Author: Nikolay Petrov
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James Tunney – Transhumanism – Plantation of the Automatons
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Future of AI: The Cell shows the Way
This model of programming is followed by a biological cell and the cell shows us the direction for the future of AI.
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The myth of machine consciousness makes Narcissus of us all – David Hart
The idea that AI can be conscious is a mistake. It’s just a very shiny mirror of humanity, reflecting what we want to see.
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Physics Life Psychiatry: Cellular Model and the ZPE
Three unsolved problems in deep physics are uncertainty, symmetry-breaking, and dark energy. This paper develops the connecting thread between three unsolved problems of physics, three signs of life at the subtle level, and etiopathogenesis of three common psychiatric disorders from the evidence available in cell biology.
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Registrations Open for Students of Spiritual Science Symposium, 22-23 July
The New Paradigm Navigators (NPNs) Students of Spiritual Science Symposium is only a few months away. This exciting online symposium aims to explore new paradigms that will herald in a new way of being on the earth; bringing about dynamic and heart-centred action to engage with the uncertain times we live in.
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Imaginal Inspirations with Ervin Laszlo
David’s guest today is Prof Ervin Laszlo. He spent his childhood in Budapest, Hungary. He was a celebrated child prodigy on the piano, with public appearances from the age of nine. Receiving a Grand Prize at the international music competition in Geneva, he was allowed to leave Hungary and begin an international concert career, first…
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The End of Quantum Reality: A Conversation with Wolfgang Smith – Samuel Sotillos
And then I would share with them the good news.You need be divided no more, I would say. The world you perceive—replete with its colors, the fragrance of flowers and the songs of birds—is not after all a res cogitans: you can henceforth hug your child, knowing for certain that it is real! In a…
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The absurdity of mind as machine – David Bentley Hart
This is why, among devout philosophical physicalists, such wild extremes as eliminativist reductionism and the materialist version of panpsychism are ever more in vogue. The mental, it turns out, is no more reconcilable to the modern picture of material nature than it was in Descartes’s day. And that should make us consider whether we ought…
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Why not scientism? – Moti Mizrahi
Rather than conceive of scientism in ways that could be weaponised, then, we should think about it along the lines I have proposed above. Epistemological scientism is the view that scientific knowledge is superior to non-scientific knowledge either because scientific knowledge is the only form of knowledge we have, and so non-scientific knowledge is not…
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Imaginal Inspirations with Bernard Carr
Bernard Carr is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary University of London. For his PhD he studied the first second of the universe with Stephen Hawking at Cambridge University and Caltech… He also has a long-standing interest in the relationship between science and religion and views psychical research as forming a bridge between them.…
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Alister McGrath – Natural Philosophy
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Making sense of the sacred – Alex Gomez-Marin
The clash between science and religion has generated more heat than light, and yet our search for meaning in life is relentless, and a sense of the sacred remains a universal part of the human experience.