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March 6, 2007

Buddha Break 2007.03.06

  • Top 10 ways to improve your mental fitness and make your brain age younger.

  • "If marijuana were a new discovery rather than a well-known substance carrying cultural and political baggage, it would be hailed as a wonder
    drug.
    "

  • Scientists have discovered why some individuals may be predisposed to drug addiction and believe it may lead to better treatments for this brain disorder.

  • Make sure you go to bed early because lack of sleep affects moral judgment.

  • Daniel Gilbert on the "The Vagaries of Religious Experience."

  • Contemplate this: AI vs. meditation (re: Minsky's The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind & Alan Wallace's Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge).

  • Insight from metapsychologist Isabel Gois into Benjamin Libet's "Mind Time: The Temporal Factor in Consciousness."

  • Genes and fortune determine happiness.

  • Couples share patterns of life satisfaction.

  • Mindfulness in mood disorders.

  • Massaging young minds.

  • Human compassion surprisingly limited.

  • Christology and the Human Body.
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    Canadian futurist, ethicist and animal rights advocate, George Dvorsky has written and spoken extensively about the impacts of cutting-edge science and technology—particularly as they pertain to the improvement of human performance and experience. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. Twitter: @GeorgeDvorsky.

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