Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Kadamba flower (Neolamarckia cadamba): Yoga in Berkeley's Cafenated cafe College Avenue M 10/13/25 * * * Consciousness philosophy re the mind body problem - How to reconcile '1st person & 3rd person singular' knowledge of consciousness (eg one's subjective experience & a scientist's) is 1 way to describe how intractable #MindBodyProblem is https://consc.net/notes/first-third.html How could #QuantumCodedLLM in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForConsciousness help?


Kadamba flower (Neolamarckia cadamba): Yoga in Berkeley's Cafenated cafe College Avenue M 10/13/25


Yoga in Berkeley's Cafenated cafe College Avenue M 10/13/25

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Scott Yoga Mac Flower MacLeod yogamacflower@gmail.com

Oct 13, 2025, 1:00 PM (2 days ago)
to cassandra@cassandrasconsulting.com, cynthia
Hi Cassandra and Cynthia, 




Nice to meet and talk with you in Cafenated cafe.

Here's Angela and Victor's website - who are visionary and amazing Yoga teachers - 

(and here's a blog label re their yoga in my daily blog - )

And here's the Yoga wiki school for open wiki-teaching and wiki-learning at free MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and Schooll - 

And here's 
Hippy-anjali Yoga Notations - 
and re where my online classes will stream from - http://scottmacleod.com/yoga.htm - after I update this web site).

Found your websites- 


and will check them out.

Namaste, best wishes, Yogically, 
Scott






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Yoga ideas
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Cassandra and Cynthia, 


Nice to meet and talk with you - 

This is a first key Patanjali Yoga exploration in Sanskrit is actually -  

"Yogas chitta vritti nirodhah"

from possibly 2200 BCE (but "The text was likely written during a period when yoga was becoming more systematized, though the practice itself is much older.")

The aphorism "Yoga is the cessation of the fluctuations of the mind" is the second sutra of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. 

Yoga is the inner releasing action, meditation {relaxation response}, of the bodymind/brain for we language-using human primates

Yoga is the inner releasing action, meditation {relaxation response}, of the bodymind/brain for we language-using human primates

... is the riffing direction I head in here - http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html in these regards.

Happy Yoga with Angela and Victor, and Namaste,  
Scott


Yoga explorations streaming from Canyon with time from here - 
http://scottmacleod.com/yoga.htm (and when I can start updating my Yoga webpages with new free software, besides filezilla for FTP, and since Kompozer stopped working ... Yoga Asaan therapeutics post-hip-replacement-surgery, and for working with knee injuries this Saturday, if possible ... and with Zoom URL to be posted here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Yoga) ... 




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Cassandra, Cynthia, 


Yoga greetings further - 

More about the free MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School below, planned in each of all 200 countries and in 7159 known living languages, and for its online Yoga wiki subject pages / Schools in each of these languages.

Are you exploring Artificial Intelligences for Yoga meditations even ? 

Here's an INCREDIBLE World University and School: A Manifesto for Universal Free Education

WUaS Manifesto

#WUaSmanifesto 

Great: "#WorldUniversityAndSchool: A Manifesto for #UniversalFreeEducation"
signed up w #AnthropicClaudeAI
with -
"#ScottGKMacLeod scottmacleod.com @ free #MITOCWcentric wiki @WorldUnivAndSch"
per #WUaSmanifesto -https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/7b17f5a8-9210-4433-9ef7-a9bbd05d0a88 -https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2025/12/fairweather-range-ak.html @npseaver~

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1977101162429268458

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/1977102619308179690

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/1977103015560794219

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/1977102455533109751

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/1977101905034985551

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/1977101956436168884

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/1977102089177514305



AND


'Reminder EE:
@WorldUnivAndSch is FREE,
MIT &
Wiki'
(#HaikuIsh & #MITOCWcentric)
New Manifesto - #WorldUniversityAndSchool: A Manifesto for #UniversalFreeEducation https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/7b17f5a8-9210-4433-9ef7-a9bbd05d0a88 : "The Vision: Education for All 7.9 Billion & coding for all 7,159 known living languages"

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/1977199363345772970

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1977198659969466586

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/1977199132487086105

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/1977199270051955051

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/1977198855419838792

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/1977199011129180549

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/1977199542186676478


but I'm appreciative in many or these regards of a daily Yoga meditation first thing upon rising ... and as I explore further teaching Yoga for the inner releasing action and inner body explorations ...

