YES! 20:25 I am a biologist and I have regularly questioned our current definition of Life. Professors, colleagues and friends have never understood what I meant when I said that that the only difference between organic and inorganic compounds is time. The catchy phrase is accepted: we are stardust. I propose it like this - fruit flies live a short life, but from their perspective much happens in their existence. Now imagine the grand scale of the universe/galaxy and our time to be equivalent to that of the fruit fly, just a flash in the pan. The compounds from a decomposing body can be recycled into a maggot and so on. The time force of life flows/vibrates through physical matter. We perceive, identify and group matter but matter is one. Matter can neither be created nor destroyed.
> phenomenal explanations No, we explained phenomenon LAST class! :) (But, joking aside, I agree that they were exceptional descriptions, in this class and all the previous.)
First off, I love this! Thank you Michael 🙏 Secondly, vibration implies an oscillation or back and forth between two extremes. While I have experienced much of life to be an oscillation. My primary experience is that the only constant is change, and it seems to be that entropy is a more fitting concept. Probably semantics. I will meditate further
Meditation is watching things come and watching things go and even perhaps observing the observation of this coming and going. Our experience of physical matter is a mental/spiritual latching onto or friction against the flowing change of time. We easily identify as our physical bodies, what are we but the crossroads of time and change?
Michael, I really enjoyed this series. Lots of lovely insights, subtle and surprising, thanks to your explanation and inventive meditation practices. Thank you. I also have a request to help other watchers of this series from RUclips land in the future: this video is currently labelled and positioned as 4/4 in the Hacking the Stack playlist, and you state in the video that it is in fact class 3 of 4. Basically, classes 3 and 4 are listed in the wrong order on RUclips, and the lover of details in me that likes to get things just right wants to tell you that so that you might be able to fix it for later time travellers to enjoy in the order I think you intended 😁 Thanks again. That was a very enjoyable six hours!
YES! 20:25 I am a biologist and I have regularly questioned our current definition of Life. Professors, colleagues and friends have never understood what I meant when I said that that the only difference between organic and inorganic compounds is time. The catchy phrase is accepted: we are stardust. I propose it like this - fruit flies live a short life, but from their perspective much happens in their existence. Now imagine the grand scale of the universe/galaxy and our time to be equivalent to that of the fruit fly, just a flash in the pan. The compounds from a decomposing body can be recycled into a maggot and so on. The time force of life flows/vibrates through physical matter. We perceive, identify and group matter but matter is one. Matter can neither be created nor destroyed.
phenomenal explanations Michael, such an amazing resource, I can't thank you enough
> phenomenal explanations
No, we explained phenomenon LAST class! :)
(But, joking aside, I agree that they were exceptional descriptions, in this class and all the previous.)
@@SamGGreenberg Hahah Nice one ;)
"Everything's dead in Concept Land." :)
Wow, amazing explanations
First off, I love this! Thank you Michael 🙏 Secondly, vibration implies an oscillation or back and forth between two extremes. While I have experienced much of life to be an oscillation. My primary experience is that the only constant is change, and it seems to be that entropy is a more fitting concept. Probably semantics. I will meditate further
Meditation is watching things come and watching things go and even perhaps observing the observation of this coming and going. Our experience of physical matter is a mental/spiritual latching onto or friction against the flowing change of time. We easily identify as our physical bodies, what are we but the crossroads of time and change?
Who’s disliked this?? They can’t handle the truth! Haha
Lol
Michael, I really enjoyed this series. Lots of lovely insights, subtle and surprising, thanks to your explanation and inventive meditation practices. Thank you.
I also have a request to help other watchers of this series from RUclips land in the future: this video is currently labelled and positioned as 4/4 in the Hacking the Stack playlist, and you state in the video that it is in fact class 3 of 4. Basically, classes 3 and 4 are listed in the wrong order on RUclips, and the lover of details in me that likes to get things just right wants to tell you that so that you might be able to fix it for later time travellers to enjoy in the order I think you intended 😁
Thanks again. That was a very enjoyable six hours!
It's out of order in his "Guided Meditations" playlist, too; I think it's a forced exercise in equanimity. :)