(Zeteo) How many Israeli Jews did Zionist Israel PURPOSELY kill (citing its Hannibal Doctrine as justification for its democidal slaughter) on Oct. 7th, 2023?
(NeuralHegemony) Edward Snowden tries to WARN us: Artificial intelligence (when it reaches "superintelligence") will enslave us. Snowden provides shocking revelations of how long they have been spying, recording, amassing, compiling, and invading and now erasing the concept of personal "privacy" for citizens through mass surveillance and on-the-fly computer processing.
*Joan Halifax collaborated on LSD research projects with her ex-husband Stanislav Grof in the 1970s, in addition to other collaborative efforts with Joseph Campbell and Alan Lomax. She is founder of the Ojai Foundation in California, which she led from 1979 to 1989. As a socially engaged Buddhist, Halifax has done extensive work (palliative care) with the dying through her Project on Being with Dying, which she founded. She is on the board of directors of the Mind and Life Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to exploring the relationship of science and Buddhism.
“Consciousness has kind of become the secular substitute for the soul [Ancient Greek psyche as in psychology and psyche-delic],” Pollan tells interviewer Terry Gross.
Pollan also talks about current studies on consciousness and whether other animals, plants, bacteria, algae, and programmed hardware/software combinations known as "artificial intelligence" have or can eventually have consciousness. More + AUDIO
Buddhist author Michael Pollan has a Number 1 best seller
in Consciousness & Thought Philosophy. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, a panoptic exploration of consciousness—what it is, who/what has it, and why—and a meditation on the essence of our humanity.
When it comes to the phenomenon that is consciousness, there is one point on which scientists, philosophers, and artists all agree: It feels [not thinks] like something to be us. Yet the fact that we have subjective experience (sentience) of the world remains one of nature’s greatest mysteries.
What would a scientific investigation of our inner life look like, when we have as little distance and perspective on it as fish do of water in the sea?
In A World Appears, Michael Pollan traces the unmapped continent that is consciousness, bringing radically different perspectives—scientific, philosophical, literary, spiritual and psychedelic—to see what each can teach us about this central fact of life.
When neuroscientists began studying consciousness in the early 1990s, they sought to explain how and why three pounds of spongy [tofu like] gray matter could generate a subjective point of view—assuming that the brain is the source of our perceived reality.
Pollan takes readers to the cutting edge of the field, where neuroscientists are entertaining more radical (and less materialist) theories of consciousness.
He introduces us to “plant neurobiologists” searching for the first flicker of consciousness in plants, scientists striving to engineer feelings into AI, and psychologists and novelists seeking to capture the felt experience of this slippery stream of consciousness.
In Pollan’s dazzling exploration of consciousness, he discovers a world far deeper and stranger than this everyday reality.
Eye-opening and mind-expanding, A World Appears takes us into the laboratories of our own brains and minds, hearts and feelings, ultimately showing us how we might make better use of the gift of awareness to more meaningfully connect with the world and what we assume to be our deepest selves. More: A World Appears
See all formats and editions for savings. Book comes out Feb. 24, 2026. Pre-order price guarantee. Named a "most anticipated book of 2026" by The New York Times, TIME, and Oprah Daily.
Guest Michael Pollan, Terry Gross, Tonya Mosley, Adam Staniszewski, NPR.org, Feb. 19, 2026; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
(Origins Explained) AI decoded ancient Sumerian texts and stone tablets (Latin being closer to Akkadian than English). Humans were NOT the first on Earth. There were "gods" (intelligent space beings) here before that. What is this Sumerian language writing system? The mythological story of "Adam and Eve" is older than the Christian and Jewish Bibles. Creation myth: the Enūma Elišh
Why would AI pick on poor Cat Purr? Surely, it has others to pick on like Sydney Sweeney's?
I can shake things up, G. Joe, if you want.
Long ago, when France was starving, someone supposedly asked a great princess what her starving subjects could do. She answered in the annoyed voice of an uber-privileged royal: "Let them eat cake." Now, as The Revolution approaches and the U.S. is starving for truth, what are citizens to do, King Biden? We can stare at beautiful Lana Del Rey in the meantime, except that she's glomming on to reviled Kim Kar Dash, who got booed mercilessly (but that was edited out). Just ask Kevin Hart.
The absolute worst dressed stars at the 2024 Met Gala
(The List) May 6, 2024: There are three rules for the Met Gala – honor the theme, don't be safe, and don't trip on the stairs. While no one literally took a tumble, plenty of stars' looks fell flat at the 2024 gala. #MetGala#ChrisHemsworth#KimKardashian
Katy Perry had the most viral Met Gala look of the night and she wasn't even there
Katy Perry does it every year at the Met Gala.
Oohs and aahs could be heard far and wide as Katy Perry's ethereal forest fairy look spread across the vast internet last night during the 2024 Met Gala red carpet.
Chronically online onlookers were about to bestow the title of "Best Dressed" upon the singer until they realized one thing: It wasn't real.
The "I Kissed a Girl" hitmaker's dress was the product of artificial intelligence (AI), and Katy Perry, did not, in fact, grace the museum's iconic steps on fashion's biggest night.
But if you were one of the victims who was bamboozled by the computer-generated image, don't feel too bad because Perry's own mom got got, too.
She's wearing a garden in time, get it? (AI)
The deepfake of Perry started to circulate as celebrities made their arrivals to the gala and instantly went viral, in large part because fake-Perry in her fake-dress absolutely nailed the evening's dress code, "Garden of Time."
The beautiful AI ballgown looked straight out of a fairytale; it featured a plunging V-neckline, corset bodice, voluminous skirt with a massive circular train, and a wide lush green hem that looked like grass.
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Flowers in every pastel shade, lively green vines, and fluttery butterflies climbed all the way up the frock, creating the appearance of majestic woods coming to life.
Another slide showed her in a second fake look. This one was a minidress with a bronze armor-like bodice and green skirt made out of vines, leaves, and flowers, complete with a wet hairdo. More:
"Katy Perry had the most viral Met Gala look of the night and she wasn't even there"
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