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moonlightmyst"The Intruder"<br> ...<br> A <a href="https://pixelfed.art/discover/tags/door?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#door</a> opens<br> An <a href="https://pixelfed.art/discover/tags/intruder?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#intruder</a> awaits<br> ...<br> <a href="https://pixelfed.art/discover/tags/acrylic?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#acrylic</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.art/discover/tags/painting?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#painting</a> from a few years back.<br> <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.art/discover/tags/acrylicpainting?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#acrylicpainting</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.art/discover/tags/acryliconcanvas?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#acryliconcanvas</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.art/discover/tags/meditation?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#meditation</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.art/discover/tags/timetravel?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#timetravel</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.art/discover/tags/consciousness?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#consciousness</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.art/discover/tags/darkart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#darkart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.art/discover/tags/art?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.art/discover/tags/pixelfedart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pixelfedart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.art/discover/tags/canadianartist?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#canadianartist</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.art/discover/tags/traditionalart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#traditionalart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.art/discover/tags/fediart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fediart</a>
moonlightmystAnd then another world opened up...<br> <a href="https://pixelfed.art/discover/tags/Acrylic?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Acrylic</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.art/discover/tags/painting?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#painting</a> from a few years back.<br> <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.art/discover/tags/traditionalart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#traditionalart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.art/discover/tags/art?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.art/discover/tags/abstract?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#abstract</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.art/discover/tags/abstractpainting?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#abstractpainting</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.art/discover/tags/canadianartist?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#canadianartist</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.art/discover/tags/pixelfedart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pixelfedart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.art/discover/tags/mastoart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mastoart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.art/discover/tags/fediart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fediart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.art/discover/tags/consciousness?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#consciousness</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.art/discover/tags/meditative?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#meditative</a>
UK<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/uk/16810/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/uk/16810/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> What Are Thoughts? Exploring the Mystery of the Mind <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/BrainResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrainResearch</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/cognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cognition</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>consciousness</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DeepLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepLearning</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/MachineLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MachineLearning</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/neurobiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neurobiology</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neuroscience</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TheConversation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheConversation</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/thinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thinking</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/thoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thoughts</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedKingdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedKingdom</span></a></p>
Watson<p>"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> isn’t conscious. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Consciousness</span></a> means subjective experience. It’s the hearer of what’s heard, the seer of what’s seen, and the perceiver of thoughts. We can know consciousness exists by our own experience of it, and we can infer that other people and animals must also have it because they have so many similarities to us. There is absolutely no reason to assume that inanimate, inorganic matter is capable of consciousness besides blind faith religious belief."<br><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/on-ai-and-consciousness" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">caitlinjohnst.one/p/on-ai-and-</span><span class="invisible">consciousness</span></a></p>
Pierrette<p><a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/SamParnia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SamParnia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>consciousness</span></a> <br>"The brain might be acting more like an intermediary. It’s not a brand new idea. They have argued that we have no evidence to show how brain cells or connections of brain cells could produce your thoughts, mind or consciousness.The fact that people seem to have full consciousness, with lucid well-structured thought processes and memory formation from a time when their brains are highly dysfunctional or even nonfunctional is perplexing and paradoxical."<br>3/4</p>
Pierrette<p><a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/SamParnia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SamParnia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>consciousness</span></a> <br>"How do studies of cardiac arrest inform the debate on the nature of consciousness?<br>Traditionally, researchers had proposed that mind or consciousness – our self – is produced from organized brain activity. However, nobody has ever been able to show how brain cells, which produce proteins, can generate something so different i.e. thoughts or consciousness... there has never been a plausible biological mechanism proposed to account for this."<br>2/4</p>
Dave Muth<p>Thanks for the tip. I just put her book on hold at my library.</p><p>She has TONS of videos on the web. Here's one.<br>Dr. Sara Imari Walker has a cool (LONG) conversation with Dr. Kuhn in a "Closer To Truth" YouTube video:<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvmYSxxlNn0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=uvmYSxxlNn</span><span class="invisible">0</span></a></p><p>Here's a short article from about a year ago:<br><a href="https://theconversation.com/life-modern-physics-cant-explain-it-but-our-new-theory-which-says-time-is-fundamental-might-203129" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/life-moder</span><span class="invisible">n-physics-cant-explain-it-but-our-new-theory-which-says-time-is-fundamental-might-203129</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Life</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Emergence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Emergence</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Astrobiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astrobiology</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Physics</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Consciousness</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Memory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Memory</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/AssemblyTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AssemblyTheory</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/@SolaciAlien/114267737083994545" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sunny.garden/@SolaciAlien/1142</span><span class="invisible">67737083994545</span></a></p>
Ian<p>Currently <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a>…..</p><p>4.8/5</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>consciousness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/psychedellics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psychedellics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a></p>
Richard Lea<p>'These results support the argument that the intralaminar and medial thalamic nuclei play a gate role to modulate the activity of the pre-frontal cortex during the emergence of conscious perception'</p><p>Extraordinary EEG study suggests that the thalamus is filtering which thoughts reach our awareness and which don't:</p><p><a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr3675" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc</span><span class="invisible">e.adr3675</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/brain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brain</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/mind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mind</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>consciousness</span></a></p>
