Professionally from a physicist, I expect nothing more. It's all good and ok by 
me and it's factual. Nothing indicates the squishy warm environment of mammal 
and yeah, bird brains to have anything to do with a primary force of gravity. 
Happily conceded and no no problems with the standard, normal, view. 
Eventually, maybe a very long time from now, new discoveries will be made by 
improved instruments that will confirm, challenge, or upend the current models 
of the universe, and perhaps even open up new insights. That day is not today. 
But there is always room for improvement, in people and systems.
One such improvement in our understanding I am believing is this work by the 
Author, and his colleagues which at some future point have impact. 
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691179506/lectures-on-the-infrared-structure-of-gravity-and-gauge-theory

Call it a guess, and dismiss as desired, NP.

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From: Lawrence Crowell <[email protected]>
To: Everything List <[email protected]>
Sent: Thu, Nov 4, 2021 6:09 am
Subject: Re: Consciousness research

I doubt quantum gravitation and consciousness have much to do with each other.
LC

On Wednesday, November 3, 2021 at 7:37:12 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote:

My thinking is literally we need 'better' equipment to properly answer either 
quantum gravity or consciousness. These are surely not civilizational 
priorities and so the progress is limited. If CERN or RIKEN, or Fermilab cannot 
delve into what a proton yields, then this is where we are. Neither have we 
really cranked up machinery to address consciousness. We're doing better on the 
neuroscience thing then we have in the past, because the machinery used until 
then very recently is way too simple. Encephalographs + white lab coats just 
ain't going to produce.   For cosmology, yeah, with better telescopes we detect 
more granular detail. Or what's an exo-planet for? 
A deeper question on how to get there is the possibility that machine 
intelligence could accelerate discovery and invention? This ought to be a 
meta-goal for our species. Medical science and pharmacology is a sure 
beneficiary of AI, and thus the human body becomes a beneficiary in this 
fashion. 


-----Original Message-----
From: Lawrence Crowell <[email protected]>
To: Everything List <[email protected]>
Sent: Wed, Nov 3, 2021 7:08 pm
Subject: Re: Consciousness research


Welcome back Philip. Long time since I heard from you. We really do not know 
for sure. Consciousness is something we experience subjectively and has some 
elusive nature with objectivity. 
LCOn Wednesday, November 3, 2021 at 1:11:24 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote:

“The growing field of AI requires hardware that can host adaptive memory 
properties beyond what is used in today’s computers,” he added. “We find that 
nickel oxide insulators, which historically have been restricted to academic 
pursuits, might be interesting candidates to be tested in future for 
brain-inspired computers and robotics.” 
Consciousness is beyond what understood to be conventionally computational. It 
that sense, it cannot be simulated, it can only be synthesized.


On Thursday, September 23, 2021 at 2:50:08 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote:

Opinion, does this development have any real impact on the subject of whether a 
machine can eventually be conscious. This is a paper from Rutgers and seems to 
be along the lines of the topic. 
https://www.newswise.com/articles/researchers-find-human-learning-can-be-duplicated-in-solid-matter

The method seemingly can be imitated.


-----Original Message-----
From: Bruno Marchal <[email protected]>
To: Everything List <[email protected]>
Sent: Wed, Sep 8, 2021 9:10 am
Subject: Re: Consciousness research

It is never to late, but I guess they remain in the Aristotelian framework, 
which makes them impossible to take into account the elementary consequences of 
Mechanism in metaphysics. If you can sum up their approaches or just tell me 
their basic hypotheses ... In my university, it too time, but eventually there 
is a course on consciousness, but only the "weak problem" is allowed to be 
researched, which is better than nothing.
Bruno

On Wednesday, September 8, 2021 at 12:27:03 AM UTC+2 Brent wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q78UL1gYhXI

Four researchers on consciousness who take a operational and scientific 
approach and have a program to try to test theories of consciousness.

Brent




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