Caspar Henderson
Person on 4 sites
British writer and journalist on science, the environment and human rights; author of The Book of Barely Imagined Beings (2012), A New Map of Wonders (2017)…
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6 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Seeing a total solar eclipse is well worth the trouble and expense. (opens korrents.com)
“I have been fortunate to be have been alive for a while now but have never got around to going to see a total eclipse until 12 August this year. It was, in my view, well worth the trouble and expense.”
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The idea that AI can become sentient or conscious is ill-founded. (opens korrents.com)
“My baseline assumption for some time has been that the idea that AI can become sentient or conscious (at least in the ways humans and [some/other/many] non human beings are) is ill-founded.”
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Whether AI can really become sentient is fast becoming almost beside the point, because AI that seems conscious is already here. (opens korrents.com)
“I realise my assumption may be wrong, and that things change, but right now it looks as if the question of whether or not AI is actually capable of becoming sentient, and if so how far along that road things may be, is…”
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Seeing a total solar eclipse is well worth the trouble and expense. (opens korrents.com)
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7 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Great Animal Orchestra (opens rcmnd.app)
“He has made an important contribution to documenting that change, and The Great Animal Orchestra is an excellent introduction to his work.”
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The Sounds of Life (opens rcmnd.app)
“This is, as I said, a rich field, and in addition to The Sounds of Life, I recommend Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction by David George Haskell.”
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The Sense of Wonder (opens rcmnd.app)
“The Sense of Wonder is a short piece, barely more than an essay really, though it exists in book form, and it’s essentially just a celebration of being in the world.”
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The Great Animal Orchestra (opens rcmnd.app)