#naturalphilosophy — Public Fediverse posts

Starting 2026 with some unknown birthdays: Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623 – 1673), 17th-century English aristocrat, philosopher, poet, scientist, writer, with her imaginary world from her strange sci-fi novel ‘The Blazing World’ which she appended to her treatise ‘Observations upon Experimental Philosophy’. An odd addition to my collection of scientists, 🧵

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#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #scifi #naturalPhilosophy #MargaretCavendish

ZOOMPOSIUM with Ulrich Krohs: Biology of Consciousness – Are Qualia Scientifically Comprehensible?

The possibility of describing consciousness from a natural philosophical perspective.

💡 More information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2025/08/05/biologie-des-bewusstseins/
🎥 Full interview: https://youtu.be/W77QCB4AC2I

#NaturalPhilosophy #Consciousness #Philosophy #UlrichKrohs #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Qualia #StructuralRealism #Neurophilosophy #Emergence #AGI #ComputationalNeuroscience #FreeWill #Zoomposium

ZOOMPOSIUM with Ulrich Krohs: Biology of Consciousness – Are Qualia Scientifically Comprehensible?

The possibility of describing consciousness from a natural philosophical perspective.

💡 More information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2025/08/05/biologie-des-bewusstseins/
🎥 Full interview: https://youtu.be/W77QCB4AC2I

#NaturalPhilosophy #Consciousness #Philosophy #UlrichKrohs #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Qualia #StructuralRealism #Neurophilosophy #Emergence #AGI #ComputationalNeuroscience #FreeWill #Zoomposium

ZOOMPOSIUM with Ulrich Krohs: Biology of Consciousness – Are Qualia Scientifically Comprehensible?

The possibility of describing consciousness from a natural philosophical perspective.

💡 More information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2025/08/05/biologie-des-bewusstseins/
🎥 Full interview: https://youtu.be/W77QCB4AC2I

#NaturalPhilosophy #Consciousness #Philosophy #UlrichKrohs #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Qualia #StructuralRealism #Neurophilosophy #Emergence #AGI #ComputationalNeuroscience #FreeWill #Zoomposium

As you ford life's rivers, keep your knees bent and face upstream so you can better see what's coming at you. But as you crawl life's ductworks, face downwind and keep your mouth shut lest you suck in dust-bunnies.

#NaturalPhilosophy #Strife and #Travails #Logic

”Leucippus’ ideas lacked the mathematical rigor and empirical validation of modern scientific theories. However, he grasped the universe’s formation with astonishing foresight. His concept of a spontaneous, physical origin of the cosmos—devoid of divine intervention—laid the groundwork for later scientific inquiry. The notion that the cosmos was not static but rather emerged from an initial chaotic state anticipated the discoveries of centuries to come.“

Was Greek Philosopher Leucippus the First to Propose the Big Bang Theory?

https://greekreporter.com/2025/02/19/leucippus-big-bang-theory/

#philosophy #atomists #naturalphilosophy

Also unknown birthday: Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623 – 1673), 17th-century English aristocrat, philosopher, poet, scientist, writer, with her imaginary world from her strange sci-fi novel ‘The Blazing World’ which she appended to her treatise ‘Observations upon Experimental Philosophy’. She’s an odd addition to my collection of scientists, as a self-taught, die-hard royalist aristocrat, & 🧵

#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #scifi #naturalPhilosophy #MastoArt

For the #SciArtSeptember prompt epilogue: Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623 – 1673), 17th-century English aristocrat, philosopher, poet, scientist, writer, with her imaginary world from her strange sci-fi novel ‘The Blazing World’ from her epilogue to her ‘Observations upon Experimental Philosophy’. She’s an odd addition to my collection of scientists, … 🧵1/n

#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histstm #scifi #naturalPhilosophy #MargaretCavendish #MastoArt

#NaturalPhilosophy

Also unknown birthday: Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623 – 1673), 17th-century English aristocrat, philosopher, poet, scientist, writer, with her imaginary world from her strange sci-fi novel 'The Blazing World' which she appended to her treatise 'Observations upon Experimental Philosophy'. She’s an odd addition to my collection of scientists, …🧵1/n

#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #scifi #naturalPhilosophy #MargaretCavendish #MastoArt

@mariapopova And for all this and more, she has my undying gratitude.

Subscribe to The Marginalian. You don’t have to read it much. Let it just flow over you over time. Like water smoothening a stone.

https://www.themarginalian.org/

#Art #Gratitude #Reading #Marginalia #Books #Reading #NaturalPhilosophy #MariaPopova
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@mariapopova If anyone can talk about science and maths and art and life and words as being different facets of the same natural thing, it is her.

She’s the very embodiment of Syntopica.

for e.g. What do relentless persistence, witchcraft, astronomy, mathematics, science fiction, the moon landing and an undying parental love, have in common? Johannes Kepler.

Read Maria’s post to find out :)
https://www.themarginalian.org/2019/12/26/katharina-kepler-witchcraft-dream/

#Art #Gratitude #Reading #Marginalia #Books #Reading #NaturalPhilosophy #MariaPopova
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When I first began reading Brain Pickings—eons ago—I would skip her commentary in the “margins” and go straight to the quotes, because that is what I wanted.
Now a days the quotes pale into insignificance as I rush to read what she has to day. If ever there was a case of the frame being more beautiful than the art it contains, it is the Marginalian’s (@mariapopova)

#Art #Gratitude #Reading #Marginalia #Books #Reading #NaturalPhilosophy #MariaPopova

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#PaulDavies - Why #Philosophy of #Science?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YFzIobY6Tc&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#PhilosophyOfScience #LawsOfNature #LawsOfPhysics #Dualism #Platonism #PlatonicRealm #Realism #Reality #LawsOfPhysics #NaturalPhilosophy #Time #Space #SpaceTime #Emergence #Transcendence

I much prefer
the sharpest criticism
of a single intelligent person
to the thoughtless approval
of the masses.
Johannes #Kepler🎂
(aqb Gloria Pierre)
27 Dec 1571🔭
#lawsofplanetarymotion
#astronomy
#astrology
#mathematics
#naturalphilosophy

#StevenWeinberg Final #Interview

Last interview given by 1979
#NobelPrizeWinner, #Physicist Steven #Weinberg.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql_Oi96hVxA&ab_channel=KnowingScience%C2%AERegisteredTrademark

#Science #Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #PhilosophyOfPhysics #NaturalScience #NaturalPhilosophy #History #HistoryOfScience #Evolution #FundamentalPhysics #ParticlePhysics #QantumPhysics #QuantumMechanics #QM #LawsOfNature #LawsOfPhysics #Quarks #QuarkMass #Mass #DarkMatter

#Introduction post: I'm an associate professor of #biology at #KyotoUniversity in Japan, studying #chromosome dynamics during #meiosis in #nematodes especially #Caenorhabditis_elegans. I enjoy #naturalphilosophy, #philosophyofmind, #chess, #linux, and Japanese calligraphy (#書道).

Here are the chromosomes I study — the maternally- and paternally-derived chromosomes have paired along their lengths and are now undergoing recombination. #meiosis4eva

#Introduction post: I'm an associate professor of #biology at #KyotoUniversity, studying #chromosome dynamics during #meiosis in #nematodes especially #Caenorhabditis_elegans. I enjoy #naturalphilosophy, #philosophyofmind, #chess, #linux, and Japanese calligraphy (#書道).

Here are the chromosomes I study — the maternally- and paternally-derived chromosomes have paired along their lengths and are now undergoing recombination.