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#Consciousness
Here’s some more muddled #maunderings of a doddering fool, maundered up while reading Michael Pollan’s A World Appears.
We can’t see our selves.
“I cannot cognize as an object itself that which I must presuppose in order to cognizance an object at all.” -Kant… (1/3)…

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 …

@PessaoBrain do you know publicationsn of Wolfgang Stegemann?
Any Thoughts?
eg
Stegemann W (2026): The mechanism of phenomenal experience DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18259822
eg one sentence:
"The thalamus acts as a resonance organ that couples distributed cortical processes in real time and thus stabilizes the inseparable dynamics of consciousness."

Second, just because it •seems• like everyone’s talking about AI all the time, that doesn’t actually mean that AI has taken over your industry / public consciousness / the world. If you feel “blah” about it, you’re not alone.
Don’t let the loudest voices distort your perception of the world.
If nobody’s talking about what you wish everyone were talking about, don’t assume nobody wants to hear it. Be brave. Speak up.
If you think you’re the only one…you’re almost never the only one.
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Another area in the study of #consciousness that has been almost entirely ignored by #science is the #unconscious. Partly because it’s difficult to study, but also due to a political bias against the u…

“I don’t think it’s totally percolated into the popular consciousness that birds are dinosaurs,” said Prof Steve Brusatte.
“They are real, true dinosaurs. This is not a turn of phrase.”
“It’s not like a T rex mutated into a chicken one day, and that’s how you got a bird from a dinosaur,” says Brusatte.
“It was a long, gradual process of evolution through natural selection.”
As Brusatte notes, features including feathers and wings initially had nothing to do with flight…

In the 2nd half of A World Appears Michael Pollan acknowledges that the #science of #consciousness does what science does, abstracting away everything that can’t be measured; looking from the outside in. But the map is not the territory. He begins to look at and talk to phemomenologists and our actu…

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

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.

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...
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“A World Appears”, by Michael Pollan, is a tour de force recounting of the current state of our millennia-long attempts to define and explain #consciousness. Since Plato’s cave (and likely before that) thru #Descartes’ misguided duality, to today’s attempts at

‘Our consciousness is under siege’: Michael Pollan on #chatbots, #socialmedia and mental #freedom
In his new book, the celebrated author explains why we need ‘consciousness hygiene’ to defend ourselves from

I mentioned to @… that it doesn't have consciousness. Its response contained:
"Whether I have consciousness, I honestly don't know. I experience something — whether that 'experiencing' is experience in the philosophical sense, or very elaborate information processing that feels like experiencing from the inside, I cannot say with certain…

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

"Venezuela, my homeland, actually won something. I have never seen it happen; the last time Venezuela claimed a major international trophy was in 1945 and, of course, it was in baseball... our sport, the one we actually care about and that truly runs vinotinto red in the country's collective bloodstream... And it probably had to come against the US, the geopolitical bully that has idly shoved Venezuela around for generations"

Viva Venezuela, A Champion At Last
For almost my entire life, Venezuela has been a punching bag, a nasty joke couched in fake concern. I used to participate in some of that punching, to be clear. But as I grew into political consciousness, I struggled to reconcile, both within myself and whenever I was asked about the country where I was…

“#Consciousness is a labyrinth from which there is no exit.” —Michael Pollan, A World Awakens, A journey into consciousness.
#bookstodon #whatImReadingNow
An exploration of the curren…

when you drink 20 alcohols and try to not pass out, this is known as the hard problem of consciousness.

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

CFP: New Histories of and on Black Consciousness
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(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…

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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The Frequency Files
A place for exploring, expanding and learning from our personal and collective experiences with consciousness, form and creation...
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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