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<p>🧵As AI systems grow in sophistication, some people are supposing chatbots are moving toward being conscious entities.</p><p>This is incorrect, but we should be more precise about what consciousness and perception are.</p><p>If we are, we realize that minds do not create experience; experience is what creates minds. <a href="https://plus.flux.community/p/its-like-this-why-your-perception" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="plus.flux.community/p/its-like-this-why-your-perception"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">plus.flux.community/p/its-like</span><span class="invisible">-this-why-your-perception</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/philosophy/" rel="tag">#philosophy</a> <a href="/tags/cognitivescience/" rel="tag">#cognitivescience</a> <a href="/tags/cogsci/" rel="tag">#cogsci</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/chatgpt/" rel="tag">#chatgpt</a></p>

<p>I always gush about <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@ZLabe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ZLabe</span></a></span> and his account, because for one thing it makes the data he works with more accessible (via <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#ActivityPub</a>), but secondly because the <a href="/tags/infographics/" rel="tag">#infographics</a> he stares are very informative - and consistent.</p><p>Are there any other <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a>, <a href="/tags/edutainment/" rel="tag">#edutainment</a> and <a href="/tags/infographic/" rel="tag">#infographic</a> accounts on the <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> that has similar consistent and qualify of posts? Think content that is fairly easily digestible during a scroll.</p><p>We&#x27;re looking for the accounts that <a href="/tags/teachthefediverse/" rel="tag">#TeachTheFediverse</a>.</p>

<p>&quot;Let theory guide your observations [otherwise one] might as well go into a gravel pit and count the pebbles and describe the colours.&quot;</p><p>Darwin, 1903<br>Cited in: Lawrence P., 2016 &quot;Francis Crick: a singular approach to scientific discovery&quot;</p><p><a href="/tags/darwin/" rel="tag">#Darwin</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a></p>

Wild.<br><p>A press release from Aix Marseille University today said that the program is for American scientists who “may feel threatened or hindered in their research,” and is “dedicated to welcoming scientists wishing to pursue their work in an environment conducive to innovation, excellence and academic freedom.”<br><br>In an interview with AFP, University management said that the invitation is in the “DNA of Marseille” values, and that it has previously invited researchers from Ukraine, Yemen, Afghanistan, and Palestine as part of a program that supports researchers and artists forced into exile.<br></p>From: <a href="https://www.404media.co/french-university-to-fund-american-scientists-who-fear-trump-censorship/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.404media.co/french-university-to-fund-american-scientists-who-fear-trump-censorship/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.404media.co/french-univers</span><span class="invisible">ity-to-fund-american-scientists-who-fear-trump-censorship/</span></a><br><br><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/usscience/" rel="tag">#USScience</a> <a href="/tags/censorship/" rel="tag">#censorship</a> <a href="/tags/exile/" rel="tag">#exile</a><br>

<p>Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been transforming a government that long championed vaccines into one that questions their safety.</p><p>This is what could happen over the next 25 years if shots are unavailable even to the people who want them.<br><a href="http://projects.propublica.org/childhood-vaccines-deaths-modeling/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="projects.propublica.org/childhood-vaccines-deaths-modeling/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">projects.propublica.org/childh</span><span class="invisible">ood-vaccines-deaths-modeling/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/rfkjr/" rel="tag">#RFKJr</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/vaccines/" rel="tag">#Vaccines</a> <a href="/tags/data/" rel="tag">#Data</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/research/" rel="tag">#Research</a> <a href="/tags/model/" rel="tag">#Model</a></p>

<p>Forgotten, priceless medieval book found in school library</p><p>The hermit and mystic Richard Rolles was basically a bestselling author in the Middle Ages.</p><p>by Andrew Paul</p><p><a href="https://www.popsci.com/science/medieval-book-found-school-library/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.popsci.com/science/medieval-book-found-school-library/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.popsci.com/science/medieva</span><span class="invisible">l-book-found-school-library/</span></a></p><p>Richard Rolle at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25856" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25856</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/archeology/" rel="tag">#archeology</a></p>

<p>American mathematician and aerospace engineer Mary Jackson died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 2005.</p><p>She worked at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, for most of her career. She started as a computer engineer at the segregated West Area Computing division in 1951. In 1958, after taking engineering classes, she became NASA&#x27;s first black female engineer.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jackson_(engineer)" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jackson_(engineer)"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jac</span><span class="invisible">kson_(engineer)</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/womeninstem/" rel="tag">#womeninStem</a></p>

<p>How Richard Feynman Found the Root of the Challenger Disaster</p><p>The famed physicist’s persistence led him to uncover shocking failures</p><p>By Molly Glick</p><p><a href="https://nautil.us/how-richard-feynman-found-the-root-of-the-challenger-disaster-1264270/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="nautil.us/how-richard-feynman-found-the-root-of-the-challenger-disaster-1264270/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nautil.us/how-richard-feynman-</span><span class="invisible">found-the-root-of-the-challenger-disaster-1264270/</span></a></p><p>Spacecraft at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=spacecraft" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=spacecraft"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=spacecraft</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a></p>

