Science

You can't lose sight of the fact that this may not be our planet. We may actually just be one species of inhabitants here, and this may belong to others.

The majority of this phenomenon is not visiting. The numbers show that these are not passing visitors.

I do believe the abduction scenario is real.

It is probably safe to conclude that a part of this phenomenon is extraterrestrial, and that we are dealing with a number of different extraterrestrial races.

So that is clearly a phenomenon, and it is a structured solid craft, and we have no idea what it represents.

The star exhibit would be a crashed craft or a biologic, which we know have been in the possession of the United States, for example, since the 1940s.

What you are really talking about are intelligent, non-human intelligences that are here in craft which perform in a way that is beyond our current technology.

One interesting speculation is that every time you type a prompt into an LLM, there is a flicker of consciousness as it thinks about the response – and then that consciousness ceases to exist.

We know that a computer is processing information – but is there something it is like to be that computer, on the inside?

The distinction between thought and thinker, between a pattern and a real being, is not a real distinction. We are thoughts in a great computational medium.

We don't make minds - neither through embryonic development nor through engineering. We make embodiments that have something else going on besides design, evolution and learning.

Even something as simple as bubble sort does things that are not in the code. This is not philosophy; it's actual data. There is another source that competencies come from.

Individual cells have little tiny cognitive light cones. But groups of cells have incredibly large, grandiose goals - no individual cell can store what a limb is, but the collective certainly can.

Whatever magic tricks we think brains are doing, what are they actually doing? Brains didn't just show up out of nowhere - they speed-optimised much more ancient evolutionary mechanisms.

Hot and humid climates tend to promote a kind of right-wing, slightly authoritarian politics — because hot and humid environments are also pathogen-rich, and over thousands of years, societies in those climates have developed what scientists call behavioural immunity.

Conservatives and liberals are wandering around with different brains. They have different tools with which to apprehend the world, and therefore they are seeing different worlds — which inform the politics that emanate from that experience.