Your voice dries up if you don't use it.
-Patti Page, singer (8 Nov 1927-2013)
2023/11/08
2023/11/07
Understanding Consciousness Goes Beyond Exploring Brain Chemistry
Understanding Consciousness Goes Beyond Exploring Brain Chemistry
The science of consciousness has not lived up to expectations.
Over the summer, the neuroscientist Christof Koch conceded defeat on his 25-year bet with the philosopher David Chalmers, a lost wager that the science of consciousness would be all wrapped up by now. In September, over 100 consciousness researchers signed a public letter condemning one of the most popular theories of consciousness—the integrated information theory—as pseudoscience. This in turn prompted strong responses from other researchers in the field. Despite decades of research, there’s little sign of consensus on consciousness, with several rival theories still in contention.
Your consciousness is what it’s like to be you. It’s your experiences of color and sound and smell; your feelings of pain, joy, excitement or tiredness. It’s what makes you a thinking, sentient being rather than an unfeeling mechanism.
Todays Thought
Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.
-Albert Camus, writer and philosopher (7 Nov 1913-1960)
2023/11/05
An 'Unimaginable' Virus Named Gorgon Was Found Buried in a Massachusetts Forest
An 'Unimaginable' Virus Named Gorgon Was Found Buried in a Massachusetts Forest
Back in 2018, scientists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute (JGI) made an unexpected discovery in Harvard Forest—a roughly six-square-mile area west of Boston. While trying to understand how microbes reacted to warming soil due to climate change, the researchers stumbled upon a collection of “giant” viruses many times larger than typical viral specimens.
How big, you ask? Well, where viruses—like Covid-19, for example—might measure anywhere from 50 to 140 nanometers in width, the discoveries from Harvard Forest measured up to 635 nanometers.
Guy Fawkes Day
Remember, remember, the fifth of November
Gunpowder treason and plot
We see no reason
Why Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot….
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