We’re the Only Humans in the Universe.
It’s All About Accidents
Forget the little green men and the little grey men. We are the only humanoids in the galaxy. Here's why...
today's post on Everyman's Universe.
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04.08.2025 13:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
So says the Computational model of cognition which is profoundly flawed. See our writing on it in The Blind Spot. Also...
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03.08.2025 22:13 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Cosmic News Roundup 7/31/2025.
Stories for you about Cosmos and Culture
Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’
Einstein explores his search for spiritual meaning
The UFOs that scientists think are real, but can't explain
All these stories and more on this weeks Everyman's Science news roundup.
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/cosmic-new...
03.08.2025 20:04 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Hence the "giveness" I just referred to in my last post.
03.08.2025 19:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
From that paper "The brain must construct a specific set of information about conscious feeling" This just uses "information" as the load-bearing idea for hiding from the giveness of experience. It provides the illusion of understanding when no understanding is actually present.
03.08.2025 19:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Indeed there are versions of physicalism within philosophy with more nuanced views. @alyssaney.bsky.social is writing a book on this and she has taught me a lot. But... as broad class of thinking with deep cultural influence I think the kind of physicalism I wrote about is the dominant one.
02.08.2025 15:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End
America’s run as the premiere techno-superpower may be over.
Absolutely fantastic story by @andersen on how scientific excellence and leadership get squandered by nations.
An important piece from @TheAtlantic
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
31.07.2025 15:23 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Cosmic News Roundup 7/31/2025.
Stories for you about Cosmos and Culture
From Everyman's Universe, this week's Cosmic News Roundup 7/31/2025.
News you can use, or at least cool stuff to think about
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31.07.2025 14:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Superman is Stupid!
Today's super rant and what's good and what's not in superheroes.
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29.07.2025 18:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Why Science Hasn’t Solved Consciousness (Yet) | NOEMA
To understand life, we must stop treating organisms like machines and minds like code.
"[beginning with the irreduciblity of experience] may be the fundamental reframing required to make scientific progress on a range of issues, from the interpretation of quantum mechanics to the understanding of cognition and consciousness."
www.noemamag.com/why-science-...
25.07.2025 19:42 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1
Why Science Hasn’t Solved Consciousness (Yet) | NOEMA
To understand life, we must stop treating organisms like machines and minds like code.
"Eventually, the first-person, embodied experience of being hot or feeling cold was pushed aside as a phantom epiphenomenon, while abstracted quantities like temperature, became more real. This amnesia of experience is science’s blind spot."
@noemamag.com
www.noemamag.com/why-science-...
24.07.2025 22:24 — 👍 22 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
Cosmic News Roundup 7/24/2025.
Stories for you about Cosmos and Culture
This week's cosmic News Roundup 7/24/2025 from the Everyman's Universe newsletter
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/cosmic-new...
24.07.2025 15:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Why Science Hasn’t Solved Consciousness (Yet) | NOEMA
To understand life, we must stop treating organisms like machines and minds like code.
The central point
Our discussion of consciousness has a fatal flaw. It’s a mistake built into the foundations of how science is perceived and conducted across disciplines. This includes the hype around artificial intelligence. @NoemaMag
www.noemamag.com/why-science-...
22.07.2025 19:30 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Everyman's Universe
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Just a reminder that I've started a new newsletter on @beehiiv called Everyman's Universe.
The Cosmos Explored, Explained and Enthused Over.
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21.07.2025 15:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Why Science Hasn’t Solved Consciousness (Yet) | NOEMA
To understand life, we must stop treating organisms like machines and minds like code.
Going to spend sometime this week posting about the core idea in my recent @noemamag.com article about science and its approach to consciousness.
Starting with Physics is the wrong way to go.
Here is a link to the piece.
www.noemamag.com/why-science-...
21.07.2025 15:04 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
You Are Not a Meat Computer #1
One big reason why AI Hype Is Dangerous.
You Are Not a Meat Computer #1.
Today's post from Everyman's Universe.
Life and the failure of the machine metaphor will be a topic we explore quite a bit at the newsletter.
www.everymansuniverse.com/p/you-are-no...
14.07.2025 13:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by The Blind Spot Podcast
The Blind Spot Podcast - Episode 7, Life: Beyond the Machine Metaphor
Episode 7 of The Blind Spot Podcast. @evanthompson.bsky.social and I do a deep dive into why science needs to rethink its approach to life.
And we also talk about Evan’s epic adolescence (seriously, it was epic).
youtu.be/eCO-qZpJoXI?...
11.07.2025 11:32 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
I’ll be posting on this over the next few days. This was a deep dive into how to approach consciousness (experience is the better word) by not turning it into a physics problem.
09.07.2025 22:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trump’s NASA budget could cede solar system to China, scientists warn
As the administration slashes spending on science, NASA is running low on new missions.
For another take on this problem beyond my @theatlantic.com piece, here is a great article in the @washingtonpost.com by @joelachenbach.bsky.social nbach.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
09.07.2025 21:04 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
America Is Killing Its Chance to Find Alien Life
Cuts to NASA mean that the U.S. likely won’t build the next great space observatory.
For folks who weren't online July 4th (when this went live)....
Here is my @TheAtlantic piece on NASA and what's being lost there. The new budget could spell the end of the great agency's legacy of space science leadership.
A huge national mistake.
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
09.07.2025 20:59 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Amid all the difficulties the country faces, the losses in space science might seem trivial. But American science, including space science, has paid enormous dividends in keeping the nation strong, prosperous, and worthy of the world’s respect.
@astrowright.bsky.social @astrokatie.com
06.07.2025 15:39 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
"That a kid in Florence or a middle-aged guy in Bangkok would wear a NASA T-shirt is testimony to the power of its legacy. NASA—with its can-do spirit and its willingness to dream like no other organization in the history of the world—is America"
From my take on gutting NASA.
05.07.2025 15:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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02.07.2025 17:11 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
No matter what you’re studying, you should be able to reduce it to the simple harmonic oscillator. Seriously, everything is either a spherical cow or a simple harmonic oscillator.
26.06.2025 21:48 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by The Blind Spot Podcast
The Blind Spot Podcast - Episode 5, The Modern Story of the Universe, pt II
New episode of The Blind Spot just dropped. Problems with Cosmology and Unified Theories. Deep dive into success & challenges of the big bang model and String Theory and supersymmetry. Their major shortcomings and challenges. (spotify too) @evanthompson.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d5m...
17.06.2025 15:26 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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