Scott MacLeod's Anthropology of Information Technology & Counterculture: Chinese garden: Philosophies I find somehow liberating, centering, community-inspiring, and identification-wise ... (and as a human primate)

Philosophies I find somehow liberating, centering, community-inspiring, - and identification-wise ... and even communications- and consciousness-wise ... and as a human primate ...

Besides a kind of Stanford and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy approach, and related approaches to science (and similarly besides a kind of MIT, and MIT OCW approaches to STEM ... ), and both re knowledge generation via conversation and languages,

I tend toward the caring and non-harming ...

(and in religiony veins) ... and re questions of meaning,

the 'philosophy' (as well as ethics+ and communities of) ...

Friends (Quakers, Non-theist F/friends, atheist Quakers)
(e.g. https://www.friendsjournal.org/s-p-i-c-e-s-quaker-testimonies/ & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontheist_Quakers)

Unitarianism Universalism (latently, since my parents met and married in a UU church - in the eastern woodland forests part of the USA)
(e.g. https://www.uua.org/beliefs/what-we-believe/principles)

Angela and Victor's Yoga (and re a kind of profound India-envisioning), - and hippy-inspired ...
(e.g. http://www.angela-victor.com/content/who-are-we-anyway)

and these Hippy Anjali Yoga Notations too ~ http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html ~

{meditation ~ lying on your back in a Yoga hall and moving your knees back and forth is like taking a course with Angela and Victor in Greece (or anywhere) - since they do this a lot in teaching, coming inside (re exploring one's inner body (teacher too)) -}

Harbin Hot Springs' soaking in the warm pool, as meditation, and hanging out (re hippy stuff) ... and re especially both actual and virtual Harbin ...
(e.g. ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~)

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{Meditation is a main aspect of Friends' Meeting (Quakers), Angela & Victor's Yoga courses, soaking in the Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool (for me) ... and I also sit daily in mediation, practicing a kind of relaxation response, as well as inner body releasing actions ... enjoyably so ...}

Taoism (Lao Tzu's 'Tao the Ching' eg translated by Feng and English, and Chuang Tzu, re Thomas Merton, among others)
(e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Te_Ching and https://terebess.hu/zen/mesterek/MertonChuangTzu.pdf)

Lacanian psychoanalysis, re John Money's 'Concepts of Determinism,' evolutionary biological interpretations of primatology ... re questions of the benefits of psychotherapy, or talk therapy, psychiatry and potential healing effects ... http://scottmacleod.com/JohnMoneyConceptsOfDeterminism.html ....
(e.g. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lacan/)

Scottish thinking ...
learning-wise, educationally, warmth-wise, Scottish Country Dancing delight-wise ... Scots are very canny in their approach to knowledge generation and knowing in my experience
(e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Enlightenment and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_common_sense_realism)

US history re democracy, and re questions of socio-economic-political freedom too (and legally or law-wise as well, both federally and states-wise)

Freedom-seeking and civil rights' movements of the 1960s and '70s in the US and around the world

Philosophy of mind and language, re questions of consciousness
(See, for example, too the Oxford Companion to Philosophy, 2nd ed.) ... and other philosophical questions relating to science and technology, the brain, representation, belief, idealism, non-harming, analysis, thinking ...

And philosophy-wise, always questioning, never settling, and knowing that there are lots of us who try to debate, criticize, learn, and improve ... and re our own individual agency, and 'free will' re personal freedom .... are part of this ...

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Philosophically, am also anti-religion in some contexts, and in the context too of the above "religiony" philosophical personal leanings ... and evolutionary biologically-oriented thinking-wise as well

the significance of the internet and the information age, re Manuel Castells, re computing, re society and information technology, as well as robotics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and conceiving of a realistic virtual earth for science and STEM, and with regards to developing a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs for visiting virtually, and anthropology, as well as brain science, for example.
(e.g. http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Castells/castells-con4.html)

Music, Grateful Dead, Rock and Roll, Raga (Nikhil Bannerjee), Classical, J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, choral music and so much more ...

World University and School related subjects:

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects (and see others related to the above too)

Philosophy

Consciousness

Non-theist Friends

Quakers

Hippies

Watsu

Taoism

Scotland

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