HYPERLAND

The Covid expert who was silenced.

Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at Oxford University's Department of Zoology, having graduated in 1987 from Princeton University and received her PhD from the University of London.

Sunetra has an interest in the public understanding of science and also in the connections between science and literature at the level of language and narrative.

https://www.biology.ox.ac.uk/people/sunetra-gupta

http://www.sunetragupta.com/

https://gbdeclaration.org/

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The Politicisation of Science

Do we control science and technology or do they control us? Roger Lewis joins the boys for a Hyperland/Grubstreet Gogglebox.

https://grubstreetinexile.substack.com

https://youtu.be/3-E16QcVe6k?feature=shared

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Beyond the Pale with The Slog

A conversation with a banned political blogger.

The boys chat to The Slog. The Slog is a political blogger who was a serious thorn in the side of the official narrative at the same time as David was writing the GolemXIV blog.

https://therealslog.com

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Ukraine: 'Smart weapons' are failing. Full AI beckons?

Are we going to step closer to fully autonomous, A.I. killing machines?

A link to The Slog's article.

https://therealslog.com/2024/05/27/who-or-what-took-out-the-russian-voronesz-radar-defence-system-in-donetsk/

Other Links -

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/12/russia-jamming-u-s-smart-bombs-in-ukraine-leaked-docs-say-00091600

https://defencesecurityasia.com/en/increasing-number-of-us-smart-weapons-fail-due-to-russian-ew-systems-in-ukraine/

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Religion, the vagueness of consciousness and seeing things when you're blind.

Ian has been reading. Dangerous, but sometimes it can't be helped. So we have a chat. First about religion and belief and then about consciousness and awareness.

First up - Tanya Luhrmann's take on religion in her book How God Becomes Real. I met her when I chaired last year's Holberg debate. Her take is that to simply say, 'people who believe in a god are mistaken or stupid' does nothing to help undertand why people believe, nor why many of them say it helps them to believe . She wants to understand religious belief not dismiss it. I'm not a believer but I found her work to be insightful and fascinating. Her point is that "...the puzzle or religion is not the problem of false belief, but the question of how gods and spirits become and remain real to people and what this real-making does for humans."

Next we look briefly at 'Vagueness and the Evolution of Consciousness' by Michael Tye. It's slim little book but don't let that fool you. It might look like a puddle but in fact it's a well. One of those rare science/philsophy books where an academic deep-thinker says, 'I have been wrong all these years and here's why.' Basically he began as a staunch supporter of the view that consciousness comes from witing togeher ordinary non-conscious stuff in a clever way. He now thinks this is unworkable and shows why. Leaving him to join the growing number of pan(proto)psychist people who think consciousness has to be a fundamental property of matter.

And this leads us to a discussion about how there can be a difference between what your mind/brain can 'know' and what you become 'consiously' aware of. It's a fact that your mind registers, and sometimes even 'knows', a whole lot more than you do. We are all in some respects the Ronald Reagans of our own brain - just the fellow who gets handed the memos and reads them out for the public. He takes the credit but does none of the work.

I jest but blind sight experiements among many others show how the brain/mind contains far more than we are consiouesly aware of. Which raises questions about the self and its role.

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