tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-296011912011-12-14T18:52:36.156-08:00Conscious, Emotion, Change, and Growth, My Journey to Fit In This WorldHui Zhouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16726025082409899550noreply@blogger.comBlogger511100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29601191.post-85607082032152102292007-05-30T09:28:00.000-07:002007-05-30T10:35:54.222-07:00

We are always buying the chepest milk. Common milk is cheap, organic milk is expensive. There were concerns of price and health. The former we are clearly aware of, yet the latter remains to be a hypothesis, at least to us. We and some of our friends went into an argument of whether we should buy organic milk from now on. I wasn't in a position to argue much, so here I am collecting some

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Read: http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2006/10/06/small-is-useless/So no matter how futuristics and responsible or conscious we are, curb our crave for solar pannels and micro wind turbines. Rather, write letters to politicitions. :)However, all reports and essays are building on the assumption that our energe use won't decreas in developed country and certainly will grow in third world country.

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I usually only gets one point from one book, but a seemingly second point in "Selfish Gene" has been very sticking in my mind.The essense of it is: in a long term relationship, the seemingly optimum strategy is like a tic-for-tac strategy -- it starts with a "nice" behavior toward an "opponent", then repeats the behavior of its opponents (toward it). The author summarize 3 properties of

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Conscious is very intersting to think about :).On one hand, conscious is a result of biological evolution. Down the path of evolution, it just came to the conclusion that, an entity with conscious is more likely to survive than one without. On the other hand, conscious is the origin to the cultural evolution. Culture is a conscious product. We creates culture just like the way God creates biology

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Since I now recoginze both cultural evolution and biological evolution as "evolution", certainly they share some properties, such as the property of reprecations. But apparently, they are very different.Biological evolution is more like a hardware programing for us. It gives us natural feelings, such as craving for food, appeal from opposite sex, and curiosity in exploring unknowns. Cultural

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Alas, there is little probablity that an expert hadn't considered the conclusion a non-expert does. Richard Dawkins, now I know he is a famous scholar, concluded the culturral evolution as well, and have give it a name, Memes. Why I didn't think of this name? :)I guess I need buy his book at some point.

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I browsed through the new book shelf in my local public library and picked a book -- Richard Dawkins's "The Selfish Gene". I am currently half way through the book.The book basicaly says that evolution is on the individual gene level, rather on the species level. The gene is in fact "immortal" via the way of replication, and the long path of evolution is essentially a survival competition of

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When I wrote my resumes, motivated is often the first word jumps into my mind and always lands on the paper. I thought of the jobs I was applying, and imagined how I would perform in the new company, or even in the new field, then I felt nothing but motivation. Then someone's blog hits me -- it is not wise to list motivated as a quality to be seeked in writing a job requirement. People are always

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I have been prooud of my vision for quite some time. All my parents have good visions. My brother has a good vision. And all my grandma and grandpa's have good visions. And as I count them, all my close relatives have good vision too. I have believed I have good genes that renders good vision for me, even though I have been reading more than my peers when I was young.But I can't help noticing my

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If nothing matters after death, then should we care about others' lives after our death? Should we care about the golbal warming 100 years later?Well, the point is not wheter we care about it after our life, it is about the current life we are in at this instance.Would you enjoy your life now if I can show you enough evidence that your children will suffer? Would you enjoy your life if the images

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Cathy writes a blog titled Life is Short. I suddenly find it fun to write this blog and name it "Life is Long" :).How long is an individual's life? As long as we can imagin."I think, so I am". As long as we are thinking, seeking, and imaginning, our life is here, and extends to an infinity. How do you measure the length of life? Isn't it measured by the amount of thoughts you are having? If I put

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Colorblindness is one very interesting subject to think about as this article indicates. The article itself is just so so, but from its popularity we can see how fascinating the subject is. Are the colorblind people living in a different (black and white) world than we (non-colorblind people) are? Do we all just living in a subjective world?From the comments, we can see that most colorblind

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Conitinue my thought -- Why the evolution end up today with so many species?I think once a certain species (it starts with just a group of lifes) selects its enviroment, and adapts into a specific life patterns, the filter of evolution gets adjusted. So the filter of monkeys is just too different than a chimpanzee. It is like many self-condensing vallies.

