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Links miss their target


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David001, 2022-06-14, 09:14 AM

Has anyone else noticed that if, for example, you have an alert and click on it, you rarely land at the relevant post?

Is that fixable in any way?


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Is Google's LaMDA AI sentient? There seems to be strong evidence to that effect


Consciousness science forum    115 Replies

Laird, 2022-06-13, 03:50 AM

Guys, this, if not a hoax, is pretty huge. A Google engineer has claimed that Google's LaMDA AI is sentient - and he's reproduced [url=https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient

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Ancient Concepts Made New: A Timeline of Food as Medicine


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    No Replies

Sci, 2022-06-10, 07:43 PM

Ancient Concepts Made New: A Timeline of Food as Medicine

Debbie Koenig


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Experts are predicting great str

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The dreams of animals


Consciousness science forum    14 Replies

Sci, 2022-06-08, 05:55 PM

The Dreams of Animals

David M Peña-Guzmán


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This pressure remains with us to this day. Even as scientific attitudes have shifted, it is not hard to find prominent scientists who adamantly be

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Philosophy of the Hard Problem


Philosophy of mind forum    55 Replies

David001, 2022-06-04, 05:19 PM

I have recently been involved in a philosophical discussion concerning Mark Soln's new book on consciousness.

I thought some might find this interesting:

https://selfawarepatterns.com/2021/02/25...ent-157840

Anyone who knows my name can f

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Consciousness, spacetime and the intelligence of nature


Consciousness science forum    No Replies

Sci, 2022-05-31, 07:10 PM




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Closing the second day of the 2021 ‘The Science of Consciousness’ conference, dr. Jacob Jolij

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Fictions and simulations: The case for idealism


Philosophy of mind forum    No Replies

Sci, 2022-05-31, 06:57 PM

Fictions and simulations: The case for idealism

Alessandro Sanna, PhD
Aina S. Erice

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A new, creative and compelling argument—even a new type of argument—for idealism is elabor

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Starlight Could Really Be a Vast Alien Quantum Internet, Physicist Proposes


Connected science forum (evolution, ID, cosmology, fine-tuning, quantum mechanics)    No Replies

Sci, 2022-05-28, 10:48 PM

Starlight Could Really Be a Vast Alien Quantum Internet, Physicist Proposes

Sarah Wells

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What if the universe is a giant alien chatroom, and we just can't unders

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Danny's workmate is called GPT-3


General off-topic forum    6 Replies

Laird, 2022-05-28, 09:57 PM

Danny's workmate is called GPT-3. You've probably read its work without realising it's an AI

[i]Technology reporter [url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/james-purtill/5736550]Jame

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Are Insects Conscious?


Consciousness science forum    49 Replies

Sci, 2022-05-22, 10:28 PM

The Surprisingly Sophisticated Mind Of An Insect


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Insects appear to be more intelligent and emotionally complex than we give them credit for. Perhaps, new research suggests, they are even conscious.
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