Ian Glendinning
@psybertronian.psybertron.org
Systems-Based Epistemological Researcher Mainly active at https://www.psybertron.org/ and https://twitter.com/psybertron If you're looking for an "argument" I have rules. http://psybertron.org/rules-of-rhetorical-engagement 3 strikes and you're out.
@psybertronian.psybertron.org "Got the t-shirt, too." 😉 "<vrrrroooomm>",...
mandascott.bsky.social@mandascott.bsky.social · 4mo agoAs we strive for conscious evolution, how can we weave together the best, most constructive spiritual wisdom paths from our past and create something that opens us deeply to the land and the Web of Life? accidentalgods.life/zen-and-the- #AccidentalGods #Podcast #Buddhism @brspirit.bsky.social
Bill was a wonderful advocate for nature who communicated his love for nature to millions. When he spoke about his humanist worldview, what mattered to him most was our shared responsibility for the world. Someone to miss.
Bill Oddie OBE (1941–2026): ‘I’m an atheist, so I will have a humanist funeral’
Humanists UK is deeply saddened to learn of the death of the naturalist, broadcaster, and humanist Bill Oddie OBE, who has died at the age of 85. He told a journalist in 2012: ‘I'm an atheist, so I wi...
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Roger Penrose For completeness, posting mainly new content on Substack these days, but just cross-posting a link here to maintain semantic connectivity until the whole project is functioning. I'd never read Penrose before today, despite his obvious relevance to my long-standing agenda here. Enjoy.…
Roger Penrose
For completeness, posting mainly new content on Substack these days, but just cross-posting a link here to maintain semantic connectivity until the whole project is functioning. I'd never read Penrose before today, despite his obvious relevance to my long-standing agenda here. Enjoy. =====
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A Little Piece of (Blogging) History Posting this on the original Psybertron blog because it was missing from my 2006/7 archive. Forests, thickets, trees and clearings (and fences, and gates) are frequent metaphors in knowledge discovery (and identity and definition) contexts, and the number of…
A Little Piece of (Blogging) History
Posting this on the original Psybertron blog because it was missing from my 2006/7 archive. Forests, thickets, trees and clearings (and fences, and gates) are frequent metaphors in knowledge discovery (and identity and definition) contexts, and the number of times I've remembered this image, but failed to re-find the copy I blogged back then, is scary and time-wasting.
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Probably shouldn't say this as a science teacher and all that but stuff like this makes me think "evolution" is just the thing the programmers of our simulation made up to make us believe they're not there.
Digital Brain@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 3w agoThis caterpillar survives by shapeshifting into a venomous snake, complete with scales and side-to-side movement. Predators see the illusion and walk away. Evolution made the bluff lethal to doubt.
The longer we allow grandpa to rage post to distract from the EPSTEIN Files, the more danger he creates for the safety & security of the world. Any doubt he would use nuclear weapons in a heartbeat if he thought it would benefit himself? I'm with Maj. Jason Watson: IMPEACH. CONVICT. REMOVE 🇺🇸
‘Stop, collaborate and listen.’ Yes, I ended an interview about #localgovernmentreorganisation with Vanilla Ice - but also it’s a reasonable summary! www.linkedin.com/posts/antler...
#localgovernmentreorganisation #lgr | Benjamin P. Taylor
'Stop, collaborate and listen.' Yes, I ended an interview about #localgovernmentreorganisation with Vanilla Ice - but also it's a reasonable summary! Greg Campbell, Strategic Director at Rochford and...
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'About 150 academic roles are set to go at the south-west institution, which said it was targeting areas that are “no longer sustainable” or have seen changes in student demand.' History and English are name-checked. 1/3
University of Exeter cuts an ‘existential threat to humanities’
Russell Group institution cites changing student demand as it puts 500 staff at risk of redundancy, with 150 jobs set to go
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Very little. The Holy See is (adjusted for inflation) the single biggest funder of astronomical research in history. As for Galileo, he was found guilty of suspicion of heresy, spent one day in gaol, and the rest of his life living in a palace, and continued to publish heliocentrism around Europe.
🇨🇦 l.faraday 🇨🇦@mizati.bsky.social · 2mo agoI always wonder how much science would have advanced if it wasn’t held back by religion. #Atheist
Unhappy anniversary! (Written in 2018…) blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
The dismantling of the state since the 1980s: Brexit is the wrong diagnosis of a real crisis - LSE European Politics
The vote to leave the EU and the administrative chaos around it pull into focus a crisis the UK should have been talking about before: the failures of homegrown neoliberal policies and their dire impl...
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Reading & Housekeeping Had some very productive writing time recently. Turned down a couple of gigs and writing of reviews - they're my escape from the intellectual project(s), but it's easy to fill your time with those instead. Also avoiding a couple of conferences I'd normally support, to the…
Reading & Housekeeping
Had some very productive writing time recently. Turned down a couple of gigs and writing of reviews - they're my escape from the intellectual project(s), but it's easy to fill your time with those instead. Also avoiding a couple of conferences I'd normally support, to the point of feeling guilty, but still found myself reading - all writing / research related but - nevertheless:
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Turns out, government is hard. Best leave it to professionals who are not corrupt, and have the best interest of Americans in mind.
