Many famous people (and probably also many not-so-famous people) have said it already, even books have been written about it[1], but let me say it in my own simple words:

Going for a walk is the single most efficient way to generate ideas.

(And besides, it is good for your physical and mental health, too.)

Usually, as soon as I start walking, ideas come flooding in on me (if I want it or not). I am not talking about big, grandiose ideas (though these might come as well); but the walking seems to set in motion parts of the mind which are not so easily set in motion when sitting still. Or phrased more pointedly: Setting oneself in motion sets one's mind in motion. I find this connection deepy fascinating.

And yet, I spend most of my days sitting at a desk...

[1] Like "A Philosophy of Walking" by Frédéric Gros - very recommended

#walking #mind

Feel Like You’re on the Same Wavelength With Someone? Synchrony Is Real, and May be Strengthened

In 2019, musicians Bad Bunny and Residente sat together wearing portable brain scanners while record...

#mind
https://www.discovermagazine.com/feel-like-you-re-on-the-same-wavelength-with-someone-synchrony-is-real-and-may-be-strengthened-49304

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Feel Like You’re on the Same Wavelength With Someone? Synchrony Is Real, and May be Strengthened

Spending Time With Your Cat May Not Help Your Mood When Feeling Stressed

After a bad meeting, a difficult phone call, or one of those days when everything feels slightly off...

#mind
https://www.discovermagazine.com/spending-time-with-your-cat-may-not-help-your-mood-when-feeling-stressed-49254

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Spending Time With Your Cat May Not Help Your Mood When Feeling Stressed

Delirium After Surgery May Be Linked to Years of Cognitive Decline in Older Adults

Postoperative delirium may be a major predictor of long-term cognitive decline in older adults, some...

#mind
https://www.discovermagazine.com/delirium-after-surgery-may-be-linked-to-years-of-cognitive-decline-in-older-adults-49221

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Delirium After Surgery May Be Linked to Years of Cognitive Decline in Older Adults

New Tool That Tracks How the Brain Removes Waste Could Offer Clues About Alzheimer’s

The brain is our busiest organ, and like any complex production site, it generates plenty of waste. ...

#mind
https://www.discovermagazine.com/new-tool-that-tracks-how-the-brain-removes-waste-could-offer-clues-about-alzheimer-s-49176

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New Tool That Tracks How the Brain Removes Waste Could Offer Clues About Alzheimer’s

#AlternateFridayMusic cue is Where Is My #Mind

#WhereIsMyMind

Van Der Graaf Generator - All Over the Place

#AlternateFridayMusic

The cue is “where is my #mind ?”

My brain is steady workin', my brain.
My brain is steady workin', my brain.
My brain is always workin',
long as you keep that coffee perkin'.
My brain, cool little cluster, that’s my brain.

Mose Allison - My Brain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da3CTf1WC3Y

And a little DeathBoy with Mindspinner for #AlternateFridayMusic and this week's theme #Mind ...

https://deathboy.bandcamp.com/track/mindspinner

#AlternateFridayMusic #mind

Blaqk Audio - Zipper Don't Work
https://musiccloud.io/4e2xK

🎵 Where is your mind? Where is your mind? Focus, focus on me 🎵

Even more #alternateFridayMusic 🎉

and the cue this week is:

Where is my #mind?

From 2020's "Never Work" album, comes this cover of the 1965 Malvina Reynolds song. It was a great audience sing-along at the tail end of their festival gigs in 2024:

The Burning Hell  - I Don't Mind Failing

https://theburninghell.bandcamp.com/track/i-dont-mind-failing

🎶 Don't mind wearing the ragged britches
'Cause those who succeed are the sons of bitches,
I don't mind failing in this world.

I'll stay down with the raggedy crew,
'Cause getting up there means stepping on you, so
I don't mind failing in this world.

Somebody else's definition
Isn't going to measure my soul's condition,
I don't mind failing in this world.

Never mind the custom suits,
The gentle hearts wear the dusty boots, so
I don't mind failing in this world.

Some people ride in a car so fine
While others walk on a picket line, so
I don't mind failing in this world 🎶

@dgar  @electric_gumball @Bishopjoey @fc

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The cover the Burning Hell album "Never Work"

For #alternateFridayMusic the prompt is Where is my #mind . And really, going with first thought best thought here, and it's time to trot out my favorite Mr. Bungle song. Goodbye Sober Day. Hello Milky Way.

https://youtu.be/HldyUz5FR_M

Hey Mondanoj!

This Friday the 22nd is #alternateFridayMusic and the cue is:

Where is my #mind?

Share where your mind's at in song this week 😁

Upcoming words:

#fortnightFridayMusic

29th May: red
12th Jun: forsaken
26th Jun: duality

#alternateFridayMusic

5th Jun: letting go
19th Jun: that striped sunshine sound
3rd Jul: mushroom love

@dgar @fc @Bishopjoey @electric_gumball

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A blue and yellow audio cassette has the word "#mind" written on it

Hey it's  #alternateFridayMusic 🎉

and the cue this week is:

Where is my #mind?

The longer that I live, the more the circular nature of human existance becomes apparent to me. Which is why I bring this track, fresh from 1988, ignored in #Australia but a massive hit #Brazil and, just look at the title of the album, even more relevent than ever today:

V. Spy V. Spy  - Clarity of Mind

https://youtu.be/iM2YaO3I1N0

🎶 Been years gone by
I've just abused my mind
My body's paid the price
Come to a fork
I can go up and down
Or use my mouth too much
Oh lord, protect my words

Reality's a matter of a clarity of mind

Take the things away
I like the look of that
It makes my mouth water
Left in the air
All the things I've said
You know they don't all add
Now who's a muddle, head

Reality's a matter of a clarity of mind 🎶

@dgar  @electric_gumball @Bishopjoey @fc

#ausMusic

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The cover of the V. Spy V. Spy album "Xenophobia [why?]"

Contact Lenses Using Tiny Electrical Signals Could Target Brain Regions to Ease Depression

As cases of treatment-resistant depression rise, with some estimates suggesting that nearly half of ...

#mind
https://www.discovermagazine.com/contact-lenses-using-tiny-electrical-signals-could-target-brain-regions-to-ease-depression-49103

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Contact Lenses Using Tiny Electrical Signals Could Target Brain Regions to Ease Depression

Perhaps the most (in)famous and illustrious American computer scientist and acknowledged principal pioneer of the discipline now known as artificial intelligence (AI), Professor Marvin Minsky of MIT, once pronounced—a belief he still holds—that ‘‘the brain is merely a meat machine.’’ It is significant that the English language distinguishes between ‘‘flesh’’ on the one hand, and ‘‘meat’’ on the other. The latter is dead and may be eaten, thrown in the garbage, fed to pigs, and so on. Flesh, on the other hand, is living matter and, as such, deserves the respect and dignity for life of which, among others, Albert Schweitzer spoke eloquently. The word ‘‘merely’’ in Minsky’s sentence means essentially ‘‘nothing but,’’ that is, also not deserving unusual respect. His statement is a clear reflection of a profound contempt for life that, as I see it, is shared explicitly by important sectors of the AI community, the artificial intelligentsia, as well as many scientists, engineers, and ordinary people. Daniel C. Dennett, an important American philosopher, once said that we must give up our awe of life if we are to make further progress in AI.

#AI #ComputerScience #life #brain #mind

Computer theorists thus form a neo-mechanistic school of philosophy. Their tenacious defense of some grossly exaggerated claims of what computers can and will do is more understandable if we realize that they represent a school of metaphysics.

#AI #ComputerScience #CognitiveScience #mind #PhilosophyOfMind