https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/25/black-boxes/#when-you-know-you-know

This is the epistemological crisis we're living through today. Epistemology is the process by which we know things. The whole point of a transparent, democratically accountable process for expert technical deliberation is to resolve the epistemological challenge of making good choices about all of these life-or-death questions. Even the smartest person among us can't learn to evaluate all those questions, but we can all look at the process by which these questions are answered and draw conclusions about its soundness.

https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/08/27/notes-on-complexity-neil-theise/

In Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being (public library), the Buddhist scientist Neil Theise endeavors to bridge the mystery out there with the mystery of us, bringing together our three primary instruments of investigating reality — empirical science (with a focus on complexity theory), philosophy (with a focus on Western idealism), and metaphysics (with a focus on Buddhism, Vedanta, Kabbalah, and Saivism) — to paint a picture of the universe and all of its minutest parts “as nothing but a vast, self-organizing, complex system, the emergent properties of which are… everything.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaGuSZz-Fzw&t=997s

Neil Theise is Professor of Pathology and of Medicine at Mount Sinai and a leader in the fields of liver diseases, liver stem cells, and adult stem cell plasticity. In this interview he talks about complexity theory's applications to biology and explains how the self-organizing principle depends on randomness. He advances the dialogue between science and spirituality, reminding us that non-duality implies duality, and that nothing is independent or permanent.

https://standardnotes.com/

Standard Notes is a free, secure note-taking app with powerful end-to-end encryption, unparalleled privacy features, and seamless cross-platform syncing on unlimited devices.
Security without compromise.
Peace of mind with your newfound privacy comes easy with Standard Notes. But there's so much more.

Other apps force you into a rigid structure, making it difficult to truly capture and organize all of your thoughts, ideas, and creations. As a result, you find yourself relying on multiple tools to get the job done, leaving your data scattered and potentially vulnerable.
With Standard Notes, you have a single, all-in-one solution for securely storing and organizing your notes, files, and everything in between. Say goodbye to the hassle of using multiple apps and hello to pure, effortless productivity.

Free plan with 100 Mb storage

https://snyder.substack.com/p/terror-and-counter-terror

For the victim, terror is about what it is. For the terrorist, it is about what happens next. ]

Classically, a terrorist provokes a state in order to generate so much suffering among his own people that they will take the terrorist’s side indefinitely.

https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/3700/dr-joanna-leidenhag

Position: Associate Professor in Theology and Philosophy
Areas of expertise: Christian theology; analytic theology; panpsychism; autism; science-engaged theology.

Panel discussion between Philip Goff (professor of philosophy at Durham University, Joanna Leidenhag (professor of theology at Leeds University) and Tim Crane, a professor of philosophy at the Central European University (who argues against pansychism).  Moderated by Melvyn Bragg, Radio 4.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001vl96" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001vl96

In the philosophy of mind, panpsychism (/pænˈsaɪkɪzəm/) is the view that the mind or a mind-like aspect is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of reality.[1] It is also described as a theory that "the mind is a fundamental feature of the world which exists throughout the universe".[2] It is one of the oldest philosophical theories, and has been ascribed to philosophers including Thales, Plato, Spinoza, Leibniz, William James,[3] Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, and Galen Strawson.[1] In the 19th century, panpsychism was the default philosophy of mind in Western thought, but it saw a decline in the mid-20th century with the rise of logical positivism.[3][4] Recent interest in the hard problem of consciousness and developments in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and quantum physics have revived interest in panpsychism in the 21st century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Goff_(philosopher)

https://philipgoffphilosophy.com/about

I explore whether panpsychism can offer a kind of middle way between traditional belief in God and secular atheism.

In my recent book Why? The Purpose of the Universe (Oxford University Press, 2023) I explore whether panpsychism can offer a kind of middle way between traditional belief in God and secular atheism.