philosophy

Laziness is the source of Innovation and Creativity

https://backintyme.substack.com/p/laziness-is-the-source-of-innovation

about 2 years ago

Understanding Gödel’s completeness theorem — LessWrong

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dPpA79MjPdDd87YoW/understanding-goedel-s-completeness-theorem

about 2 years ago

Watch Philosophy Lectures That Became a Hit During COVID by Professor Michael Sugrue (RIP): From Plato and Marcus Aurelius to Critical Theory

https://www.openculture.com/2024/05/watch-philosophy-lectures-that-became-a-hit-during-covid-by-professor-michael-sugrue-rip.html

#history #philosophy

about 2 years ago

How Soviet communist philosophy shaped postwar quantum theory | Aeon Essays

https://aeon.co/essays/how-soviet-communist-philosophy-shaped-postwar-quantum-theory

about 2 years ago

How to measure happiness: hedonia vs. eudaimonia

https://bigthink.com/thinking/how-to-measure-happiness-hedonia-vs-eudaimonia/

over 2 years ago

Philosopher Nick Bostrom's predictions on life in an AI utopia

https://bigthink.com/the-future/nick-bostrom-deep-utopia/?rjnrid=19Xr04G

over 2 years ago

John Archibald Wheeler Papers, 1880-2008 | American Philosophical Society Library & Museum

https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/taxonomy/term/7420?page=0

over 2 years ago

The Universe as a Computer

https://dabacon.org/pontiff/2024/04/26/the-universe-as-a-computer-john-archibald-wheeler/

over 2 years ago

Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare | Quanta Magazine

https://www.quantamagazine.org/insects-and-other-animals-have-consciousness-experts-declare-20240419/

#abstractions blog #biology

over 2 years ago

Philosophy of AI Presentation Series

https://ethics.dsi.uzh.ch/project/philosophy-of-ai-presentation-series/

over 2 years ago

Pythagoras was wrong: there are no universal musical harmonies, study finds

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/pythagoras-was-wrong-there-are-no-universal-musical-harmonies-study-finds

#princeton university #sound music #churchill college

over 2 years ago

Everything in our universe may be conscious, scientists say

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a60229168/panpsychism-everything-has-a-soul/

#300+30

over 2 years ago

The unique life philosophy of Abdi, born in Somalia, living in the Netherlands | Aeon Videos

https://aeon.co/videos/the-unique-life-philosophy-of-abdi-born-in-somalia-living-in-the-netherlands

over 2 years ago

5 books that shaped 21st-century philosophy

https://bigthink.com/thinking/5-brilliant-books-that-shaped-21st-century-philosophy/?rjnrid=19Xr04G

over 2 years ago

Ο Νιτσεϊκός Υπεράνθρωπος δέσμιος στο Πλατωνικό Σπήλαιο - Η κινητήριος αρχή του λογικού νου είναι η βούληση το...

https://www.cyprusalive.com/el/o-nitseikos-yperanorwpos-desmios-sto-platwniko-sphlaio

over 2 years ago

Pythagoras was wrong: There are no universal musical harmonies, study finds

https://phys.org/news/2024-02-pythagoras-wrong-universal-musical-harmonies.html

#science #physics news #science news #technology news #physics #materials

over 2 years ago

The Soliloquies of the Lambs: Review of Why Animals Talk

https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-soliloquies-of-the-lambs

over 2 years ago

Why Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life

https://philosophygeek.medium.com/why-g%C3%B6del-escher-bach-is-the-most-influential-book-in-my-life-49d785a4e428

#philosophy #computation #epistemology #book recommendations #gödel escher bach

over 2 years ago

'There is no such thing as a real picture,' says Samsung exec

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/2/24059955/samsung-no-such-thing-as-real-photo-ai

over 2 years ago

What are the most-cited publications in the social sciences (according to Google Scholar)? | Impact of Social Sciences

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/05/12/what-are-the-most-cited-publications-in-the-social-sciences-according-to-google-scholar/

over 2 years ago

Could our Universe be a simulation? How would we even tell?

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/could-our-universe-be-a-simulation-how-would-we-even-tell/

over 2 years ago

A bold new take on quantum theory could reveal how reality emerges

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26134762-400-a-bold-new-take-on-quantum-theory-could-reveal-how-reality-emerges/

#quantum physics #quantum theory #quantum #thermodynamics

over 2 years ago

Extreme metal guitar skills linked to intrasexual competition, but not mating success

https://www.psypost.org/2024/01/extreme-metal-guitar-skills-linked-to-intrasexual-competition-but-not-mating-success-221020

over 2 years ago

The theory that consciousness is a quantum system gains support

https://mindmatters.ai/2024/01/the-theory-that-consciousness-is-a-quantum-system-gains-support/

over 2 years ago

The Philosophy of Money [pdf]

http://www.eddiejackson.net/web_documents/Philosophy%20of%20Money.pdf

over 2 years ago