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Craving a midweek reset? Slide into Burgers, Board Games & Chill - our weekly Tuesday night hangout where the buns are toasted, the vibes are relaxed, and the conversation’s always juicy. ​We’ve added **11** new board games — come by, play a few rounds, and help with new ideas! ​Check the latest burger review from Daniel Food Diary > **[https://danielfooddiary.com/2025/05/15/opensourced](https://danielfooddiary.com/2025/05/15/opensourced)** ​ Come solo or bring a friend. It’s low-pressure, good food, and great company — perfect if you’re new in town, working nearby, or just need a breather from the grind. **Venue:** Open Sourced **Website:** [www.opensourced.so](http://www.opensourced.so) **Date:** Tuesday **Time:** 6.30pm-9pm **Location:** 10A Perak Road, Singapore 208131 **Bonus:** Free tatter tots upgrade with every burger

Start the year refreshed, energized, and in the best spirits with our Pre-Chinese New Year City Walk! Enjoy a brisk, scenic stroll along Singapore’s iconic waterfront, soak in beautiful skyline views, and connect with like-minded individuals as we walk into the Lunar New Year together. Whether you’re looking to boost your fitness, enjoy some fresh air, or simply spend a relaxed morning outdoors, this guided city walk offers the perfect blend of wellness, nature, and camaraderie. 🗓️ Event Details 📅 Date: Friday, 3 February 2026 ⏰ Time: 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM 🕰️ Meeting Time: 7:45 AM 📍 Meeting Point: Bayfront MRT, Exit B 🚶 Distance: ~5–6 km ⏱️ Duration: ~2 hours 🏁 End Point: Aperia Mall (near Lavender / Bendemeer MRT) ✨ Route Highlights 🌆 Gardens by the Bay East PCN – Enjoy stunning skyline and waterfront views 🌊 Marina Barrage – Feel the fresh breeze and open scenery 🏟️ National Stadium – Walk past this iconic city landmark 🛍️ Aperia Mall – Convenient, central, and a relaxing finish point 👟 Pace: Brisk yet beginner-friendly 🤝 Group Style: Casual and supportive — no one left behind What to Bring: Water, cap, sunscreen, and comfortable walking shoes ☕🍳 Optional Post-Walk Breakfast Stay on after the walk to enjoy coffee or breakfast at Aperia Mall — a perfect way to unwind, chat, and make new connections. 📝 RSVP Reserve your spot today to ensure you join this refreshing start to the year! ⚠️ Disclaimer Participation is optional and at your own discretion. Please walk within your comfort level and ensure you are in suitable health. Organisers will not be responsible for any injury, accident, or loss. Let’s walk, chat, and step into the Chinese New Year feeling energized, healthy, and ready for a great year ahead! 💪✨

Are the stresses of your busy workday leaving you feeling drained and overwhelmed? Take a step towards rejuvenation and inner peace with our Lunchtime Twin Hearts Meditation and Pranic Healing Therapy session, open to all including public, from 12.30pm to 1.30pm. **Experience Mindful Tranquility Through Twin Hearts Meditation...** In today's fast-paced world, finding moments of tranquility can seem like a luxury. But what if you could harness the transformative power of Twin Hearts Meditation to cultivate a sense of calmness and clarity right in the midst of your day? Our Lunchtime Meditation session offers you precisely that opportunity! Through our guided meditation, you'll learn to quiet the mind, and tap into a wellspring of peace that exists within you; in addition to being a channel of service in blessing mother earth! **Elevate Your Energy with Pranic Healing...** Besides Twin Hearts Meditation, our session offers you the option to experience the healing art of Pranic Healing done by our volunteers, designed to revitalise your body's energy system and promote holistic wellness. Our modern Pranic Healing system, developed by Grand Master Choa Kok Sui, utilises life force energy, or "prana," to cleanse, balance, and harmonise the body's energy centers, also known as chakras. By clearing energetic blockages and replenishing vital energy, a session will leave you feeling refreshed, revitalised, and ready to take on the rest of your day with renewed vigour! You can choose to do just Twin Hearts Meditation, or a Pranic Healing Therapy Session, or enjoy Both at the same time in one session! **Join Us** Make a commitment to your well-being and join us for our lunchtime Twin Hearts Meditation and Pranic Healing Therapy session on Tuesdays. Take this opportunity to nourish your mind, body, and soul in the heart of your workday! Spaces are limited, so reserve your spot early! **Date:** Every Tuesday **Time:** 12.30pm-1.30pm **Venue:** Downtown Gallery #02-09/10 Open to All, including public, who are 16 years of age & above. *Complimentary!* **[Register for a seat](https://form.jotform.com/232852470905458)**

