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How a trippy 1980s video effect might help to explain consciousness
How a trippy 1980s video effect might help to explain consciousness wildcat2030: Explaining consciousness is one of the hardest problems in science and philosophy. Recent neuroscientific discoveries suggest that a solution could be within reach – but grasping it will mean rethinking some familiar ideas. Consciousness, I argue in a new paper, may be caused…
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Better Living Through Non-Zero Sum Games
jkottke: One of the very few books I think about all the time is Robert Wright’s Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny. Paras Chopra tweeted out a good summary of the book a couple of weeks ago. The basic premise of the book is that history has a direction which favors co-operation and non-zero sum…
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quipu
protoslacker: “In a century of study, no one has managed to make these knots talk. But recent breakthroughs have begun to unpick this tangled mystery of the Andes, revealing the first signs of phonetic symbolism within the strands. Now two anthropologists are closing in on the Inca equivalent of the Rosetta stone. That could finally…
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for children all screens are touch screens
for children all screens are touchscreens https://www.instagram.com/p/BqFx_rBl9Ov/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1r18v2towqmbc
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materializing Helvetica
materializing helvetica https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp-nV0ClxDN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=g25gq8jcmjbg
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Karin has an instagram
karin has an Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp8PwSilgwc/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1vmwwei2xadi
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accessioning into DU Special Collections
Accessioning into @duspecialcollections for display #vote cc: @matterdesign @kcrowe1981 (at University of Denver) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp2VIPllcv6/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7advyej35ck0
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a rare and beautiful jellyfish
a rare and beautiful jellyfish https://www.instagram.com/p/BpvmUJrF_0l/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=s2x4geonsrrg
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materializing at University of Denver
materializing (at University of Denver) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpuolyqFwGr/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1kianjnjwbsch
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done
done https://www.instagram.com/p/BpkpG4RHGwm/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=r5eq6na532nj