On Chinul's Kanhwa kyongjol (“Shortcut of Koan Meditation”)

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A Meditation on Meditation and Embodied Presence

The major theories of presence in virtual worlds (social presence, co-presence, self-presence, hyper presence, and external presence) all define presence as an illusion about the virtual-ness of a virtual experience (Schultze, 2010). Their approach implies that we are always present when there is no virtuality. In this essay I will argue that 1) regardless of virtuality, we are almost never pre...

Meditation on Consciousness

This study evaluates the idea that consciousness is creating an influence on the environment in a way that makes random systems (Random Number Generator – RNG) become more ordered. This evaluation is combined with an exploration of two, potentially, influencing factors: distance from the target and awareness of the target. The experimental procedure was based upon data derived from meditating g...

Meditation on a Mousetrap

1 Meditation on a Mousetrap: On Consciousness and Cognition, Evolution, and Time (Journal of Mind and Behavior, 2012, 33, 69-107) Stephen E. Robbins Fidelity Information Services Evolutionary theory has yet to offer a detailed model of the complex transitions from a living system of one design to another of more advanced, or simply different, design. Hidden within the writings of evolution‟s ex...

effect of oral presentation on development of l2 learners grammar

this experimental study has been conducted to test the effect of oral presentation on the development of l2 learners grammar. but this oral presentation is not merely a deductive instruction of grammatical points, in this presentation two hypotheses of krashen (input and low filter hypotheses), stevicks viewpoints on grammar explanation and correction and widdowsons opinion on limited use of l1...