Live Share and Care maiden walk promoting senior with active healthy lifestyle, patronizing elderly hawkers and hawker center. Sharing our care to elderly folks with a meal and company with pack2treat , a movement started 5 years ago supporting hawkers during post covid and a group of old folks at Toa Payoh and Geylang Bahru. As we walk we embrace our city in nature and appreciating the active beautiful clean environment. Step out from Gardens by the Bay MRT and begin a journey that weaves nature, waterways, and everyday life into one meaningful city walk. This gentle loop invites you to slow down and see Singapore with fresh eyes. We start at the serene Kingfisher Boardwalk, then open out to Marina Barrage where city, sea, and sky meet. Passing the Singapore Flyer, the walk flows along the Kallang River, echoing stories of sport and community at the National Stadium. A quiet pause awaits at Tanjong Rhu Lookout for drone play before heading to the heartland. The walk concludes at Geylang Bahru Food Market, where shared local food celebrates heritage, connection, and order pre CNY dinner for the 85 elderly folks at Toa Payoh . More than a walk, this is a mindful journey — linking green spaces to waterways, landmarks to neighbourhoods, and people to one another. Walk together, walk with purpose, and let the city inspire you. 🌿🚶‍♂️ Meet/End: Garden by the Bay MRT end at Geylang Bahru Food Market Distance : about 11 km Duration : 2.5 hrs Note: \- Bring water for hydration \, waterproof your items and be rain equipped \- Sunblock and hat \- in case of bad weather Cat 1 \, any change of plans will be advise on the morning of walk.

**PART I: Purpose exiled** According to Plato, our theories about the world should ‘carve nature at its joints’. *Telos*, the once plausible idea that purpose is a part of the natural order of things, has been steadily banished with the triumph of successive scientific theories in the modern age, culminating in the mechanism of evolution by natural selection and its accompanying metaphor of the blind watchmaker. Here, fitness, defined as the ability to survive and reproduce, is the sole arbiter of design in nature, acquired through so much as the blind lotteries of genetic variation. The momentary surprise that one even scientifically inclined feels at some marvelous specimen of evolution, for example the finesse of a Gray’s leaf insect mimicking not just a leaf but its brown and dying spots to better camouflage against predation ([https://www.biodiversitysingapore.com/in-focus/](https://www.biodiversitysingapore.com/in-focus/)), is to be utterly dispelled by belief in the creative potential of random mutations offering themselves up to selection pressures over geological spans of time. **Emergence: ‘more is different’** Contemplating how mind and intelligence came to be within such a setting presents further aesthetic tension (the mind of everyday experience exclaims, that sounds crazy!). Emergence (1) is a relatively recent concept that purports to explain phenomena like mind while undergirding it with a non-negotiable physicalist ontology. The essence of emergence is that through scaling of individual components, a system acquires so-called novel bases - new foundations upon which regularities can be encoded that were not possible at the lower levels. For example, neurons individually fire action potentials based on the threshold dynamics of local stimuli. Collectively however, groups of neurons fire according to abstract patterns termed ‘basins of attraction’ that represent long-range stable states and may be foundational to concepts like memory (2). Conway’s game of life, anchored by a set of very simple rules, presents a powerful illustration of this dynamic: [https://conwaylife.appspot.com/pattern/gosperglidergun](https://conwaylife.appspot.com/pattern/gosperglidergun) There is a folk account of emergence popular with science writers that goes something like this: while the physics of the system is completely known, predicting what is going to happen is near-impossible just with physics, because there is novel stuff happening at ‘higher’ levels. Importantly, no God or designer directed the organization at the higher levels, but it is not discernible anywhere else. *What does it mean to take seriously a universe in which purpose is nowhere fundamental, yet everywhere invoked?* **PART II: Purpose reconsidered** And yet, there are radical perspectives afoot. Without invoking external designers, some contemporary thinkers argue that natural selection and emergence may not exhaust the explanatory story. Developmental biologist Michael Levin (3) and evolutionary scientist Richard Watson (4) suggest that the mechanisms generating variation themselves may be structured, biased, or even goal-directed, analogous to neural or social learning processes. Levin introduced so-called biobots, which are multicellular living structures assembled from human lung epithelium. Biobots exhibit coordinated movement and problem-solving in novel environments despite having no evolutionary lineage that selected for such behaviors (5). Adaptation appears immediately, as if the system were exploring possibilities rather than stumbling upon them. *Does this point toward a universe where purpose was never fully absent to begin with?* Join us this Saturday as we grapple with where purpose truly lies in nature. **References** 1. O’Connor, Timothy, "Emergent Properties", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2021 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.) [https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2021/entries/properties-emergent/](https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2021/entries/properties-emergent/) 2. Wuensche, Andrew. (1995). The Emergence of Memory: Categorisation Far from Equilibrium. Santa Fe Institute, Working Papers. 3. Levin, M. (2025, February 6). Ingressing Minds: Causal Patterns Beyond Genetics and Environment in Natural, Synthetic, and Hybrid Embodiments. [https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5g2xj_v1 ](https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5g2xj_v1) 4. Richard A. Watson, Michael Levin, Tim Lewens; Evolution by natural induction. Interface Focus 19 December 2025; 15 (6): 20250025. [https://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2025.0025 ](https://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2025.0025) 5. Gumuskaya, G., Srivastava, P., Cooper, B. G., Lesser, H., Semegran, B., Garnier, S., & Levin, M. (2023). Motile Living Biobots Self-Construct from Adult Human Somatic Progenitor Seed Cells. Advanced Science, 11(4), 2303575. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202303575

