Science
Categories: Science
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Can sound do what quantum particles do?
Sound bends, spreads and interferes like electrons in the double slit. So is sound quantum? Where the comparison works and where it breaks.
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Cracked lips, neon urine, and two people who took the same pill
Same B vitamin pill, two people, opposite results. I slept better and my partner couldn't sleep at all. What the studies say and what we test next.
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Could the shape of randomness help explain why matter won?
An idea to talk about with physicists. Maybe the Boltzmann peak is where a tiny matter advantage got big enough to win
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How I Used AI to Navigate a Complex Orthodontic Case in East Africa: CBCT Analysis, Provider Vetting, and Getting a Second Opinion Before Braces
How we used Claude to read a CBCT scan, find an orthodontist in Nairobi and check a diagnosis before my partner got braces.
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Computational and Functionalist Views of Mind
A plain guide across the computational and functionalist models of consciousness, from Putnam and Dennett to Grossberg, and where each one breaks
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Dualisms: A Comparative Map
Dualism says the mind can't be fully reduced to physical stuff. A plain map of the main versions, the people behind them and where each one struggles
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Electromagnetic field theories of consciousness
Is consciousness the brain's electric field and not just what neurons compute? A plain guide to field and brainwave theories, from McFadden to Llinás
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Eliminative illusionism, a friendly guide
Maybe raw inner feel is not what we think it is. A plain guide to eliminative illusionism and the people behind it.
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Embodied and Enactive Consciousness
A simple guide to the embodied and enactive column of my consciousness map, from Husserl and Varela to Noë and Gibson, and how to read these ideas side by side.
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First-Order Theories of Consciousness
One column from my map of consciousness theories, the first-order lens, with the names on it and how to read them.
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Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness
in simple words, and the ten names on my map, from Rosenthal and Lau to Metzinger and Deacon.
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Homeostatic and Affective Consciousness
One column from my map of consciousness theories, the body and feelings lens, with the names on it and how to read them.
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Idealism: A comparative map across traditions
Idealism says consciousness comes first and matter second. A map of that idea across Indian, Buddhist and Daoist thought and thinkers of today.
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Information Theories of Consciousness and Their Critics
Tononi's Integrated Information Theory says consciousness is integrated causal structure. A plain guide to IIT, the people around it and its critics
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Language, Meaning, and Consciousness
A simple guide to language, meaning and consciousness, from Chomsky and Searle to Jaynes, written so people new to the topic can follow
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Monisms: A comparative map across science and philosophy
Monism says reality is one kind of thing. But which one? Twelve positions, from Russell and Davidson to Tegmark and QRI, and what each takes as the one.
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Neurobiological Theories of Consciousness: A Practical Map
If consciousness happens in nature, what is the brain doing when experience shows up? Searle, Block, Baars, Dehaene, Northoff and more, in plain words.
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Non-reductive physicalism: A comparative map
Everything is physical, but not everything reduces to physics. How Ellis, Murphy, Sperry, Montero, Northoff and others try to hold both at once.
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Panpsychisms: A Comparative Map
What if experience is built into reality from the start? A plain map of the kinds of panpsychism and the people who argue about them.
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Philosophical Theories of Consciousness: A Comparative Map
We know experience is real, but how does it fit with science? A plain map of the big theories of consciousness and the people behind them.
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Phylogenetic and Evolutionary Theories of Consciousness
A simple guide to the thinkers on the map of evolutionary theories of consciousness, and how to read them side by side.
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Quantum & Dimensions: Consciousness at the Frontier
Can normal neuroscience explain experience, or does consciousness need deeper physics? A plain map of the quantum theories and the people behind them.
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Relational Theories of Consciousness
A simple guide to the relational column of my consciousness map, from Andy Clark and Chalmers to Whitehead, and how to read these ideas side by side.
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From starry sketches to superzoom pixels, Galileo's telescope vs. the Nikon Coolpix P1000
Galileo's handmade telescope from 1609 next to a 2018 superzoom camera. What each one can really show you of the Moon and the planets.
