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Author
Peter Biles
Date
July 9, 2023

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Arts & Culture

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Arts and Culture, Cormac McCarthy, Fate, fiction, Nick Romeo, Santa Fe Institute, Scientific American, Stella Maris, The Passenger}

Cormac McCarthy’s Love for Science and Mathematics

_{His interest in science and mathematics were not extraneous hobbies but performed a strong role in the fiction he wrote} _{Peter Biles

July 9, 2023

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Arts & Culture}

The late novelist Cormac McCarthy passed away on June 13th in Santa Fe, leaving a legacy of fictional works grappling with fate, masculine alienation, and the possibility of a transcendent reality. McCarthy’s two last books, The Passenger and Stella Maris, which are intended to be read together, are about a brother and sister who are both brilliant mathematicians, and whose father helped craft the atomic bomb with the Manhattan Project. McCarthy’s work is haunted both by a bleak fatalism and glimpses of an enduring reality beyond the merely physical. His interest in science and mathematics were not extraneous hobbies; they performed a strong role in the fiction he wrote. Nick Romeo writes at Scientific American, Science is also a source Read More ›

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Author
Eric Holloway
Date
May 12, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy, Global Technology, Surveillance, Technocracy

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Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Eugenics, IBM, Michael S. Malone, Nazis, Scientific American, Soviet Union, William Davidow}

No, Scientific American, Don’t Starve AI!

_{Don't unplug AI; just make sure everyone shares in both the creation and the benefits} _{Eric Holloway

May 12, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy, Global Technology, Surveillance, Technocracy}

While many are concerned about all the jobs that AI will eliminate, no one is talking about the fact that AI needs humans. Information is the fuel that powers AI, and only humans can create this information. So, the real revolution that AI will bring is not data exploitation, but the empowering of people all around the world to power our economy through creation of information. What’s bad news for authoritarian groups like the Chinese Communist party is good news for everyone else.

Why Is Science Growing Comfortable with Panpsychism (“Everything Is Conscious”)?

_{At one time, the idea that “everything is conscious” was the stuff of jokes. Not any more, it seems} _{News

May 3, 2020

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Philosophy of Mind}

A recent article at New Scientist treats panpsychism as a serious idea in science. That’s thanks to the growing popularity of neuroscientist Giulio Tonioni’s Integrated Information Theory (IIT), which offers the opportunity for mathematical modeling, along with the implication that inanimate matter and/or the universe may be conscious. If IIT continues to gain a sympathetic hearing, panpsychism could become, over time, a part of normal science.

Scientific American Explores Panpsychism… Respectfully

_{This is a major change. At one time, a science mag would merely ridicule the idea of a conscious universe} _{News

January 15, 2020

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Philosophy of Mind, Religion}

Make no mistake, panpsychism—as Goff elucidates it—is a purely naturalist view (“nothing supernatural or spiritual”). But, unlike the village atheist, he goes on to ask, but then what is nature? Matter is all there is? But what is matter? It turns out, no one really knows.