**Comedy Night + Open Mic + Freestyle**: We've hired a professional comedian to warm the group up for our open mic session. Members have been making me laugh for years and we've tossed around the idea of a comedy night / open mic. Well, It's time to step up and crack me up. We'll start with Tristan Shae and a couple of his friends. Tristan is an alternative comic from Columbus, Ohio. A counselor by day, Tristan explores how comedy can improve mental health by telling jokes and stories that muse on how absurd life can be from squeaky clean topics to not so clean ones. Tristan produces the variety show Cheaper Than Therapy, hosts the weekly Problem Child Alt Comedy Open Mic at The Attic, and can be found engaging in all sorts of silliness around the city from stand up shows at The Nest Theater, The Attic, or The Funny Bone, to improv and sketch shows with various groups at various venues such as The Hashtag Comedy Club. **On Freestyle night** \- just bring a bottle to share\. There is NO formal wine tasting like on other weeks\. Door charge is $10 \(cash or Venmo only please\)\. We may have some left over wines to clear out\! Glasses are provided\. Take Care\. See you there\. **Parking**: There are several public parking lots near the Alive614 hall. Please be careful to NOT park in private parking lots. They do tow. Check Google maps to scope out your space. Anyone who is early could easily find a parking space on the street nearby. I am told that the Chase parking lot is safe after hours. **Glasses**: …will be provided. Please note that after the wine tasting, the EMPTY glasses need to be returned to the boxes at the service table. Please do not make me hunt down your empty glass. Please be gentle, our glasses are fragile. Uh, they are made of glass! **Food**: You are welcome to bring a snack to share. It is not required. Most people do though. If no one brings anything, there will be nothing. **Code of Conduct**: Though mostly understood, it’s still worth mentioning. We don’t have rules per se, but we highly discourage the following topics of discussion because they are likely to incite anti-social responses - Sex, Politics, Religion. Please don’t mistake this as an attempt to limit your free speech rights but rather a guide to a place and time for appropriate discussions. **After the lights go out**: After the last sip of wine, when we clean up and turn the lights out, if you still haven’t had enough of us, it is typical for a group to get together and go to a local eatery for food and/or drinks or coffee. Again, We look forward to meeting new members and reuniting with old friends. Sincerely, ***Paul Uttermohlen***, **Red 1 Realty** *Your Hilliard Wine Club Host*