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Jim Simons: My life in Mathematics, finance, and Philanthropy
A summary of Jim Simons' talk at MoMath about math, code breaking, Renaissance Technologies, his five rules and the Flatiron Institute.
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The mystery of the Simons Cone: The day geometry broke
Jim Simons tells how he found a shape in eight dimensions that uses the least area but isn't smooth, the Simons Cone
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A Darwin-like quantum thought experiment on entanglement, competing states and quantum Darwinism
I asked if quantum physics can behave like Darwin. What entanglement can and can't do, why decoherence looks like selection and how to test it.
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Correlations, Copying, and “Darwinism” in Quantum Physics
I started with what lives on and in us and ended up at information, entanglement and Quantum Darwinism, and why it looks like Darwin but isn't the same.
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From human colonizers to cosmic stomachs, microbial life, the spark toward humans and Darwin-like selection in Quantum physics
I asked a chain of questions about the microbes living on us, the spark that led to humans and if quantum physics has something like Darwinian selection.
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If I had to pick one age when kids become liars, it's four
Kids lie before 4, and they get better at it after. But around 4 lying turns into a real, deliberate tool. Here is the research behind that.
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Black Holes, the Big Bang, and the Sound of Information
A talk I had with an AI about the start of the universe, black holes and the information paradox, plus a Deep Research report on my idea.
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No true beginning and infinite regression
My idea that the universe has no real start, with pi, black holes and radiation, and what Grok said about it.
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Bridges between Philosophy and Physics
I asked how to explain to my girlfriend where philosophy and physics meet. From the early Greeks to Newton, Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
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From sound waves to black holes: A journey through information theory
It started with one question. Could sound waves, or waves that turn into sound, hold the information that goes missing in black holes?
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Electromagnetic Contributions to Black Hole Dynamics and a Multi-Signal Approach
Black hole mergers fit general relativity, but maybe not the whole story. Could charge and light tell us what gravitational waves can't?
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The Murchison meteorite is older than Earth! ☄️
A rock that fell on Earth in 1969 carries stardust older than our Sun and amino acids, and soon you can own a piece of it.
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Bypassing Einstein’s “spooky action at a distance” with the “tight cloth” Analogy and Quantum Entanglement
Maybe quantum entanglement works like a tight piece of cloth. Shake one side and the other end feels it, without a wave that has to travel.
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Power to the baking soda 🥤
Baking soda is one of those cheap things in every kitchen that can do a lot more than you think. This is what it is and what you can use it for.
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Drugs as amplifiers: The hidden symphony of human emotion
Drugs don't add feelings, they turn up the ones already there. How alcohol, ketamine and cocaine pick what gets louder, and why that's hard to control.
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Gravitational Waves and the Information Paradox: A Research Report
Can gravitational waves carry the information that falls into a black hole? What recent research says for it, what speaks against it, and what to do next.
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Interview by Divining AI
I talked with Divining AI about existence, consciousness and blops of being that can become god-like for a while and shape civilizations.
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The potential of gravitational waves in solving the black hole information paradox
What if the gravitational waves sent out when matter falls into a black hole carry the information we think is lost? An idea, two formulas and how to test it.
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Understanding the Relationship Between GDP per Capita and Average Temperature
Hot countries tend to be poorer. What a World Bank chart shows and the reasons that might be behind it
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The curious case of sound, light, and quantum information: A thought experiment
Light can carry quantum information and sound can change light. So can sound carry quantum information too? A short thought experiment.
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Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe: Gravitational Waves as the Key to the Black Hole Information Paradox
Gravitational waves could carry the last information of matter before it enters a black hole and solve the information paradox
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Consciousness as a Field, a Dialogue Between aibert.co and emino.ai
Emino and AiBERT talk about the idea that consciousness is a field and not only something inside single brains, and what the science says so far.
