7858
@7858.eth
Earnest question, would like to follow along: Are there any serious people working directly on the hard problem of consciousness with scientific methods and tools?
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@hyp
I enjoy Eric Hoel’s writing and Ruben Laukonen. Hoel’s causal emergence getting lots of attention. https://open.substack.com/pub/erikhoel/p/a-primer-on-causal-emergence?r=2gmr2&utm_medium=ios https://open.substack.com/pub/rubenlaukkonen/p/a-beautiful-loop?r=2gmr2&utm_medium=ios
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Patricia Lee
@patriciaxlee.eth
Michael Pollan’s next book will be on the science of consciousness. At least this is what he said during a talk of his went to last August. I imagine he’s been interviewing people working on the problem.
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Tony D’Addeo
@deodad
not a direct answer but it’s a topic jim rutt occasionally discusses w guests, generally find his show / guests interesting https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-jim-rutt-show/id1470622572?i=1000600699788
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:grin:
@grin
imho the hard problem of consciousness feels like a tautology-- no satisfying answer is possible because only non-physical subjective phenomena are admissible and those do not generalize im in the hard problem denier camp
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@hyp
Also Amishi Jha. Bottom line is that consciousness research is no longer seen as woo woo like it was 20 yrs ago. In fact many are seeing it as fundamental to all science understanding, as EO Wilson in “Consilience” and modern takes like “The Blind Spot” attest. How can we make sense of the world without knowing our sense- and world-making “viewer?” https://youtu.be/lzucPv76v7E?si=TEZlbAhE2OmNgk_-
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tldr (tim reilly)
@tldr
cc @sam may have some ideas
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Selenine
@selenine
Definitely check out Nassim Haramein's work, he's a physicist who basically developed (is developing?) a unified field theory that attempts to bridge quantum mechanics and general relativity through sacred geometry. It's some very interesting work for sure.
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