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What is consciousness? Is it the

What is consciousness? Is it the “self”? Is it “me”? Basho argues no!

April 21, 2010  |  Featured, General, Personal, Philosophy  |  View Comments

You are in pos­ses­sion of the one of the universe’s most mys­ter­i­ous objects. Your per­sonal copy of this object dif­fers in func­tion only slightly from all the other sim­ilar objects in our solar sys­tem. It is the part of you that feels pleas­ure and yet it is also the part of you that knows pain. It is a part of your body that you can­not see, but it is also that which you rely on to make sense of what you observe. It is built of more than 33 bil­lion neur­ons, linked in a mesh up to 10 thou­sand times each, mak­ing a total num­ber of con­nec­tions greater than the observ­able stars in the sky. It is the true won­der of planet Earth; for it grew here in the same way apples grow on trees.

It is your brain.

And while we can explore the fur­thest reaches of light-enabled space, we can­not claim to have begun under­stand­ing this small lump of tis­sue we each pos­sess. Our sci­ences regard­ing it are crude at best and mostly reply­ing on mere obser­va­tion. That sum of know­ledge even­tu­ally comes down to this: which bits you should not poke. On the other hand, our men­tal sci­ence experts, doctors and sci­ent­ists try to reduce the func­tions of the brain down to an increas­ingly mor­bid col­lec­tion of fac­ulties about which they then bicker and argue about endlessly.

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Cambodia – Journey to Angkor

Cambodia – Journey to Angkor

April 30, 2009  |  Featured, General, Travel  |  View Comments

Spiderville stands between us and the wats, can we escape the 8 legged freaks?

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Mountains of New Zealand

Mountains of New Zealand

November 12, 2008  |  Featured, NewZealand, Travel  |  View Comments

Bilbo: "I want to see mountains again, mountains Gandalf!

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Northland: Part Two

Northland: Part Two

November 3, 2008  |  Featured, NewZealand, Travel  |  View Comments

Basho and Cesca meet Tane Mahuta - The God of the Forest

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A Basho Film : Australia

A Basho Film : Australia

September 15, 2008  |  Basho Films, Featured, Travel  |  View Comments

A short fun film high­light­ing our trip to Aus­tralia, show­ing some of the fant­astic things we saw in this won­der­ful coun­try. A trib­ute to the nation before we move on to New Zealand…

Oh! com­ments about the new intro welcome!

Kangaroo Island WWOOFing

Kangaroo Island WWOOFing

September 7, 2008  |  Featured, General, Travel  |  View Comments

WWOOFing for the 1st time on KI

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A Basho Film: Australia Zoo!

August 23, 2008  |  Basho Films, Featured, General  |  View Comments

The latest Basho film: our visit to Aus­tralia Zoo!

Enjoy,

Basho