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The hypothesis that music is caused by a "glial illusion". That is, glial cells observe the activity of neural activity responding to music, and glial cells falsely perceive certai…

The results of these experiments indirectly tell us something about our chances of ever meeting aliens: * No physical collapse => Everett interpretation AKA "many worlds" * Many wo…

Link to something I wrote once, which includes a discussion about absolute vs relative morality: http://thinkinghard.com/blog/BiologyOfMorality.html . (It would appear that "moral …

We could ask the opposite question: Some forms of entertainment are usually only entertaining the first time. Like jokes. Or movies. Music seems to be a form of entertainment. But …

If your theorem provers never prove a contradiction, they are all too weak.

For example, in New Zealand: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/110009318/a-honeypot-for-fraudsters-or-a-simple-way-to-pay-online That's 3 years ago, and nothing has changed. As far …

The author says: >"The status quo provides marginal individual benefit to the person making the decision while also causing marginal harm to society as a whole. Doing the right thi…

In the bacterial example, each individual tumble chooses a new direction at random, and the effectiveness of the algorithm depends on the smoothness of the chemical density functio…

CO2, or CO₂ ?

I have been learning new things since I started _making_ videos on TikTok. Ironically, making highly digestible content for social media is something that requires a certain amount…

All we have so far is this press release: https://www.med.hku.hk/en/news/press/20211215-omicron-sars-cov-2-infection If the numbers in the graph are total growth in 24 hours, then …

All definitions of the word "music" that anyone has ever come up with are wrong. We only know what the word "music" means from our own subjective experience of listening to specifi…

In the Speech-to-Song illusion, recorded speech is altered so that there are one or more exact repetitions. These exact repetitions are something that never occur in spontaneous co…

Last time I tried it you couldn't update titles. Which is very limiting. Some web pages have great titles and other web pages don't.