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Not trying hard enough 🦎

@lonelystone.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy

5 months ago

Are observers fundamental to physics, or simply byproducts of it? | Aeon Videos What role, if any, does the observer play in fundamental physics? A cosmologist lays out the leading theories in the field

I love thinking about this stuff:

Are observers fundamental to physics, or simply byproducts of it?

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Falling forward 🍉

@annyjoe.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy

6 months ago

Bright nights, lonely crowds – a Tokyo train speeds through urban contradictions | Aeon Videos Bright nights, lonely crowds – a Tokyo train speeds through urban contradictions

Bright nights, lonely crowds – a Tokyo train speeds through urban contradictions

This is very good.

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Falling forward 🍉

@annyjoe.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy

6 months ago

On the lonely midnight trail of Orkney’s corncrakes | Aeon Essays Back on the islands of my childhood, I’m clinging to sobriety, searching for a rare bird that’s also on the brink

Night life

Back on the islands of my childhood, I’m clinging to sobriety, searching for a rare bird that’s also on the brink

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Falling forward 🍉

@annyjoe.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy

6 months ago

NYC blue: what the pain of loneliness tells us | Aeon Essays Loneliness can be a shameful hunger, a shell, a dangerous landscape of shadowy figures. But it is also a gift

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the
hunger of my heart; I am trying to bribe you
with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

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Matt Hodgkinson

@mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy

7 months ago

The great myth of empire collapse | Aeon Essays Societal downfalls loom large in history and popular culture but, for the 99 per cent, collapse often had its upsides

Tales of collapse may be imperial propaganda.

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Matt Hodgkinson

@mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy

9 months ago

Why do philosophy of physics when you can do physics itself? | Aeon Essays Some physicists reject philosophy as a distraction from ‘real’ science but it is in fact both useful and beautiful

A well-presented explanation of the relevance of philosophy to physics.

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Sebastian

@thegoodwork.blog

1 year ago

Does capitalism make ‘non-playable characters’ of us all? An uncanny exploration | Aeon Videos The daily grind of non-playable characters offers a clever critique of capitalism’s ‘infinite loop of labour performance’

Can someone please dub this with Werner Herzog as narrator? Thank you.

“Hardly working” — Does capitalism make ‘non-playable characters’ of us all? An uncanny exploration.

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Andrew Hennigan

@andrewhennigan.bsky.social

1 year ago

Is life a complex computational process? | Aeon Essays Life is starting to look a lot less like an outcome of chemistry and physics, and more like a computational process

Is life logically inevitable? Awesome essay in Aeon this week considers the possibility that life is, in fact, a computational process. #life #aeonmagazine

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Sebastian

@thegoodwork.blog

1 year ago

The hunter-gatherers of the 21st century who live on the move | Aeon Essays Why do hunter-gatherers refuse to be sedentary? New answers are emerging from the depths of the Congolese rainforest

Societies of perpetual movement
Why do hunter-gatherers refuse to be sedentary? New answers are emerging from the depths of the Congolese rainforest

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