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Desert Horizon🚀

A lone traveler stands atop a cliff, overlooking a distant spaceship in a rugged, sunlit landscape.

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·Used gradient brushes & textures, plus reworking certain parts😅

👉I’m open for custom illustrations. You can hire me on Fiverr (bit.ly/AxBite) to see my prices & more art.

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#concept #artwork #artist #fantasyart #character #commissionsopen #lineart #krita

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Philo Sophies

#Zoomposium with Professor Dr. #Daniel #Dennett: “A #naturalistic #view on #consciousness”

The #philosophical #concept of supposed #naturalistic #monism is currently the basis of most approaches to elucidating the phenomenon of #consciousness in the research field of #cognitive #neuroscience, which attempt to #reduce #mental states to #physical #states.

More at: philosophies.de/index.php/2023

or: youtu.be/M2qiVz95ZYk

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Philo Sophies

#Zoomposium with Prof. Dr. #Arieh #Ben-#Naim: “Demystifying #Entropy”

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In another installment of our “Zoomposium series” on the topic of #physics and its #limits, my colleague Axel Stöcker from the “Blog der großen Fragen” and I had the opportunity to interview the renowned Israeli physical chemist Prof. Dr. Arieh Ben-Naim on the exciting topic of “Demystifying Entropy”.

Arieh, who was born on July 11, 1934, held a chair in #Physical #Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for over 40 years, with his main field of research being the theory of the #structure of #water, aqueous solutions and hydrophobic-hydrophilic interactions. He was mainly concerned with theoretical and experimental aspects of the general theory of #liquids and #solutions. In recent years, he has advocated the use of #information theory to better understand and advance #statistical #mechanics and #thermodynamics.

In this context, he has also worked intensively on the question of the nature and underlying principle of the phenomenon of #entropy, which he has published in numerous often cited but also controversially discussed popular science books.

The basic tenor of all his publications and lectures is that we need a new basic understanding of the phenomenon of entropy. In Arieh's view, entropy, which originally stems from the laws of #thermodynamics and in particular the 2nd law, has been misused and incorrectly transferred as a #concept to other areas of #physics, #biology and everyday #life.

In this respect, it was finally time (bon mot) to ask the author himself about his ground-breaking theses, which cast a different light on the #phenomenon of entropy or perhaps better said, bring entropy back to its place of origin.

The interview we conducted with him is in English.

Find out more at: philosophies.de/index.php/2024

or: youtu.be/Km88EreH4A8

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Philo Sophies

Guest article by Professor Eric Rodríguez #Ochoa: “A critical #reflection on the interface between #bioethics and #biopolitics in the #age of #biopower”

We both share a fondness for #discourse analysis and the #concept of power by #Michel #Foucault.
I was interested in this topic because for me it sheds a whole new light on the questions of #ethics for #artificial #intelligence.

More at: philosophies.de/index.php/2023

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