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Newsletter Nr. 841
Amsterdam, March 13th, 2020


PUTTING MY BODY WHERE MY MOUTH IS - And Going Full Circle in My Integrative Beating Trump Perspective - ELLIOT BENJAMIN

Given my strong wish to have Biden as the Democratic nominee to go up against Trump, together with the fact that Biden won the delegate count in Maine [12], I decided to attend the Democratic caucus in the small town where I live: Winterport, Maine, to include myself as a candidate for Biden in the election of delegates to go to the Maine Democratic state convention in Bangor in May, thinking at the time that I would perhaps also try to become a national delegate for Biden in Milwaukee in July (see below). This is how the crux of the title of this essay came to me: putting my body where my mouth is. In other words, I saw this as a test of just how strongly I felt in 2016 that I must do all in my power to Resist Trump.

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http://www.integralworld.net/benjamin104.html


THE RENDERED UNIVERSE - Why Virtual Reality Unlocks the Secret of Consciousness - DAVID LANE

Simply put, we live not in an objective cosmos distinct from our interactions with it, but rather in a rendered universe, where our participation and our observations are fundamental to our interpretations of it. This becomes transparently obvious when we realize that the most sophisticated virtual reality headset known to exist is our own brain. However, by exploring manufactured VR accouterments and the varied vistas they can create, we have (perhaps for the first time in our history) the necessary tools to synthetically reconstruct how the brain perceives and interacts with reality.

This essay is an examination of how the advent of virtual reality changes our understanding of human consciousness and how future researches will benefit by employing its many iterations.

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http://www.integralworld.net/lane226.html