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Consciousness and Science and Philosophy
Science is a form of consciousness, a derivative of it, contained by consciousness. Consciousness makes science possible. Science is a form of consciousness, a sliver of consciousness, a part of consciousness. There is no science without consciousness. An unconscious scientist has no science – consciousness is required for science to exist. Science is a measurement…
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Oppenheimer was right
A previous version op-ed was posted on SF Gate on December 22nd 2022, and an updated version posted on Bulletin of Atomic Scientists on February 13, 2023, and https://oppenheimerproject.org/. On December 23rd, 1953 J. Robert Oppenheimer received a letter informing his security clearance was suspended as an Atomic Energy Commission consultant pending either a security hearing or…
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Conflict, consciousness and acceptance
Is consciousness evolving, or are humans on the path to be consumed by conflict… humanity ending in a smoking pile of rubble, robot overlords running the show? I was standing in a forest with scientists, AI technologists, company builders – some of whom are very influential leaders. There was a surprisingly gloomy consensus. Most in…
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Capital Flows
“Money is a measure of wealth, and we invent money as we invent the Fahrenheit scale of temperature or the avoirdupois measure of weight… By contrast with money, true wealth is the sum of energy, technical intelligence, and raw materials.“ Allan Watts The LIBOR Interest rate is currently at 0.60%, just over half of one…
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web3 vs tech bros
This is a story of being right and wrong at the same time. Right: crypto is absurdly inefficient in many ways, has failed in the basic Bitcoin promise of decreasing costs of peer to peer internet payments, and (almost) anything one can do with crypto you can do better, cheaper, faster with a database and…
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Publish more
Speaking with my daughter Olivia yesterday at the BlueDanube on Clement street, a rare spot of sunshine warming the sidewalk, crisp, clear. “The one thing I should do in 2022 is publish more. I write a lot, but don’t publish. It’s the most valuable thing I could do”. And WordPress certainly isn’t the medium I…
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Hello Blog!
This isn’t my first blog. Or my first time at the rodeo. I started in the early days of blogging.. 2002 about it looks like. But most of my writing on the web was related to commercial entities.. businesses I owned like Recursive Technology. I didn’t set up a place for myself, unrelated to business ventures…