Caspar Henderson
British writer and journalist on science, the environment and human rights; author of The Book of Barely Imagined Beings (2012), A New Map of Wonders (2017) and A Book of Noises (2023).
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Their wordsI have been fortunate to be have been alive for a while now but have never got around to going to see a total eclipse until 12 August this year. It was, in my view, well worth the trouble and expense.
- 3 months earlier
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Their wordsMy baseline assumption for some time has been that the idea that AI can become sentient or conscious (at least in the ways humans and [some/other/many] non human beings are) is ill-founded.
↗Sounding Offfullofnoises.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsI realise my assumption may be wrong, and that things change, but right now it looks as if the question of whether or not AI is actually capable of becoming sentient, and if so how far along that road things may be, is fast becoming (almost) beside the point.
↗Sounding Offfullofnoises.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 2 years earlier
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Their wordsI am wary of works with ‘quantum’ in the title because many of them are woo.
↗Deep Listening, and Grön Musikfullofnoises.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Ray Kurzweil's prediction of brain-scanning nanobots in our bloodstreams by 2030 is a stretch.
Their wordsThere’s a mention of a prediction by Ray Kurzweil that by 2030 nanobots will be swimming through our bloodstreams and scanning our brains from the inside. This sounded like a stretch to me in 2010, and more so today.
↗Deep Listening, and Grön Musikfullofnoises.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 2 months earlier
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Their wordsMusic, by its nature, is all about flow and becoming.
↗"The world is more a dance than an equation"fullofnoises.substack.com