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2mo agoTrumponomics
Onto-Epistemic Layering of Values As notified, my writing has effectively moved to Substack, and here is my most recent post there. (Prompted by a discussion with Keith Gillette on the new Robert Pirsig Association discussion forum.) Multi-Axis Evolutionary Layeringof Values in "Onto-Epistemic…
Onto-Epistemic Layering of Values
As notified, my writing has effectively moved to Substack, and here is my most recent post there. (Prompted by a discussion with Keith Gillette on the new Robert Pirsig Association discussion forum.) Multi-Axis Evolutionary Layeringof Values in "Onto-Epistemic Structures"(with Pirsig's 4 Layer Metaphysics as one example. =====
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This Friday atthe Regent St cinema, a special @ppfideas.bsky.social screening of Never Let Me Go, Alex Garland's adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's masterpiece. Followed by a live recording of David and me discussing it. Just a few tickets left... www.regentstreetcinema.com/movie/never-...
Never Let Me Go + Live Recording of Past Present Future Podcast with David Runciman, Adam Rutherford
Kazuo Ishiguro’s haunting 2005 novel of the lives and loves of human clones became an equally haunting and unsettling film five years later. How should we imagine a world in which some people exist to...
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"We're too stupid to stop ourselves" is quite the admission from these galaxy brains...
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 2mo agoSome of the same billionaires who bankrolled AI now admit the technology could one day kill us all. And they’re funding a new plan to stop it—genetically engineered genius babies.
And that if we are concerned about artificial entities becoming autonomous and behaving in ways that are not aligned with our values, they already exist: corporations
Today at @humanists.uk we are remembering Jo, a humanist in word and deed, whose well-lived life was cut short by a far right assassin on this day, but continues to inspire us. humanists.uk/2026/06/16/j...
Jo Cox’s Courage, Ten Years On
Today marks ten years since the assassination of Humanists UK member Jo Cox MP by a far right extremist: a dark day in the history of our country, and a wound in our public life that has not healed. I...
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B) The Kremlin operative who BBC names as directing arson attacks against Keir Starmer was taught his tradecraft by…drumroll…Sergei Nalobin !!! Pictured here with Boris Johnson. Also: the star of our podcast series, Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring! Wtaf 2/
I'm very happy too to see Arvid suggest that Dawkins thinks biology is best understood from the perspective of genes, not organisms, which are too fleeting in comparison. That makes it clear how far Dawkins is from Darwin.
President Trump lambasted four Republicans who voted to pass a resolution to block him from ordering further strikes on Iran. The vote marked the first time such a measure has cleared the House or Senate on a final vote since strikes began in February. https://wapo.st/4dZf63O
Switching Platforms As of today, I've switched my writing and blogging to my SubStack. A note on my latest post on sex differences of brain & mind has a note explaining the shift, quoted here: (*1) My Psybertron blog “What, Why and How do we Know?” has over 25 years of content on WordPress. A fork…
Switching Platforms
As of today, I've switched my writing and blogging to my SubStack. A note on my latest post on sex differences of brain & mind has a note explaining the shift, quoted here: (*1) My Psybertron blog “What, Why and How do we Know?” has over 25 years of content on WordPress. A fork in development of that technology platform is making support increasingly problematic, so whilst I am maintaining that content on-line, I am looking for alternatives to preserve its value and accessibility as well as continue future blogging on SubStack.
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It’s a good piece! I broadly agree. My own take is here fwiw www.thenerve.news/p/opinion-ri...
Richard Dawkins’s chatbot isn’t conscious: it’s just all talk
The acclaimed scientist spent time with Anthropic’s ‘Claudia’ and couldn’t believe she wasn’t sentient. But Dawkins' own work has taught us that complexity can exist without a divine spark, writes neu...
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David Deutsch and “The Pattern” The video embedded below is a conversation between David Roberts (Econtalk) and David Deutsch - a hero of mine, a quantum physicist who is incredibly thoughtful and erudite about government, democracy and society - read his "Fabric of Reality" and "Beginning of…
David Deutsch and “The Pattern”
The video embedded below is a conversation between David Roberts (Econtalk) and David Deutsch - a hero of mine, a quantum physicist who is incredibly thoughtful and erudite about government, democracy and society - read his "Fabric of Reality" and "Beginning of Infinity" if you haven't already. Their topic Deutsch's thesis, is antisemitism as "The Pattern" - a meme existing long before "Jews were held responsible for the killing of God in the body of Jesus" - …
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More Bookmarking I'm putting off reading (and watching / listening) as much as possible to focus on the writing, but I keep getting things I really do want to give attention to. I did respond to this (Facebook) post about Brian Josephson, Nobel prize-winning physicist that's been part of my…
More Bookmarking
I'm putting off reading (and watching / listening) as much as possible to focus on the writing, but I keep getting things I really do want to give attention to. I did respond to this (Facebook) post about Brian Josephson, Nobel prize-winning physicist that's been part of my metaphysical origins story since the start. The FB post. My response…
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Blake, Bronowski and Pirsig I made a more than passing reference to William Blake - specifically his "America: A Prophecy" in my previous housekeeping post, and made mere passing references to Jacob Bronowski and Robert Pirsig. An amazing tangle of threads coming together, that serve to reinforce…
Blake, Bronowski and Pirsig
I made a more than passing reference to William Blake - specifically his "America: A Prophecy" in my previous housekeeping post, and made mere passing references to Jacob Bronowski and Robert Pirsig. An amazing tangle of threads coming together, that serve to reinforce my #NothingNewUnderTheSun angle that everything that needs saying has already been said before and, apart from branding and marketing - ie attention seeking - there is very little need to re-write or re-invent anything.
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