"Sometimes you think doing something is a total waste of time…and then it ends up being one of the best things you ever did. Don’t judge the day before it unfolds. Amazing things can, and do, happen when you least expect them." -Susan Gale
To pick up again something unusual => innovation => happiness
Liking Frank Wilczek’s idea of innovation – I one’s perceived the word with help of merriam-webster.com as follows:
* INNOVATION = the introduction of something NEW; a new idea, method, or device; NOVELTY
* NEW = being other than the former or old; different from one of the same category that has existed previously; beginning as the RESUMPTION or repetition of a previous act or thing (e.g. the new edition)
* RESUMPTION = an act or instance of resuming
* RESUMING = to pick up again; to begin again something interrupted; to make a summary
* NOVELTY = something new or unusual; newness
"It is reasonable to suppose that the goal of a future-mind will be to optimize a mathematical measure of its well-being or achievement, based on its internal state. (Economists speak of ‘maximizing utility”, normal people of ‘finding happiness‘.) The future-mind could discover, by its powerful introspective abilities or through experience, its best possible state the Magic Moment – or several excellent ones. It could build up a library of favourite states. That would be like a library of favourite movies, but more vivid, since to recreate magic moments accurately would be equivalent to living through them. Since the joys of discovery, triumph and fulfillment require novelty, to re-live a magic moment properly, the future-mind would have to suppress memory of that moment’s previous realizations. – A future-mind focused upon magic moments is well matched to the limitations of reversible computers, which expend no energy. Reversible computers cannot store new memories, and they are as likely to run backwards as forwards. Those limitations bar adaptation and evolution, but invite eternal cycling through magic moments. Since energy becomes a scarce quantity in an expanding universe, that scenario might well describe the long-term future of mind in the cosmos."
– Frank Wilczek – (Big troubles, imagined and real; published in Global Catastrophic Risks, 2008)
www.paradise-engineering.com/quotation/index.html
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Awesome quote roundup – Achieving Perfect Health
Awesome quote roundup – Achieving Perfect Health
Storified by P. James Holland · Wed, Jun 20 2012 00:06:47
The 50 Best Quotes About Health & Nutrition
http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-health/quotes-about-health/
1. “Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise” ~Benjamin Franklin
2. “Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.” ~John F. Kennedy
3. “The greatest wealth is Health.” ~Unknown
4. “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” ~Hippocrates
5. “Just because you’re not sick doesn’t mean you’re healthy” ~Author Unknown
6. “Those who think they have no time for exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.” ~Edward Stanley
7. “If you don’t take care of your body, where are you going to live?” ~Unknown
8. Healthy is merely the slowest rate at which one can die. ~Unknown
9. “Garbage in garbage out” ~George Fuechsel
10. “Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.” ~Doug Larson
Quote of the day – Freedom Alone
Quote from the Declaration of Arbroath, on the wall at NMS.
The quote is:
It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom — for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.