by watchthedot | Sep 12, 2022
Bernardo Kastrup has been leading the renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He is the executive director of Essentia Foundation and specializes in artificial intelligence and reconfigurable computing. He has been a...
by watchthedot | Sep 12, 2022
Federico Faggin developed a theory of physics which posits that consciousness, not matter, is the ground of being. He developed the silicon chip, the microprocessor at the heart of all electronic devices today such as your computer. He led the 4004 (MCS-4) project and...
by watchthedot | Sep 12, 2022
Conscious (eg Visual) perception involves three waves post-thalamus; the third wave corresponds with conscious perception which occurs hundreds of milliseconds after sensory input. Yet we respond to visual input after less than a hundred milliseconds, seemingly...
by watchthedot | Sep 9, 2022
Johnjoe McFadden and Jim Al-Khalili in Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology explores such questions as ‘Nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we missing a vital ingredient in...
by watchthedot | Sep 9, 2022
Sean Carroll in The Many Worlds of Quantum Mechanics explains why an increasing number of physicists are led to an astonishing conclusion: that the world we experience is constantly branching into different versions, representing the different possible outcomes of...
