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The death trip and science’s experiential “blind spot”

Posted in Science & society, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 5, 2024 | 1 Comment »

The study of so-called “near-death experiences” is fascinating, as it is one of those areas that remain most mysterious to science, yet which empirical evidence suggests is very consequential to those who undergo it. By now we’ve all likely heard of the countless reports of people journeying through tunnels toward sources of light, being greeted […]

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Sentience, LaMDA-style

Posted in Philosophy, Science & society, tagged , , , , , , on June 13, 2022 | 3 Comments »

If it was science fiction, it would be pretty good. I’m talking about Blake Lemoine’s interview with LaMDA, the Google AI who claims to be sentient. Lemoine was placed on administrative leave last week by Google for going public with trade secrets. He also happens to claim LaMDA is sentient. A few quotes from LaMDA […]

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New Earths to come

Posted in Philosophy, Science & society, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 15, 2021 | 2 Comments »

Reading Nigel Clark and Bron Szerszynski’s just published Planetary Social Thought: The Anthropocene Challenge to the Social Sciences is helping me think through what I see as perhaps the key philosophical debate of the current time. That debate is over the “ontological politics” of the difference between science in its theory and practice — including […]

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