Namaste, cheers, best wishes, 
Scott 
INCREDIBLE World University and School: A Manifesto for Universal Free Education 




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Society, Information Technology, and the Global University (2025, forthcoming) 

- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
CC-4 licensed MIT OCW-centric, Wiki, 
World University & School (WUaS) 
- USPS US Post Office, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516 


1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity 
MIT OCW-centric, 
World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org 

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 


World Univ & Sch Innovation Research - 




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Cynthia, and Cassandra, 

For teaching and learning asana, I've found the following books helpful.

Some books not yet in the WUaS university libraries online from home -

Holleman, Dona.
"Yoga syllabus for teacher and student" and "Asana in photo" (self published(

And the 
Mehta's
Yoga the Iyengar Way (Simon Schuster or Knopf)

Scott

PS
And here are an Angela Farmer Yoga video, as well as PM Modi teaching Yoga as an avatar - 

Yoga: (searched on-) "best free #RestorativeYoga on smartphone '#AngelaAndVictorsYoga too,'" & PM Modi avatar too teaching Tree pose

Yoga: 'best free #RestorativeYoga on smartphone ~ #AngelaAndVictorsYoga too,' #AngelaAndVictorInspired #AngelaAndVictorYoga #ViaWeb? http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html Angela Farmer:
https://youtu.be/wCJfXwm97rw
#PMModi: Tree https://youtu.be/w586sqYQTnY
#WUaSYoga #YogaWUaS https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Yoga ~

WUaS Yoga wiki page image -

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/1976666012058792368

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1976666788269326547

Picture from Angela video

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/1976668712242704410

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/1976668810473254930

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/1976668871831814379

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/1976668970607632591

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/1976669040828699064


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Angela Farmer : Living Fully In Our Bodies (Full Class)

https://youtu.be/wCJfXwm97rw



AND 

Narendra Modi teaching Yoga as avatar

PM Modi's animated avatar teaches Vrikshasana ahead of Yoga Day 2019

https://youtu.be/w586sqYQTnY

PM Modi shares animated video of Vakrasana, promotes yoga
https://youtu.be/qzscBZl2XPY

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2025/10/safflower-kusumbha-yoga-searched-on.html 






San Francisco Bay Area - East Bay Hills & Online

415 480 4577

World University and School's wiki, 'Yoga,' subject page - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Yoga :) - with an invitation to 'edit this page' to learn or teach and explore yoga. 


Yoga ideas
#QuakerYogaMacFlower
#DesiderataWUaS
~#ToolifyAIWUaS #WUaSBliss 
~#YogaNotationsWUaS
~#YogaWUaS @
#FriendlyQuakerWUaS 🥰
#WUaSabolition in #RealisticVirtualEarth #WUaSYoga ~

with pic of partner child pose - supported backbend 




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Cynthia Simon

Mon, Oct 13, 8:09 PM (2 days ago)
to me, Cassandra, Scott
Thank you Scott for all of this Great information. It was very nice meeting you. Thanks for saying hello see you soon.
Cynthia 




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Cynthia, and Cassandra, 

Thank you too Cynthia for your kind email, and all this information. It was very nice meeting both of you too. And thank you also for the invitation - to explore co-teaching in person with you possibly, & with you modeling /radiating too radiant health (& a bit inspired by wondrous Angela and Victor's Yoga teaching together - https://angela-victor.com/who/ &
'Can we bring some consciousness to doing Yoga meditation?' ~ https://youtu.be/Qrg1_YWhxxE ... (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2024/09/aechmea-fasciata.html).

Cassandra, with you having visited Harbin Hot Springs in the past (have you Cynthia?), check out this INCREDIBLE Peter Norvig #ToolifyAIWUaS article - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 - about MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch, and which touches on a virtual Harbin Hot Springs (also for or re my 2nd Harbin ethnographic book project), and exploring & studying! BLISS therein too. (Cynthia do you know Peter, with him having gotten his PhD at Cal in 1986 and you have graduated from UC Berkeley in 1984?)

