Sending Poets

Sending Poets debate on consciousness

Taking inspiration from the Holberg Debate, we tackled the traditional approach to a three person debate (Defender of the Faith, Heretic, Social Democrat) on four specific factors of consciousness and subconsciousness.
Consciousness:
Subjective point of view 
Deductive Reasoning
Forward directionality of thought 
Semantic memory
Subconsciousness:
Objective point of view
Inductive Reasoning
Backward directionality of thought 
Episodic memory
 
Point of View:
-CPU vs GPU
-Whisper Game
-Jigsaw puzzle race
 
Forward deductive vs backward inductive reasoning
-Definitions
-Game theory 
-placemat maze
-snares/traps
 
Memory 
-working memory
-horse track
-contextualized learning
 
Quotes:"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." - Oscar Wilde
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Holberg consciousness debate wrap up

Wrapping up the conversation of the 2023 Holberg Debate "Does Consciousness Extend Beyond Brains?"
Topics:
- Replication crisis
- Extramission/Scopaesthesia 
- Panpsychism
- Near Death Experiences
 
Quotes:
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." - Richard P. Feynman
 
References:
Holberg Debate: https://holbergprize.org/en/en/holberg-prize/holberg-debate
Watch 2023 Holberg Debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofSUaZOW9h8&t=168s
Near Death Experiences: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/02/new-science-of-death-brain-activity-consciousness-near-death-experience 
 
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Callin archives: Episode 2 of 3 on human evolution of consciousness

NOTE: this episode was pulled from the Callin platform we started with. Apologies for the drop in audio quality.
Cave within a cave
Oxygen deprivation in caves: https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-c[...]n-to-paint
Consciousness/Subconsciousness flow: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C[...]p=drivesdk
Poems:
I’m sure I have much to say and sure that for much of it, I’m unsure how to say it
Surely much to say Surely unsure how to say Much of what to say
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Holberg consciousness debate part 3

Further discussion of the 2023 Holberg Debate "Does Consciousness Extend Beyond Brains?" This time we explore some of Tanya Luhrmann's points - inner homunculus and tulpamancy.
 
References:
Holberg Debate: https://holbergprize.org/en/en/holberg-prize/holberg-debate
Watch 2023 Holberg Debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofSUaZOW9h8&t=168s
 
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Holberg consciousness debate part 2

We keep digging in to the fascinating topics brought up in the 2023 Holberg Debate "Does Consciousness Extend Beyond Brains?"
 
References:
Holberg Debate: https://holbergprize.org/en/en/holberg-prize/holberg-debate
Watch 2023 Holberg Debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofSUaZOW9h8&t=168s
 
Poetry:
- "The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom." - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
 
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Contact Wrap Up and Consciousness Ramp Up

We finally wrap up our Contact conversation and then transition to Consciousness, fueled by the 2023 Holberg Debate "Does Consciousness Extend Beyond Brains?"
 
References:
Holberg Debate: https://holbergprize.org/en/en/holberg-prize/holberg-debate
Watch 2023 Holberg Debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofSUaZOW9h8&t=168s
Epic Spaceman video on the scale of the Milky Way Galaxy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsRmyY3Db1Y 
 
Poetry:
- “It’s hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.” - Ken der Heer (President’s science advisor in Contact, Carl Sagan)
- "The beauty of science is the ability to be productively wrong so that our collective understanding always ratchets upwards" - Anil Seth
- “The brain is wider than the sky, for put them side by side, the one the other will contain with ease and you besides” - Emily Dickinson
- “We’re all hallucinating all the time including right now, it’s just that when we agree about our hallucinations, we call that reality” - Anil Seth
 
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Contact part 5

Part 5 of our conversation about Contact and Carl Sagan, we dive in to the destination of the machine trip and the return.
References:
THE DREAM OF THE NUMINOUS, Mark Kellyhttps://www.blackgate.com/2021/08/30/the-dream-of-the-numinous-carl-sagans-icontacti/
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Callin archives: Episode 1 of 3 on human evolution of consciousness

NOTE: this episode was pulled from the Callin platform we started with. Apologies for the drop in audio quality.
Starting at the beginning, how flavor profiles like sugar, fat, and salt played a role in our evolution
References:
Article about Lucy walking like humans: https://www.newser.com/story/336[...]ke-us.html
Article about spherical shaped stones: https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2[...]y-suggests
Evolution of feet: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j[...]p=drivesdk
Pumpkin Heads screenplay: https://if.zone/f/pov-pum[...]=%5BPOV%5D
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Contact part 4

Part 4 of our conversation about Contact and Carl Sagan. We talk about the machine and the trip, as well as the line that inspired this whole thing!
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Contact part 3

Part 3 of our conversation about Contact and Carl Sagan. This time we dive deep in to pi and the topics of faith and science.
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