Showing posts with label Cognitive Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cognitive Science. Show all posts

Sunday, 4 December 2011

MIRAGES ON AN EMPTY MASK


Mirages appearing to and an empty mask

Who watches who, when no one does the task

No doer nor done; no feeler no felt

No player to play, the card that is dealt

If so great soul! Who is it asking, who am I?

In this world sans intentional stance

Does “self” perform a delusional dance?

Zombies marching on fate’s unfortunate belt

Or deluded bubbles trapped in their own Umwelt

But epiphenomenal fools can we be? 

Yet beyond the semiospheres do we ever see?

Problems such of agency

Free will, Soul, and clemency

Can we but wonder!


With bubble brains and divisive thought



Can we  see beyond our  inherent blunder?  


As no single word can spell the truth

And no single tree can bear a composite fruit

No divisions can describe the interdependent whole

No Components and parts can make a unitary soul  

Thus Life, magic and consciousness

Are but illusions clarified by emptiness

Biases of completeness and sufficiency

Blinded to the blind spot efficiently  

Thus are the illusions of self and sentience!

Mirages playing on the blank  screen of emptiness!  

Life, magic and consciousness!





Tuesday, 1 November 2011

BAT'S SONIC VIEW


The wall of music, in dark sounds of green


The noisy world, beyond what is seen


The Bat’s sonic view, of the  musical sky


 Of  echoes of creatures, fleeting by


Images and shades, of pitch and tone


Sonograms of life, and obstacles unknown


A puff of speech in grey-scale of silence


Colorless minds in harmonic resonance


Redness of red and the blueness of blue


The Qualia of life; a  mystical brew


You may look ; and you may  even see


But a  blinded bat can  you ever be ?


Tuesday, 9 August 2011

STORIES AND THEORIES


Stories and theories are but a convenient rationalization

As they twist and turn the arm of the available information
                                        
Joining the dots of the known and  leaving the unknown behind

To the world of unknown unknowns they are truly blind

Formed of Sufficiency and completeness biases of the mind

They make you see your bubble world with clarity

But leave you with an incomplete and distorted reality

Formed as a retrospective explanation

They bias you with egocentric self evaluation

And clinging to your pet idea and striving to get to the root

You never really get to the hidden truth!

So learn to see the world with and open mind

Don’t cubbyhole reality into chunks of a kind

Learn to a take a   flexible perspective

And see beyond the artificial divisions of subjective and objective 

For truth wanders beyond stories and theories

Be thou beware of stories and theories! 

Monday, 1 August 2011

KINDS OF MINDS


Kinds of creatures and kinds of minds

Are they all of the thinking kind?

Darwinian minds are the first they say

The simplest forms; the simplest minds

Learning all, from past generations

They survive merely by genetic adaptations

Skinnerian minds still lean from real time trial and error

They learn within a lifetime, but are not yet clever

Popperian minds have conjecture and refutation

They can predict the future by empirical contemplation

Gregorian minds Learn from the past and predict the future

An evolutionary product of nature and nurture

From contemplation to self-conscious self-perception

 They are a   reverberating   loop of self-representation

And finally, the one and only enlightened kind

The venerable and undivided Buddha mind

The one beyond cognitive self-representation

The one that sees the undivided whole and its interpenetration

The one beyond delusion and egocentric illusion

The Buddha mind!! The one and only universal solution!!