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But less weird than quantum 😆
It was a fun and lovely discussion with Mariana and Fernando; Thanks everyone, particularly James and Hayley and all the Exhibition Road Festival team!
Discussing how human consciousness is as weird as black holes was so much fun!!

Big thanks to the Exhibition Road Festival team for putting such awesome events together ✨
At this weekend’s Great Exhibition Road Festival, Honorary Research Fellow Dr Fernando Ernesto Rosas De Andraca spoke to the BBC about one of science’s greatest mysteries — human consciousness 🧠✨

What makes us aware? And could AI ever be conscious?

Read more👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
June 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Reposted by Rita Ahmadi
My advice for finding a good postdoc mentor as a job-seeker: look for someone who's trying to find an interesting collaborator.

My advice for hiring good postdocs as a PI: look for someone who's trying to find an interesting collaborator.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How do I choose a principal investigator for my next postdoc?
A computer scientist is struggling to trust their postdoctoral research adviser after negative experiences with the previous two. How do you find one that’s right for you?
www.nature.com
June 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The Multiverse: a Philosophical Introduction
by Jeremy Butterfield

arxiv.org/pdf/2505.23639
arxiv.org
June 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Reposted by Rita Ahmadi
Fatimah Rita Ahmadi
2-Category of Topological Quantum Computation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22171
May 29, 2025 at 6:32 AM
I gave a talk in @pintofscience.uk! First, I had a chat with all attendees, most of them did not know quantum. Someone with the most irrelevant background asked a brilliant question; "What if in the double slit experiment, we put the observer in the superposition of seeing and not seeing?" 🤯
May 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Reposted by Rita Ahmadi
Mac Lane also has a piece on this: www.ams.org/notices/1995...
www.ams.org
January 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Reposted by Rita Ahmadi
Sitting next to the Nazis' newly appointed minister of education at a banquet, [David Hilbert] was asked, "And how is mathematics in Göttingen now that it has been freed of the Jewish influence?" "Mathematics in Göttingen?" Hilbert repiled. "There is really none any more."
January 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Wow, @dulwichquantum.bsky.social what a honour! First follower! To send you my heartfelt comradery, I would like to share this with you! Enjoy!

archive.org/details/on-b...
On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt : Harry Frankfurt : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
A treatise on rhetorical bullshit.
archive.org
November 30, 2024 at 4:28 PM