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jembendell.com
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| | | | | This essay is the first in a series on aspects of free will and consciousness, and the implications for how we live in a metacrisis that, understandably, challenges our assumptions, beliefs and emotions. I show how the increasingly popularised view that science has disproved relative free will is actually neither true nor scientific. I critique... | |
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qri.org
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www.interaliamag.org
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| | | | | Stuart Hameroff's research involves a theory of consciousness developed over the past 20 years with eminent British physicist Sir Roger Penrose. Called 'orchestrated objective reduction' ('Orch OR'), it suggests consciousness arises from quantum vibrations in protein polymers called microtubules inside the brain's neurons, vibrations which interfere, 'collapse' and resonate across scale, control neuronal firings, generate consciousness, and connect ultimately to 'deeper order' ripples in spacetime geometry. Consciousness is more like music than computation. | |
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xdg.me
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| | | If you're reading this blog, it's a good bet that sometime in your life you've had a computer freeze or crash on you. You know that crashes happen. If it's your laptop, you restart and hope for the best. When it's your database, things are a bit more complicated. Historically, a database lived on a single machine. Writes are considered "committed" when they are written to a journal file and flushed to disk. | ||
