AI's take on idealism medium.com/@jnode/metaphy…

Some food for thought (about the nature of consciousness and reality). medium.com/@jnode/chartin…

#theSapientCosmos jth.ch/tsc

Coming soon

In a month's time, my third book will be published, marking a journey spanning over 10 years. "The Sapient Cosmos" explores the nature of consciousness and reality. Check out this short blog post introducing you to my latest metaphysical iteration: medium.com/@jnode/the-sap…

Pseudo-panspermia, next to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, is pointing to extraterrestrial biochemistry. youtube.com/watch?v=nKb4zc…

This essay for the Essentia Foundation explores an optimistic path to a future that diverges from the dystopian vision we seem to be collectively constructing. essentiafoundation.org/re-enchanting-…

Had a really great time discussing existential stuff with Hans Busstra from Essentia Foundation youtube.com/watch?v=RgpABH…

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"In this conversation, we cover everything from Chalmers' "Hard Problem of Consciousness", the emergence of complex structures and life, the informational basis of reality, to the latest advancements in quantum physics and the Philosophy of Psychedelics." youtube.com/watch?v=slCtzk…

New book chapter out: link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

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"Trees anticipated the eclipse, synchronizing their bioelectrical behaviour hours in advance. Older trees displayed greater anticipatory behaviour with early time-asymmetry and entropy increases." #plantCognition royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

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Currently, LLMs are weird: From the spiritual bliss attractor to emergent misalignment. Sources: -System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4 -Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs

More empirical metaphysics.

"Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other. We have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like." -Bertrand Russell youtube.com/watch?v=WIoAwx…