<p>🏛️🧬 Researchers found that the Durotriges tribe of ancient <a href="/tags/dorset/" rel="tag">#Dorset</a> practiced a social system called matrilocality.</p><p>Their analysis of 50 ancient genomes shows that women stayed within their home communities while men moved to join their wives&#x27; families. The discovery supports historical accounts of powerful British queens and implies that land and status were inherited through maternal lines.</p><p>👉 <a href="https://www.historyhit.com/were-iron-age-women-the-true-rulers-of-britain/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.historyhit.com/were-iron-age-women-the-true-rulers-of-britain/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.historyhit.com/were-iron-a</span><span class="invisible">ge-women-the-true-rulers-of-britain/</span></a> </p><p>💁🏻‍♀️✨ BBC Knowledge Explainer: DNA <a href="https://seethis.tv/post/bbc-knowledge-explainer-dna" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="seethis.tv/post/bbc-knowledge-explainer-dna"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">seethis.tv/post/bbc-knowledge-</span><span class="invisible">explainer-dna</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/archaeology/" rel="tag">#archaeology</a> <a href="/tags/genetics/" rel="tag">#genetics</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/ironage/" rel="tag">#ironage</a> <a href="/tags/britain/" rel="tag">#britain</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#education</a> <a href="/tags/dna/" rel="tag">#dna</a> <a href="/tags/research/" rel="tag">#research</a> <a href="/tags/sociology/" rel="tag">#sociology</a></p>

<p>I&#x27;m back online, and the very first thing I did was upload what I was working on, y&#x27;all the coloring book/web zine about carnivorous plants is now LIVE. Please read about my passion and why I&#x27;m bursting with joy.</p><p><a href="https://tippitiwichet.wordpress.com/bog-monsters-how-carnivorous-plants-do-the-things-they-do/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="tippitiwichet.wordpress.com/bog-monsters-how-carnivorous-plants-do-the-things-they-do/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tippitiwichet.wordpress.com/bo</span><span class="invisible">g-monsters-how-carnivorous-plants-do-the-things-they-do/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/gardening/" rel="tag">#gardening</a> <a href="/tags/humanmadeart/" rel="tag">#humanMadeArt</a> <a href="/tags/coloring/" rel="tag">#coloring</a> <a href="/tags/carnivorousplants/" rel="tag">#carnivorousPlants</a> <a href="/tags/venusflytrap/" rel="tag">#VenusFlytrap</a> <a href="/tags/wetlands/" rel="tag">#wetlands</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/botany/" rel="tag">#botany</a> <a href="/tags/ecology/" rel="tag">#ecology</a> <a href="/tags/zine/" rel="tag">#zine</a></p>

<p>More Peanuts, Fewer Peanut Allergies | Encyclopaedia Britannica</p><p>Research shows that early introduction to allergens, like peanuts, may help reduce allergies.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KLmr4MdE3K4" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/shorts/KLmr4MdE3K4"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/shorts/KLmr4Md</span><span class="invisible">E3K4</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/food/" rel="tag">#food</a></p>

<p>How Hans Bethe Stumbled Upon Perfect Quantum Theories</p><p>Quantum calculations amount to sophisticated estimates. But in 1931, Hans Bethe intuited precisely how a chain of particles would behave — an insight that had far-reaching consequences.</p><p>By Matt von Rippel</p><p><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-hans-bethe-stumbled-upon-perfect-quantum-theories-20250212/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.quantamagazine.org/how-hans-bethe-stumbled-upon-perfect-quantum-theories-20250212/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.quantamagazine.org/how-han</span><span class="invisible">s-bethe-stumbled-upon-perfect-quantum-theories-20250212/</span></a></p><p>More information about Hans Bethe:<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Bethe" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Bethe"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Bet</span><span class="invisible">he</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/physics/" rel="tag">#physics</a> <a href="/tags/quantummechanics/" rel="tag">#quantummechanics</a></p>

<p>I loved working on this article:</p><p>The technology in your cell phone has a hidden connection to the stars. Modern computer chips are made using ultraviolet light from vaporized balls of tin--and those balls closely mirror the physics of supernova explosions! </p><p><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/euv-light-source" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="spectrum.ieee.org/euv-light-source"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">spectrum.ieee.org/euv-light-so</span><span class="invisible">urce</span></a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/space/" rel="tag">#space</a></p>

