The title is sensationalist. It a psychological/sociological collapse, not a weird quantum thing (alas!) . But beyond that, the article is interesting. PS: the neuroscientist Chris Frith is the brother of the famous avant-garde guitarist Fred Frith ! www.popularmechanics.com/science/a700...

Pick up the nearest book. Open to page 42 and post your second sentence. Add #page42 and include this rule as a reply. Don't look for your favorite book. Find the nearest book. "Recent research on a sample of Australian native birds has confirmed the role of play in brain development"

Today, together with The National Geographic Society, we launch Listen to the Whales — a global invitation to explore the rich communal lives of sperm whales and discover why deciphering their world matters. Take the plunge and immerse yourself in the journey: Projectceti.org/listen

I could not download from the Royal Society, but the paper can be accessed (legally, i suppose) from Research Gate: www.researchgate.net/publication/... (I'd like to understand the logic behind scientific publishing one day, why access is restricted on some sites but allowed on others.)

RIP to one of the greatest American rock musicians of all time, Bob Weir. One more Saturday night, my friend.

This is such a cool story about the brain science of hypnotism! www.snexplores.org/article/hypn... 🧪

More on Timothy Leary and Neuromancer : screenrant.com/cyberpunk-ne...

Timothy Leary was a huge fan & early promoter of William Gibson's novels. (There's a dedication to Gibson in Leary's 'Info-Psychology', and Tim interviews Gibson in his book, 'Chaos & Cyber Culture'. Robert Anton Wilson was also a fan...

OK, this is interesting and may help to solve some of the "easy problems" of neural correlates of consciousness and cognitive abilities. But how can this help solving the "hard problem", the existence of qualia, experience ? I'm afraid this is once more a theory of cognition, not of consciousness

(in French) www.science-et-vie.com/cerveau-et-i...

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice in Chains.

Yes, let's steal this Singularity as @rusirius.bsky.social would say...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... This is not new (from R.A. Wilson Cosmic trigger) and let's not forget Ernst Junger...

A video about the unfortunately little-known Nicholas of Cusa: the father of the idea infinite space and a major influence on Giordano Bruno. Ernst Cassirer gave a great analysis of his ideas in his book "The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy" youtu.be/IwE-79m1jgs?...

It seems to me that the real problem is deeper . This proves that academics refer to papers they haven't read; The revelation of "fake articles " is just highlighting the problem

My latest for Mindplex

Last week Dr. J. spoke to the Center for Ethical Issues in the 21st Century about "Conspiracy Theories, TechnoFascism, and the Prospects for a Left Futurism." Billionaires are the problem, not "TESCREALISM." Technoprogressive politics is the solution. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbxq...

"It took many months of careful study, like parsing Homeric Greek or Hittite legal texts, but eventually he discovered sounds that are incredibly similar to human vowels. What had previously seemed like Morse code now sounded much like human language." www.discovermagazine.com/sperm-whale-...

"Language is not a spoken code. It's a dynamic, multimodal, socially embedded system that evolves through interaction, culture, and meaning-making." But is this new ? It seems to me that Lakoff or even Bateson said that decades ago. But the real paper seems much more complex than the press release.

Marcello Truzzi: zététique, pseudo scepticisme et sociologie de l'occulte. substack.com/@darthmanu66...

And, good point, the article can be downloaded as an epub. People are starting to realize that PDF is an obsolete file format. (The worst are two-column PDFs; you can’t even convert them correctly with Calibre)

Fabulous version !

On information and observers: "Objectivity is the illusion that observations are made without an observer." [H. von Foerster] "Physicists typically seek a view from nowhere, a stand-alone description of nature. [...] this view from nowhere seems less and less viable." tinyurl.com/mupp8fb3

The Meaning of ‘Literal’: Thinking with Owen Barfield and Alfred North Whitehead The following essay is adapted from the transcript of this recording on our Urphänomen research guild Substack. It is a poetic commentary on Owen Barfield's essay in The Rediscovery of Meaning, "The Meaning of…

Patterns Are Not Puppeteers: The Return and Reformation of Platonic Form in Biology I’ve discussed the return of Platonism in biology before. The following recounts some of what I discussed with Bonnitta Roy as a visitor at The Pop-Up School earlier today. The main driver of the Platonic turn in…

A Math Equation May Help Solve the Neanderthal Extinction Mystery www.discovermagazine.com/a-math-equat...

"The study lays out the case that the domestication process is often wrongly thought of as initiated by humans—with people capturing and selectively breeding wild animals. But the study authors claim that the process begins much earlier, when animals become habituated to human environments."

Reading this paper and rediscovering the names of various people I read in my teenage years, before my English was sufficiently good for me to plunge into counter-cultural/rock n'roll occulture. Seems now like an other universe to me.

Oh my

New paper from Wouter Hanegraaff just dropped. Looking at Henry Corbin’s efforts at making an esoteric community. academia.edu/resource/wor...

Monk Seals May Be Stringing Sounds Together Like Sentences www.discovermagazine.com/monk-seals-m...

Back on one of my favorite podcasts, SHWEP, for a fascinating conversation about "The Golden Bough”’s uncanny afterlife in the history of Western Esotericism, and whether Frazer—long cast as a great debunker of magic—might actually belong among the occultists.Check it out! shwep.net/oddcast/jaso...

So interesting! youtu.be/KZeIEiBrT_w

Programmers at Microsoft Hate This One Trick to Get Good at that Code The Clickbait Headline Programming Language: https://tabloid.vercel.app/

Thank you @insideclimatenews.org and @katiesurma.bsky.social for diving into our recent publication in partnership with The More-Than-Human Life Program (@nyulaw.bsky.social) by: César Rodríguez Garavito, David Gruber, Ashley Otilia Nemeth and @begus.bsky.social.

Language can be tricky to parse without context. For instance, the sentence “Rowan fed his pet chicken” is ambiguous. Is the chicken Rowan’s pet or his pet’s meal? Some AI models can recognize the syntactic differences between these two possible meanings.

Excited to release our new work: Petri Dish Neural Cellular Automata! pub.sakana.ai/pdnca We investigate how multi-agent NCAs can develop into artificial life 🦠 exhibiting complex, emergent behaviors like cyclic dynamics, territorial defense, and spontaneous cooperation.

This video is Michael Levin's more concise statement about his "platonic space research program". It's interesting to notice that Levin's neo-neoplatonism is not based on quantum physics, as it is often the case but is also implicit in Newton's classical physics. youtu.be/EdEqgCOSx7E?...

Talking of hyperobjects (see my link to Michael Johnson's piece a few days ago), I'd completely forgotten my early blog post titled 'Hyperobject / S.M.I².L.E.' (2019), which nobody read. Short, sweet & speculative: rawsemantics.home.blog/2019/07/18/h...

Reading Samuel Arbesman's delicious "The Magic of code". Happy to see him mention "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs", the first computer book I ever owned, before even i had a computer ! (or maybe I already had the Oric Atmos, I don't remember !)

Mmmh. I'm a complete non-believer in the Simulation Hypothesis myself, but the argument given in this press release (i cannot judge the real paper, being mathematically challenged) seems to me confused and self contradictory 1/