SelfAwarePatterns on Twitter
My TweetsTop Rated Posts
-
Recent Posts
- What’s at the edge of the universe?
- Maybe the brain communicates via electrical fields after all
- Did smell lead to consciousness?
- When does personhood begin?
- Why are we real?
- Is the brainstem conscious?
- Strong vs weak emergence
- Why faster than light travel is inevitably also time travel
- Being committed to truth means admitting the limitations of what we can know
- Consciousness lies in the eye of the beholder
Archives
Recent Comments
Follow SelfAwarePatterns
- Follow SelfAwarePatterns on WordPress.com
Tags
- AI
- Albert Einstein
- Aliens
- Anatomically modern humans
- Anthropology
- Archaeology
- Artificial intelligence
- Astronomy
- Atheism
- Big Bang
- Biology
- Brain
- Civilization
- Consciousness
- Cosmic microwave background radiation
- Cosmology
- DNA
- Earth
- Ethics
- Evolution
- evolutionary psychology
- Extraterrestrial life
- Fermi paradox
- Free will
- Future
- Genetics
- God
- Health
- History
- HuffPost
- Human
- Human evolution
- interstellar travel
- Mars
- Massimo Pigliucci
- Mathematics
- Max Tegmark
- Michael Graziano
- Milky Way
- Mind
- Mind uploading
- Morality
- Multiverse
- Nasa
- Neanderthal
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Neuroscience
- Philosophy
- Philosophy of Mind
- Philosophy of science
- Physics
- Politics
- Psychology
- Quantum mechanics
- Religion
- Sam Harris
- Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
- Science
- Science fiction
- Search for extraterrestrial intelligence
- SETI
- Singularity
- Solar System
- Space
- space exploration
- Technology
- TED
- Transhumanism
- United States
- Universe
- Web comic
- writing
- xkcd
- Zach Weiner
Tag Archives: ontology
Is consciousness a thing or a process? Yes.
I came across this tweet by Amanda Gefter: If you've never read James's 1904 essay "Does Consciousness Exist?" please do so immediately. Spoiler alert: No. No it does not. #WilliamJames — Amanda Gefter (@AmandaGefter) January 11, 2019 William James, the … Continue reading
Posted in Zeitgeist
Tagged Brain, Consciousness, emergence, illusionism, Mind, ontology, Philosophy
92 Comments