Consciousness & Thought

In our busy and hurried lives, we are losing the ability to be inactive. Human existence becomes fully absorbed by activity – even leisure, treated as a respite from work, becomes part of the same logic. Intense life today means first of all more performance or more consumption. We have...

「意識」は感情や意思決定に深く関わっているとされるが、それは錯覚にすぎない。例えば、あなたが今日コンビニでペットボトルの水を買ったとしよう。数ある種類の中からその水を選んだ理由を説明することはできるかもしれない。

人生は自分次第だなんて、大嘘である。私たちは何もコントロールしていないが、あらゆることに影響を与えている。カオス理論や進化生物学、歴史、哲学など、多様な知見を縦横無尽に渉猟し、世界の成り立ちや人生について考えさせる、壮大かつ感動的な書。

On the twenty-eighth of February, two thousand and twenty-six, an artificial intelligence system helped designate a girls' elementary school in the southern Iranian town of Minab as a military target. One hundred and sixty-eight people died, most of them schoolchildren. The system was working as designed. That is the problem. This book argues that the danger of artificial intelligence has been catastrophically misdiagnosed.

What if consciousness came first? Not as an idea inside the brain. Not as a side effect of matter. But as the field in which matter, life, identity, and the soul appear. The Physics of Consciousness explores one of the deepest questions a human being can ask: Who am I, really?

Courage through vulnerability, acceptance, and self-love. Get ready to own the ultimate guide to being and feeling brave in every area of your life. Brave Healer Productions stands true to its name in this stellar collaboration with a global cast of expert, authentic healers who share real stories and powerful tools for profound transformation. The experience of being brave is different for everyone.

What if the Earth is trying to communicate through music? In Cosmic Luve, philosopher, sociologist, and hip-hop artist Eric Leo 108 explores a startling theory: that Earth —Gaia —may be a conscious entity communicating through synchronicity, emotion, symbolism, and art itself. Blending memoir, philosophy, spirituality, and music culture, this audiobook documents Eric’s real-life experiences with what he calls Cosmic Luve —a phenomenon where songs, celebrity posts, lyrics, visuals, and emotional themes appear to align in uncanny and deeply personal ways.

Why do human beings dream of flying? Not in airplanes or helicopters, but on their own—effortlessly, weightlessly, the way we do in sleep? The question “Why don’t we fly like birds?” sounds like something a child might ask on a summer afternoon, but it turns out to be one of the oldest and most persistent riddles of human existence. It is a question not merely about missing wings or inadequate muscles, but about the strange mismatch between the freedom we imagine and the bodies we inhabit.

Why do we remember what never happened? Why do we plan for futures that never arrive as planned? Why do we seek meaning where none exists and feel torn between what we think and what we feel? For centuries, these contradictions have been treated as flaws in human reasoning—bugs in the cognitive machinery that education and willpower should correct. But what if they are not bugs at all? What if they are features?

We do not see the world as it is. We see only our model of it. For over two millennia, philosophers have described this condition: Plato's shadows on the cave wall, Kant's veil of phenomena, Spinoza's confused imagination. But why are we trapped behind this perceptual barrier? The answer is not metaphysical mystery, but evolutionary necessity. Direct perception works beautifully for bacteria and simple organisms-they respond immediately to the world without models, without prediction, without the illusion of a separate self.