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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
“pet dogs can be successfully taught by their owners to associate words recorded onto soundboard buttons to their outcomes in the real world, and they respond appropriately to these words even when they are presented in the absence of any o
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Please google "a video of the construction of stonehenge" for a laugh.
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
It's an empirical question, right? But they didn't do it...
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Here, check it out— Claude sharing things that are only “once or twice on the internet” https://claude.site/artifacts/605e9525-630e-4782-a178-020e15... It is funny, because it says things like “yak milk cheese making t
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Reminds me of “limbic resonance”
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
The mechanisms of a pocket watch are specifically designed to avoid influence from the outside environment. A strandbeest has the added complexity of evolving to actual environments, which are pretty complex. The ability to survive is prett
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Biophilia Matters(biophiliamatters.com)
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
We had an informal college group “music appreciation” that would meet every Wednesday to listen to 2 full albums—-each related to the other in some manner. The only rule was “no talking while the music played.” It lasted four years and I mi
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
“earn more money that I could have imagined” How much, do you think?
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Try taking a Loeb Library original Greek or Latin text and asking ChatGPT (4) to create a table with the original, the transliteration and the translation, with one row per phrase, trying to preserve word order and cognates.
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Yes they can. Changes in an electrical field travels much faster than the chemical propagation. At the level of a neuron, the field change is weak. But many neurons can create a meaningful change in electrical field potential that propagate
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Roger Penrose proposed that there are three distinct worlds: matter, consciousness and nous (forms or ideas, like mathematics). I love this idea. It is actually very old. The Pythagorean Philolaus (5th century BC) taught that the soul is ma
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
They emphasize the slowness of action potentials along axons. But electrical waves, which emerge as the collection of action potentials, move much faster. It’s related to the volleying approach of neuronal populations: the cortex can phase
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Truth!
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I think scholarly books and translations create a sense of "Truth" that is dangerous for beginners. With ChatGPT, it creates an automatic "should I really believe this?" sensation in the reader. I LOVE that sensation whe
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Sorry, but summarizing key points from a ~12,000 line poem written in a foreign language is the ideal use case for chatGPT in a comment. 1. Quotes are not feasible. 2. There is no readily available human summary in a short enough form for a
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Try reading what Renaissance humanists actually wrote about magic — like Pico, Ficino or Porta. ChatGPT can help you explore. It is a lot more complicated than you portray.
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Bah, the Dutch haven’t created a new province for decades. Are they really getting better at making new land? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flevoland Now, the UAE, on the other hand… https://en.wikipedia.
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Alpha brainwaves are almost exactly 10hz, in humans and mice. The typical walking frequency (for humans) is almost exactly 2hz (2 steps per second). And the best selling popular music rhythm is 2hz (120bpm) [1]. Perhaps seconds were origina
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
If you check out anything by Joscelyn Godwin, you will find TONS of great primary source material. He is really rigorous and goes into it. Like “Music, Mysticism and Magic: a sourcebook” — but all of his books, really, are filled to the bri
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
I’ve never been able to source that Tesla quote. I wanted to use it for a cymatics museum exhibit. Since I’m a stickler for sourcing quotes, I kept looking for something really sweet… I found an Orphic hymn to Apollo from the 500BC or so, t
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Noosphere might be cool
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
I use Google lens for OCR 15th century Latin books — then paste to ChatGPT and ask to correct OCR errors. Spot checking, it is very reliable. Then translation can occur
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
No, let me apologize for my glib comment. To be clear— I don’t blame cancer victims. I just had a friend die who was about the most pure of heart and connected individual I know. What I’m pointing to, this metaphysical despair (as root caus
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Right, we could instead say “sensation” as in “sensor.” Nevertheless, I like that “time” and “experience” are often synonymous—eg, “I had a good time.”
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Metaphysical despair
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
The movie came first, “20 minutes into the future.” It’s on YouTube and very good, if you like art films.
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
That sounds like a challenge worth taking up. (How to operationalize the soulfulness, though?)
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
I think this might be missing information? I don’t understand
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Random assignment should make it easy to detect, depending on the size of the effect

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