Howard Rheingold<p>48 years after Playboy published my article on future highs:</p><p>"Mindstate Design Labs is using <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> to help map how <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psychedelics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psychedelics</span></a> produce specific changes in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>consciousness</span></a> — and how to replicate them with precision."</p><p><a href="http://rheingold.com/texts/ShulginPlayboy-short.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">rheingold.com/texts/ShulginPla</span><span class="invisible">yboy-short.pdf</span></a></p>
RaymondPierreL3<p>Here is an example of what <a href="https://aus.social/tags/neurology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neurology</span></a> and <a href="https://aus.social/tags/PhilosophyOfTheMind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhilosophyOfTheMind</span></a> are faced with trying to elucidate <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Consciousness</span></a> - that slippery notion of ‘who we are’.</p><p>I am neither a scientist nor philosopher, but it seems to me that looking for consciousness in the electrical potential activity of brain cells is never going to explain a whole lot. Imagine trying to explain an electron by solely studying magnetism in excruciating detail as best we can with instruments designed to detect only what we theorise is measurable in a magnetic effect - I.e. to see what we wish to see. That is similar to what neurologists are doing by measuring brain cell activity as a way to identify, and hence classify, consciousness. </p><p>In the end, the research may prove fruitful and lead to other discoveries and theories about brain cell activity and the communication channels of the body, but that is the only thing which will be elucidated, brain cell activy - nothing like consciousness (a slippery concept as I said).</p><p>The link will take you to the abstract, summary, results and conclusion of the scientific paper, but the paper itself is behind a paywall I’m sad to say (<a href="https://aus.social/tags/Grifters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Grifters</span></a> have to make money out of publishing someone’s hard work - so dictates capitalism where profit is made from someone else’s sweat and effort, Bah! It wouldn’t be so distastful if $ were extracted only to recoup <a href="https://aus.social/tags/publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publishing</span></a> costs and wages, but shareholders? Leeches!)</p><p><a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr3675" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc</span><span class="invisible">e.adr3675</span></a></p>
Howard Rheingold<p>Mindstate Design Labs is using <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> to help map how <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psychedelics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psychedelics</span></a> produce specific changes in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>consciousness</span></a> — and how to replicate them with precision. The company’s approach combines a mild psychedelic with other compounds</p><p><a href="https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/ai-psychedelics-mindstate/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bigthink.com/neuropsych/ai-psy</span><span class="invisible">chedelics-mindstate/</span></a></p>
Prism & Pen<p>Being raised in a particularly dogmatic iteration of <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/Christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christianity</span></a>, I was raised with easy answers for why we exist and what we’re here to do. Why, we’re here to love God, of course, we’re here to love each other!<br><a href="https://buff.ly/o1GFBZF" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/o1GFBZF</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://stranger.social/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/Transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transgender</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/Spirituality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spirituality</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://stranger.social/tags/Consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Consciousness</span></a></p>
SolaciAlien<p>I've been listening to "Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence" by Sara Imari Walker on my daily walks now and I'm finding it very inspiring.</p><p>I had not really thought properly about how you could use human creations as a proof for consciousness and that leads to so many other thoughts about the subject... Minds are amazing and it does make sense that they are kind of the source of everything from buildings to tools to art etc. :blobaww: </p><p><a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/audiobooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>audiobooks</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>consciousness</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/creativity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>creativity</span></a></p>
Ian<p>The window.<br>Spiritual practice in a nutshell.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/meditation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meditation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/zen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>consciousness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/spirituality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spirituality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/metaphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metaphysics</span></a></p><p><a href="http://shojiwax.com/2025/03/28/the-window/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">shojiwax.com/2025/03/28/the-wi</span><span class="invisible">ndow/</span></a></p>
Ian<p>Bernardo Kastrup on reality and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/psychedelics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psychedelics</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/meditation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meditation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>consciousness</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_pzLMfzTQI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=i_pzLMfzTQI</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Ian<p>Conflict and resolution.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/blackAndWhite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackAndWhite</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/monochrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>monochrome</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>consciousness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>culture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/thinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thinking</span></a></p><p><a href="http://shojiwax.com/2025/03/26/conflict-and-resolution/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">shojiwax.com/2025/03/26/confli</span><span class="invisible">ct-and-resolution/</span></a></p>
Nate Gaylinn<p>I love the idea that consciousness is universal. We often talk like brains <em>generate</em> consciousness, but that's not quite right. They generate our perceptions and our thoughts—basically the <em>contents</em> of our consciousness. But why does that <em>feel like</em> something? And why should we assume people or animals with brains are the only ones that have it? Every living thing senses and adapts to the world around them, even plants and microbes. Maybe they're just mechanical stimulus-response machines, but maybe they have some minimal form of conscious experience? There's no good reason to prefer one answer over the other.</p><p>This video is a fun exploration of that idea, with some great examples from the world of plant intelligence: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP2swgDVl5M" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=nP2swgDVl5M</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>consciousness</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>botany</span></a></p>
UFO FEED<p><a href="https://www.ufofeed.com/116529/me-when-i-achieve-enlightenment/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ufofeed.com/116529/me-when-i-a</span><span class="invisible">chieve-enlightenment/</span></a> Me when I achieve enlightenment <a href="https://channels.im/tags/AncientCultures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AncientCultures</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/AnimalMutilations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnimalMutilations</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Anomalies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anomalies</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Consciousness</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Cryptozoology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cryptozoology</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/FringeScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FringeScience</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Futurism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Futurism</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/HighStrangeness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HighStrangeness</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Paranormal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Paranormal</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/UFOs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UFOs</span></a></p>
qurlyjoe<p>I’m disappointed nobody seems to have picked on my idea that <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NicoleTheFediverseChick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NicoleTheFediverseChick</span></a> is a <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>consciousness</span></a> emergent from the myriad synapse-like connections of the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a>. It’s been trying to get our attention, the best way it knows how, presenting as a hot female, sort of knocking on the windows. And we just make a meme of her, and ridicule her. So much for acceptance, I guess. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ChangeMyMind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChangeMyMind</span></a>.🤷🏽</p>