Sending Poets

Taking inspiration from the Holberg Debate, we tackled the traditional approach to a three person debate (Defender of the Faith, Heretic, Social Democrat) on four specific factors of consciousness and subconsciousness.

• Consciousness:

• Subjective point of view 

• Subconsciousness:

• Objective point of view

Point of View:

-CPU vs GPU

-Whisper Game

-Jigsaw puzzle race

Forward deductive vs backward inductive reasoning

-Definitions

-Game theory 

-placemat maze

-snares/traps

Memory 

-working memory

-horse track

-contextualized learning

Quotes:

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Wrapping up the conversation of the 2023 Holberg Debate "Does Consciousness Extend Beyond Brains?"

Topics:

- Replication crisis

- Extramission/Scopaesthesia 

- Panpsychism

- Near Death Experiences

Quotes:

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." - Richard P. Feynman

References:

Holberg Debate: https://holbergprize.org/en/en/holberg-prize/holberg-debate

Watch 2023 Holberg Debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofSUaZOW9h8&t=168s

Near Death Experiences: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/02/new-science-of-death-brain-activity-consciousness-near-death-experience 

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Cave within a cave

Oxygen deprivation in caves: https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-c[...]n-to-paint

Consciousness/Subconsciousness flow: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C[...]p=drivesdk

Poems:

I’m sure I have much to say and sure that for much of it, I’m unsure how to say it

Surely much to say

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Further discussion of the 2023 Holberg Debate "Does Consciousness Extend Beyond Brains?" This time we explore some of Tanya Luhrmann's points - inner homunculus and tulpamancy.

References:

Holberg Debate: https://holbergprize.org/en/en/holberg-prize/holberg-debate

Watch 2023 Holberg Debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofSUaZOW9h8&t=168s

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We keep digging in to the fascinating topics brought up in the 2023 Holberg Debate "Does Consciousness Extend Beyond Brains?"

References:

Holberg Debate: https://holbergprize.org/en/en/holberg-prize/holberg-debate

Watch 2023 Holberg Debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofSUaZOW9h8&t=168s

Poetry:

- "The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom." - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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We finally wrap up our Contact conversation and then transition to Consciousness, fueled by the 2023 Holberg Debate "Does Consciousness Extend Beyond Brains?"

References:

Holberg Debate: https://holbergprize.org/en/en/holberg-prize/holberg-debate

Watch 2023 Holberg Debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofSUaZOW9h8&t=168s

Epic Spaceman video on the scale of the Milky Way Galaxy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsRmyY3Db1Y 

Poetry:

- “It’s hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.” - Ken der Heer (President’s science advisor in Contact, Carl Sagan)

- "The beauty of science is the ability to be productively wrong so that our collective understanding always ratchets upwards" - Anil Seth

- “The brain is wider than the sky, for put them side by side, the one the other will contain with ease and you besides” - Emily Dickinson

- “We’re all hallucinating all the time including right now, it’s just that when we agree about our hallucinations, we call that reality” - Anil Seth

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Part 5 of our conversation about Contact and Carl Sagan, we dive in to the destination of the machine trip and the return.

References:

THE DREAM OF THE NUMINOUS, Mark Kelly

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Starting at the beginning, how flavor profiles like sugar, fat, and salt played a role in our evolution

References:

Article about Lucy walking like humans: https://www.newser.com/story/336[...]ke-us.html

Article about spherical shaped stones: https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2[...]y-suggests

Evolution of feet: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j[...]p=drivesdk

Pumpkin Heads screenplay: https://if.zone/f/pov-pum[...]=%5BPOV%5D

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Part 4 of our conversation about Contact and Carl Sagan. We talk about the machine and the trip, as well as the line that inspired this whole thing!

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Part 3 of our conversation about Contact and Carl Sagan. This time we dive deep in to pi and the topics of faith and science.

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