Tag: Evan Thompson

Retro styled image of old pocket watches

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 12, 2024

Categorized
Philosophy, Physics

Tagged
Adam Frank, Aephraim Steinberg, Albert Einstein (1879–1955), Bergson–Einstein debate over time, Blind Spot (MIT 2024), Duration and Time (1922), Evan Thompson, Henri Bergson (1859–1941), Jeanna Bryner, Manon Bischoff, Marcelo Gleiser, Negative time, Time (Bergson vs. Einstein), Time (nature of time)}

When Einstein Clashed With Philosopher Bergson Over Time

_{Bergson’s point, back in 1922, was that clocks, however accurate, don’t read themselves; they are interpreted by conscious beings} _{Denyse O'Leary
October 12, 2024

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Philosophy, Physics}

A recent experiment claimed to have identified negative time. If that’s true, solving one mystery in science opens up a vista of… more mysteries. Read More ›

Sand running through the bulbs of an hourglass measuring the passing time in a countdown to a deadline with copy space.

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
June 9, 2024

Categorized
Physics, Psychology

Tagged
Adam Frank, Evan Thompson, J.M.E. McTaggart, Marcelo Gleiser, Matyáš Moravec, Shayla Love, Tamar Avnet, Time, Time (events vs measurement), Time (how measured), Time (sense of time's passage), Time as physics concept}

Does Time Exist? That’s Not As Clear As We Might Think

_{We picture a clock when we think of time but, physicists note, that’s not how we experience it as living beings} _{Denyse O'Leary
June 9, 2024

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Physics, Psychology}

The COVID lockdowns often introduced people to a different approach to time from what they were used to, with mixed results. Read More ›

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News
Date
March 12, 2024

Categorized
Philosophy, Science

Tagged
Adam Frank, Blind Spot (MIT 2024), Evan Thompson, Marcelo Gleiser, Materialism and dead ends in science, Science and human experience (Frank et al.)}

Grappling Honestly With Science’s Blind Spot

_{An astrophysicist, a theoretical physicist, and a philosopher all walk into a bar and say, “At the heart of science lies something we do not see that makes science possible” Um… yes!} _{News
March 12, 2024

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Philosophy, Science}

In their essay, Blind Spot authors Frank, Gleiser, and Thompson seem to sense that dredging up pat materialist answers that don’t really work won’t help much. Read More ›

ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence conversational chat bot by open ai using machine learning, Generative AI

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News
Date
February 26, 2024

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Human exceptionalism

Tagged
Adam Frank on LLM hallucinations, Artificial intelligence vs human intelligence, Blind Spot (MIT 2024), Evan Thompson, Hallucination in Large Language Models (LLMs), Human experience and human intelligence (Adam Frank), Marcelo Gleiser}

Astrophysicist: Don’t Say That Chatbots “Hallucinate”

_{Adam Frank points out that human-type “hallucination” is not at all what drives a chatbot to claim that the Russians sent bears into space} _{News
February 26, 2024

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Artificial Intelligence, Human exceptionalism}

Frank, fellow physicist Marcelo Gleiser, and philosopher Evan Thompson argue in a new book that ignoring explicitly human experience is a blind spot for science Read More ›