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A few weeks ago I've been interviewed for H+ Magazine on my project of re-engineering human consciousness with new technologies such as brain-machine interfaces, and I attach the most interesting points from the interview here. Shortly about the project: to develop such brain-machine interface that will enable us to actually feel what is going on...
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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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Both physics and philosophy are jargon-ridden. So let's first define some key concepts. Both "consciousness" and "physical" are contested terms. Accurately if inelegantly, consciousness may be described following Nagel ("What is it like to be a bat?") as the subjective what-it's-like-ness of experience. Academic philosophers term such self-intimating "raw feels" "qualia" - whether macro-qualia...
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A guide to writing rigorous trip reports.
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