james glattfelder

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@KrisAces Thanks, Kris:) Much appreciated.

@jnode Hi James, really enjoyed your book - it brought together several topics I’m interested in. My own tool for exploring these ideas has been ayahuasca, so I appreciated this follow-up. And thanks for putting me onto Chris Bache, his stuff really resonates.

Drinking transcendence. @jnode/lifting-the-veil-fce78c24d711" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@jnode/lifting…

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When AI taps into reality's template: quantamagazine.org/distinct-ai-mo…

"Objectivity is the illusion that observations are made without an observer." [H. von Foerster] "Physicists typically seek a view from nowhere, a stand-alone description of nature. [...] this view from nowhere seems less and less viable." quantamagazine.org/cosmic-paradox…

"Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other. We have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like." -Bertrand Russell youtube.com/watch?v=WIoAwx…

More empirical metaphysics.

Currently, LLMs are weird: From the spiritual bliss attractor to emergent misalignment. Sources: -System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4 -Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs

"Trees anticipated the eclipse, synchronizing their bioelectrical behaviour hours in advance. Older trees displayed greater anticipatory behaviour with early time-asymmetry and entropy increases." #plantCognition royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Excerpts from Chapter 1: @jnode/excerpts-from-the-sapient-cosmos-cfe7ce71d4ea" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@jnode/excerpt…

Good news! After some initial distribution hiccups, "The Sapient Cosmos" is now available again in most countries. Now you can discover the growing case for consciousness as the ground of being—not a byproduct of physical processes.

New book chapter out: link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

"In this conversation, we cover everything from Chalmers' "Hard Problem of Consciousness", the emergence of complex structures and life, the informational basis of reality, to the latest advancements in quantum physics and the Philosophy of Psychedelics." youtube.com/watch?v=slCtzk…

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Had a really great time discussing existential stuff with Hans Busstra from @EssentiaFounda1 youtube.com/watch?v=RgpABH…