Tag Archives: words

Water Words in the Mirror

By reckon | Published: August 9, 2008
One of your remarkable discoveries is that water responds to words, whether they are spoken, written, or even thought, as in prayer. Kind, uplifting words tend to produce beautifully shaped water crystals, while angry discordant expressions have produced warped crystals. via HADO | Interview with Dr. Emoto
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Explaining the magic of consciousness with one word

By reckon | Published: July 30, 2008
Dennett argues that the ‘hard problem‘ is a red herring – the whole question of how conscious first person experience arises from the biological function of the brain assumes that consciousness is a single thing that needs explaining. He suggests that there isn’t a single thing that is consciousness, just a collection of mental components, [...]
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Google and the power of words

By reckon | Published: July 30, 2008
The dominance of Google is radically changing written language on the internet – through their search engine and advertising programmes such as AdSense they are homogenising the meanings of words. This provides a strong impetus for newspapers to ignore whatever editorial ethics they had left in their desperate rush towards the money from online advertising. [...]
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