Tag: philosophy
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Video: Federico Faggin on consciousness.
Federico Faggin is a physicist and inventor of both the microprocessor (the Intel 4004) and silicon gate technology. In this interview, he discusses his evolving views on consciousness, artificial intelligence, non-duality and his own spiritual epiphanies. This is not a hit-and-split entertaining watch whilst waiting to pick up the kids. This is a percolating, slow […]
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Your brain is a radio.
Choose your stations carefully. The vast majority of people (including very smart neurobiologists and physicists) go about life thinking that consciousness is located (somewhere) in the brain. Your brain generates…you. But there is an increasing number* of people who think otherwise. That consciousness is non-local to the brain (this is sometimes referred to as ‘Mind […]
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Is time real?
In this article for The Conversation, Sam Brown looks at the difficulty science is having understanding if time is actually a thing. The story so far… Physicists have divided our reality into two ontological (think the nature of being) operators manuals. First, the strange world of Quantum mechanics describes how the universe functions at the […]
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Is reality like your computer desktop?
Reality is like standing under a powerful waterfall with your mouth open to get a drink.