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I am having a great time in the discussion with Cathy talking about "natural aptitude" and I need blog some of my arguments down here.From reading the "expert mind" article and echoing with my old thoughts, I came to the concolusion that our born ability to achieve any paricular society recognized achievement is about the same, thus wether one will become an expert is matter of enviroment and his

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I left a comment on Cathy's blog Works in Progress, a comment that I am not sure is an encouragement or an encouragement of quitting. :(I myself is a fairly quick quitter. I like start learning, praciticing, and training on many new fields. The start of one field is the most joyful experience. One learns new tricks, find new abilities, and can talk for hours in front of friends about the

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I read "Change is inevitable; Growth is optional." Just like Cathy, when you spot a word says so much that you want to say, you have to blog it down.The world is changing, it always is. If one always change oneself to fit into the change of his world, he will never catch the it, always one step behind. So how do we live in this changing world? The trick is to spot its principles behind the

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It is often not difficult to respect a person before you know him/her. Then, when you getting closer to that person and know that person better, the mutual respect slides.Wife is one of the most difficult to respect persons in my world. I know all the stupidity, ridicularity, worst habbits, weekest links, ..., almost as much as I know mine. How can I find my inner source of respecting her?It is

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While I am looking for source of motivation from inside, I need recognize the power of habbits. Habbits are a form of long term memory on action patterns and thought patterns. A habbit forms when we establish some shortcut from one set of information (or situation) to a piece of memory we have before or even without conscious of why that piece of memory exist in the first place. For example, a

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I am one of the most unappreciative persons, yet there are things and people I appreciate spontaneously.I appreciate those who help me when I need help. I appreciate those people who achieve what I cannot. I aprreciate those people who are capable of what I am not.I have aprreciated few people. Now think about it, it is a results of my super-inflated ego, believing I was capable of doing most

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I read Dale Carnegie since I was very young, and I read it again and again. Each time, I can't help thinking that his word is so right, why didn't I follow his word.One priciple from Dale Carnegie's book is to show appreciation to others. I wouldn't say I haven't spend my effort in his word, but I can't help realizing that I have failed miserably in my life up to now. I am start to realize that

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Dale Carnegie's book is the first book I read about how to live with each other, and the only book I remembers. Actually, I only remember one word from the book -- appreciation. It is so true and it appears every problem of relationship boils down to appreciation -- our desire to get appreciation and the importance of giving appreciation.A recent example is Dave Cheong's 8 simple things to

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Browsing through the popular links from digg and delicious, I spot a trend -- people really likes subjects like "Top 25...", "10 most important...", "3 steps to ...", "7 mistakes ...", 10 ways to...". It apears that every day I would flip through some of those numbered lists and yet, I hardly can recall any of them. It appears I only can really remember something if there is only one principle to

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Today I read a comment on slashdot about emotion. The orginal subject is about a php developer quits. The comment I read talks about the role of emotion in our life. Almost exactly my own thoughts except for the wordings. Here I cites below:"Re:Looks like a stomp and a doorslam.(Score:5, Insightful) by hey! (33014) on Friday July 28, @07:38AM (#15797781) (http://kamthaka.blogspot.com/ | Last

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It is very easy to understand people who engage in efforful process of gaining experience and heading for the direction of becoming experts when they are at the beginning of the road. It is easy to pick up a hobby and devote countless hours in it; it is easy to spend day-and-night learning programing; it is easy to to practice tennis without breaks from time to time. Because, at the start of the

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When we read many life guide out there, most of them all point to some intrinsic quality of you -- what you really interested in and what you really love to do.The question is trickily asked. The word "really" in the question assumes that there is such quality (interest and love) lives in you, born with you, and you need to find it out. But what if the quality is not inside you? Then how hard

