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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…

Iterative Methods for the Projected Solutions of Quasi-equilibrium Problems
Didier Aussel, Jauny, Asrifa Sultana, Shivani Valecha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22080

Iterative Methods for the Projected Solutions of Quasi-equilibrium Problems
Aussel et al. (J Optim Theory Appl 170 818-837 2016) introduced the concept of projected solutions for the quasi-variational inequalities with a non-self constraint map, that is, the case where the constraint map may take values outside the feasible set. This paper presents two iterative methods to determine the projected solutions for quasi-equilibrium problems (QEP). We prove the convergence of the sequence generated by iterative methods to a projected solution of the QEP under some suitable …

The next big thing? | Schamlos eingeknickt | Ratzekahl gemäht #Wochenschau
Die Woche im ICE: Während OpenAI und Jony Ive mit Project KAIROS das Ende des Smartphones ausrufen, zeigt Trump mit der Blockade internationaler E-Mail-Konten, wie gefährlich Europas digitale Abhängigkeit von US-Konzernen ist. Und in Darmstadt? Bleibt der Regen aus – Zeit für einen mähfreien Mai.

The next big thing? | Schamlos eingeknickt | Ratzekahl gemäht #Wochenschau
Die Woche im ICE: Während OpenAI und Jony Ive mit Project KAIROS das Ende des Smartphones ausrufen, zeigt Trump mit der Blockade internationaler E-Mail-Konten, wie gefährlich Europas digitale Abhän…

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

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

Celebrating 10 Years of EaPConnect! 🎉
For a decade, EaPConnect has empowered universities, research institutions, and students across Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine, providing high-capacity network infrastructure and fostering international collaboration.
As it nears completion in 2025, Rosanna Cramarossa Norman spoke with NREN directors about the project's impact.
🔗 Read the full interview in the latest edition of

Celebrating 10 Years of EaPConnect: Voices from the NRENs | GÉANT CONNECT Online
We are joined by the directors of the five NRENs beneficiary partners involved in the EU-funded ‘EU4Digital: Connecting Research and Education Communities (EaPConnect)’ project: ASNET from Armenia, AzScienceNet from Azerbaijan, GRENA from Georgia, RENAM from Moldova and URAN from Ukraine. Launched in 2015, the EaPConnect project has empowered universities, research institutions, and students throughout the Eastern

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How to (Un-) Quantum Mechanics
When compared to quantum mechanics, classical mechanics is often depicted in a specific metaphysical flavour: spatio-temporal realism or a Newtonian "background" is presented as an intrinsic fundamental classical presumption. However, the Hamiltonian formulation of classical analytical mechanics is based on abstract generalized coordinates and momenta: It is a mathematical rather than a philosophical framework. If the metaphysical assumptions ascribed to classical mechanics are dropped, then th…

Unveiling the Cosmic Dance of Repeated Nuclear Transient ASASSN-14ko: Insights from Multiwavelength Observations
Shifeng Huang, Tinggui Wang, Ning Jiang, Rong-Feng Shen, Zhaohao Chen, Yuanming Wang, Jiazheng Zhu, Yibo Wang, Yunguo Jiang, Xinwen Shu, Hucheng Ding, Xiongjun Fang, Yifan Wang, Jie Lin, Jingran Xu, Xu Chen, Zheyu Lin, Zhengfeng Sheng
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Unveiling the Cosmic Dance of Repeated Nuclear Transient ASASSN-14ko: Insights from Multiwavelength Observations
ASASSN-14ko is a periodically repeating nuclear transient. We conducted high-cadence, multiwavelength observations of this source, revealing several recurrent early bumps and rebrightenings in its UV/optical light curves. The energy released during these bumps and rebrightenings shows a diminishing trend in recent UV/optical outbursts, which we monitored through multiwavelength observations. These features can be ascribed to the interaction between stream debris and the expanded disk in the rep…

A visco-plastic constitutive model for accurate densification and shape predictions in powder metallurgy hot isostatic pressing
Subrato Sarkar, Jason R Mayeur, KPK Ajjarapu, Fred A List III, Soumya Nag, Ryan R Dehoff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11946

A visco-plastic constitutive model for accurate densification and shape predictions in powder metallurgy hot isostatic pressing
Powder metallurgy hot isostatic pressing (PM-HIP) is an advanced manufacturing process that produces near net shape parts with high material utilization and uniform microstructures. Despite being used frequently to produce small-scale components, the application of PM-HIP to large-scale components is limited due to inadequate understanding of its complex mechanisms that cause unpredictable post-HIP shape distortions. A computational model can provide necessary information about the intermediate…