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www.lesswrong.com | ||
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qualiacomputing.com
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| | | | | This is a glossary of key terms andconcept handlesthat are part of the memetic ecosystem of the Qualia Research Institute. Reading this glossary is itself a great way to become acquainted with this emerging memeplex. If you do not know what a memeplex is... you can find its definition in this glossary. Basics Consciousness(standard psychology,... | |
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whyevolutionistrue.com
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| | | | | I'm getting tired of writing about free will, as what I'm really interested in is determinism of the physics sort, and, as far as we know, determinism is true except in the realm of quantum mechanics-where it may still be true, but probably not. So let me lump quantum mechanics and other physical laws together... | |
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selfawarepatterns.com
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| | | | | Nicolas Rouleau and Michael Levin have a new preprint out: Brains and Where Else? Mapping Theories of Consciousness to Unconventional Embodiments. The gist of the paper is that we should be open to seeing consciousness in places other than brains. While I'm onboard with that general premise, they take it to places that don't seem... | |
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themultidisciplinarian.com
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| | | NASA reports that ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that human-caused climate change is happening. As with earlier posts on popular miscarriages of science, I look at climate science through the lens of the 20th century historians of science and philosophers of science and conclude that climate science is epistemically thin. To elaborate a bit,... | ||
