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• A Review of Yuval Harari's "Nexus"

  I pass on the very cogent opinions of Dominic Green, fellow of the Royal Historical Society, that appeared in the Sept. 13 issue of the Wall Street Journal. Read more

  The 15 september 2024 by   Deric Bownds
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• The Fear of Diverse Intelligences Like AI

  I want to suggest that you read the article by Michael Levin in the Sept. 3 issue of Noema Magazine on how our fear of AI’s potential is emblematic of humanity’... Read more

  The 15 september 2024 by   Deric Bownds
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• The Delusions of Transhumanists and Life Span Extenders

  One futurist story line is that we all will be seamlessly integrated with AI and the cloud, and bioengineered to live forever. Read more

  The 30 august 2024 by   Deric Bownds
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• CFP: Philosophy of High Energy Physics (PHEP-2)

  Workshop Dates: February 15-16, 2025Call for Papers – The deadline for submissions is September 30th at midnight. Please send all submissions to... Read more

  The 29 august 2024 by   Wuthrich
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• Regulating Our Subjective Well Being - Our Brain's Axes of Arousal, Valence,...

  

  I've now read several times through a daunting review article by Feldman et al. in the July issue of Trends in Cognitive Science titled "The Neurobiology of... Read more

  The 28 august 2024 by   Deric Bownds
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• The Brain Simulates Actions and Their Consequences During REM Sleep

  During REM sleep our brains make up and work though simulated scenarios, while putting our bodies into paralysis so we don't thrash about dangerously....... Read more

  The 26 august 2024 by   Deric Bownds
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• An Epilogue

  I want to pass on a clip from the epilogue of Jim Holt's 2012 book "Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story" in which he describes his attendin... Read more

  The 23 august 2024 by   Deric Bownds
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• CFP: New Approaches to the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Linkoping, 27-29 No...

  Submissions: 300-word abstract (excl. references) + 120-word bio sent to Harald Wiltsche ([email protected]) in an email with the subject line “Submission... Read more

  The 22 august 2024 by   Wuthrich
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• Human Distinctiveness and Artificial Intelligence

  I pass on some random thoughts occasioned by the previous post. What is distinctive about humans? -There are millions of humans, there can be only a few LLMs,... Read more

  The 14 august 2024 by   Deric Bownds
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• Human Distinctiveness in Different Cultures

  

  I want to pass on a clip of text from Samuel Arbesman's recent Substack email, on the path dependence of fundamental ideas about ourselves. Read more

  The 12 august 2024 by   Deric Bownds
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