I'm so happy to share that my debut book, LIFE AS NO ONE KNOWS IT, comes out August 6th, 2024 from @riverheadbooks! Read more about it here: https://t.co/XpS1zXJjtU

Annaka did such a fantastic job with this project, it’s definitely worth a listen to the whole series to hear how she stitches it all together into a bigger vision of where consciousness studies could go

What we communicate are models of the world, not the world.

Are we supposed to interpret that a mind, packed into nanometer movements of electrons, will understand the world in exactly the way we do, to communicate via our language with us so effectively? Or should we instead think it is maybe easier than we thought, after billions of

What we communicate are models of the world, not the world.

The platonic world does not exist “out there”, it’s a projection inside your mind when you must construct internal representations that are devoid of the history and causal contingency in the objects of your experience

Mathematics without ontological commitment is not a theory of reality, it’s an interpretation, which is how we landed on the current landscape of descriptions in quantum mechanics, none of which are satisfactory

.@leecronin is the real deal. This is fantastic news and well deserved👇

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Huge congrats to @leecronin and team!

SFI President David Krakauer joins The Generalist Podcast to talk about intelligence, the influence of AI on human thinking, and how to preserve creativity and understanding in a rapidly changing information landscape. Watch the full interview:

Contrary to science fiction an infinite number of copies of you do not exist, you only exist here and now, and the closest things to copies of you are the other humans inhabiting this same rock at this same time.

Asking about alien lineages of life requires deconstructing four billion years of evolution and attempting to look into a space of possibilities we’ve never seen in our entire history

“You only exist here. And you exist here because four billion years was necessary to construct you on this planet.” - @Sara_Imari https://t.co/Wdi0DsuSQ3

Sara Walker, theoretical physicist, joins us this week on The Generalist podcast! What makes something alive? @Sara_Imari is a theoretical physicist who studies the origins of life and the author of Life as No One Knows It. As AI prompts us to rethink what consciousness,

Very few of us know the people at the tip of the spear. We can make the biggest impact by uniting against the handle, making that behavior far more taboo than it is now.

It is an odd feature of the human mind that we use all these things that don’t exist to reason about the ones that do.

Watch the Recursive Worlds film in Antikythera Journal at https://t.co/uAKfUY6ad4

In Recursive Worlds, designed by Neo-Metabolism, Sara Walker redefines life as a physical process that structures matter through recursive information across deep time. Challenging conventional physics, she introduces assembly theory to describe how complex objects—including

Unfold the history of proteins and you find rich, unexplained complexity. This August, an SFI working group co-organized by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (@ELSI_origins) and the School of Complex Adaptive Systems at Arizona State University (@ASU_SCAS) brought

We should always take seriously where computational descriptions fail, as it tells us something about where the current boundaries of what we can describe in language lie