A recent Debrief article (below) on consciousness, did not come as a surprise to me. This topic is finally heading in the right direction: probably everything is conscious. Hence, life, nature, and the universe. Perhaps, even Energy & Matter are conscious. This 2024 quote may explain my reasoning: Brains Are Not Required When It Comes to Thinking and Solving...
The BBC article (below) omits mentioning that Time is a human invention that - at least - originated in the Sumerian civilisation. Humans have a habit of making mistakes. Hence, Time might indeed not “exist”. The real problem might be answering the question: what is Time ? The Sumerian civilisation used Earth’s orbits around the Sun as a way of calculating time (eg,...
Enkele weken geleden stelde mijn moeder (90) deze vraag. Ik zei dat ze geen kat meer heeft. Haar kat overleed namelijk maanden geleden. Mijn moeder bleef volhouden. Plotseling begreep ik wat ze bedoelde. De kat die mijn moeder’s verzorgingstehuis in en uit loopt, komt nu ook bij haar binnen. Inmiddels zit ik in een soortgelijke situatie. Mijn nieuwe buren hebben een...
Intro LO: The term reverse evolution in this Phys article (below) was new to me. Moreover, it’s “a term that tends to be controversial among evolutionary biologists”. Latter remark made me curious. “That's because evolution isn't supposed to have a rewind button. It's generally viewed as a one-way march toward adaptation, not a circular path back to traits once...
Recently, I received an Aeon / Psyche email including an article that caught my immediate interest: Why are humans so good at cooperating? That question about cooperation had once been on my mind too, but I chose to ignore it. Actually, its second article contains a glimpse of an answer to the question above: Why large language models are mysterious – even to their...
Intro LO: Perhaps, the most important - though (very) implicit - conclusion is that all animal sounds are a form of communication. Our concept of (human) language is (“just”) a “single protein variant”. Moreover, this article strongly suggests that the Neanderthal must have had language skills, similar to ours. That would also support the ancient mating between Homo...
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