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, Blind Spot (MIT 2024), Evan Thompson, Manon Bischoff, Marcelo Gleiser}

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, Marcelo Gleiser, Time}

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}

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
Blind Spot (MIT 2024), Evan Thompson, Hallucination in Large Language Models (LLMs), 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 ›