INTUITION AND NIRVANA

Intuition is the exalted mental process through which new knowledge is obtained. Nirvana, in some regions of India, is the state resulting from liberation from desires, individual consciousness, and reincarnation, achieved through meditation and enlightenment. 

The main goal of Buddhism is to attain the mental state of Nirvana. Buddhism is a philosophy, not a religion. Both processes begin with reflection and lead to enlightenment. 

Meditation is the mental and physical practice aimed at achieving a state of relaxation and deep concentration. Buddha means the enlightened one. This is the name Siddhartha Gautama received when he attained enlightenmIent.

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NATURAL INTELLIGENCE (NI) AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems accurately and to manipulate abstract symbols. Human intelligence is thought, which is divided into articulated language, numerical calculation, and intuition. Artificial intelligence is limited to calculation. Intuition is a heightened mental process through which new knowledge is obtained. 

Natural or human intelligence is divided into five primary abilities: verbal comprehension, reasoning, spatial conception, verbal fluency, and numerical calculation. Intuinic is the science that studies intuition and proposes techniques to develop this ability. Artificial intelligence is programmed and automatic, while natural intelligence is conscious and voluntary.

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TIME IS MAGNITIVE

Magnitive describes the ineffable quality of time: of being objective, subperceptible, and measurable. Magnitive is derived from “magnitude” and the suffix ive. This word was created by me on September 15, 2017. Time is subperceptible because we only see the beginning and the end of an interval and think about its magnitude. Time is measurable thanks to periodic phenomena, which always repeat with the same period. Examples of periodic phenomena include the movements of the Earth and the Moon. It is objective because it does not need an observer to exist, as Aristotle believed

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TIME AND ITS MEASUREMENT. TRANSCHRONY

 To recap, time is the interval between two sequential moments, one of which is the beginning and the other the end. The connection between the beginning and the end is transchrony. Transchrony is the principle or the ability to connect the start and end of an interval. Transchrony can be objective (within the intervals) or subjective. Time is measured using periodic phenomena. These phenomena always repeat with the same period. The first measurements of time took into account the movements of the Earth and the Moon. Then the first clocks appeared: sundials, water clocks, and hourglasses. In the Middle Ages, mechanical and pendulum clocks emerged. In the 20th century, quartz and atomic clocks appeared.

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CATARACT SURGERY

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THE NATURE OF SPACE AND TIME

Space and time are related because they are composed of intervals. But there is a big difference between these intervals. The components of intervals are extremes and extension. In space, the components are coexisting, and in time, the components are sequential. In space, intervals can be horizontal, vertical, and transverse. In time, they are only sequential. 

Also, in space, intervals are reversible, but in time, they are not. The space-time of relativity was a mathematical trick by Albert Einstein to demonstrate that gravity is not a force and that Isaac Newton was wrong about his theory of gravity. Einstein reasoned based on the equation V = d/t. Einstein isolated time from the equation. Time is relative, but space and time are independent. 

Einstein was right about special relativity, but not about general relativity.

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THE HISTORY OF TIME MEASUREMENT

Measuring is comparing an unknown quantity with a known quantity to determine how many times the unknown quantity contains the unit. We all know sequentially what an hour, a minute, a second, a day, a month, a year, etc. are. Clocks measure time by counting periodic intervals. 

The Ancients realized the periodicity of some phenomena, such as the movements of the Earth and the Moon, and thus discovered time. 

Some argue that time is what clocks measure, but they also claim that clocks measure time, which constitutes a circularity. However, the truth is that time is the physical magnitude that continually increases in value due to the duration of beings and their changes. Clocks do not discriminate between day and night. 

In ancient times, the first clocks appeared: the sundial, the hourglass, and water clocks. The latter are called clepsydras. But the sundial was only useful during the day. 

Mechanical and pendulum clocks emerged in the Middle Ages. In the 20th century, quartz clocks appeared, and finally, atomic clocks emerged. Another classification of clocks is hands-on clocks and digital or numeric clocks.

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