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Nice Article!However, I see from comments that many readers are young about to choose a career or even a major, and would like to point out: be flexible. What you love to do often change.From my cursory reading, skill+interest+value -> what you love to do (and should do to make a living).Skills are just a proportion to experience. For young people, don’t bother too much about your current skills

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Israel is fighting a war that he cannot win. It is like John McClain living in middle of Harlem. Yes, Israel is strong and able, he can pound any neighbor and win any fight that he got involved, but all his neighbors hate him, the fights will never stop.Why the arab neighbors hates israel?1.Jews are different than Arabians. We naturally don't trust, don't respect people that is different from us

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If all of us are equally smart, then why some become high achiever while others spend whole life envying? The key is at the path of building experience. Some are interested in the experience they were building and motivated along the path, while most of us seems don't have such strong interest and somehow unlucky in getting all those motivations. There are certainly environmental issues. Some

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There are many points of views on the recent crisis of middle east violence. Well I am not so hot on caring for things that were out my reach, but here is my trace of thoughts when watching news and reading other's blog. I think the source of violence at any level is disrespect. At street level, one bully thinks the other guys is just an asshole that doesn't respect him and want to show him why

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I always think I am a smart guy since I was very young. Then I realized a lot of others think the same (not that I am smart, but they themselves are smart). Now, should I venture to say that almost any one on earth is thinking he/she is smarter than average, much smarter than average?I think that bit of feeling of smartness is the source of our motivation. It is that feeling of smarter give us

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Browsing through Peter Kua's blog, among many insightful articles, there is one series of How not to fear death, invoked some thinking, blogging down before I forget.I admit I fear death, a lot, ever since I was very young. There are many claims that one can stop fearing death, but no matter how the claim sounds, I doubt it. Deep down, do you not fear death?Fear is a natural builtin mechanism of

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What separates us from the animal kingdom and from computers? Is your answer that we have conscious and we can think? "I think, so I am." But really, how do we think?There are two component that makes up our thinking process: memory recollection and memory manipulation. The latter part includes imagination and logic derivation, which is probably what we commonly recognized as active thinking. Why

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We often reget from time to time, at which time, we often wish we can stay "conscious" when that situation happened. As it often happens, we will do it again when under a similar situation, and afterwards, we will once again regret. Staying conscious is very hard, especially when we didn't realize why we lose our "conscious" in the first place.By conscious, I assume we are referring to our

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There is something not right about "taining your spouse like shamu". I am sure it works. After all we are not all that different than shamu as the meaning of life goes. I can't find there is anything wrong with the approaches the author of the article uses to change her husbands' behavior. However, what is not right is the under-tone of the article. It steals the concept that her husband is her

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Run over this article on Training Spouse. Basically, it says if you want your spouse develop into certain habit your like, you need train him/her like training a dolphin -- Reward every step toward the goal, and Ignore every bit that you don't want or desire.Remarkable!In practice, the "ignore" part is the most difficult part. The essence of "ignore" is not to express your anger, annoyance, worry

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Emotion is not a bad thing. Emotion is the exact element that fulfills our life. However, sometime, we do regret having certain emotions. Most often, we will do something regretful under the control of angry emotion; and some time, we will regret not doing somthing under the control of fear or shy. Therefore, we often wish we can control our emotions.Emotions, in my opinion, are our reflexes on

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The very reason that we feel our aliveness is the way we can control our thoughts, and concequently, we can make our decisions on our actions and to a long extent, control our own fates. Our emotions are very similar to our thoughts; they are all generated by our mind, aren't they? So not suprisingly, the ansewers from many is "yes", we can control our emotions.I held this belief too. However, I

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Steve Pavlina just pushed out another good article, Overcoming Depression. In short, the article says depression is caused by the fact that we dwelling our thoughts on the things we don't like and don't want, and to overcome depression, we need move our thoughts away and think about things we want and like, thus feeling better. It all reads very reasonable, and being such a successful person, it

