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Project Gutenberg 7h ago

How the light gets out

Consciousness is the ‘hard problem’, the one that confounds science and philosophy. Has a new theory cracked it?

By Michael Graziano

https://aeon.co/essays/how-consciousness-works-and-why-we-believe-in-ghosts?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=c086489fa7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_06_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972

#Neuroscience #Philosophy_mind

How consciousness works. And why we believe in ghosts | Aeon Essays

Consciousness is the ‘hard problem’, the one that confounds science and philosophy. Has a new theory cracked it?

Aeon

I Hope This Email Finds You 7h ago

I hope this email finds you guilty as charged of the offense of possession of marijuana in a usable quantity of more than 50 pounds and less than 200 pounds which, of course, is a felony.

Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him)10h ago

I don't think I can adjust to this new world where sensible & science-based people-who-read have largely vacated the social fields, leaving mainly knee-jerk reacting, hyper-negative criticisers.
So I'll just keep being me until normalcy returns or my turn on the wheel ends.😀😋

tiddy roosevelt 12h ago

Chatting to someone who seems to be obsessed with 'boosting' their immune system.
"You can make your immune system work harder by doing this and getting it to 110%"

Sir, if my immune system is working 110% that is called an autoimmune disease

Plazi Species 8h ago

#NewSpecies
New brittle star from #taiwan just surfaced:

Breviturma securis

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0385423B-9820-FFCD-FDF8-7514FC8FFDA5
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.997.2919
#ejtaxonomy #BreviturmaSecuris

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #echinodermata #asterozoa #seastar #brittlestar

Girl on the Net 10h ago

Do I want disabled people to receive material support to help them work?

No. I want disabled people to receive material support to help them *live*. That is what I want for all of us.

For our society (which has so much - SO MUCH!) to use that abundance to materially improve our days. Not just patch up the parts of us that are broken then feed us back into the 'eternal growth' machine, but help us experience and enjoy life, build community, family, joy.

BE HUMAN.

Pendas sekali

Brunch at https://kelabalami.weebly.com/pasar-pl--warung--mykp-pl.html, Kampung Pendas

#Malaysia #Johor #MakanApaToday

Michael Whelan 8h ago

THE GUNSLINGER FOLLOWED (2005)
Oil on Canvas - 25" x 40"

The second painting based on the famous opening line of The Dark Tower books by Stephen King: "The Man in Black fled across the desert and the Gunslinger followed." 1/3

#fantasy #fantasyart #sff #illustration #stephenking #darktower #gunslinger

Swiss Army Nerd 7h ago

I almost missed this #backyardnature find today, because it was mixed in with a number of similarly colored June beetles. It's an earth-boring scarab beetle (genus Bolbocerosoma); while a few Bolbocerosoma species are known to exist in Asia, most are found in the eastern USA. #entomology

Stephen Heard 7h ago

Great piece of fountain art in Stockholm, Sweden. I presume that's Saint George slaying the dragon; but I love that he is apparently supervised by a plesiosaur!

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Dan Ports 18h ago

One of my favorite things about Sichuan food is that this (delicious!) dish goes by the innocuous name of "water-boiled fish".

(my homemade version!)

Dan Ports 18h ago

(Yes, I cook the spicy Chinese foods in this household because @irene's family does not eat them. They are from the Midwest of China.)

Adrianna Tan 18h ago

@dan @irene ‘saliva chicken’

Dan Ports 18h ago

@skinnylatte @irene oh! I have a whole theory about abstraction levels in Chinese food names! Let me see if I can remember it...

Level 0: the name of the dish describes how to prepare it (e.g., 回鍋肉, twice cooked pork; 樟茶鸭, camphor-smoked duck)

Level 1: the name of the dish specifies the flavors but leaves the exact implementation unspecified (e.g., 孜然羊肉, cumin lamb)

Level 2: the name of the dish specifies an abstract notion of the flavor only (e.g., 怪味鸡, strange-flavor chicken)

Level 3: the name of the dish conveys only a shared understanding of the subjective experience of eating the dish (e.g., 口水鸡, mouth-watering chicken)

Level n: the name of the dish describes something that could possibly be considered food but, thankfully, is unrelated to the one actually served (e.g., 夫妻肺片, husband and wife's lung slices)

Level ∞: the name of the dish is fully abstract and bears no relation to the dish or any other food (e.g., 佛跳墙, Buddha jumping over the wall; 蚂蚁上树, ants climbing a tree)

Adrianna Tan 18h ago

@dan @irene ‘inspired by 80s / 90s movies’ (‘sorrowful rice’) and ‘inspired by boobs’ (‘Amy Yip XXXXL baos’)

Adrianna Tan 17h ago

@dan @irene sorrowful rice in particular is legendary (very loud Cantonese video from movie)

https://youtu.be/n9JqT-O5eqY

Sorrowful Rice 黯然銷魂飯

YouTube

ieee 754 carrot facts 17h ago

@skinnylatte @dan @irene omg god of cookery so good

ieee 754 carrot facts 17h ago

@skinnylatte @dan @irene also, stereotypically, this is just normal volume cantonese

The part where the judge rolls around on top of the char siu. That's me. That's what I want

ieee 754 carrot facts 17h ago

@skinnylatte @dan @irene I gave the English eulogy at my goong goong's funeral and had to tell everyone to shut up because it was so loud in there

ieee 754 carrot facts 17h ago

@skinnylatte @dan @irene I wasn't even angry it was just the way it is

Adrianna Tan 17h ago

@secretasianman @dan @irene most times my convos with @sabcatsilver are like, ‘are those neighbors ok? Why are they fighting?’ And I’m like ‘they’re talking about what to have for lunch’

atsuzaki 17h ago

@secretasianman @skinnylatte @dan @irene its always fascinating watching fam that would switch from mandarin to hokkien bc it's a rapid flipflop between "distinguished gentlemen in an intellectual conversation" to "there's a bar fight going on in here"

Irene Zhang 17h ago

@secretasianman @skinnylatte @dan omg, I also call my maternal grandfather gong gong but apparently in the north it means father in law and this led many people to be confused about @dan’s heritage

Irene Zhang 17h ago

@secretasianman @skinnylatte @dan (because my moms side of the family is from southern China)

ieee 754 carrot facts 17h ago

@irene @skinnylatte @dan LMAO

NilaJones 17h ago

@dan @skinnylatte @irene

I am thinking now about level infinity in other languages!

