Looks like 'rare earth' theory just keeps picking up steam!
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10.03.2026 00:21
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Looks like 'rare earth' theory just keeps picking up steam!
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I don't do tokenism, I just value inclusivity.
And comedic timing...
I set a few goals for writing characters in my new novel. I wanted to write:
1) A gay character.
2) Another strong female character.
3) A total screwball character.
That's not a checklist challenge. It's just what a good writer does, trying to make sure the fiction feels diverse.
#writing #EON
#Catastrophism #SETI #TheDrakeEquation #FermiParadox
#whereareallthealiens?
Fair bit of ads in these Daily Mail articles (gotta love them Brits), but this one gets right to the point. It also has a link to Dr. Weist's preprint in there. Check it out...
#Sciencing #Consciousness #orchOR
This article synopsizes some fascinating work out of the U. Of Leiden.
Information could be a temporal-cellular component of all reality, responsible for the arrow of time, dark matter and energy, and even gravity itself.
Information theory is getting deep!
#space #time #physics #weird #universe
Two of the greatest boxing photos of all time both involve late ringside photographer and legend Herb Scharfman (1911 - 1998).
First is Scharfman's epic shot of the real Rocky punching Jersey Joe. In the other more famous snap of Ali standing over Liston, he's visible between Ali's legs.
🥊
#iconic
"Hey Will, wherever do you get an idea to write about wandering through the desert?"
I finally got the nonfiction page up and running, just reposted this award winning travelogue from a few years back.
Give it a read:
#nonfiction #travelwriting #theology #Maroc #Sahara #waterinthedesert #Bluesky
Put another way, trees respirate. Indeed that is the essence of breathing. And yet, they have no lungs.
So could trees think? Well, that entirely depends on our notions of consciousness.
The anthropic principle and the hard question are probably the key to even knowing what to ask in this context.
It's like asking, "What's the evolutionary purpose behind breathing? Why did certain organisms separately develop the ability to breathe? And also: 'Why don't trees breathe?'" (They do)
Linear processes are distinct from emergent ones. They demand to be understood holistically, not just physically.
To me, the thing that's so silly about emergent physicalism is that it assumes more than panpsychism about the nature of reality. Yes, birds and people have different brains. But are trees really unconscious? Maybe if you watched an Aspen grove for a couple hundred years, you'd get a different idea.
Fair enough. But the principle holds. Algos are not thinking, they're selecting outcome nodes based on predictably reliable pathway outcomes.
If bureaucracy is working well, then, yes. But for a novel solution, no dice. These things are glorified autocomplete; point is, and not novel intelligence.
AI (in the form of LLMs) will never be creative. It copies; it does not innovate.
Aha!
Now, I think, we're getting closer to the root of the matter. 🤔
#physics #consciousness #theory
I've been working on the new cover art for 'Beyond Tycho.'
Check it out:
#Scifi #Writing #Novels #Art #Books #BookArt #TraditionalArt #TheEONSeries #EONPart2
I guess if Arrhenius and Sir Hoyle were right, they could be the first interstellar travelers.
Very weird.
This, to me, is the most alien thing on planet Earth.
A fascinating theory here about the nature of the observer in a topologically closed universe. Without such an observer, such a universe, paradoxically, can't even exist. There seems a requirement for information to be present on an observable boundary for the concept of information to have meaning.
Gotta see this exhibit!
I've been a dino fan since childhood. The discovery of the K-T boundary changed science. Catastrophism beat gradualism in the scientific mind. The Deccan pits hypothesis succumbed to the horrors of Chicxulub.
Incidentally, Tycho may've been a broken-off sister object... fft
They can imitate it, but never duplicate it.
Sometimes ideas for poems or songs or whatever just arrive to you in the middle of the night. Pow!
I scribbled thru some parts of this one, still in progress. It's intended to be a song but I've still yet to compose the music for it...
#poems #songs #poetry #songwriting #writingcommunity #Bluesky
Exactement.
They're finally snuffing out the 'standard candle.' It's an assumption in cosmology that all Type 1A supernovas are exactly the same. Without it, the age, distance and expansion rate of the observable universe will need to be recalibrated, and some of the Hubble tension should disappear.
#astronomy
