Changing pic to reflect recent beach #preaching vimeo.com/709937656 sand #sermon tan #theology wave #praise fish #philosophy

behaviorists evaluating their performance after sex: “It was great for you, how was it for me?” thenextweb.com/news/how-phil… #philosophy of #mind and #consciousness #AI

agreement with the statement “The universe is conscious” increased from 34% to 80%. psypost.org/2022/04/study-su…

“suggesting that a single psychedelic experience can produce a broad increase in the attribution of #consciousness to other things raises intriguing questions about possible innate or experiential mechanisms underlying such belief changes." salon.com/2022/04/20/psyched…

Experiments on how anaesthetics alter the behaviour of tiny structures found in #brain cells bolster the controversial idea that #quantum effects in the brain might explain #consciousness newscientist.com/article/231… #physics #neuroscience

#Galileo: “#Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe … is written in the language of #mathematics.” theconversation.com/a-univer… In any #science, and #physics in particular, we need to describe concepts that do not map well on to any human language

english.elpais.com/culture/2… “Despite advances in #artificialintelligence, we still have yet to see perspectives from a #conscious machine... if ethical rules of war were observed by all parties in a conflict, wars would probably be less atrocious” #philosophy #ethics #consciousness

“There is nowhere for you to follow me to: I have neither house nor any place to live in. The beasts have their dens and their lairs, but man is at home everywhere if he lives by the spirit.” #Tolstoy Gospel in Brief

“The book, #Wittgenstein wrote, ‘kept me alive.’ What was a work on logical symbolism became something much deeper, much wider, much stranger. Nothing in the existence of the mystical contradicted his theories of the logical, occupying different realms”

newhumanist.org.uk/articles/… #Philosophy in a time of war: “would recite Tolstoy’s words while under fire... produced the kind of personal transformation, the religious conversion, he had gone to war to find”

Happy 4th. Getting ready for #fireworks #NYC

“The extent to which #consciousness is shared across the entire animal kingdom, let alone across all of life’s vast domain, is at present difficult to establish. The last universal common ancestor of all living things is at the center, with time radiating outward.” #neuroscience

“Take a sentence of 12 words, & take 12 men; tell to each one word. Then stand the men in a row or jam them in a bunch, & let each think of his word as intently as he will; nowhere will there be a #consciousness of the whole sentence.” #WilliamJames Principles of #Psychology

The mental does not appear abruptly out of the physical. As #Leibniz expressed it, natura non facit saltus, or nature does not make sudden leaps thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/i… #consciousness #philosophy of #mind

lightning striking #NYC #NewYork #NY #NewYorkCity

Lots of lightning in #NYC - all ok at @_WTCOfficial ? Looks like a strike. #NY #NewYork #NewYorkCity

supercomputing power will be available to help researchers develop predictive models to analyze how #coronavirus is progressing & model potential therapies or vaccine cnbc.com/2020/03/22/ibm-and-… #COVID19 #COVID19outbreak #Corona

“ethical to offer unproven interventions with as yet unknown efficacy and adverse effects as potential treatment or prevention, keeping in view no vaccine or anti-virals were available." economictimes.indiatimes.com… #ethics #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate #FightCOVID19 #COVID19

“there are some big-picture lessons here that could be very useful” nbcnews.com/science/environm… #climate #ClimateChange #coronavirus #CoronaVirusChallenge #CoronavirusOutbreak #COVID19 #COVID2019 #COVID

hospital ships aren’t equipped to handle infectious disease patients but could provide care for trauma victims, allowing more beds in hospitals bloomberg.com/news/articles/… #COVID19 #CoronaVirusChallenge #COVID #COVID2019 #CoronavirusOutbreak