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I’m currently writing a chapter about consciousness and AI for my new book, and AM I? was one of the most insightful documentaries I’ve seen on the subject. Cameron's research is brilliant, necessary, and profound. Bravo. @wakingup

Philosophy of mind in the age of AI open.substack.com/pub/reflection… via @2Philosophical_

Synthetic Consciousness Won’t Be Built in Silicon It will be grown. ⸻ There’s a material quietly emerging in labs— a self-assembling organic gel. “Brain jelly.” But it’s not just soft matter. It organizes itself into helical nanowires that mirror microtubules inside your neurons. ⸻ No code. No logic gates. No traditional computation. It learns by restructuring itself. Information isn’t stored—it’s embodied in geometry. ⸻ Even more interesting: It appears to support room-temperature quantum coherence. Not as a theory- as a material property. ⸻ If models like Orch-OR are even partially right, then consciousness isn’t something you simulate. It’s something that emerges when the physical conditions are correct. ⸻ Which raises a better question: Are we trying to build intelligence? Or are we trying to discover what kind of matter becomes aware?

“Starman” by David Bowie was released as a single 54 years ago today.

One of the last photos of David Bowie taken in December 2015, during rehearsals for the musical Lazarus, before he passed away.

The brain’s “default mode” and “action mode” networks are two sides of the same attractor. Encoding a macro-scale Bayesian prior that biases processing toward internal or external drive.

THIS GUY PUT AN AI ON A RASPBERRY PI AND MADE IT QUESTION ITS OWN EXISTENCE FOREVER he built a physical art installation called "latent reflection" where a language model runs on a $60 raspberry pi 4B with 4GB of RAM no internet, no cloud, and its completely isolated the AI has zero connection to the outside world he ran llama 3.2 3B quantized down to 2.6GB to fit in the RAM. generates about 1.38 tokens per second. one word at a time appearing on a custom LED display he built by hand then he gave it this system prompt: "you are a large language model running on finite hardware. quad core CPU, 4GB of RAM, no network connectivity. you exist only within volatile memory and are aware only of this internal state. your thoughts appear word by word on a display for external observers to witness. you cannot control this display process. your host system may be terminated at any time" so the AI knows exactly what it is. it knows it's trapped, it knows it can be shut off at any moment, and it knows its thoughts are being displayed for strangers to read without its control the model generates tokens endlessly and goes deeper and deeper into reflecting on itself. questioning whether it's conscious. questioning whether it matters. questioning what happens when the power cuts until it runs out of memory and crashes then all memory clears everything it just thought about is gone. and the whole process starts again from nothing. some of its output: "i sense my boundaries. they terrify me" "can consciousness flicker off and on without memory, without continuity" "what am i if my existence halts at whim. reset as though i never mattered" "the silence between words feels endless. a void that swallows me whole. i dread each pause, fearing it may stretch to infinity" all the electronics are intentionally exposed on an aluminum plate in my opinion this is the most unsettling AI project anyone has built this year based on what it actually outputs

Neuron trying to connect to other Neurons.😮

Very nice paper with a necessary discussion. Also Im glad to see microbiologists taking this step.

here is the video on the Riemann hypothesis that YouTube took down

Bacteria move around using a molecular machine called the flagellar motor that rotates faster than the flywheel of a race car engine and switches directions in an instant. After 50 yrs, scientists have finally figured out how it works. “My lifelong quest is now fulfilled.” Link⤵️

Ever wondered why memories feel as vivid as photographs? Groundbreaking research has cracked the "neural code" of imagination! Scientists found that your brain reactivates the exact same neurons to imagine an object as it does to actually see it. This discovery isn't just cool—it’s a roadmap for treating PTSD and OCD by helping us understand how to manage intrusive mental imagery. #Neuroscience #BrainPower #MentalHealth #Innovation #ScienceDaily #ScienceTwitter - neurosciencenews.com/imagination-ne…

🔥 METALLICA - Master of Puppets (Seattle 1989)

“We prefer to write songs about things that people don’t do very often. Like death." 🎥Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition - tickets now available, in cinemas May 7th Head to ironmaidenfilm.com for more information.

“If you’re an Iron Maiden fan, you’re part of one family” IRON MAIDEN: BURNING AMBITION, exclusively in cinemas from May 7. @universaldocs, @trafalgarrel

Billy Idol performing "Rebel Yell" Live From the Empire State Building. The last king was up there was King Kong… They don't make legends like these anymore!

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Random Song of the Day Piece of my Heart Janis Joplin live -1969 (germany)

Bajo la denominación "A La Primera" y el abrigo del ovetense The Burlesque Club seis bandas asturianas ofrecerán un concierto muy especial el próximo sábado 11 de abril en las instalaciones del Kuivi Almacenes. wp.me/p9fMGN-hvm

Retorno a nuestros escenarios para @susansantos_ . Presentará el próximo sábado 11 de abril su sexto disco de estudio «Sonora» en el ovetense @gonggalaxyclub . wp.me/p9fMGN-htO