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Do we have something to transform the thin CO2 atmosphere to a thin oxygen-rich one in a reprise of what happened on Earth. What is the best?
01 January 1970 1,210 2 View
1. In quantum mechanics events are attached to probabilities. However in General Relativity time is "distortable." Thus probabilities change and may be increased. In Penrose Objective Reduction...
01 January 1970 1,749 8 View
What do you consider lowest aspect of consciousness that is not significantly shared by other things? What is its nature? Why do you think so? Are there a few alternatives you consider quite...
01 January 1970 6,496 20 View
This is actually a trivial question and I'm just being mischievous. It turns on the shades of meaning of both "idea" and "exist." Mathematically, a concept exists whether anyone has happened...
01 January 1970 8,668 6 View
Pyramidal neurons have undergone substantial evolution even from (ancestors of) mice to rhesus monkeys. They are largely the same all over Layer 3 of mouse cortex, but layer 3 rhesus neurons...
01 January 1970 4,523 0 View
Most of the nearby stars are red dwarfs and these present exoplanets possibly suitable for us as far as we know. Yet Earth does not orbit one of these, but a less common yellow dwarf. This...
01 January 1970 2,537 3 View
The synaptic gap is the same size as wavelength of ultraviolet light. such as produced by sunlight of an earlier Earth. Also some biophotons are UV.
01 January 1970 5,390 0 View
For those interested: A revamp of the Internet is under way to cover shortcomings interfering with expansion into the Solar System and beyond. While extremely rugged, a few assumptions are built...
01 January 1970 6,203 1 View
With Artemis I launched and back home, this is getting real. How do we Terraform Mars? I believe it is probably possible.
01 January 1970 2,842 25 View
Well, how about that? Two days after posting my article identifying layer 5 pyramidals (and specifically, components of their greater axons) as the site of subjective experience The Location of...
01 January 1970 9,740 6 View
Because we will be able to build computer systems as effective as people but without any actual feeling capacity, we will have no ethical problems as to how they are treated. It remains that they...
01 January 1970 3,051 1 View
Two of the most interesting human spacecraft of our time, the SpaceX Starship and the NASA Gateway lunar space station are soon to join.
01 January 1970 2,250 1 View
There is a very interesting angle I realized on this question while reviewing recent thought on Orch OR. That theory presumes that the basic glints of pleasure and pain in the universe are highly...
01 January 1970 5,545 0 View
Less than one hour ago was another historic launch on the way to Mars.
01 January 1970 1,631 5 View
Sure, a would-be "brain" that is too simple cannot do the job, but the same thing is also true for most everything else you're interested in! That doesn't make complexity the source of consciousness.
01 January 1970 5,423 3 View
"Feeling" (noun) is the basic capacity, to be able to feel anything at all, or occurrence thereof. "Feelings," unless otherwise defined for a discussion, are typically those which are commonplace...
01 January 1970 6,084 10 View
Scientific Misconduct and Fraud
01 January 1970 9,256 3 View
Typically the mutiverse view is of branching outward with "time." But there is the possibility that these streams may not only diverge but converge, resulting in different paths of possibility...
01 January 1970 10,011 0 View
Explaining fundamental phenomenal consciousness not only allows, but demands, a "new" field, as with unaddressed-by-physics phenomena before it. This field may turn out to explain other mysteries...
01 January 1970 9,846 0 View
Informational subjectiveness, attention, cognition, and self are all implementable in software, unlike feeling, which software can only simulate.
01 January 1970 7,941 2 View
This is because the term "consciousness" is typically presumed to mean that which our selves "internally" experience. Something so large as that is an elaborate composition courtesy of evolution....
01 January 1970 3,721 1 View
One can move data and emerge all day long and no feeling will come of these alone. Feeling is a fundamental behavior of the universe (cognition is not). Here this point is stated as an axiom, but...
01 January 1970 6,244 0 View
Information does not feel. Movement of information does not feel. Some method(s) of transduction of information may feel.
01 January 1970 1,837 7 View
What indicators or clues lead you to suspect that your favored theory (or a few) of consciousness is correct or nearly so?
01 January 1970 2,524 12 View
The proposed "Alcubierre drive" requires nonstandard energy, possibly dark energy. Interestingly, dark energy is a candidate for fundamental consciousness (feeling, panexperience). This suggests...
01 January 1970 6,923 0 View
Ephaptic Communication in the Brain as the Mechanism of Affe...
01 January 1970 6,085 0 View
I think clearly not. That it would be used in ways we would like is a giant assumption and projection.
01 January 1970 5,016 1 View
In colonizing the Moon and Mars, humankind has a fresh start with vacant orbs. How do we do better this time?
01 January 1970 8,721 8 View
The motivation of the question is to look for clues as to exact site of consciousness because pyramidals appear to hold them.
01 January 1970 5,904 1 View
In recent decades I've noticed a tendency in organizations to attempt to solve problems by assembling large groups early of varying experience levels and backgrounds, featuring lots of discussion...
01 January 1970 2,969 1 View
Work is under way to colonize the Moon and then Mars. Which people should we send first? (Would you go?)
01 January 1970 6,154 4 View
Risk management.
01 January 1970 2,441 3 View
The reason is because we feel. It is not enough for one to think one feels. Simulation of the information processing, such as that in a mind, is effectively thinking, but simulated feeling is...
01 January 1970 1,764 9 View
Chemical synapses are clearly necessary to the operation of Earth brains as they have been conserved omni-presently and refined and differentiated for hundreds of millions of years. 1) The...
01 January 1970 8,208 7 View
