56+ min ago   (28+ words) Why Haven’t We Found Anyone Living on Them? — WhatIfScience With every Earth-like planet discovered, the odds of life elsewhere seem to …...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (585+ words) Has your account of consciousness—how it arises and what it is—changed since 2022, when we last spoke? This was right after you published your previous book Feeling and Knowing: Making Minds Conscious. What gives you more confidence in your…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (56+ words) Honestly, this is a pretty good example of one fairly simple way that facts can change. That Pluto was a planet was a fact until we decided / learned / discovered that there were too many similar bodies in the solar system…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (556+ words) Panpsychism has often appeared to be a strategy for rescuing materialism: We have minds, but so what? So do electrons! What about it? While Calvo now runs the Minimal Intelligence Lab at the University of Murcia in Spain, he started…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (137+ words) The ALMA radio telescope in Chile has measured an unusually high methanol content in the coma of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, among the highest ever recorded in any comet. The ratio of methanol to hydrogen cyanide came out at roughly 70 on…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (541+ words) The idea begins with a simple premise about civilisation itself. Computers have become steadily more powerful and central to human life, and the paper asks whether advanced extraterrestrial societies might also push computation towards its most efficient possible form, making…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (341+ words) srpske.rs Researchers at the University of Durham surveyed hundreds of astrobiologists around the world and put a single question to them: do they think extraterrestrial life has likely been found The survey was carried out within days of two…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (345+ words) NASA knew that the paths the Voyager twins were on would take them out of the solar system, and they thought it would be unwise not to put evidence of our existence out there. Thus came the idea of the…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (764+ words) Consider self-assembly, a common phenomenon within both the physical and biological worlds. Physical stuff routinely assembles into lifeless forms, such as crystals or amorphous rocks. But in unique circumstances, it can also self-assemble into living forms, such as bacteria, birds,…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (10+ words) Consciousness must exist in the Universe on different "platforms" open.kg...