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Thought Moments
“Between thought and expression, There lies a lifetime.” 

– Lou Reed.

“Taste... it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question for any living creature is, ‘What do you like?’ Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are.” 

– John Ruskin.


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Thought Moments with Eye Tracking
Thought Moments Synopsis
Thought Moments asks ten questions, and records the responses of people on the streets of Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol, London and Brighton. The questions are simple, but they seek to reveal our true nature: our loves, fears and desires.
Thought Moments in Buddhism
‘Thought Moments’ is a Buddhist term for the ‘mental states experienced after a physical or mental object enters the mind’ (a physical object is something in the ‘real’ world that we can see, hear, touch or sense in any way. A mental object is something that is in our mind, that we can either remember or imagine seeing, hearing, touching or sensing in any way).
Michael Simon Toon
“I read about ‘Thought Moments’ when I was a Theravada Buddhist monk in Bangkok, Thailand. I learned that the Buddha identified thought moments and their sequences, quite specifically, going so far as to count and name them. The next day, I read an article in a Bangkok Post (delivered every day to the temple) about a new technique in America for scanning the brain which showed the sequence of brain states during the thought process, even going so far as to count and name them. The frequency of these thought moments described by both the Buddha and the scientists were remarkably similar.” - MST.
Publications and References
Thought Moments is utilzed/reproduced by students, teachers, film-makers, and NLP practitioners. In 2009, a repost of thought Moments was awarded Youtube honors for Russia – No. 5 top favorited (of all time) in education, No. 17 top rated (of all time) in education and No. 65 most viewed (of all time) in education.
Protocell Circus
Protocell Circus is a short film co-produced with Dr Rachel Armstrong, of a basic physiochemical reaction containing just a few ‘ingredients’ which exhibits recognizable life-like behaviors, remarkably similar to our own.