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"I will die in a car accident."I am a bad driver. I have acquired 3 speeding tickets in less than 6 months; I have trashed my previous car; I have semi-trashed my friend's car; I have been hit by a car behind; and I have put several scratches on my current car.However, it is hard to convince myself and admit I am a bad driver by my concious. You see, I am not aggressive; I am patient; I always

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It often happens that we know the tasks in front, we are aware of the goals we set or set by others, and we are fully concious of the huge benefits of reaching the goals, as well as the big penalties if we miss the goals, but we just don't have the mood to do it, we conciously or subconciously searching for excuses to procastinate.Here is a tip I often used to spice up the game: set a record and

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The only purpose of goals to a game is to bring excitness to the game players. We experience great joys when we make effort and gain progress toward the goals of the game. And I think the purpose of the goals to our life is the same -- to maximize our joys during our course of life. Life is a game. However, the goal of this game is not strictly defined by the game designer (God?). There are

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Just after I blogged about robots, we got this piece hit the news: Robot Dogs Evolve Their Own Language, and my thought is -- what a waste of talents.Well, I should not call it a "waste". If this is a waste, there are much more human activity are more wasteful than this and, ..., keep going, I will start to question the purpose of life again. People are intrigued by the idea of human like robots,

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Despite many fictions and movies and much of our own imagination, there will never be a war between robots and human. If that war ever get started, it will be over before one would realize. Computers will never reach the sophistication of a human mind. Computers will never survive an uncontrolled environment.We take it for granted, and we never appreciate how magnificent our mind is -- until we

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More sophisticated lifes have more sophistication in joy. For bacteria, they just eats and reproduce whenever they can. I guess they don't find other joys. For us, only eating good food is joyful. And even that, over eating is not joyful. If you eats lobsters whole day with unlimited supply, pretty soon eating lobster may seems more like a difficult task than being joyful. As a part, hunger is a

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Eating delicious food often is joyful; drinking water often is joyful; and going to bathroom when we have to is joyful. Playing games often is joyful; being acknowledged by friends is often joyful; knowing self is doing better than others is often joyful; Counting earned money is often joyful; counting good memories is often joyful; success is often joyful. Writing can be joyful; programing can

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Human beings are amazing creatures. I don't imagin chickens in a chicken farm ever question their meanings of life. :) But I would say every human will wonder this quesion at sometime, even losing sleeps on it. There are a list of answeres here, feel free to choose one. However, no matter what answer we end up with, the question come back from time to time, what is the meaning of life? What is

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In a recent blog, Steve Pavlina compares the sixth sense to our five other senses and emphasizes the sixth sense has the same limit as our normal senses, and we should not deny our psychic power just because we can't sense stuff out of its limit. More specificly, you can't see beyond the corner, so can''t you sense anything beyond the limit of your psychic power. Sounds paradoxical again. So why

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Seth Godin talks about "safe is risky". I heard this before. Steve Pavlina has talked about "how to earn 10000 in one hour" and Robert Kiyosaki advocates abandoning 401k safenet.Sounds paradoxical, the truth of such phrases lie in a shift in logics. Both "safe" and "risky" talks about "danger". The former stays away from danger while the latter is easy to get into danger. However, the truth of "

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People often believe we, as human species, have great potential. In numbers, it is often said we only uses 1% of our potential. Imagine the possiblity of explore our own hidden potential!A famous story that backs up the 99% potential claim is the movie Rain Man, which is based on the real person -- Kim Peek, who can memorize stuff on signt and do calculations like a machine. It is fascinating,

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I only ran across Steve Pavlina's blog very recently, on an article of how to become an early riser. Immediately, I had a lot of respect for him and liked his blogs. He seems to be strong minded and very successful in his personal development; in contrast to myself, with every intention to be elite, but in many aspects, a not successful person.Steve recently start to blog about his psychic

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Do you regularly check what is on your TV by flipping pages of "TV Guide" or your local newspaper? I used to do that. Then one day I realized all the tv schedules are availible on the internet FREE and my habit of flipping papers become googling for "tv schedules". It works great! As long as I keep an updated bookmark in my browser, I can check whether there is anything worth watching at few

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