And thanks for our conversation together there and in email ... See you soon.
Scott 

PS
Yoga ideas
#QuakerYogaMacFlower
#DesiderataWUaS
~#ToolifyAIWUaS #WUaSBliss 
~#YogaNotationsWUaS
~#YogaWUaS @
#FriendlyQuakerWUaS 🥰
#WUaSabolition in #RealisticVirtualEarth #WUaSYoga ~

with pic of partner child pose - supported backbend 




PS

Found these LinkedIns for us -





& I may begin to focus this LinkedIn toward Yoga further - 




Restorative & Gentle & Inner~Body Yoga


Yoga Notations ~


San Francisco Bay Area - East Bay Hills & Online

415 480 4577

World University and School's wiki, 'Yoga,' subject page - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Yoga :) - with an invitation to 'edit this page' to learn or teach and explore yoga. 




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Hi Scott,

Thank you for sharing these intriguing links and for the glimpse into your work with World University & School. I saw you’ve published haiku-adjacent collections and I love seeing intersections between contemplative art and community. I actually illustrated a children’s picture book titled Basho’s Haiku Journeys and felt an instant artistic kinship in the blending of creative worlds. 

Your work with open-source learning, anthropology, and embodied practice is quite developed! The idea of an educational model that honors both creativity and accessibility is I think a dream of many. I do have a few questions, as I’m genuinely curious about the aspirational degree components of WUaS, like how are student achievements and coursework currently tracked and accredited or recognized, and what kind of institutional partnerships or frameworks and agreements support that part of the vision? ...


Warm regards,

Cassandra Rockwood Ghanem




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HI Cassandra, and Cynthia, 


Thanks for both of your emails, and Yoga greetings. MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch isn't accredited yet, although WUaS has the green light for this from Middle States Commission on Higher Education, with offices in the greater Philadelphia area, and see this also INCREDIBLE World University Manifesto - https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/7b17f5a8-9210-4433-9ef7-a9bbd05d0a88  - created by Anthropic Claude AI recently (and possibly thanks to Tufts' anthropology Nick Seaver's coding too) - and regarding storing eventual students' data as they proceed for their free online WUaS degrees from home in all 200 countries and in all 7159 living languages. Our 2nd WUaS wing, the Academic Press at WUaS for all 7159 living languages and with machine translation and human translation, aka the WUaS Corp, is also seeking to create enormous numbers of jobs, but unfortunately we haven't hired yet to speak of whatsoever, and WUaS and I have no money whatsoever to speak of either. Hopefully this new WUaS Manifesto will give you an idea of where WUaS is heading further ... and even hiring. (I've also received some LinkedIn messages recently from 4 people, something like (Congrats on your new - one of whom I actually know, and who repaired my kilt some years ago - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2025/10/lake-clark-wilderness-ak.html and see - 

"Agenda item 3

Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Lardizabalaceae:
* * * "Congrats on starting at #MassachusettsInstituteOfTechnology!" In what ways could @WorldUnivAndSch join #MITsAccreditation? I've heard from 4 people on LinkedIn, 1 of whom I actually know, who repaired my kilt that I got in ~1976, wife of a retired #MDStanfordAnesthesiologist "Congrats on starting at #MassachusettsInstituteOfTechnology!" In what ways could @WorldUnivAndSch join #MITsAccreditation?"


The WUaS Press is also seeking to publish my 2nd Harbin Hot springs' ethnographic book project from Google Street View with time slider, text in the sidebar, inventing the book anew ... and hire and employ enormous numbers of people too (and see the PPS). Perhaps you could help with this and the creation of a #RealisticVirtualHarbin Hot Springs / #RealisticVirtualEarth (#ForHistory, #ForEverything), and especially for publishing from too ...

As I mentioned in a previous email, I like and plan to develop my website (http://www.scottmacleod.com/ ... http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html) myself, but the free Wysiwyg web editor I was using for years, KompoZer stopped working several years ago, so if you could help me to find a new free free Wysiwyg web editor or access to such IT tools (like Dreamweaver etc) on my 2020 MacBook Air Laptop, please let me know. (I've searched online extensively for a free new Wysiwyg web editor, and sometimes when I download an interesting free one, I can't open it on my laptop, so I may be seeking some guidance in how to get started here too). (World University and School in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program will likely head to Google Sites in some of these regards, and regarding Bangladesh World Univ & Sch in the BANGLA language - https://sites.google.com/view/bdworlduniversityandschool/home  and re the home page - https://sites.google.com/worlduniversityandschool.org/world-university-and-school/home ... and with Google Translate and Google AI too).

