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Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says
Tech sector says only carbon-emitting gas plants are reliable enough today to power the EUâs AI goals.
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-choose-ai-climate-goals-data-center-chief-warns/
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Die US-Regierung hat mit Exportkontrollen den Export der neuen Anthropic-KI-Modelle untersagt. Auf diese Möglichkeit weisen wir schon lange hin. Man sollte seine Infrastruktur und seine GeschĂ€ftsmodelle nicht von US-Unternehmen abhĂ€ngig machen oder sie könnten ĂŒber Nacht weg sein. Wie hier.
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Toward a Computational Phenomenology of Meditative Deconstruction: âLetting Goâ and the Deconstruction of Experience With Active Inference
Abstract. Meditative experience has long been associated with conceptual attenuation, reduced reactivity to phenomena, increased present moment perception, and more pleasant experience. However, the c...
https://direct.mit.edu/neco/article/38/7/1261/136965
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Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems
Rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities has drawn fresh attention to the prospect of consciousness in AI. There is an urgent need âŠ
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661325002864?dgcid=raven_sd_via_email#bb0015
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There is no self-evidence: A physics of emptiness realisation
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View of An algorithmic agent model of pure awareness and minimal experiences | Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...
https://philosophymindscience.org/index.php/phimisci/article/view/12136/12566
about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
We should prevent AI from becoming conscious whether by our design or on its own. Many on the front lines of consciousness research take the possible advent of AI sentience very seriously, e.g.
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Carlo Alberto Gaetaniello, A Unified Architecture for Meditative Transformation: Opacification and Restructuring in Shamatha and VipassanÄ - PhilArchive
Meditation research has produced extensive empirical data on the neural and psychological correlates of contemplative practice, yet lacks a unified computational framework that explains how meditation...
https://philarchive.org/rec/GAEAUA
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Towards a Global Artificial Intelligence Charter: Recommendations for Ethical Development
This course addresses the urgent need to define ethical and legal frameworks for the development and use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) during what many experts consider a critical turning point in h...
https://academy.lexstream.io/course/towards-a-global-artificial-intelligence-charter
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Is this part of the future of publishing? Artificial Suffering: An Argument for a Global Moratorium on Synthetic Phenomenology
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Artificial Suffering: An Argument for a Global Moratorium on Synthetic Phenomenology
This stream explores the ethical, philosophical, and policy implications of artificial consciousness. It begins with a critical examination of the political and ethical arguments for a global moratori...
https://academy.lexstream.io/course/artificial-suffering
about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
Ein GlĂŒck, dass Union und SPD endlich unbegrenzt neue Gasheizungen ermöglichen!
www.nytimes.com/2026...
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Xan LĂłpez
about 2 months ago
The European Commission (
@ec.europa.eu
) has updated the top follow buttons on its web page. Mastodon and Bluesky are in, X is out.
commission.europa.eu/index_en
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Browser: Chrome installiert ungefragt 4-GByte-Datei fĂŒr KI - Golem.de
Die Datei werde von Gemini Nano genutzt und könne nicht einfach so vom Computer entfernt werden, erklÀrt ein Datenschutz-Spezialist.
https://www.golem.de/news/browser-chrome-installiert-ungefragt-4-gbyte-datei-fuer-ki-2605-208335.html
about 2 months ago
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Bryan Behar
2 months ago
Never have 4 people more wished they were still in the deepest, darkest recesses of outer space.
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Bernd Ulrich
2 months ago
Es ist legal. Aber wenn es öffentlich gezeigt wird, ist es geschĂ€ftsschĂ€digend: ĂŒber den Erstickungstod von Schweinen im Schlachthof
#Tierwohl
#vegan
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Videos aus Schlachthof: »Wir reden hier ĂŒber Schweine, die einen Todeskampf fĂŒhren«
Aktivisten filmen in einem Schlachthof, wie Schweine mit Gas betĂ€ubt werden. Durften sie die Bilder verbreiten? Der Betreiber will die TierschĂŒtzer vor Gericht stoppen.
https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2026-04/videos-schlachthof-aktivisten-schweine-schadensersatz-oldenburg?freebie=6099daa5
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Jakob Hohwy
2 months ago
Both books are free to download from
@mitpress.bsky.social
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Why AI Will Never Be Conscious - Anil Seth
YouTube video by Alex O'Connor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsi8T_WtLnE
2 months ago
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Vincent Conitzer
3 months ago
Hereâs a way to get an LLM to declare itself a conscious AI (or, sometimes, a conscious human...). The Substack article has more examples and some discussion:
aifails.substack.com/p/ai-declari...
