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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 …

Hierzulande wenig beachtet: Heute unterzeichnete #Deutschland einen 10 Jahre dauernden Liefervertrag für #Erdgas mit #Aserbaidschan
Der deutsche staatliche Versorger SEFE kauft beim aserbai…

Russian propaganda media Sputnik shuts down operations in Azerbaijan amid tensions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/03/russian-propaganda-media-sputnik-shuts.html

Dortmund ist die jüngste Stadt im #Ruhrgebiet, sagt OB Westphal bei der Wissenschaftskonferenz Bildung im U.
Auf jeden Fall ist @… die einzige im Fediverse!

Das Strecken und Recken der erschöpften Knochen nach acht abgeschlossenen Aufführungen und wer weiß wie vielen Generalproben zuvor neigt scih dem Ende. In ungefähr sechs Stunden hat der Spaß ein Ende und unsere Akrobaten und Akrobatinnen können sich dem Volke mit erhobenem Haupt stellen. Bis dahin aber wird noch so manch Dompteur auf eine "Fake-Meldung" hereinfallen ;) #dem25 ^mr

Die ePetition 180447 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Photovoltaik mit dem Titel
Kein Bau von Photovoltaik-Anlagen auf Grün- und Ackerflächen/Indirekte Versiegelung des Bodens vermeiden
kann bis zum Donnerstag 14. August 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert, dass Photovoltai…

Die ePetition 180447 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Photovoltaik mit dem Titel
Kein Bau von Photovoltaik-Anlagen auf Grün- und Ackerflächen/Indirekte Versiegelung des Bodens vermeiden
kann bis zum Donnerstag 14. August 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert, dass Photovoltai…

Elektronische Patientenakte soll auch für Bundeswehr kommen
Soldaten der Bundeswehr sollen in Zukunft auch eine elektronische Patientenakte erhalten. Noch in diesem Jahr soll es eine Ausschreibung zur Beschaffung geben.

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

Azerbaijan gives eight journalists prison sentences ranging from 7.5 to 15 years, as part of a series of media trials set to obliterate independent reporting (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/06/8-journalists-g…

8 journalists given lengthy jail terms as Azerbaijan crushes free press - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, June 23, 2025— Eight Azerbaijani journalists have received prison sentences ranging from 7 ½ to 15 years, as part of an ongoing series of media trials likely to obliterate independent reporting in the Caucasus nation. In a closed-door trial on Monday, columnist and peace activist Bahruz Samadov was sentenced by a court in...