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Quantum entanglement could link distant telescopes for sharper images
To capture higher-definition and sharper images of cosmological objects, astronomers sometimes combine the data collected by several telescopes. This approach, known as long-baseline interferometry, entails comparing the light signals originating from distant objects and picked up by different telescopes that are at different locations, then reconstructing images using computational techniques.
Conventional long-baseline interferometry methods combine the light signals collected by different telescopes using an interferometer. To do this, however, it relies on delicate optical links that bring light beams together and that are difficult to establish when telescopes are located at long distances from each other.
Researchers at University of Arizona, University of Maryland and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center recently proposed an alternative approach to achieve higher resolution telescopy images that leverages a quantum effect known as entanglement. Their proposed approach, outlined in a paper published in Physical Review Letters, allows distant entangled telescopes, which share a unified quantum state irrespective of how distant they are, to extract the same information about a given scene or cosmological image.
Hybrid Cosmopsychism: A Bold New Answer to the Mystery of Consciousness
How Exactly does Panpsychism Help Explain Consciousness?
In this episode, we explore a provocative new theory in the philosophy of mind—hybrid cosmopsy-chism. This hybrid form of panpsychism claims that conscious experience is rooted in the universe itself and distributed through emergent subjects like humans. By combining strong and weak emergence, this view promises to overcome the limitations of both physicalism and dualism, offering a radical yet elegant solution to the hard problem of consciousness.
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What’s Wrong with Panpsychism? | Joscha Bach
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Robinson’s Podcast #219 — Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and the Threat of AI Apocalypse.
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William Seager: How strong are the arguments for panpsychism?
What do you think about the foregoing arguments?
Interview from the Conference “Emergence and Panpsychism” in Munich 2011.
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Galen Strawson on Panpsychism
Is there something that it is like to be an electron? That sounds implausible. Yet Galen Strawson believes this is the best explanation of how things are.
Specifically, Galen offers his view on physicalistic panpsychism (though there are non-physicalistic panpsychisms as well). He argues something like this, it seems to me:
First, Galen assumes (very plausibly) that experiential phenomena are real phenomena, opposed to illusory. Now:
1. If radical emergentism is true, then experiential phenomena emerges from wholly and utterly non-experiential phenomena.
2. But experiential phenomena cannot emerge from wholly and utterly non-experiential pheneomena.
3. So radical emergentism is false. [1, 2]
4. If radical emergentism is false, then experiential phenomena must already exist in some sense and to some extent as a feature of physical stuff to give rise to experiential phenomena in an intelligible way.
5. So experiential phenomena must already exist in some sense and to some extent as a feature of physical stuff to give rise to experiential phenomena in an intelligible way. [3, 4]
In other words, consciousness has been a feature of the universe since the Big Bang.
For sustained and scholarly treatment of panpsychism, see Galen Strawson’s paper, \.
Xenobiotic Disruption of the Microbiome and Metabolic Consequences
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Transistor-like MXene membranes enhance ion separation
By applying voltage to electrically control a new “transistor” membrane, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) achieved real-time tuning of ion separations—a capability previously thought impossible. The recent work, which could make precision separation processes like water treatment, drug delivery and rare earth element extraction more efficient, was published in Science Advances.
The membranes are made of stacks of MXenes —2D sheets that are only a few atoms thick. Ions squeeze through nanoscale channels formed in the gaps between the stacked MXene layers.
Until now, scientists thought MXene membrane properties were intrinsic and unchangeable once created. The rate of ion transport was thought to be baked in from the beginning.