Review of 2008 posts

I just reviewed all the posts I had this past year (2008). Now I summarized them below as an outline of a potential book. Before I have more time to work on this, here is a very rough draft.
The outline of the book:
Part 1: Individual:
ch 1: brain, mind, consciousness, growth of consciousness, and how they [...]

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Play

Play
When the world is still, the whole world is just one. When it starts to move faster, forces are applied to its body and split out many small parts. For each small part to follow the flow of the whole world, greater emphasis needs to be put on the parts that are involved in the [...]

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Peace: What is peace? How do we build peace in our world?

We human beings, like everything else, are just like simple objects, which have both inside and outside. Deep inside of us is an inner core. On our outside, we have an outer layer that is in touch with the outside world. Various forces are acting upon us through the outside layer and are transformed into [...]

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Build a better playground

Where are we going? How do we understand human history? How do we understand our current trend, especially changes brought out by software and web?
There are a lot of economic theories. There are a lot of ideologies, religions based on whether human nature is selfish or altruistic. In China, in the recent decades, people realize [...]

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Space and Learning

This is a talk I gave in a natural learning group gathering. Most of the stuff in the talk can be found in my other blogs. Here I just put them together under the umbrella of space.
Here I want to talk about two level of learning from the point of view of space. One level [...]

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Some words to help you focus before your sitting meditation

Note: Not necessarily you need these words for your meditation. It is just if you find it difficult to concentrate see if this can help you.
As you have made your decision to come to sit here for these 20 mins, please be just sitting here for these 20 mins. You are not doing anything else. [...]

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Reflection on My Schooling

Note: this is a paragraph I just added to my article: the Art of My Life. (http://freestone.wordpress.com/2007/05/08/the-art-of-my-life/). I think it might be good to separate it out as a single article as well.
As I reflect on my schooling experience, I did well at school. Except for some short periods of time, generally I kept to [...]

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The Art of My Life

I am going to talk about the art of my life and how I came to it. It is going to be a long article since it spans my whole life. I cut many things off, but it is still quite long. So please bear with me.
As a kid, I enjoyed playing very much (http://freestone.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/the-meaning-of-life/). [...]

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Against Compulsory Schooling: from mass production to empowering individual professionals

Modern compulsory schooling is a product of mass production. It is to produce laborers for the mass production.
When people learned to unleashing the power from the coal and later oil, we entered a new era of human history, the age of machine or the age of mass production. For a moment, please put yourself back [...]

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Web Brain

Here I want to talk a little bit about Web Brain, which will lead the next generation of WWW.
Internet and WWW is all about global participation and cooperation. It provides a mechanism for people around the world to participate, and then CS works behind the scene to leverage the participation into global cooperation. In web1.0, [...]

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Life stories on a greyhound bus

I don’t know who you are. But I know you will be interested in the stories I am going to share with you. And I know you have the same beautiful stories you can share with others. Because we are all spirits in this world.
These stories happened all on a greyhound bus.
There is the most [...]

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