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...
Intro LO: I'm surprised that I did not consider this simple explanation before. Moreover, it feels like Occam's razor: "In philosophy, Occam's razor (also spelled Ockham's razor or Ocham's razor; Latin: novacula Occami) is the problem-solving principle that recommends searching for explanations constructed with the...
The anthropic principle has nothing to do with a time period called anthropocene, apart from the fact that anthro means human. Hence, anthropology refers to a scientific study of humanity (ie, us). The anthropic principle is about the limits of our senses (eg, feeling, hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting). Everything else might be an unknown unknown. This explains...
My blogs often use analogies in order to make abstract and/or difficult topics understandable. Examples: ants vs humans (eg, societies), balance & symmetry (eg, beauty), boredom vs curiosity (eg, inspiration), brain vs Universe (eg, similarities). Recently, I had a weird thought: can black holes in the Universe be compared to the human definition of Life (eg,...
Recently, I asked a friend about his tips for my thought provoking topics. He said: "How about AI and Faith". That put me on my wrong foot because Faith is - in my view - a human belief in a divine love a.k.a. agape. In his view, Faith is about (unlimited) trust. I can relate to misplaced trust following an incident. Recently, I made a Google query. The Dutch Google...
In my blog Types of Love, I made this comment: fantasy + intuition + beliefs = facts. Another view is this: from unknown unknowns towards known knowns (facts). My 2017 diagram gives another view by moving from below-right, to below-left, to top-right, towards top-left (facts). Source: my 2017 blog Focus vs Distraction It should be stressed...
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