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Solar cells on cattle holding pens seems like a great idea! Probably tons of buildings and farms that would be fine with solar cells on top.
I'm no (food) scientist but I am a lot more confident that it doesn't pose a risk to the food source. But I'm less confident of growing crops under solar cells or solar cells floating on aquatic farms. Likely need significant maintenance over the years to prevent leaching and it's always hard for politicians to fix old instead of …

Azerbaijan detains alleged Russian spies as relations with Moscow nosedive: https://benborges.xyz/2025/06/30/azerbaijan-detains-alleged-russian-spies.html

An analysis of 61 settlements signed by Channel 4 staff who left amid employment disputes between 2017 and 2021 shows it paid out ~£5M and all but two had NDAs (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/channel-4-denies-using-nda-zelda-pe…

Channel 4 Says It Doesn’t Use NDAs, But Documents Reveal Company Is Curbing Free Speech Of Aggrieved Ex-Employees
Channel 4 described itself as the "defender of free speech," but documents reveal it is restricting what former staffers can say about the company.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Александр Константинович Глазунов, Royal Scottish National Orchestra & José Serebrier:
🎵 Symphony no.5 in B flat major Op.55 (2nd mvt)
#АлександрКонстантиновичГлазунов #RoyalScottishNationalOrchestra #JoséSerebrier
#Spotify

Behöver redigera en pdf hemifrån. Försöker logga in på det betalda Adobekonto jag har genom jobbet för att göra mitt jobb men Adobe insisterar på att jag inte har betalat för Acrobat (det enda programmet vi betalar för). Jag vill bara byta ut några år. Åter och åter igen blir det såhär när jag försöker använda kommersiell mjukvara. De vägrar ge mig tillgång till en tjänst vi betalat för, som fri mjukvara hade kunnat göra lika bra. Fattar verkligen inte varför man ska betala för mjukvara.

A Linear Generative Framework for Structure-Function Coupling in the Human Brain
Sam Frank Kelemen, Joaqu\'in G\~oni, S\'ergio Pequito, Arian Ashourvan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06136

A Linear Generative Framework for Structure-Function Coupling in the Human Brain
Brain function emerges from coordinated activity across anatomically connected regions, where structural connectivity (SC) -- the network of white matter pathways - provides the physical substrate for functional connectivity (FC) -- the correlated neural activity between brain areas. While these structural and functional networks exhibit substantial overlap, their relationship involves complex, indirect mechanisms, including the dynamic interplay of direct and indirect pathways, recurrent netwo…

Mehr als 17.000 Menschen müssen in #Manitoba wegen schwerer #Waldbrände evakuiert werden.
Die Provinz hat den #Notstand ausgerufen, da sich Feuer über alle Regionen ausbreiten. Rund die …

Klar wird im Nationalrat auch Politik gemacht. Manchmal fühlt es sich aber eher nach Polemik an.
So hat #SVP-Nationalrat Christian Imark gerade eine Interpellation mit «Digitale Souveränität der Schweiz ist Realität!» betitelt, selbstverständlich inklusive Ausrufezeichen.
Viel Substanz findet man allerdings nicht, wie genau die

I read "Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It" by Christof Koch.
Interesting book which spends like 8 or 9 chapters detailing all the experiments which prove beyond much doubt that consciousness, and self awareness, is a thing done by a brain.
It describes how perception is a construction of a description, has a chapter called "computational mind"
And then spends the last two chapters describing why he thinks the mind can't be computed, because drugs have made him think experience is some kind of magic associated with highly interconnected causal structures.
Apparently, he thinks, once things become interconnected enough they become able to cause things independently of the physics running those connections.
Which is crazy, obviously. There's nothing causal in direct connections between neurons that isn't equally causal in modeled connections between virtual neurons.
All his evidence in the book from neural MRI scans to the effects of psychedelic drugs and symptoms of strokes and disease point to the brain simulating a virtual reality which is the basis of perception.
That simulated world in which we live is full of colour and shape and sounds and emotions and millions of mental constructs that are built to be correlated by the senses with the outside world, but are not equal to the world itself. We live in a dream constructed to correlate with reality.
But then instead of taking the next step: That consciousness itself is a property of a simulated being inside that mental model of the universe, a property which the brain simulates and applies to the virtual self that's doing the experiencing inside that model, he jumps towards some magic implying pan-psychism or that sufficiently interconnected networks become causally self-complete for some reason nobody can fathom.
Sure, colour and shape and emotions are all made up by the brain but experience can't be! For some reason.
You see in truth dualism is false, in that there is no spirit realm in which ghosts animate the matter of the body somehow.
Yet also, dualism is true, in that there is a simulated mental reality which we live in, computed by the brain in which all perception and experience are created, which is related-to but separate-from the unfolding complicated dance of energy that is the universe our bodies interact with.
People take some DMT trip, and the model of the universe emulated by their brain collapses and breaks. Their virtual simulated self inside their mind has these experiences of being one with the universe or the experience of feeling dead yet conscious or whatever, and these hippies think that the broken down simulated experience is real and reflects how consciousness is more fundamental than the atoms that make up the neurons in their brain.
Instead of realizing it shows them that their experienced universe is a simulacrum, they think they get a more direct experience of reality somehow. A consciousness more pure than any mere base atom.
"Then I am myself the world" is a great title. Everything you ever experience is created and simulated in your brain like a dream, the whole universe is inside your head. Even the fact of experience itself.
But that isn't the conclusion Koch reaches somehow, he just jumps from describing the evidence that this is so straight into ascribing super-causal magic consciousness to particular arrangements of atoms that integrated information theory suggest have high correlation, and thinks therefore conciousness is itself the entire universe.
Ah well, fun book. I like arguing in my head with authors that are wrong.
#reading #books #consciousness #thenIAmMyselfTheWorld