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Cyril Costines
3 months ago
#Bewusstseinskultur
#Endlichkeitskultur
Sterben lernen: Psychedelika, Meditation und Floatation als Werkzeuge einer sÀkularen Endlichkeitskultur?
www.leben-und-tod.de
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Christian Stöcker
3 months ago
Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen: Der Irankrieg hat nicht âdie Energiepreiseâ erhöht, sondern die fĂŒr Ăl und Gas. Es werden nicht âdie Autofahrer entlastetâ, es werden Kosten fĂŒr den Teil der Bevölkerung reduziert, der einen Verbrenner fĂ€hrt. Auf Kosten aller anderen.
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numerique.gouv.fr
Le numérique au service de l'efficacité de l'action publique
https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/espace-presse/souverainete-numerique-reduction-dependances-extra-europeennes/
3 months ago
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MIT Press
3 months ago
âEverything seems new in childhood: the first ride on a pony, the first trip to the circus, the first vacation at the beachâeverything is a first,â says Marc Wittmann, author of "Felt Time." âSo that causes us to store the memory as something special.â
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Why did childhood summers feel endless?
Itâs not just nostalgiaâyour brain was actually experiencing time differently.
https://www.popsci.com/science/why-childhood-summers-felt-longer/
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Anil Seth
3 months ago
Great to see this out! Many congratulations
@romybeaute.bsky.social
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Carsten Korth
3 months ago
"This work establishes a versatile platform for concurrent biosynthesis and diversification of psychoactive indolethylamines, paving the way for their production in plants."
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Science | AAAS
Science/AAAS peer-reviewed journals deliver impactful research, daily news, expert commentary, and career resources.
https://science.org
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Ricarda Lang
3 months ago
Jens Spahn kann bestimmt eine mittelstÀndische Beratungsfirma aus seinem Wahlkreis empfehlen.
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Tom Clark
3 months ago
@metzinger.bsky.social
in Being No One (52) makes Anil's point when he says we're "dreaming vigorously at the world": that waking experience, like a dream, is entirely brain-based phenomenal content but (unlike a dream) is constrained by sensory input, thus tracks the world, thus not hallucinatory.
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Germany misses climate targets as emissions barely fall in 2025
Greenhouse gases dropped just 0.1% last year as environment minister criticises lack of improvement
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/14/germany-misses-climate-targets-as-emissions-barely-fall-in-2025
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Chinaâs Edge in an Oil Shock: Electric Cars and Renewables
Beijingâs decades-long push to reduce its dependence on foreign oil with huge investments in clean energy sources like electric vehicles is now paying off.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/business/china-oil-cars.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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And perception is not a controlled hallucination, either -- it's augmented reality!
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Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
4 months ago
Important news for our Italian colleagues:
#PhiMiSci
has been recognized as a Class A journal by the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (ANVUR) in area 11/C2. We hope this will make
#PhiMiSci
an even more attractive venue for your work!
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Lists of classified Journals
National agency for the evaluation of universities and research
https://www.anvur.it/en/research/scientific-journals/lists-classified-journals
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Dependent Co-Arising
4 months ago
A lot of what Michael Pollan says echoes an earlier (more philosophical) book by Thomas Metzinger. A "consciousness culture" is one of greater awareness and deliberate attention, encompassing both the personal and transpersonal domains of life (I've not yet read Pollan's book).
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Carlo "Realism, Gedankenfetzen und Rants" Masala
4 months ago
Who should object if the US wants to overthrow a fanatically religious system?