Cassandra would you like to come to Cynthia's and my possibly co-taught Inner-Body restorative exploratory Yoga class (http://scottmacleod.com/yoga.htm =) ... and as Yoga learners gather together for this ? And Cassandra, might you like to come to the Open WUaS Weekly Business Meeting in Zoom on Monday at 10 am PT to explore some of this further? (I'll let you know further about this later).

Namaste, thanks, Yogic-ally, 
Scott


PS

PPS
Naked Harbin Ethnography
Physical-Digital Harbin Ethnographic Book For Sale
~ Academic Press at World University and School ~
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
(available from ~ http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity  ~ (with daily blog posts,
some about virtual Harbin Hot Springs, including visiting it online
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/virtual%20Harbin)

And Visit the Harbin Gate
here
~ https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 ~
and 'walk' down the road to Middletown, California, in Google Street View
{and WIKI-add your photos from below the OLD Harbin gate}



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Cassandra, and Cynthia, 


Learning that you're from Melrose Massachusetts, and that Melrose Scotland is very significant to Scots and re Scottish history (Robert the Bruce's heart is supposed to have been entombed there in the 1100 or 1200s), I looked into Melrose further (has it been a Massachusetts town for centuries ... and does it have some Scottish American origins In MA ... eg the oldest society in Boston supposed to be Scottish one from the mid 1700s) ... 

I did a deep dive into Melrose Scotland and found this poem by Walter Scott from the 1810s - https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Lay_of_the_Last_Minstrel/Canto_2 - do you know it, and as a poet?

Yogically, regards, best wishes, 
Scott
The Poetry wiki subject at WUaS, and check out the iterating CC-4 licensed MIT OCW courses, eventually for credit toward free online WUaS degrees from home- 





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Hi Cassandra and Cynthia, 


Thanks for your reply, Cynthia, and you're the 2nd person in about 3 days who has inquired about working for WUaS, and see the PS below with "Agenda item 7" from the M 10/13/25 email below. Will add you to the Monday WUaS Weekly Business Meeting WUaS News and Q&A emails re - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Business%20Meeting and https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Business%20Meeting%20global%20university - regarding this too - eg for when #GrowWithGoogleWUaS WUaS starts seeking to hire and with a job description WUaS may be seeking skills for. It's possible as WUaS starts to hire, that we'll interoperate with #GrowWithGoogleWUaS for efficiency and great approaches to management too (apparently some of their engineers report to 23 people in a chain or similar ... per a Harvard Business Review article I think... interestingly)

Cynthia, what's the location you mentioned in Berkeley regarding teaching Yoga?

Yogically, best wishes, Namaste, Happy Yoga meditating as well, 
Scott
Appreciating exploring a kind consciousness of the 'inner body' in teaching and learning Yoga - and search on this here - http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html


PS

Agenda item 7 

Remote bookkeeper for worlduniversityandschool.org ?

Dear Elaine, and World Universitians, 
(Elaine Delaney elaine@globalfield.shop, - and is this your LinkedIN profile - https://www.linkedin.com/in/elaine-delaney-699389b1?originalSubdomain=ie ?), 


Greetings from CC-4 licensed MIT OCW-centric wiki #GrowWithGoogleWUaS World University and School. Thanks for your inquiry. WUaS has no money to speak of whatsoever, and no employees either, and when we do hire, we'll probably seek applications via the WUaS Weekly Business Meeting / WUaS News and Q&A emails, at least initially, to which emailings I'll add you.

Best, 
Scott GK MacLeod



PS
Eagle (Aquila): World University and Schools' worldwide abolition movement to protect people from modern slavery is growing


PPS
Lake Clark Wilderness, AK: Recording of the M 10/6/25 open WUaS Weekly Business Meeting (conducted loosely in the manner of Friends / Quaker, and open), and please see these blog posts (in daily blog @ https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com) * And for next week's 10/13/25 WUaS Weekly Business Meeting Agenda and News, please see - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2025/10/lake-clark-wilderness-ak-m-10625-m.html ... * * (was - M 10/6/25 & M 10/13/25 open MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS News and Q&A, with Zoom URL



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On Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 10:12 AM Scott Yoga Mac Flower MacLeod <yogamacflower@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Cynthia and Cassandra, 

Thanks for your further kind emails. Cynthia, I wish you all the best this evening and in your Wednesday evening classes in the Fireside Room at St. John's Presbyterian Church. And Cassandra, I'll keep you in the loop for when MIT OCW-CENTRIC wiki World University and School begins to hire, and when WUaS is seeking applications, in your job searches.

