1/12 The case of a person who can enter a psychedelic state at will

She is a 37-year-old woman who, without any formal training, can alter her consciousness whenever she wants in order to reach what the authors call a “transcendental visionary state”

(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Bernardo Kastrup blocked me for sharing this in his account. Maybe he thought it was off topic... I remember him saying years ago that Joschka Bach was a troll... 🧐

If Panpsychism Is True, What Happens to God? | Philip Goff YouTube video by Closer To Truth

Philip Goff on panpsychism and theism 👇
youtu.be/eweKhg2X9LM?...

What if consciousness isn't a byproduct of the brain — but fundamental to reality itself?

Mind-at-Large: A New Dawn is a 3-day online conference (April 15–17, 2026) convening some of the sharpest minds in philosophy and consciousness studies.

Towards a Copernican Revolution in the Study of Life, Intelligence, and Consciousness For years, a handful of scientists have been laying the groundwork for an entire revolution in the study of life and intelligence. Unorthodox approaches, such as the conception of living beings as …

A new biology is fostering a paradigm shift in the science of #consciousness, a discipline that emerged just three decades ago with a materialist, mechanistic, and reductionist approach 👇 picandovoyenglish.wordpress.com/2025/03/14/t...

Andrés Rebolledo, director de la Organización de Energía Latinoamericana: "La relación con España es estratégica"

Andrés Rebolledo, director de la Organización de Energía Latinoamericana: "La relación con España es estratégica" dozz.es/wdhdf4

Andrés Rebolledo, director de la Organización de Energía Latinoamericana: "La relación con España es estratégica" Andrés Rebolledo, director de la Organización de Energía Latinoamericana: "La relación con España es estratégica"

Andrés Rebolledo, director de la Organización de Energía Latinoamericana: "La relación con España es estratégica" www.rtve.es/n/16983768/

Keeping Hope in a World Where Children are Deliberately Starved to Death Many of us will always be grateful to the great Bruce Springsteen for his music and his lyrics. Despite being a person repeatedly struck by depression, not a few of his best songs are an invitation…

Keeping #Hope in a World Where Children are Deliberately Starved to Death 👇 picandovoyenglish.wordpress.com/2025/08/13/k... #Life #Evil #Meaning #Art #War #Disease

Keeping Hope in a World Where Children are Deliberately Starved to Death Many of us will always be grateful to the great Bruce Springsteen for his music and his lyrics. Despite being a person repeatedly struck by depression, not a few of his best songs are an invitation…

Keeping #Hope in a World Where Children are Deliberately Starved to Death 👇 picandovoyenglish.wordpress.com/2025/08/13/k... #Life #Evil #Meaning #Art #War #Disease

Why not both God and a Multiverse?...

Information Carriers (You, an Oak Tree, a Cow, a Flag, or a Star) (Reading an initial chapter of Nexus by Yuval Harari, in which the concept of information is analyzed, reminded me of this post I wrote 7 years ago in Spanish) A tree with withered leaves, a stone …

#Information carriers (you, an oak tree, a cow, a flag, or a star)
picandovoyenglish.wordpress.com/2024/11/17/i... (regarding 'Nexus', by Yuval Harari)

Going against #scientism makes scientistic people very restless 👇
picandovoyenglish.wordpress.com/2024/09/26/f...

What would a nervous system look like if it self-assembled inside a novel being that hadn't faced a history of selection for its organism-level form and function? How would #Xenobots look & act, and what their transcriptome would be, with neurons?

advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Reframing the free will debate: the universe is not deterministic - Synthese Synthese - Free will discourse is primarily centred around the thesis of determinism. Much of the literature takes determinism as its starting premise, assuming it true “for the sake of...

Reframing the #freewill debate: the universe is not deterministic 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... by Kevin Mitchell (@wiringthebrain.bsky.social), Henry Potter, and George Ellis

Julian Barbour: Ratios as the Universe’s Key The Englishman Julian Barbour is a physicist unaffiliated with academia who has spent almost half a century reflecting, from his Renaissance house in a small village on the outskirts of Oxford, on …

Julian Barbour: Ratios as the Universe’s Key 👇 picandovoyenglish.wordpress.com/2026/03/14/j... #Time #Complexity #Entropy

Àlex Gómez-Marín, neurocientífico y físico: "Hay mente más allá del cerebro y la ciencia lo puede demostrar"

Àlex Gómez-Marín, neurocientífico y físico: "Hay mente más allá del cerebro y la ciencia lo puede demostrar" dozz.es/3gqrj3

Àlex Gómez-Marín, neurocientífico y físico: "Hay mente más allá del cerebro y la ciencia lo puede demostrar" Àlex Gómez-Marín, neurocientífico y físico: "Hay mente más allá del cerebro y la ciencia lo puede demostrar"

Àlex Gómez-Marín, neurocientífico y físico: "Hay mente más allá del cerebro y la ciencia lo puede demostrar" www.rtve.es/n/16846088/ #mente #consciencia #muerte #neurociencia

Hace 8 años murió Stephen Hawking. Este fue mi obituario en RTVE 👇
www.rtve.es/noticias/201...

