Here is an example of what #neurology and #PhilosophyOfTheMind are faced with trying to elucidate #Consciousness - that slippery notion of ‘who we are’.
I am neither a scientist nor philosopher, but it seems to me that looking for consciousness in the electrical potential activity of brain cells is never going to explain a whole lot. Imagine trying to explain an electron by solely studying magnetism in excruciating detail as best we can with instruments designed to detect only what we theorise is measurable in a magnetic effect - I.e. to see what we wish to see. That is similar to what neurologists are doing by measuring brain cell activity as a way to identify, and hence classify, consciousness.
In the end, the research may prove fruitful and lead to other discoveries and theories about brain cell activity and the communication channels of the body, but that is the only thing which will be elucidated, brain cell activy - nothing like consciousness (a slippery concept as I said).
The link will take you to the abstract, summary, results and conclusion of the scientific paper, but the paper itself is behind a paywall I’m sad to say (#Grifters have to make money out of publishing someone’s hard work - so dictates capitalism where profit is made from someone else’s sweat and effort, Bah! It wouldn’t be so distastful if $ were extracted only to recoup #publishing costs and wages, but shareholders? Leeches!)
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr3675
: [discuss] permapublishing ![[discuss] permapublishing
We gathered in Paris over the last two days with peers from the PrePostPrint network where we revived the conversation around permapublishing that started last September in Strasbourg: what can it be?
First, we took an hour on Friday to explore what was discussed in Strasbourg and what we are thinking about when we use the word permapublishing. We talked about printing infrastructure, choosing your dependencies and layout software, and it was pretty clear that one hour was not enough to put our teeth deeper into this question. We gathered again today, to continue the conversation, which resulted in a lot of notes and an even stronger wish to continue this conversation. We decided to gather here on this brand new forum 📫 to continue this conversation.
So voila, here we are :).
We talked about splitting the conversation into multiple parts, but when thinking about it in the train home again it is starting to make less sense to do that already now. One proposal that we ended our conversation earlier today with is to look at different books and unpack their production process, as a way to explore the complexity of different layers in book making practices in which you often need to make compromises to make sure something is printed in the end. There are just so many parameters that play a role when making choices about how a book is made, from which software, which paper, which ink, which printer, which distribution system, etc!
(hmm char limit...)](https://post.lurk.org/system/media_attachments/files/114/286/927/153/913/506/original/94396cb788c5e3a2.png "[discuss] permapublishing
We gathered in Paris over the last two days with peers from the PrePostPrint network where we revived the conversation around permapublishing that started last September in Strasbourg: what can it be?
First, we took an hour on Friday to explore what was discussed in Strasbourg and what we are thinking about when we use the word permapublishing. We talked about printing infrastructure, choosing your dependencies and layout software, and it was pretty clear that one hour was not enough to put our teeth deeper into this question. We gathered again today, to continue the conversation, which resulted in a lot of notes and an even stronger wish to continue this conversation. We decided to gather here on this brand new forum 📫 to continue this conversation.
So voila, here we are :).
We talked about splitting the conversation into multiple parts, but when thinking about it in the train home again it is starting to make less sense to do that already now. One proposal that we ended our conversation earlier today with is to look at different books and unpack their production process, as a way to explore the complexity of different layers in book making practices in which you often need to make compromises to make sure something is printed in the end. There are just so many parameters that play a role when making choices about how a book is made, from which software, which paper, which ink, which printer, which distribution system, etc!
(hmm char limit...)")
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Luigi Mangione 
