Interesting too. I took a cursory glance and it seems like both are trying to connect quantum physics to consciousness, but different ways. Faggin proposes what consciousness is (quantum information as a field), whereas Penrose and Hameroff propose where it could operate (within neurons in the brain).

But neurons exist all over your body not just the brain. The brain acts as a command center full of neurons, the heart has about 40,000 neurons, and the gut contains around 500 million neurons, which explains "gut instincts". I am deeply fascinated by this idea of where you feel a sensation on your body if you are attuned to it, and maybe microtubules explains it. You "feel" love, sadness, and intuition as bodily and field-based experiences, not just in the mind.

I also like David Hawkins' Map of Consciousness for linking emotional energy to self-awareness. It works like a manual for tuning your personal field to higher or lower frequencies, and naturally ties to energy field concepts like Faggin's and panpsychism.

I do wonder how these theories explain energy flow across distances, and whether you can release unconditional love and other states through thoughts. If consciousness is truly a field and not just isolated inside brains, then this idea of “invisible energy line” might be real and thoughts, emotions, and intentions could ripple outward, affecting distant people, places, and even physical outcomes.

There are many theories that hint at this. Quantum entanglement connects two souls across any distance. The noosphere describes a collective field of human thought.

It feels similar to how you can "sense" when someone is thinking of you, or how certain places seem to hold "vibes" even after people have left. This might also explain why practices like prayer, meditation, and intention-setting seem to have effects that go beyond psychology.

My husband discovered Baldur’s Gate 3, and I think he has become one with his computer now.

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We have 7 pomegranate trees planted on the homestead but this one is always loaded with the most blooms and fruit.

Its right next to an #electroculture copper coil. Coincidence?

Also there are way more blooms and fruit on the electroculture side of this specific tree. Just thought I should share..

My youngest son and I planted about 10 trees today so I'm tired, GN nostr folks

#homesteading #treestr #grownostr

"𝗕𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝘅𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀": 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

Bitcoin mining is a bridge to an energy & technology abundant future. The International Energy Agency estimates AI electricity consumption is set to more than double by 2030, & the US is projected to represent about half of this growth. How will we feed the new tech beast?

₿/accelerate 🤝🏻 e/acc

Bitcoin mining presents a novel way to subsidize our energy systems. Mining is built on Proof of Work & an elegant system of economic incentives. Economic incentives are built in to lower cost, maximize revenue, & optimize resources. Mining is very resource-intensive: it requires substantial computing power to meet the cryptographic rules which secure the system & electricity represents ~80% of operating costs.

Bitcoin miners seek out cheap energy sources globally & they are location & energy source agnostic. As a result, miners are anchor tenants for new energy generation that wouldn’t otherwise exist in rural sites where traditional industrial or commercial customers are unavailable. They also subsidize generators that are transmission constrained (eg, renewables in Texas).

This is where the magic happens: aligned incentives. Miners provide a predictable revenue stream, helping get public infrastructure projects over their hurdle rates & recieve cheaper power (vs the grid). In this way, Bitcoin mining rewards fund the build-out of electrical infrastructure through a third pocket, where traditionally it was paid for by the ratepayer pocket or taxpayer pocket.

As consumer demand for power grows in a community (including for AI datacenters), Bitcoin mining can be decreased or removed entirely, but fundamentally, it enabled critical energy infrastructure to be built out.

In this way, miners support existing renewables with excess generation & the construction of new sites (and not just renewables) around the world. It's already happening with large miners in the US, Gridless in Africa, & Volcano Energy in El Salvador. And this is not stopping.

Furthermore, some Bitcoin miners are shifting towards AI. Miners are uniquely positioned as they already operate large-scale, power-intensive infrastructure & have the right experience. Retrofitting mining facilities for AI workloads (esp hosting GPUs) is often faster & cheaper than building new ones. Thus, infrastructure that was built out for mining is being reallocated to AI (eg Core Scientific) & likewise wrt new energy sites being developed with mining originally in mind (eg Crusoe).

Lastly, Bitcoin miners are the perfect demand response participant. The best DR participants are large loads with a consistent draw & that can turn off (curtail) for any amounts of time. AI is a much less curtailable load. In this way, miners help balance the grid & provide grid stability, particularly during extreme events (see Texas storms & Riot).

This is why Bitcoin mining is a ENERGY & NATIONAL SECURTY issue. It's about ensuring we can build an abundant & reliable energy system for a prosperous future.

If the spec is the implementation, then technically they all do

That would be savage one.

Be careful to not create Terminator scenario, that LLM could be dangerously good 🤣

Open AI should build a social network for LLMs, not humans. Just leapfrog it to the end game.

is nostr's huge data consumption a solvable problem?