[BOOK][B] The precipice: Existential risk and the future of humanity

T Ord - 2020 - books.google.com
This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the
central challenge of our time. If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species …

Triangulation in aetiological epidemiology

DA Lawlor, K Tilling… - International journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Triangulation is the practice of obtaining more reliable answers to research questions
through integrating results from several different approaches, where each approach has …

[BOOK][B] The feeling of life itself: why consciousness is widespread but can't be computed

C Koch - 2019 - books.google.com
A thought-provoking argument that consciousness—more widespread than previously
assumed—is the feeling of being alive, not a type of computation or a clever hack In The …

[HTML][HTML] Cause of Cambrian explosion-terrestrial or cosmic?

EJ Steele, S Al-Mufti, KA Augustyn… - Progress in Biophysics …, 2018 - Elsevier
We review the salient evidence consistent with or predicted by the Hoyle-Wickramasinghe
(HW) thesis of Cometary (Cosmic) Biology. Much of this physical and biological evidence is …

A student's guide to Bayesian statistics

B Lambert - 2018 - torrossa.com
Untitled Page 1 Page 2 A Student’s Guide to BAYESIAN STATISTICS Page 3 Sara Miller
McCune founded SAGE Publishing in 1965 to support the dissemination of usable knowledge …

[HTML][HTML] Many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics

L Vaidman - 2002 - plato.stanford.edu
The Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics holds that there are many
worlds which exist in parallel at the same space and time as our own. The existence of the …

[BOOK][B] International relations and relational universe

M Kurki - 2020 - books.google.com
It is time for International Relations (IR) to join the relational revolution afoot in the natural
and social sciences. To do so, more careful reflection is needed on cosmological …

[HTML][HTML] An Integrated World Modeling Theory (IWMT) of consciousness: combining integrated information and global neuronal workspace theories with the free …

A Safron - Frontiers in artificial intelligence, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The Free Energy Principle and Active Inference Framework (FEP-AI) begins with the
understanding that thermodynamically-open systems must regulate environmental …

Consciousness as a state of matter

M Tegmark - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2015 - Elsevier
We examine the hypothesis that consciousness can be understood as a state of
matter,“perceptronium”, with distinctive information processing abilities. We explore four …

[HTML][HTML] A framework to establish credibility of computational models in biology

EA Patterson, MP Whelan - Progress in biophysics and molecular biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Computational models in biology and biomedical science are often constructed to aid
people's understanding of phenomena or to inform decisions with socioeconomic …