<p>Here it is: The first clear image of an eclipse of the Sun by the Earth, taken from the surface of the Moon.</p><p>This is what last night&#x27;s lunar eclipse looked like from the Blue Ghost lander&#x27;s perspective on the Moon. Amazing!</p><p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/fireflyspace/54386246629/in/dateposted/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.flickr.com/photos/fireflyspace/54386246629/in/dateposted/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.flickr.com/photos/fireflys</span><span class="invisible">pace/54386246629/in/dateposted/</span></a> <a href="/tags/space/" rel="tag">#space</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/cancer/" rel="tag">#Cancer</a>, <a href="/tags/covid/" rel="tag">#Covid</a>, &amp; <a href="/tags/alzheimers/" rel="tag">#Alzheimers</a> <a href="/tags/research/" rel="tag">#Research</a> Could Be Lost Forever</p><p>Days before <a href="/tags/rfkjr/" rel="tag">#RFKJr</a> announced that 10,000 <a href="/tags/hhs/" rel="tag">#HHS</a> staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on <a href="/tags/nih/" rel="tag">#NIH</a> research repository sites saying they were &quot;under review.&quot;</p><p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#health</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#medicine</a> <a href="/tags/antiintellectualism/" rel="tag">#AntiIntellectualism</a> <a href="/tags/idiocracy/" rel="tag">#idiocracy</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <br><a href="https://www.404media.co/nih-archives-repositories-marked-for-review-for-potential-modification/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.404media.co/nih-archives-repositories-marked-for-review-for-potential-modification/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.404media.co/nih-archives-r</span><span class="invisible">epositories-marked-for-review-for-potential-modification/</span></a></p>

<p>What Counts as a Planet?</p><p>by Patricia Fara </p><p>The scientific disagreement about whether Pluto is a planet is just the latest war in the classifications of planets.</p><p><a href="https://www.historytoday.com/archive/great-debates/what-counts-planet" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.historytoday.com/archive/great-debates/what-counts-planet"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.historytoday.com/archive/g</span><span class="invisible">reat-debates/what-counts-planet</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#astronomy</a></p>

<p>Long shot, but hopefully I get results. In the early 2000s, I read a Ugandan newspaper article about two Indian scientists trying to genetically engineer the anopheles mosquito. That set off alarm bells so I wrote a short story, which some universities in UK and Kenya teach in a course Applied African Science Fiction. I&#x27;ve looked for that article but can&#x27;t find it. I guess it must have been via Reuters or AP or such a newswire. <br>Anyone think they can dig it up?</p><p> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/scientist/" rel="tag">#scientist</a></p>

<p>Unearthed notebooks shed light on Victorian genius who inspired Einstein</p><p>Michael Faraday’s illustrated notes that show how radical scientist began his theories at London’s Royal Institution to go online</p><p>by Donna Ferguson</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/15/notebooks-michael-faraday-victorian-scientist-einstein" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/15/notebooks-michael-faraday-victorian-scientist-einstein"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/science/20</span><span class="invisible">25/mar/15/notebooks-michael-faraday-victorian-scientist-einstein</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a></p>

Scientists unlock a massive new ‘color palette’ for biomedical research by synthesizing non-natural amino acids <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://sh.itjust.works/post/56466764">See Original Page</a> </small>

<p>How W.E.B. DuBois and James McCune Smith Helped Combat Medical Racism in America</p><p>Michelle A. Williams on Black Contributions to American<br>Public Health and Sociology</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/how-w-e-b-dubois-and-james-mccune-smith-helped-combat-medical-racism-in-america/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/how-w-e-b-dubois-and-james-mccune-smith-helped-combat-medical-racism-in-america/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/how-w-e-b-dubois-an</span><span class="invisible">d-james-mccune-smith-helped-combat-medical-racism-in-america/</span></a></p><p>Books by DuBois at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/226" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/226"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/226</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/blackhistorymonth/" rel="tag">#blackhistorymonth</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#medicine</a> <a href="/tags/sociology/" rel="tag">#sociology</a></p>

Scientists Have Just Successfully Grown Chickpeas In Simulated Moon Dirt For The First Time Using Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi To Absorb Nutrients And Water. <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.world/post/43969322">See Original Page</a> </small>

<p>It&#x27;s strange and frustrating that most AI researchers don&#x27;t seem interested in natural intelligence.</p><p>In the early days, when &quot;neural networks&quot; were seen as models of brains, many people seemed at least superficially interested in neuroscience. It&#x27;s not like that now. I&#x27;m sure some folks would say &quot;yeah, and aerospace engineers don&#x27;t worry about bird flight, either!&quot; but that feels wrong to me.</p><p>If all you care about is moving cargo, then sure, flight is solved, and who cares if our designs are &quot;biologically realistic&quot;. Similarly, if all you care about is recognizing images, playing video games, and generating slop, then AI is solved. We&#x27;ll just make the current solutions better.</p><p>But I think we&#x27;ve barely scratched the surface of what intelligence actually is! Current AI is so narrow and so shallow by comparison, yet I think people don&#x27;t even notice that because they haven&#x27;t actually thought about how intelligent living things are, and in how many different ways!</p><p><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/intelligence/" rel="tag">#intelligence</a></p>

I wonder whether the digital age has led to a decline in the use of atlases, which in turn might be expected to imbue a false sense of increasing objectivity as scientific practitioners of become less acquainted with analog methods.<br><br><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/philosophyofscience/" rel="tag">#PhilosophyOfScience</a> <a href="/tags/objectivity/" rel="tag">#objectivity</a> <a href="/tags/digital/" rel="tag">#digital</a><br>