#68 BananasUF. //Neurotheology// 司法追殺謝長廷. 520「台灣民眾大會」籌備記者會: 08.5.13=2 6-10pm - 5.22=4 7pm.

'Why Bananas Are a Parable for Our Times' May22,08 http://tinyurl.com/4zk68w
: .."more heavily consumed even than rice or potatoes, has its own form of cancer. It is a fungus called Panama Disease, and it turns bananas brick-red and inedible."
.."There is no cure. They all die as it spreads, and it spreads quickly. Soon — in five, 10 or 30 years"
.."United Fruit took one particular type — the Gros Michael — out of the jungle and decided to mass produce it on vast plantations, shipping it on refrigerated boats across the globe."
.."United Fruit developed a cruel business model to deliver it. As the writer Dan Koeppel explains in his brilliant history Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World, it worked like this. Find a poor, weak country. Make sure the government will serve your interests. If it won’t, topple it and replace it with one that will."
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'Switching a National Psyche from War to Peace — Japanese Style' Ann Wright http://tinyurl.com/4suxh9

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"neural basis", "neural machinery":
' Brain's 'trust machinery' identified ' May21,08 http://tinyurl.com/6aa97e
: "May 22, 2008, issue of the journal Neuron"

"The brain centers triggered by a betrayal of trust have been identified by researchers, who found they could suppress such triggering and maintain trust by administering the brain chemical oxytocin. The researchers said their findings not only offer basic insights into the neural machinery underlying trust; the results may also help in understanding the neural basis of social disorders such as phobias and autism."
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'Cat brain could provide bionic eye firmware' May21,08 http://tinyurl.com/5dta4r
"Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute researchers hope one day to develop implants that make it possible for people to see without an optic nerve, by stimulating a part of the brain called the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), which receives and processes visual information from the retina, via the optic nerve, before sending it on to the cerebral cortex."
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[08.5.22=4 7:12pm] to news@kurzweilai.net:

Dear gentlemen,

How nice your work, thanks so much! I have actually very simple question: Could the human nature be studied by systematic research into "religion" and related areas of human brain? Have those areas stared from the very beginning of brains? Are they most developed compared to other areas, and compared to other species, in human brains? And then, could those understandings contribute significantly to the solution of our serious contemporary problems?

Your insights would be highly appreciated.

Tsai Sheh-gni
http://bbcwebb.blogspot.com

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[Tsai 08.5.18 #1] Beyond history and philosophy, science I think should be fully utilized to get to the human nature, so that the current serious human problems could be dealt with fundamentally. So we need brain studies. Beyond individual survival, group survival is essential to the former. By controlling others? Highly problematic, I think.

Rational behavior, has to be grounded on natural human nature, to be effective, it seems. Blind obedience and single-mindedness and deadly seriousness in some religious endeavours, could be overcome by "the nerual Buddhism"?

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[Tsai 08.5.17=6 #1] Reply to Daily Digest gets blank epost with only "To" given. We humans evolved from the emergence of life with memory for survival, but with the emergence of "superpower" over all other lives. What is the latter? The basic human nature perhaps was born from there. It was not just the most powerful, like lions. It has something to do with organizing groups, but beyond ants or bees groups. It is accumulative beyond individuals group memory for survival AND for control over all others. Is the "religion" its instrument?

Is the "religion" regions of the brain, connected with all other similar experience, for example the effects of certain drugs and of all other similarly effective functions and materials?

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I think the answer to your question (assuming that I understood it!) is closely tied to 9/11 - both the event itself, the reasons for it, and the reaction to it. ... ...

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'The Neural Buddhists' DAVID BROOKS May13,08 http://tinyurl.com/5qhn5s
'Brain Waves: Neurotheology Rising - The Neural Buddhists' Zack Lynch May14,08 http://tinyurl.com/5h2556

"David Brooks continues his quest to discuss everything in terms of neuroscience. This week in The Neural Buddhists he declares, "Just as 'The Origin of Species' reshaped social thinking, just as Einstein’s theory of relativity affected art, so the revolution in neuroscience is having an effect on how people see the world.

He goes on, "This new wave of research will not seep into the public realm in the form of militant atheism. Instead it will lead to what you might call neural Buddhism." The implications of which he suggest will be the following. "First, the self is not a fixed entity but a dynamic process of relationships. Second, underneath the patina of different religions, people around the world have common moral intuitions. Third, people are equipped to experience the sacred, to have moments of elevated experience when they transcend boundaries and overflow with love. Fourth, God can best be conceived as the nature one experiences at those moments, the unknowable total of all there is."

And he so aptly ends with, "We’re in the middle of a scientific revolution. It’s going to have big cultural effects." I think Brooks will be a fan of The Brain Wave when it is released next May."

