Ada Deniz
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Ada Deniz
@adadeniz0612.bsky.social
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What is consciousness? What are the challenges of studying it scientifically? Can we ‘dissolve’ them? @anilseth.bsky.social gives us some answers in this new #INMINDS interview for @cienciacog.bsky.social about *problems of consciousness (and how to handle them)*! www.cienciacognitiva.org?p=2549
July 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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And if conclusions are more your thing than introductions 😉, the beginning of that is here (also audio and text):
www.thetransmitter.org/community/el...
‘Elusive Cures: Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders—and How We Can Change That,’ an excerpt
In her new book, published today, neuroscientist Nicole Rust takes us on her personal quest to spell out the brain research community's "Grand Plan."
www.thetransmitter.org
June 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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What if gravity isn’t a pull from mass, but a push from entropy? @georgemusser.com reports on the latest version of an old idea.

www.quantamagazine.org/is-gravity-j...
June 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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At the microscopic scale, time is reversible. But when you zoom out, there is no going back. Why is this true?
www.quantamagazine.org/epic-effort-...
Epic Effort to Ground Physics in Math Opens Up the Secrets of Time | Quanta Magazine
By mathematically proving how individual molecules create the complex motion of fluids, three mathematicians have illuminated why time can’t flow in reverse.
www.quantamagazine.org
June 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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“Inside of black holes, I am positive there is some notion of singularity.” —Netta Engelhardt, physicist www.quantamagazine.org/singularitie...
Singularities in Space-Time Prove Hard to Kill | Quanta Magazine
Black hole and Big Bang singularities break our best theory of gravity. A trilogy of theorems hints that physicists must go to the ends of space and time to find a fix.
www.quantamagazine.org
May 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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A new proof upends a major assumption about the relationship between time and memory in computing.
For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time | Quanta Magazine
One computer scientist’s “stunning” proof is the first progress in 50 years on one of the most famous questions in computer science.
www.quantamagazine.org
May 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Everything is not the same through the looking glass. The behavior of many familiar objects, from molecules to elementary particles, depends on which mirror-image version we interact with.
How the Universe Differs From Its Mirror Image | Quanta Magazine
From living matter to molecules to elementary particles, the world is made of “chiral” objects that differ from their reflected forms.
www.quantamagazine.org
May 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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The Mars plans of @elonmusk are not just illusory, they are dangerous. My new piece on why.

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https://quillette.com/2025/05/19/the-mars-vanity-project/
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May 20, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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A new discovery (not published in a journal yet) of what might be an organism that is half-virus, half prokaryote.

whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/05/14/a...
May 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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In your brain, 86 billion neurons chitchat with one another in complex networks. Neurons can carry meaning in binary code — whether they fire or not — and also in analog, in a symphony of signals with variable patterns, strengths and frequencies.
AI Is Nothing Like a Brain, and That’s OK | Quanta Magazine
The brain’s astounding cellular diversity and networked complexity could show how to make AI better.
www.quantamagazine.org
May 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Two new papers are reopening the case of a physics mystery that was believed to be solved decades ago.
‘Paraparticles’ Would Be a Third Kingdom of Quantum Particle | Quanta Magazine
A new proposal makes the case that paraparticles — a new category of quantum particle — could be created in exotic materials.
www.quantamagazine.org
April 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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A year ago today we lost the wonderful philosopher Daniel Dennett. He is still very greatly missed. Here's some reflections I wrote at time, in @nautil.us nautil.us/i-never-stop...
I Never Stopped Learning from Daniel Dennett
Reflections on a philosopher who believed we can solve the problem of consciousness.
nautil.us
April 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Every day, cells self-terminate in countless organisms. Research shows that this programmed cell death is ancient. When and why did it evolve?
Cellular Self-Destruction May Be Ancient. But Why? | Quanta Magazine
How did cells evolve a process to end their own lives? Recent research suggests that apoptosis, a form of programmed cell death, first arose billions of years ago in bacteria with a primitive…
www.quantamagazine.org
April 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Physicists suspect that spinning neutron stars, known as pulsars, resemble something of a cosmic baked ziti: solid outer crust, with an interior of pressurized neutrons that can bear an uncanny resemblance to gnocchi, spaghetti, and lasagna. www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-s...
April 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Just to elaborate, most conventional physical systems have a unique lowest-energy or highest-entropy state that, absent external intervention, they will settle to and stay there. Time crystals are meant to be systems where that’s not true, and the lowest-energy state oscillates forever.
April 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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You matter.

Unless you multiply yourself by the speed of light squared.

Then you Energy.
April 8, 2025 at 9:15 AM