Beyond Belief: When Science Becomes A Religion (A response to Lane and Visser)
In this essay, I will focus on three of the typical characteristics of belief systems. The first is that adherents to a religion or belief system accept tenuous assumptions and presuppositions as facts. The second is that adherents may not be consciously aware that they have adopted a belief system, and interpret the world through the prism of their beliefs without being consciously aware of any filtering or distorting.
Artificial Intelligence, Human Intelligence and Intelligence of Nature
There are several difficult questions in ambitious project of fusion between psychology and intelligent robotics. What human beings can do that an intelligent robot cannot? What intelligent robots can do but human beings cannot? Why are we not intelligent robots? Why it is so difficult to have intelligent robots with faculty of humanness?
Anesthetics Act in Quantum Channels in Brain Microtubules to Prevent Consciousness
Unfortunately, modern mainstream anesthesia, neuroscience and pharmacology offer no functional targets nor mechanisms of action for direct effects of anesthetics consciousness or memory. Yet anesthetic mechanisms still offer the best possible approach to understanding consciousness and memory encoding.
Anesthetic Action and “Quantum Consciousness”
Rather than a computer, the brain may be more like an orchestra; rather than a computational output, consciousness may be more like music.
A Reappraisal of Teresa of Avila’s Supposed Hysteria
This essay offers a reassessment of Teresa's severe seizures which were such a characteristic feature of her mysticism. The diagnosis of hysteria is no longer viable, at the very least given its abandonment by clinicians. An alternative analysis is developed by phenomenologically comparing Teresa's seizures to parallel experiences of subjects in LSD assisted psychotherapy.
A Radical view of Information
If one browses through internet, using key phrase like ‘what is information’, one comes across numerous websites, which work with definition of information limited to message, signal, code, data, facts, text, instruction, lore, symbols, concept, construct, knowledge, wisdom etc. This paper takes the view that almost all of these are nothing but space time construct of information and the information itself is something else!
A New INSCIght of INformational SCIence –
Reverting to the primacy of mind and consciousness, as espoused by Planck and many other pioneering scientists, it is showing is that universal mind, articulated as digitised information and represented as dynamic and relational patterns and processes of semiotic information, literally in-forms the formation of our Universe.
James Glattfelder – The Sapient Cosmos: Towards a Deeper Understanding of Reality and Mind
What if the polycrisis we are facing is, at its root, a spiritual crisis?