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After failing to find anatomical or functional correlates of a variety of psychiatric conditions, Prof. dr. Sarah Durston has moved away from metaphysical materialism. This is what she discusses in her presentation duri
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...It has been argued that the creative moment is not at the end of a deliberate computation.2 Thus, dreams or visions are supposed to have inspired Elias Howe’s 1845 design of t
This was a bit of an odd find for me, but it was very interesting to hear her comments at various parts of this talk on experiments they're doing and results people have gotten and where they want to take it from here. Agriculture, especially small scale backyard stuff, really is a good way to pract
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Our first-person perspective is primary, the external world emergent, argues physicist and member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Markus Müller, in his presentation during [url=https://www.essentiafoundation.org/es
Donald Hoffman recommended this essay, a review of a few different takes of consciousness - for example Karl Friston, Anil Seth, Henri Bergson, Giulio Tononi, and Hoffman & his fellow Idealists - with the final intent of giving some possible connection between them -
Thought I may as well post this here since this kind of encompasses most of the topics discussed on here. This caused quite the controversy/stir in the comments in the New York Times, particularly given how responsive the author was in the comments. Bruce Fenton also left a comment I noticed.
We already have a long running thread on evolution but a kind of secondary debate has developed in which we have been discussing the nature of the intelligence driving evolution - if any. Now, I say "if any" and the assertion or doubt of that is the meat of the other discussion but, for the sake of
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Paul Stamets is a legendary mycologist, and in this tour de force keynote at Exponential Medicine ([url=https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbGFGVXJUdGZ5TlROVXdVYl9iV0d4YmFaWkJkUXxBQ3J
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