~ Alex Hein (he/him)
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In case you didn't know... Both male & female Reindeer grow antlers, but males lose them in late Autumn. All Santaās reindeer are therefore female, which means Rudolph is persistently misgendered.
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I wish I didnāt have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as āthe most openly corrupt president in American history.ā /1
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Sir Roger Penrose and Professor Ivette Fuentes analyze the Ron Folman T-cubed experiment and whether the equivalence principle holds in quantum mechanics. They also detail gravity's role in wave function collapse, the existence of gravitons, and cyclic cosmology.
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Had the honor of joining a roundtable with @drmichaellevin @msahsorin & @tlhammett to hear @StuartHameroff present his newest version of Orch-OR, showing microtubules as fractal time crystals. Lots of new, never before heard concepts shared here! https://t.co/M57Os6bVld
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Victorians called it "protoplasm".Ā But what really is "living matter"?Ā Ā And can we make a foundational theory of such a microscopically "bulk orchestrated" form of matter?Ā Seems like maybe we can ... and it's based on the idea of a rulial ensemble ... and predicts things like
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New paper on AI consciousness! Here we present the theory-derived indicator method for assessing AI systems for consciousness. Link below.
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Microtubules are actual biological structures in every and all cells which utilize automata functions, classical and quantum to orchestrate living matter to have conscious moments. I told Stephen Wolfram about it in late 80s at Los Alamos.
@StuartHameroff Maybe consciousness is just geometry learning to feel. Hameroff finds it in microtubules. Wolfram maps it in automata. Oxygen might be where both converge.
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Itās still going ā¦.. :-)
"Ptolemy made a universe which lasted 1,400 years. Newton also made a universe, which has lasted 300 years. Einstein has made a universe and I canāt tell you how long that will last.ā - George Bernard Shaw pays tribute to Albert Einstein #OTD in 1930. #NobelPrize
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It's here. Brand new interview with Sir Roger Pernose. https://t.co/DtI8G5U8AY We cover: - Why the Big Bang is the conformal continuation of a previous eonās remote future - Penroseās encounters with Ed Witten, Feynman, and Douglas Hofstadter - Why conformal geometry (angles
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@JDVance Keep trying to distract from Republicans being gas chambers apologists. Itās frankly disgusting and itās not only the Young Republicans. This was at the Capitol at a Republican congressmanās office
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Entangled Life by @MerlinSheldrake is one of the best works of scientific literature I have ever read: intelligent (a scientist can be good at philosophy), informative (I learned so much), inspiring (almost every sentence made me pause for thought), beautifully written (this
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On Trump flouting norms and why this is a negative development: "[One of the] remarkable things about Donald Trumpāand uniquely among American politiciansāis that he has violated norms that have been in place, such as: you donāt boast, you donāt blatantly lie. I mean, all
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When we were preparing the marketing stuff for my new tour, someone decided to send my text to a proofreader. They changed a sentence to āOur species has carried our spacecraft to the edge of the solar systemā. I typed that into an AI to demonstrate what the sentence they wrote
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Binge-watching TV. Some say it's not good for us. Binge-watching maths. Definitely good for us. And you can binge-watch over 200 of our student and public lectures via our YouTube Channel. Lecture 3 on projective geometry here: https://t.co/oL9FMW7tPi
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New paper from European group on Orch OR and complexity in Frontiers series on quantum neuroscience. https://t.co/pElCUDezo3
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The Complexity of Consciousness and Orch OR Orch OR states that phenomena such as the discrete perception of time unfolding, the subjective wholeness of perc...
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Consciousness is famously unobservable. Therefore, to test for consciousness, we must study its absence rather than its presence. | https://t.co/u3yv3rIhCw
@StuartHameroff finds the answer in quantum processes in the brain ā recent studies suggest he is onto something.
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Consciousness is famously unobservable. Therefore, to test for consciousness, we must study its absence rather than its presence. Stuart Hameroff here argues that by studying anesthesia we are able...
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How to build a thriving open source community by writing code like bacteria do š¦ . Bacterial code (genomes) are: - small (each line of code costs energy) - modular (organized into groups of swappable operons) - self-contained (easily "copy paste-able" via horizontal gene
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Happy to introduce AlphaGenome, @GoogleDeepMind's new AI model for genomics. AlphaGenome offers a comprehensive view of the human non-coding genome by predicting the impact of DNA variations. It will deepen our understanding of disease biology and open new avenues of research.
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