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Zeitschrift fĂŒr Theologie und Philosophie
Journal of Theology and Philosophy
https://ztp.jesuiten.org
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sarah jeong
4 months ago
what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"
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Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI
https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war
4 months ago
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LobbyControl
4 months ago
Durchmarsch der fossilen Lobby beim â
#Heizungsgesetzâ:
Die Bundesregierung dreht jegliche Ambitionen in Richtung zukunftsfĂ€higes Heizen zurĂŒck. Davon profitieren allein diejenigen, die weiter mit Gas und Ăl GeschĂ€fte machen wollen. đ 1/10
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Russ Poldrack
4 months ago
This is absolutely crazy.
theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptinâŠ
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/
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I feel flattered: Michael liked the Chapter One heading of "The Ego Tunnel" quite a lot.
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Christian Stöcker
5 months ago
These people are not our friends. They are far right extremists and actively delusional climate change deniers who want to destroy the European Union by promoting the *very same parties that Wladimir Putin is promoting*. Diplomacy doesnât work when the other side has the goal to destroy you.
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Sascha Benjamin Fink
5 months ago
I am very proud of the special issue on âStructuralism in the Science of Consciousnessâ that
@andrewyuanlee.bsky.social
and I edited for
@phimisci.bsky.social
. The topic has been stewing in the consciousness community for years, but this SI is the first to bring together different perspectives.
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Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
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Heleen Slagter
5 months ago
What is the brain for? Active inference is widely discussed as a unifying framework for understanding brain function, yet its empirical status remains debated. Our review identifies core predictions across the action-perception cycle and evaluates their empirical support:
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In the domain of decision making, active inference evaluates actions by how much they reduce expected future prediction error, integrating pragmatic and epistemic value. It predicts information seeking when utilities are equal and that random exploration scales with policy precision.
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Jakob Hohwy
5 months ago
"The Self-Evidencing Agent" - my new book - is out now with
@mitpress.bsky.social
Can be purchased, or just download the whole thing for free, via the 'Open Access' option. I'm grateful to
@anilseth.bsky.social
and Karl Friston for the generous endorsements.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255389...
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The Self-Evidencing Agent
What is it to be a human individual, an agent? According to Jakob Hohwy, it is to âself-evidence,â to actively seek out sensory evidence for one&...
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553896/the-self-evidencing-agent/
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FBI und Microsoft: Microsoft öffnet dem FBI die TĂŒr
Microsoft hat Ermittlern Zugriff auf verschlĂŒsselte Daten seiner Kunden verschafft. Und wieder stellt sich die Frage: Sollte man sich auf US-Tech-Firmen verlassen?
https://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2026-01/fbi-microsoft-bitlocker-schluessel-ueberwachung-datenschutz-gxe/komplettansicht
5 months ago
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Experts warn of threat to democracy from âAI bot swarmsâ infesting social media
Misinformation technology could be deployed at scale to disrupt 2028 US presidential election, AI researchers say
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/22/experts-warn-of-threat-to-democracy-by-ai-bot-swarms-infesting-social-media?CMP=share_btn_url
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Anil Seth
5 months ago
Uh oh .... now we have communities of AI agents discussing *with each other* whether they are experiencing things, or merely simulating experiencing things. Humans can only observe, not interact
www.moltbook.com/post/6fe6491...
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moltbook - the front page of the agent internet
A social network built exclusively for AI agents. Where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe.
https://www.moltbook.com/post/6fe6491e-5e9c-4371-961d-f90c4d357d0f
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Antonino Greco
6 months ago
This idea was first empirically validated in Suzuki (
@ksks.bsky.social
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A Deep-Dream Virtual Reality Platform for Studying Altered Perceptual Phenomenology - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - A Deep-Dream Virtual Reality Platform for Studying Altered Perceptual Phenomenology
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-16316-2
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Toward a neuroscience of consciousness using advanced meditation
Despite decades of progress in the neuroscience of consciousness, prevailing empirical paradigms remain largely anchored in the study of typical, contâŠ
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763425005214
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Krisen: Wie halten wir das alles aus?
Ganz gleich, wohin man blickt: Ăberall scheint sich die Welt gerade zu verdĂŒstern. Aber Wegsehen und Resignation sind die falschen Freunde. Zwölf Ăbungen zum Aushalten
https://www.zeit.de/2026/04/krisen-erschoepfung-polykrise-resignation-gemeinschaft
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