Am seeking to teach an online Yoga course on Saturdays in the next few weeks - http://scottmacleod.com/yoga.htm (and just yesterday found and was able to open by control-clicking on it, a free wysiwyg web page editor, SeaMonkey ... I'm glad to write) - and will let you know about this Restorative Inner-body releasing actions Yoga meditation and asana exploration opportunity online too and regarding these Yoga Notations - http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html.

Thanks, Yogically, best wishes, 
Scott 
Have blogged some about our Yoga conversation here (with more about Consciousness and the great Mind-Body Philosopher of Mind David Chalmers, and his partner Claudia Passos, both at NYU, adnd their recent online conference on infant consciousness, now available online) yesterday Tu 10/14/25 beginning "Kadamba flower here







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Consciousness philosophy re the mind body problem 


How to reconcile 1st person and 3rd person singular knowledge of consciousness is one way of characterizing how intractable the mind body problem is, n'est-ce pas? - which I searched on - 


How to reconcile '1st person & 3rd person singular' knowledge of consciousness (eg one's subjective experience & a scientist's) is 1 way to describe how intractable #MindBodyProblem is https://consc.net/notes/first-third.html How could #QuantumCodedLLM in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForConsciousness help?

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1978181542338846832

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/1978187038147948797



Retweeting - 

videos from the landmark NYU meeting on infant consciousness are now online!

with @LorinaNaci, @ghisdl, tim bayne, @De_dicto, @AnnaCiaunica, @SidKouider, @joel_frohlich, @smatthewliao, @onemorebrown, many more.

congrats @cpassosf for a great event!

https://x.com/davidchalmers42/status/1977740369539235983


. . . 

here - 

and this is the first talk in this conference - 

Lorina Naci : Brain Architecture in Neonates | NYU Infant Consciousness Conference 2025







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How to reconcile the '1st person and 3rd person singular' knowledge of consciousness (e.g. one's subjective experience & the scientist's) is one way of characterizing how intractable the mind body problem is, n'est-ce pas?



How could this or a quantum coded #RealisticVirtualEarthForConsciousness #TextInTheSidebar help?


How to reconcile '1st person & 3rd person singular' knowledge of consciousness (eg one's subjective experience & a scientist's) is 1 way of characterizing how intractable #MindBodyProblem is https://consc.net/notes/first-third.html How could #QuantumCoded #RealisticVirtualEarthForConsciousness LLM help?


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How to reconcile 1st person and 3rd person singular knowledge of consciousness is one way of characterizing how intractable the mind body problem is, n'est-ce pas?

