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Consciousness and life

Consciousness Pre-Dates Life Itself

Ode to outsiders

Ode to Outsiders
The impulse for evil

The Impulse for Evil
13 The Laws of Physics are not fixed HowTheLightGetsIn Hay 2024

The Laws of Physics are not fixed

João Magueijo
18 The Promise and Peril of AI HowTheLightGetsIn Hay 2024

the Promise and Peril of AI

John Lennox
47 The Dark Energy Delusion HowTheLightGetsIn Hay 2024 min

The Dark Energy Delusion

Claudia de Rham
52 The Theory of quantum politics HowTheLightGetsIN Hay 2024

The theory of Quantum Politics

Armen Sarkissian
59 Stocism Reimagined HowTheLightGetsIn Hay 2024

Stoicism Reimagined
63 The Politics of Time HowTheLightGetsIn Hay 2024

The Politics of Time
72 Price of Life HowTheLightGetsIn Hay 2024

The Price of Life
80 Telling the story of war

Telling the Story of War

88 The Tech Crisis HowheLightGetsIn Hay 2024

The Tech Crisis
102 Politics Culture and The Good Life

Politics, Culture and The Good Life

109 The Ugly Truth Behind Beauty HowTheLightGetsIn Festival Hay

The Ugly Truth Behind Beauty
139 The Myth of Universal Values HowTheLightGetsIn Hay 2024

The Myth of Universal Values
151 The New Surveillance Culture HowTheLightGetsIn Festival Hay 2024

The New Surveillance Culture
164 Genes Are Not the Blueprint for Life HowTheLightGetsIn Hay 2024

Genes Are Not the Blueprint for Life

172 The Quantum Computing Hoax HowTheLightGetsIn Hay 2024

The Truth About Quantum Computing
180 The Hidden Codes of Everyday Life

The Case for Conscious AI
186 Mental Health is not a Medical Condition HowTheLightGetsIn Hay 2024

Mental Health Is Not a Medical Condition
194 Beyond The Reality Illusion HowTheLightGetsIn 2024

Beyond the Reality Illusion
201 Capitalism and the end of innovation HowTheLightGetsIn Hay 2024

Capitalism and the End of Innovation
247 Consciousness Gives Rise To Spacetime HowTheLightGetsIn Hay 2024

AI, God and, the Quest for a New Humanism

Kenneth Cukier
CroppedImage200132 239 AI is a Mirror on HUmanity HowTheLightGetsIn Hay 2024

AI is a Mirror on Humanity

Shannon Vallor
The lasting legacy of stolen land

The Lasting Legacy of Stolen Land