We talked about how consciousness determines our level of happiness with the good news that we, for the first time, can control the input, i.e. our attention. (Click here for Part 1). That our attention can be invested in either enjoyable activities or pleasurable activities (Click here for Part 2). By definition, only enjoyable activities […]
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Part 3: The pursuit of happiness
May 10th, 2011 1 Comment
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Part 2: The pursuit of happiness
May 6th, 2011 No Comments
If it follows that on average life is a mere 185 billions bits of information (Click here for the post), how would you have planned out your journey? (Note that of this amount, roughly a good 15% is spent on daily tasks like eating, dressing etc). So we are left with 157 billions of it. Rightly or […]
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Part 1:The pursuit of happiness
May 2nd, 2011 No Comments
We are usually mesmerized by the term ‘subconscious’ as it implies a sense of mysticism and unreachable domain. We amuse ourselves with dreams, psychic power and the likes. But what about consciousness? What is consciousness really?
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