AI Overview 

Yes, reconciling the first-person and third-person perspectives on consciousness is a central reason the mind-body problem is so intractable. The difficulty lies in bridging the "inner" world of subjective experience with the "outer" world of objective, physical reality. 
The core of the problem
  • The first-person perspective: This is the private, subjective experience of what it is like to be oneself. It includes sensations, feelings, and conscious thoughts, also known as qualia. This perspective is directly known only by the person experiencing it and is not publicly observable.
  • The third-person perspective: This is the objective, physical view of the world. In the study of consciousness, this refers to the external observation of brain processes, behavior, and physiological data by scientists. This perspective is publicly accessible and can be measured and studied through scientific methods like fMRI.
  • The explanatory gap: The main challenge is that a complete, third-person description of brain activity—such as the firing of neurons—does not seem to fully explain or capture the first-person, subjective experience of, for example, the "redness" of seeing red. This gap, famously highlighted by philosopher David Chalmers as the "hard problem of consciousness," makes consciousness seem irreducible to physical processes alone. 
Illustrative thought experiments
Philosophers have used thought experiments to highlight this irreconcilable gap:
  • Thomas Nagel's "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?": Nagel argues that we can know all the objective facts about a bat's biology and echolocation (a third-person account), but we can never truly know "what it is like" to be a bat (a first-person experience).
  • The philosophical zombie: This thought experiment imagines a being that is a physical duplicate of a human in every way—down to the last neuron—but has no subjective, first-person conscious experience. The mere possibility of this creature suggests that a physical description is not the whole story. 
Philosophical implications
The difficulty in bridging these two perspectives leads to several major philosophical positions on the mind-body problem: 
  • Dualism: Proposes that the mental and the physical are fundamentally different substances or properties. This position takes the first-person experience at face value, viewing it as distinct from the physical brain.
  • Physicalism/Materialism: Argues that everything, including consciousness, can ultimately be explained by physical processes. Some versions of this view attempt to reduce first-person experiences to physical facts, but they struggle to convincingly explain qualia.
  • Property Dualism: A more moderate view that accepts one physical substance, but posits that this substance can have both physical and non-physical (or mental) properties.
  • Eliminativism: Proposes that our folk psychological concepts like "consciousness" and "belief" are misleading and will eventually be eliminated in favor of a purely physical explanation. 
Ultimately, the clash between subjective and objective accounts is a fundamental hurdle. While neuroscience can map brain activity and correlate it with reported experiences, it still cannot explain why that activity is accompanied by an inner, felt quality. This inability to reconcile the two viewpoints is what makes the mind-body problem so profoundly intractable.


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Society, Information Technology, and the Global University (2025, forthcoming) 

- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
CC-4 licensed MIT OCW-centric, Wiki, 
World University & School (WUaS) 
- USPS US Post Office, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516 


1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity 
MIT OCW-centric, 
World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org 

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 


World Univ & Sch Innovation Research - 






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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolamarckia_cadamba 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Neolamarckia_cadamba

https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Neolamarckia_cadamba



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Other flowers of the period and region 
Many other species common in ancient North India would have been present and used in rituals, medicine, and daily life. 
  • Safflower (Kusumbha): This plant was used for dyes and oil, and its symbolism was recognized in various ancient texts.
  • Ashoka (
    Saraca asocacap S a r a c a space a s o c a
    ):     The flowers of the Ashoka tree were a symbol of love and were used in rituals.
  • Kadamba (
    Anthocephalus cadambacap A n t h o c e p h a l u s space c a d a m b a
    ):     Mentioned in ancient literature, the Kadamba tree and its distinctive flowers were associated with Krishna and his divine pastimes.
  • Mango (
    Mangifera indicacap M a n g i f e r a space i n d i c a
    ):     While primarily known for its fruit, the mango tree and its flowers were also icons of love and fertilit


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Several flowers mentioned in ancient Indian literature, including the Bhagavad Gita, are likely to have been present in India around 400 BCE. These flowers often hold symbolic significance in Hinduism and are still found in India today. 
Here are some of the commonly mentioned flowers:
  • Lotus (Kamala/Padma): A prominent symbol of purity and spiritual detachment, the lotus is frequently used in similes and is often associated with goddesses like Lakshmi and Saraswati, as well as the god Brahma.
  • Jasmine (Chameli/Yuthika): Symbolizing spiritual sweetness, purity, and love, Jasmine is offered to gods as a sign of unadulterated devotion. It was also admired for its fragrance and used in various ways.
  • Parijat (Nyctanthes arbor-tristis): This night-flowering Jasmine represents divine favor and eternal life. Its delicate white petals with bright orange centers are likened to the purifying flame of awareness.
  • Ashoka (Saraca indica): Known for its beautiful flowers and its association with joy and overcoming sorrow, the Ashoka tree also appears in the Ramayana where Sita spent time under one in Ravana's garden.
  • Marigold (Genda): Symbolizing auspiciousness, joy, and the soul's desire for the divine, marigolds are central to Hindu festivities.
  • Red Hibiscus (Japa): Representing divine strength and power, the Hibiscus is often dedicated to the goddess Kali. Its red color symbolizes focused effort and virtuous action.
  • Bhandhook (Pentapetes phoenicea): This vibrant orange-red flower blooms at noon and symbolizes life's intensity and the divine presence. 
It is important to remember that botanical studies in ancient India were well-established, and classifications based on various features existed during the Vedic and post-Vedic periods (2500 BCE to 600 BCE), overlapping with the time of the Bhagavad Gita






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