I Want It To Be Aliens Too

“Aside from the inherent mystique of originating from outside the solar system, this object exhibits unique characteristics that do not fit the canonical understanding of comets or asteroids. Avi Loeb, a Harvard astrophysicist, compiled a list of observed features of 3I-Atlas that he uses to inform his estimation that this is no ordinary comet. In fact, he guesses that there’s a 30-40% chance that 3I-Atlas is alien technology.”

Our First Observation is Observation Itself

“Although generally framed in terms of the origins of the universe, there is a hidden facet to this question, ‘Why is there something rather than nothing’. What if, instead of projecting the realization that something (the universe) need not exist, but does, we point that realization inward. As such we could ask, why is there something it is like to be, rather than nothing it is like to be?”

When Spiders Fly

“Those interested in studying the atmosphere would collect samples from flights at different altitudes. To their surprise, they found more spiders than one would expect at altitudes of 10,000 feet. Wingless bugs in the collection filter. Odd. Ecologists like Charles Darwin mused for years about the way spiders took flight in an action called ballooning.”

Knowing is a House of Cards

“… just as a picture can be worth a thousand words, a word can evoke a thousand different pictures. If someone associates a word with the ‘wrong picture’—a flawed conceptual representation—and continues to build upon it, the entire structure of understanding may eventually collapse.”

Meat vs Machine:
Why the Brain is not a Computer

“As neuroscience has dispensed with Aristotle’s intuitions, parallel discoveries in neuroscience and computing in the last 100 years have shaped a new perception of the brain. It is no radiator…! It is… a computer!”