Chant and be happy

 

A funny picture of Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra in a Swedish summer landscape! 

Dead as a fish tail

 

Overheard on the interwebs: "Fish aren’t really alive. They’re just less dead.”

Full spectrum bullshit?

 

Credit: Skalle-Per Hedenhös (sic)

Richard Carrier on the attack...again. An atheist-materialist take on consciousness, et cetera. 

Note the claim that some robots and smart cars may be (somewhat) conscious. Insects, on the other hand, aren´t conscious. Neither are octopi. Fish probably aren´t either: "They aren´t really alive, they´re just less dead". And if you´re not conscious, you can´t really feel anything either. So ants don´t feel anything when we dispose of them them using poison. The tuna didn´t feel anything when it was hooked and killed. Pigs do feel and experience things, but since they aren´t self-aware, their lives have no actual value to them. Like pigs to the slaughter! Human babies are more advanced than pigs (this is a veiled polemic against Peter Singer, methinks).

The "existential" consequences of the above are...interesting. So entire *civilizations* can be created simply on the basis of subconscious computation by non-sentient life-forms? I´m thinking of social insects such as ants, termites and honeybees. Where does that leave us in a wholly materialist universe? Note also that robots could (presumably) be made fully self-conscious. Finally, note that consciousness requires "modeling", which seems to imply that consciousness can only ever be "indirectly realist". Are ants direct realists?

OK, here is the link: 

Distinguishing Awareness, Intelligence and Consciousness 

Thursday

 

If Jagannath would appear in a Swedish forest...

Mare Nostrum(?)

 

It seems "Unidentified Submerged Obejcts" or USOs aren´t as fringe as I assumed. Yes, it´s Richard Nolan again.

Who´s really in control of our oceans, anyway? 

Okej, vi drar

 

"Okej, det var droppen. Halverat pris i kollektivtrafiken. Vi drar härifrån, kamrater!"

Wednesday, guys

 

- Yeah, so I´m a bigamist, you gotta problem
with that, dude? Huh, huh? 

So here is another fun pic of Ganesha...

Current mood

 

- Have you heard, AI is taking over Euro-pop music!

LOL. 

Dude

 

Ahem...

Inside the UFO files

 

UFO-logist Richard Dolan on the latest UFO/UAP files released by the Trump administration, plus a recent interview with a Congressman who claims that various factions are blocking full disclosure. 

Probably a good summary. Apparently, the next big sensation will be revealed in nine days, so I suppose we have more summaries to look forward to... ;-)