Cuando a una maravilla de entrevistado lo entrevista una maravilla de entrevistador.
Gracias, @nicolasfabelo.bsky.social
www.rtve.es/noticias/202...

Julian Barbour: Ratios as the Universe’s Key The Englishman Julian Barbour is a physicist unaffiliated with academia who has spent almost half a century reflecting, from his Renaissance house in a small village on the outskirts of Oxford, on …

Julian Barbour: Ratios as the Universe’s Key 👇 picandovoyenglish.wordpress.com/2026/03/14/j... #Time #Complexity #Entropy

ATENCIÓN: Singularidad formateando "Si hay algo masivo que te disgusta eres un aburrido, un arrogante y un cursi", escribe Elvira Lindo contra la cultura de masas en su oportu...

Hace casi 10 años escribí esto al respecto 👇 picandovoy.blogspot.com/2016/11/aten...

Intelligence as the Chiseling Force in a Computational Universe Intelligence consists in finding rational and creative shortcuts to obtain solutions or objects that would otherwise be highly improbable, since they would take an eternity to emerge from the limbo…

#Intelligence in all its manifestations sculpts reality as it navigates a Platonic space with infinite creative potential. And it does so thanks to #information, the currency of #complexity, which enables matter to be structured in space and time 👇
picandovoyenglish.wordpress.com/2025/10/24/i...

A Farewell to Democracy? Democracy is in danger in the West. This is no surprise to anyone who is even moderately informed. For years, signs and symptoms have been accumulating that the system of freedoms we enjoy—whose co…

A Farewell to #Democracy? #populism #disinformation 👇 wp.me/p8xkVN-Gc

Can AI Ever Be CONSCIOUS? A Vedanta Master's Shocking Answer | Swami Sarvapriyananda YouTube video by Vedanta knowledge

If you make an artificial mind, you'll have created a portal for pure consciousness to enter
youtu.be/a9x--on8WVI?...

Machines all the way up and cognition all the way down: Updating the machine metaphor in biology Cell and developmental biology (CDB) offer numerous remarkable examples of collective adaptive plasticity, as cells coordinate to implement large-scal…

Final version of this paper with Richard Watson is out!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Machines all the way up and cognition all the way down: Updating the machine metaphor in biology"

(quite a bit different than the original preprint at osf.io/preprints/os...).

Intelligence as the Chiseling Force in a Computational Universe Intelligence consists in finding rational and creative shortcuts to obtain solutions or objects that would otherwise be highly improbable, since they would take an eternity to emerge from the limbo…

#Intelligence in all its manifestations sculpts reality as it navigates a Platonic space with infinite creative potential. And it does so thanks to #information, the currency of #complexity, which enables matter to be structured in space and time 👇
picandovoyenglish.wordpress.com/2025/10/24/i...

Bruce Springsteen - Better Days YouTube video by BruceSpringsteenVEVO

Amig@s, buenas noches...
Bruce Springsteen - Better Days
youtu.be/VmwJQ62Cs_o

Italo Calvino’s Tarot as a Model of an Informational and Participatory Universe In his 2010 book Decoding Reality, the theoretical physicist Vlatko Vedral brings up a story by Italo Calvino (The Castle of Crossed Destinies) to illustrate his informational-participatory model o…

Italo Calvino’s Tarot as a Model of an Informational and Participatory Universe 👇 picandovoyenglish.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/i...

When Stalinism is said to exonerate communism Stalinism is the alibi of many current communists in the West (there are still some remaining) to save the system they defend. For them, all the atrocities of the self-proclaimed socialist regimes …

When Stalinism is said to exonerate #communism
picandovoyenglish.wordpress.com/2021/07/14/w... 👇

Italo Calvino’s Tarot as a Model of an Informational and Participatory Universe In his 2010 book Decoding Reality, the theoretical physicist Vlatko Vedral brings up a story by Italo Calvino (The Castle of Crossed Destinies) to illustrate his informational-participatory model o…

Italo Calvino’s Tarot as a Model of an Informational and Participatory Universe 👇 picandovoyenglish.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/i...