Imam Bayildi, spotted dick...

And level n in English: toad in the hole

NilaJones 17h ago

@dan @skinnylatte @irene

Level n-1, The name of the dish describe something tangentially related to the ingredients:

Pigs in a blanket

@NilaJones @dan @skinnylatte @irene Level 3 in Spanish: "Atascaburras" ("Female donkey clogger").

Ben Toh 16h ago

@dan For marketing purpose because the original name would have sounded too unpleasant, e.g., chicken feet vs 鳳爪 (phoenix claw), or pork knuckle vs 元蹄 (cantonese, ???), or roasted chicken butt vs 七里香 (taiwan, fragrant for 7 miles???)

Kathmandu 16h ago

@dan @skinnylatte @irene

So would drunkard's chicken be level 3?

ShawnT 🐀16h ago

@dan @skinnylatte @irene No lie, a place here in AustinTX called Thai Kitchen has a dish call "Waterfall". It's their spiciest dish. Clearly Level 3. Level ∞ is their dish "Tiger Cry". What does Tiger Cry mean? Nobody knows.

Matthew Vernon 14h ago

@dan @skinnylatte @irene I heard it said that 蚂蚁上树 is so named because the mince clinging to the noodles is somewhat like ants climbing a tree...

modulux 13h ago

@dan @skinnylatte @irene There was a fun little Sixht Tone article on how to translate chinese dish names: https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1017243

What’s the Right Way to Translate Chinese Dish Names?

Finding the right way to render a dish like “husband and wife slices” into English isn’t easy.

#SixthTone

@dan @skinnylatte @irene
Chinese: ants on a tree
English: ants on a log

Prabhakar Ragde 12h ago

@dan @skinnylatte @irene Nice taxonomy! Though ma yi shang shu can resemble ants climbing a tree, once you lift some noodles to your mouth.

Barbara Tropp had an interesting theory about yu xiang, typically translated as "fish fragrant". She thought they were references to the great rivers of Sichuan and Hunan, but the characters (not sounds) got changed. Sounds plausible to me.

Andomonir 🎲9h ago

@dan @skinnylatte @irene I had husband in Shanghai. Very nice.

I guess that statement could be misconstrued

/dev/urandom 3h ago

@dan @skinnylatte @irene i like that the chinese word for "mouth-watering" also seems to use the characters for mouth and water

ieee 754 carrot facts 18h ago

@dan @irene hey my people get scoffed at for having "boring" food

crzwdjk ✅ 17h ago

@dan @irene Dare I ask, where is the Midwest of China?

kwayk42 18h ago

@dan just looking at this makes my mouth burn

@dan omfg

atsuzaki 18h ago

@dan my brother is currently obsessed with this genre of sichuan fish soup. his favorite is suan cai yu, which is more or less this plus pickled mustard greens

ieee 754 carrot facts 18h ago

@atsuzaki @dan there's a place just off campus that serves up spicy fish hot pot which is responsible for most of my blood triglycerides

Irene Zhang 18h ago

@atsuzaki @dan yes I find it so interesting that there are restaurants that only serve suan cai yu but not the other kinds.

atsuzaki 18h ago

@irene @dan its good but i honestly dont get the hype

Irene Zhang 18h ago

@atsuzaki @dan the one that I liked had this hot chili garlic oil poured on at the last minute that was 😘

Dan Ports 17h ago

@atsuzaki @irene our... {friend; former student; current co-worker; neighbor} Adriana is from Romania, and has absolutely no tolerance for spice or other flavor (when the Chinese restaurant asked for a 1-5 spice level, she said 0, and it was too spicy), but she absolutely loves suan cai yu for the sauerkraut

atsuzaki 17h ago

@dan @irene i remember one of the first meals-with-the-gang i've had here, we were at a chinese restaurant and me and my friend who's an indian were discussing about how nothing is spicy, not even when you eat the (dried) peppers straight. our other friend, who's white, was like how are you even eating that????

Dan Ports 17h ago

@atsuzaki @irene this is me, and Irene's family, except the other way around

Karl Statz 18h ago

@dan two bites of that and I could shit through a screened door. That is just a menacing amount of red chilis

soweli Asalin 18h ago

@dan oh hell yeah glistening chili peppers

Chris Kolbu 18h ago

@dan one of my all-time favourite dishes.

@dan dare I ask for wine paring?

Irene Zhang 17h ago

@rksio @dan we had champagne! Because the champagne glasses that I ordered for @dan’s birthday arrived

@irene @dan ya, have to test out new glasses , make sure they work! 🥂

🌱@ambiguous_yelp:ahimsa.chat 17h ago

@dan Please don't hurt fish all essential nutrients can be found in plants there is no need to hurt innocent creatures #vegan https://nationearth.com

nationearth.com

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AI6YR Ben 16h ago

@dan 🔥 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Marcos Dione 13h ago

@dan It's 10Am and now I'm huuuuungry. Well done ;)