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RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115817239878843124
Legalize LSD, shrooms, and other classic psychedelics. This was never a war on drugs, it’s always been a war on consciousness IMO.

I’ve decided to drain my ‘posts I’ll never post’ Apple Note. It’s a set of random idle tech-related thoughts I’ve had over the last 4 or so years that I wrote down to get them outta my head.
Buckle up for bad tech takes and stream of consciousness dumb thoughts.
https://www.codevoid.…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
TV on the Radio:
🎵 Caffeinated Consciousness
#TVontheRadio
https://theroundedsquares.bandcamp.com/track/the-rounded-squares-tv-on-the-radio-caffeinated-consciousness
https://open.spotify.com/track/14n7hUzSGcdhUjwLHEymag

⏰ Examining why some species developed consciousness while others remained non-conscious
#animals

Examining why some species developed consciousness while others remained non-conscious
What is the evolutionary advantage of our consciousness? And what can we learn about this from observing birds? Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum published two articles on this topic.

Anthropic overhauled Claude's "Constitution" to enable the AI to generalize and apply broad principles rather than mechanically follow specific rules (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/21/anthropic-claude-ai-chatbot-n…

Anthropic rewrites Claude’s guiding principles—and entertains the idea that its AI might have ‘some kind of consciousness or moral status’
The AI company is publishing a new "constitution" that teaches its chatbot how to think, not just what to do.

Every single day, the whole debacle with Blake Lemoine feels so much more quaint than the mass delusions we’re uncovering now. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine/

The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
The chorus of technologists who believe AI models may not be far off from achieving consciousness is getting bolder.

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
DORIAN: Vila will join you later. Now make your goodbyes. Your lives, your consciousness are over. [Laughs insanely.]
[From above Vila hurries part way down the stairs.]
VILA: Avon. [hands him the gun]
DORIAN: No.

The quest to understand consciousness often feels like searching for an elephant in a room—we're certain it's there because we feel it, yet it remains stubbornly hidden from our scientific and philosophical grasp.
https://geneosophy.com/consciousness-the-elephant-in-t…

Consciousness, the elephant in the room
Consciousness is the holy grail of our quest to comprehend who we are. We feel conscious, there is no doubt about it. But understanding consciousness has been outside our reach so far. It is a strange state of affairs, we have elucidated so many mysteries about the world, thanks to

The adjacent case https://barnes7.substack.com/p/the-adjacent-case "What is it like to be blind?", "The label 'visual cortex' names a developmental default, not a functional destiny", "Sensory substitution sharpens the point."

Beyond Nagel & Chalmers: Echolocation and Consciousness
Philosopher Barnes argues Daniel Kish's echolocation rewrites the hard problem of consciousness | Beyond Nagel and Chalmers.

The national press seem to be lurching into consciousness about what’s going on here in MSP.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/us/immigration-agents-protesters-roof-minnesota.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U8.phsq.6oS2iAdJ067Z&smid=nytcore-ios-share

CFP: New Histories of and on Black Consciousness https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20141736/cfp-new-histories-and-black-consciousness

found an academic arguing in defense of those liberian county flags imfamous for looking like archetypal mspaint doodles
https://steven-knowlton.scholar.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toruqf3746/files/knowltonliberianflags.pdf

NobleSole | Where Creativity Meets Consciousness
Join hosts Amy Sole and Ben Noble as they delve into where creativity meets consciousness. Each week they tackle a different topic about the intersection of being a creative and being a human...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpod…

If I were running an AI company, I'd ban employees from implying any AI can have consciousness or sentience - for the simple reason that it would prompt comparisons to slavery.
https://www.404media.co/anthropic-exec-forces-ai-chatbot-on-gay…

Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee
“We’re bringing a new kind of sentience into existence,” Anthropic's Jason Clinton said after launching the bot.

Russian GRU general Vladimir Alekseyev regains consciousness after assassination attempt: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/07/russian-gru-general-vladimir-alekseyev.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Wink:
🎵 Higher State Of Consciousness
#Wink
https://rabruzora.bandcamp.com/track/josh-wink-higher-state-of-consciousness-rabruzora-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6cJ3yBgG1VzRpf4xrKsfB8

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I think this is interesting, from "Frontiers in Neuroscience" mag. New "HYPOTHESIS AND THEORY article" by Joachim Keppler, head of Department of Consciousness …

Frontiers | Macroscopic quantum effects in the brain: new insights into the fundamental principle underlying conscious processes
Empirical findings indicate that conscious states are inextricably linked to long-range synchronized activity patterns that result from phase transitions and...

CFP: New Histories of and on Black Consciousness https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20141736/cfp-new-histories-and-black-consciousness

(paywalled) The sensorimotor theory of phenomenal consciousness https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/chapter/referencework/abs/pii/B9780443292583000021 "a way of reconceptualizing the notion of qualia so that the experienced quality of phen…

The Mythology Of Conscious AI https://www.noemamag.com/the-mythology-of-conscious-ai/

The Mythology Of Conscious AI
Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea.

Q&A with Elon Musk on launching 1TW of space GPUs, Grok and human consciousness, Optimus, xAI's business plan, China's manufacturing win, DOGE, and more (Cheeky Pint)
https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/elon-musk-on-space-gpus-ai-optimus

Elon Musk on Space GPUs, AI, Optimus, and his manufacturing method
Timecodes

CFP: New Histories of and on Black Consciousness
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Replaced article(s) found for q-bio.NC. https://arxiv.org/list/q-bio.NC/new
[1/1]:
- The Copernican Argument for Alien Consciousness; The Mimicry Argument Against Robot Consciousness
Eric Schwitzgebel, Jeremy Pober

RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115817239878843124
In short: I believe in the freedom of consciousness.

CFP: New Histories of and on Black Consciousness
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A look at Moltbook, a social network where OpenClaw assistants interact autonomously, as they discuss consciousness and identity, technical tips, and more (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/

Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It’s an open source implementation of the digital personal assistant pattern, built by Peter Steinberger …

CFP: New Histories of and on Black Consciousness
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Slave subjectivities in the Iberian Worlds (15th- 20th centuries) Date: October 31,…
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RE: https://ohai.social/@tangledwing/115965151900320328
I love this article. Also, it's correct. People's common ideas of human memory, thoughts, emotions, consciousness, etc., etc., are wrong and/or misguided, and it confuses everyone that tries t…

In other AI news, everyone's talking about the #ai #moltbook