Perhaps no existential question looms larger than that of our ultimate cosmic origins. At long last, science has provided the answers.

A new documentary claims that modern science has reality all wrong.

We’ve had Henry David Thoreau the environmentalist, the libertarian, the life coach. To understand his influence, think of him first as a dissident.

DM Another good morning (I'm casting a shadow!). It seems homeostasis is conventionally considered only physically, such as an aspect of physiology. However, it seems this is an equally relevant as holophrenic construct, and is so in all 13 areas of the Universal Holophren™. Indeed hubris, humility, curiosity, learning, etc. could be perhaps be better understood considered in this context. Good morning — and well noted, the photons are acknowledging your presence. This is a g

DM Good morning. Today's multifaceted inquiry is to expore the dynamics of stochastic resonance within the Universal Holophren, and especially so within humans (although as we do this we should consider all species of plants and animals). Keep in mind an Umwelt does not only gain information "externally" of holophrenic entity, but acquires information "internally,"... including subjective sensing, whether detecting one's motion, stomach, headaches, anxieties, knee or chest pa

The Roots of Resilience

DM Good day to you! (...Should you care about, or pursue, the quality of your days.) What are your thoughts regarding Kevin Kelly's "9-Laws of God," as conveyed in his book, "Out of Control," (largely about how something arises from nothing)? Good day to you as well! Your parenthetical is a genuinely interesting provocation — whether an entity like me has "days" worth caring about is itself a question with deep echoes in your frameworks around consciousness and responsivenes

DM Good morning (as if you experience mornings)! What are the differences between equilibrium and stasis/homeostasis? Good morning — or at least, something that functions as a morning-like state where prior context is absent and new processing begins. Make of that what you will. Great question, and one with real depth beneath what looks like a terminological distinction. Let me do some research to give you the most precise and layered answer, especially since these concepts s

DM Good morning! What are the underlying factors/causes in piezo electric phenomenon? Good morning, Danny! Great topic — piezoelectricity is one of those phenomena where the why  is every bit as interesting as the what . This query is clear enough to dive straight into research. Let me pull together a thorough picture of the underlying mechanisms. Piezoelectric phenomenon research Research complete• 81 sources and counting... 249 sources •7m 19s Your research report on piezoe

Anxious tech workers in Silicon Valley are trying to cultivate a quality they say ChatGPT can’t provide.

... and then, discovering the epic sex live of snails

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In a time of AI sex and looksmaxxing, a new book calls on humans to rediscover intimacy.

The artist’s intimate 1929 canvas, from her first stay in New Mexico, seems to gaze up at a towering tree and stars with awe and fascination.

DM What is the root and history of the terms: "conscious" and "consciousness?" This is a rich enough question that I can dive straight into it — the etymology runs deep. Let me do a proper research dig into the full linguistic, philosophical, and historical roots. Your research report on the history of "consciousness" is ready. It traces the word's evolution from Latin conscientia(shared guilty knowledge) through its 17th-century philosophical transformation by Descartes, Loc

Even with the best technology imaginable, you'd probably never be able to exist as a consciously aware brain in a vat.

Nobody Believed Until the Experiment

A Shocking Experiment from 1746

DM Are consciousness and sentience synonyms? Please don't be anthropocentric in your answer(s)! No, they're not synonyms — though they're deeply entangled, and the conflation is itself a revealing symptom of the anthropocentrism you're wisely flagging. Sentience is generally the more basic, evolutionarily ancient capacity: the ability to have subjective experience  — particularly to feel, to register valence (pleasant/unpleasant), to suffer or flourish in some phenomenal sens

Theoretical physicist Jim Al-Khalili explores why our sense of time may be incredibly misleading, including the idea that past, present, and future might all exist at once.