The origin of this quotation is argued, but it has been used many times, including in Abraham Maslow’s book The Psychology of Science and Abraham Kaplan’s book The Conduct of Inquiry. It was also made famous in the movie Arrival that we have discussed many times before. Wójcicki attributes it to Mark Twain. It is a catchy phrase that seems to …
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Blog 179. Choose / Choice
A clear point at which he made a choice: See the בחר choose/choice cognate permutation group meaning is (expand/contract activity), and it is in with other very important roots such as עברcross over to the other side (the root for Hebrew), רבע four/fourth, אור illuminate/light, חרב sword/lose vitality, עפר dust, and אפר ash. (As in ash to ash, dust to dust). See the list of …
Blog 178. Shinar שנער
Without an explanation beforehand for the title, I will begin today’s discussion with a continuation of the קר discussion from last time. Hopefully I will be able to steer your thinking toward the topic at hand. Recall, please, that the cognate permutations group meaning for קר is (covering/uncovering having impact). ⦁ 1 Chronicles 2:7 7 The son of Carmi (h3756. …
Blog 176. Learning and Dopamine
This link is for the technically-minded, but I show some highlights below. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6352318/#:~:text=Novel%20experiences%20have%20been%20shown,in%20different%20memory%20consolidation%20processes From Chris 😃 my good friend and fellow Yeshiva graduate with a DHL. She also “happens to be” a brilliant neuroscientist. LTP = long-term potentiation “Novelty,” new learning, induces dopamine release in the hippocampus, triggering memory consolidation to boost memory persistence. We …
Blog 175. Management of Emotions – continuing Alpha and Omega
This entry has grown organically in two ways. First, it grows from the context of Blog 171 and Blog 174. And secondly, it grows organically from my own life, in which I see reflections in Scripture. The first section is going to be some reflections from my own life. Feel free to skim the parts about my life …
Blog 174. Alpha Α and Omega Ω – Two-Letter Thoughts
I guess we all know this repeated quotation, seen several times in the Book of Revelation. I would like to take a deeper dive into some possible meanings from this quotation. First, as we have discussed many times before, there are often many more meanings to Scripture than the obvious. With the adjacent quotes, “first …
Blog 173. Of Golems and Camels
There isn’t really a lot for me to say here, except to see the previous post, Blog 172, about Golem, and then just look at the red highlighted sections in the Scriptural passages below. (Please also note the NKJV translations and compare with the more literal translation in the highlighted passages. We can easily be misled …
Blog 172. Golem and AI (artificial intelligence)
⦁ ▸ I begin today with a commentary published on aish.com. September 1, 2025 5 min read – from Aish.com R. Dovid Campbell The Golem story warned centuries ago: raw power without truth collapses to dust. What does this mean for the promises and perils of AI? Jewish folklore is full of stories that stretch the …