Tag: Consciousness

One morning, as I lay in bed with no motivation to rise with the sun, I felt a longing deep within for something more. I was craving a deeper spiritual connection that went beyond the boundaries of what I was living. I was bored with life and needed speed and some change in my life. With an open ...

One morning, as I lay in bed with no motivation to rise with the sun, I felt a longing deep within for something more. I was craving a deeper spiritual connection that went beyond the boundaries of what I was living. I was bored with life and needed speed and some change in my life. With an open ...

If our species has an objective, it can be summed up in one word: ‘Logos’. In Ancient Greek, it means ‘word’, ‘reason’ or ‘creative order’, but in Christian theology, Logos is another word for God. One way of conceptualising Logos is as True Percept...

It is one week since I came here the first time. After two lockdowns, five variants, three vaccines, and several viral waves harvesting almost all friends and colleagues of mine, I was expecting unreasonably to be a sort of immune to this damn virus. And yet, finally, our first travel abroad (...

I’ve put together a summary from a longer video where Dr Bruce Lipton explains how your consciousness affects your genes and cells to create cancer, and that the cause of cancer is not directly to genes themselves. Bruce’s discoveries in the 1980s and 90s gave rise to the scien...

How do we know if artificial intelligences are unfeeling algorithms or conscious beings that experience sensations and emotions? The answer to this has major implications on what ethical guidelines we apply to AIs. If we believe that a future AI experiences pain and joy, we’d treat it differen...

Introduction Last post reasoned using the the almost-whimsical teletransportation thought experiment. Here, we will reify that rarefied philosophy with the real — yet oh so strange — corpus callosotomy surgery, and in doing so, plumb deeper into the philosophy of mind and me...

I know this blog has been a little quiet recently. If you followed my work in the past, you might be wondering what I have been up to the past year or so, after leaving Unity in early 2021. Working on ML-Agents the previous four years was an incredibly rewarding (and challenging) experienc...

Perhaps you would proceed to define mass in terms of other physical properties, say energy and velocity, or perhaps force and acceleration. But then, what is force? What is energy? If you continue this game, you will find that you are inevitably led down a never-ending spiral of definitions and q...

Well written stories, opinions, research and otherwise consciousness-related writing. It will be a home for memoirs, musings, meditations, dream reflections, anecdotes, and long-winded philosophical treatises. So submit to us your most enlightening trip reports and send us down your deepest ra...