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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

And he's not the only one.
Texas A&M banned this philosophy professor from teaching Plato. So he's leaving. - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/04/texas-am-banned-this-philosophy-professor-from-teaching-plato-so-hes-leaving/

What are #exoplanets and how do researchers find them? Learn more in our kids’ lecture on Astronomy Day, March 28th, at 3 PM. Including hands-on fun! In German.
More info here: https://www.mps.mpg.de/astronomietag2026

André Charton and Valeriia Platonova are at #bbuzz26 to share how they introduced Vespa into Germany's largest classifieds website, what worked, what failed, and what only a real PoC can teach you.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/from-legacy-search-to-vespa-what-a-real-poc-taught-us/

Lawyer: Do you have an understanding as you sit here today of what Plato’s Cave means?
Me (a genius, actually): Yeah.
Lawyer: So what's your understanding of what it means?
M(AGA): It is exactly what was written in “Plato’s Cave”
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We talk endlessly about what AI can and cannot do. We talk very little about the assumptions built into the question itself. This dialogue follows a philosopher and an AI practitioner.
https://ocrampal.com/from-plato-to-gradient-descent-the-frame-we-forgot-w…

From Plato to Gradient Descent: The Frame We Forgot We Chose
Practitioner: I’ll be honest—I find the "philosophy of AI" a bit indulgent. We aren’t guessing anymore. We’re building systems that work. GPT, AlphaFold, Sora... these aren't accidents. We’ve clearly cracked the code on how intelligence functions. Philosopher: I don’t doubt the results. But results

Another banger by J. B. Crawford in his "Computers Are Bad" series, this time going through computer history from PLATO to Lotus Notes. PLATO is probably the most influential computer system almost nobody knows about (unlike, say, Mother of All Demos).
https://computer.rip/2026-03-14-lotusn

LotusNotes

millennial: iykyk
plato: NOT SO FAST
#philosophy #joke

Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty/academic-freedom/2026/04/20/faculty-defect-texas-publics-citing-censorship

Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship
Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

millennial: iykyk
plato: NOT SO FAST