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Have a happier and more engaged new year, folks. We need to crack on and save the place whilst our leaders dream of glory. (A noble exception for some of Biden’s policies. But so much more is needed.)   So what […]

Zeug, #108 If philrimmer’s giving you such an easy ride, then frankly I think he’s coddling you out of misguided paternalism. Because all I see when you try to engage me is a bad faith obstructionist who lea […]

Hi, J #55 In fact, you cannot provide conclusive proof to anyone that you are not a philosophical zombie at this very moment.  Exactly the problem. But I’m my own researcher here. I am the experiment. I always […]

On panpsychism. Respectably, modern panpsychism is an attempt at a “single substance” (monist) account for “mentality”. This horrible term dates from a time when what I am terming “the vivid experience” was […]

Strato #44 Why do you persist with being a panpsychism-monger on this forum, Joaquim? David Chalmer’s proposition was taken very seriously on this site and in many ways was the best attempt at bridging the gap […]

Oo-er… A black cloud at the centre of our universe…. Another really good article, Michael. Thank you.

Joaquim #39 I believe we lack proper concepts, ideas, and theories to make sense of all this. As you said, we’re not going to solve this issue anytime soon. I’m of the opinion that our ideas about reality are […]

What I’m imagining, Declan, is a little comms pod dropped down on a wire which is moved around by the surface vessel in three axes as instructed by the comms link with a fully autonomous, disconnected ROVer. […]

Underwater communication… Sodium chloride makes seawater electrically conductive and propagating Electro-Magnetic waves will have their fields “shorted out”, i.e. attenuated. Local circulating currents induced […]

Joaquim #28 This is precisely what I have been inquiring about all this time.  I’ve always understood this to be the case. So… good. Once, people thought all the real mental work happened because of “the […]

Michael #121 There is both the quality of mind, the genetically gifted processors and the neuro-cognitive skews affecting the aesthetics of salience calls, then there are the thinking tools you have been given and […]

A fabulous retelling, Michael. (I like your personal asides too.) Lives are on display here. Tales of developing minds, the thousand routes to a rich and sustaining interior life, are endlessly fascinating, the […]

Joaquim. I proposed to Dan Dennett almost 20 years ago now that as we sidle up to understanding the neuro-dynamics of conscious thought, whilst we can conceive of no actual bridge between physics and the vivid […]

Joaquim #25 the ability to have a first-person experience of this process. But that vivid experience has never been shown to be of any significance in the processing of data other than what it most probably is, […]

Joaquim #12 Voltage is merely a label All words are “merely” labels. I think you’ll get a better appreciation of the problem if you look at the later Wittgenstein’s work, his Language Games.  What he shows is […]

Just a quick elucidation (I hope) of how memetic evolutionary feedback sharpens the distinction of entities… Positive feedback (making the output produce more of the input to which it is due) makes the transfer […]

Once animals became a thing with their ability to move, and, better than veggies, sit in the topical flow of nourishing energy (and out of the flow of being nourishment for predator animals), neurons, those levers […]

#96 We know that Cultures can persist for decades… should read… We know that Cultures can persist for centuries… Apologies also for the muddle of other posts. It seems I have been struggling with an […]

Finally, this to clarify my genetic understanding… not perfect and horrid clickbaity title, but…    

Strat, #91 This is a rather ad lib set of musings on the nature of distinct populations and their distinct tendencies to collectivism or individualism of thought and action. I think the (for me) primary, though […]