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'司法追殺謝長廷 清算抹黑不手軟' 李心怡 Apr17,08 New Taiwan:630 http://tinyurl.com/48audf
: "外界對於司法界的觀感，仍有「法院是國民黨開的」的感觸，民進黨執政時尚且如此，將來國民黨重新拾回政權，更難以撼動，對於未來司法方面的清算，謝長廷心裡有底"

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520「台灣民眾大會」籌備記者會
Posted by: "台灣教授協會1" taup@seed.net.tw
Tue May 13, 2008 9:29 am (PDT)

520「台灣民眾大會」籌備記者會
（一） 日期：2008年5月13日（星期二）

（二） 時間：上午10:00

（三）地點：台大校友會館3樓A室

(台北市濟南路一段2-1號3樓)

（四）主辦單位：台灣教授協會

（五）協辦單位：台灣北社、九O八台灣國運動

（六）新聞稿：

要做台灣主人，不做中國奴隸

一群主張台灣獨立建國的本土社團代表於五月二日決議：選定五月二十日下午二點，在台北市大安森林公園召開「台灣民眾大會」。大會將以升旗、演講及示威遊行等活動，來向全世界宣示台灣人堅持獨立建國、當家做主的決心。大會主題定調為：「要做台灣主人，不做中國奴隸。」由台灣教授協會會長蔡丁貴教授擔任總指揮。

在五月二十日同一天，外來的中國國民黨﹝以下簡稱中國黨﹞將重新獨裁「中華民國」。這個自1945年以「族群歧視」和「階級剝削」遂行少數「外省權貴」統治的邪惡體制，是中國黨強架在台灣人身上的枷鎖。即使到2000年民進黨執政後，整個台灣社會只能卸下20%的枷鎖，根本無法執行「轉型正義」使國家社會正常化、合理化。中國黨繼續壟斷80%的國家機器，並運用其長期掠奪自台灣社會的龐大黨產，橫行台灣社會、顛倒是非，阻止政治和社會革新。它所掌控的「立法院」繼續用「鳥籠公投法」來剝奪台灣人的政治權利，好讓「外省權貴」能繼續以少數人控制多數的台灣人，施行假民主。台灣雖有表面上公開的選舉，事實上沒有公平的競爭基礎。因此，台灣人一定要拋棄這個落伍、反動的外來體制，建立屬於台灣人自己的現代國家，做台灣的主人。

過去十年，台灣人國家意識高漲，居少數卻又不認同台灣獨立建國的「外省權貴」，為了維護他們在台灣社會的影響力和不法利益，不惜聯合圖謀併吞台灣的中共，共同模糊、壓制台灣人的獨立建國意識，以換取中共的支持。馬英九當選後，迫不及待地傾向中共，勾結沒有台灣國家意識的資本家，要方便他們掏空台灣的資金去幫助中國，也大力吹捧「中國富豪」要來台灣作投機炒作，企圖用飆高的房價來製造經濟將好轉的假象，完全無視台灣的國家安全和經濟安全。這種發展若不加以制止，台灣的政治和經濟將落入中國的掌握，「外省權貴」將成為中共在台灣的買辦，而台灣人將淪為中國的政治和經濟奴隸。因此，台灣人一定要澈底醒悟，起來為自己的出頭天打拼。要做台灣主人，不做中國奴隸！

（七）520活動規劃：

1、活動日期：2008年5月20日(星期二)。

2、集合時間：下午1點30分。

3、活動時間：下午2點至4點。

4、集合地點：台北市大安森林公園露天音樂台區。

5、遊行路線：大安森林公園集會→沿新生南路左轉→仁愛路左轉→金山南路右轉→愛國東路→台灣民主紀念館大孝門前解散。

（八）活動照片：

◎ 一群主張「台灣獨立建國」的本土社團代表於5月2日決議：選定5月20日下午2點，在台北市大安森林公園召開「台灣民眾大會」。

◎ 「台灣民眾大會」由台灣教授協會會長蔡丁貴教授（左）擔任總指揮，右為副會長劉聰德教授。

◎ 5月3日（星期六）台灣教授協會執委會中確認520召開「台灣民眾大會」，由左至右：

李欣芬（副秘書長，擔任記錄）、陳彥升（科技組執委）、許文輔（科技組執委）、廖宜恩（中區執委）、謝志誠（秘書長）、蔡丁貴（會長，擔任主席）、劉聰德（副會長）、潘振輝（副秘書長）、張信堂（北區執委）、薛化元（人文組執委）。

◎這是籌備記者會在台大校友會館1樓的看板。

◎籌備記者會，由左至右：劉重義（即劉聰德，台教會副會長）、蔡丁貴（台教會會長）、周福南（台灣北社副社長）、王獻極（九O八台灣國運動總召）。

◎ 由左至右，前排：楊東傑醫師、辜寬敏先生、黃崑虎先生；

後排：劉重義副會長、蔡丁貴會長、王獻極總召、周福南副社長。

◎陳師孟教授（前左）。

◎名政論家金恆煒先生（前右）。

◎蔡丁貴會長接受民視記者訪問。

◎台灣玉山網路電視台的執行長魚夫先生（左）及其太太（右）。

◎王獻極總召（前）接受台灣玉山網路電視台的專訪。

◎蔡丁貴會長（左）接受台灣玉山網路電視台的專訪，右為執行長魚夫先生。

由左至右：敏紅小姐（史明先生助理）、劉重義副會長、蔡丁貴會長、周福南副社長、王獻極總召、楊東傑醫師。

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※ 後記：

520就要到了，那個既無能力又無擔當，並且善變膚淺的馬英九就要成為台灣總統了，我們是有骨氣尊嚴並有民主素養的台灣人民，所以我們不會到總統府前去鬧馬英九的就職大典，但我們要在520這個特別的日子裏，在大安森林公園升自己的國旗、唱自己的國歌，亦即向國際社會宣示：我們「要做台灣主人，不做中國奴隸」！最後並遊行至台灣民主紀念館，希望大家能踴躍參加520的「台灣民眾大會」。

最後，我仍要說：建國尚未成功，同志仍須努力，期盼大家的相挺…………

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台灣教授協會（TAUP）副秘書長：李欣芬拍攝整理 2008/5/13