Both!]]></description>
		<link>http://intrinsitivity.com/mind/2009/04/19/energy-equivalence/</link>
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		<title>Are We Certain About Doubt?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, we live in a world in which the concepts of incompleteness and uncertainty are seen as integral and inherent to information transfer. Does this mean that certainties will always conflict between any two or more agents or, even, within a single awareness? Are we sure that doubt is the only reasonable position for each [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://intrinsitivity.com/mind/2009/03/02/are-we-certain-about-doubt/</link>
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