Lenore Blum
@lenoreblum.bsky.social
Mathematician and Theoretical Computer Scientist (#mathematics, #TCS) interested in #Consciousness and #NeuroAI (#Neuroscience, #AI). Distinguished Career Prof of CS at CMU, Emerita. President, Assoc for MathConscSci (AMCS) (https://amcs-community.org)
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Raising a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight. James Watson absolutely did her dirty.
But beware...
But beware...
November 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Raising a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight. James Watson absolutely did her dirty.
But beware...
But beware...
Happy Birthday @keithfrankish.com ! 🎂 🥳
Just found out it's @keithfrankish.com's birthday!!!! Mystery solved.
I'm feeling a deep sense of peace and joy today. Not sure why.
November 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Happy Birthday @keithfrankish.com ! 🎂 🥳
Another hero today: Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Judge Orders Trump Administration to Fully Fund Food Stamps This Month
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Another hero today: Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Today's hero: U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis
wapo.st/4oqYcz0
wapo.st/4oqYcz0
Judge says immigration officers’ use of force in Chicago ‘shocks the conscience’
U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis said that officers are using excessive force against protesters and that the Department of Justice’s defense for their actions was “simply not credible.”
wapo.st
November 7, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Today's hero: U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis
wapo.st/4oqYcz0
wapo.st/4oqYcz0
I voted today to keep our PA judges!
November 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I voted today to keep our PA judges!
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Novel Embodiments of Mind: Natural, Bioengineered, and Hybrid Interfaces
- Michael Levin
youtu.be/kQ6c_na_e0c #ConSci
- Michael Levin
youtu.be/kQ6c_na_e0c #ConSci
Michael Levin: Novel Embodiments of Mind: Natural, Bioengineered, and Hybrid Interfaces
YouTube video by Mathematical Consciousness Science
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November 2, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Novel Embodiments of Mind: Natural, Bioengineered, and Hybrid Interfaces
- Michael Levin
youtu.be/kQ6c_na_e0c #ConSci
- Michael Levin
youtu.be/kQ6c_na_e0c #ConSci
Several weeks ago I had great fun talking about the #Conscious Turing Machine (CTM) with Will Millership & Calum Chase. Links to the podcast are here:
www.prism-global.com/podcast/leno...
Here are 2 short clips:
bit.ly/3JAY7JS (2 types of consciousness in CTM)
bit.ly/4qFGWYh (math's effectiveness)
www.prism-global.com/podcast/leno...
Here are 2 short clips:
bit.ly/3JAY7JS (2 types of consciousness in CTM)
bit.ly/4qFGWYh (math's effectiveness)
Lenore Blum: AI Consciousness is Inevitable: The Conscious Turing Machine — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines
Today's guest, distinguished mathematician and computer scientist Lenore Blum, explains why she and her husband Manuel believe machine consciousness isn't just possible, it's inevitable.
www.prism-global.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Several weeks ago I had great fun talking about the #Conscious Turing Machine (CTM) with Will Millership & Calum Chase. Links to the podcast are here:
www.prism-global.com/podcast/leno...
Here are 2 short clips:
bit.ly/3JAY7JS (2 types of consciousness in CTM)
bit.ly/4qFGWYh (math's effectiveness)
www.prism-global.com/podcast/leno...
Here are 2 short clips:
bit.ly/3JAY7JS (2 types of consciousness in CTM)
bit.ly/4qFGWYh (math's effectiveness)
Mike Levin is a magician! As I've said a number of times before, if anyone could convince me to be a panpsychist it would be Mike Levin. Here, he's almost convinced me to also become a dualist. What's a mathematician and computationalist to do? 😲
#mathematics #consciousness
#mathematics #consciousness
November 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Mike Levin is a magician! As I've said a number of times before, if anyone could convince me to be a panpsychist it would be Mike Levin. Here, he's almost convinced me to also become a dualist. What's a mathematician and computationalist to do? 😲
#mathematics #consciousness
#mathematics #consciousness
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This was a fabulous, once in a lifetime colloquium -- and now the videos are available in high quality on the College de France web site @college-de-france.fr
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!
November 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This was a fabulous, once in a lifetime colloquium -- and now the videos are available in high quality on the College de France web site @college-de-france.fr
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!
"Worse than nothing" on the Supreme Court by Duncan Hosie from the New York Review of Books newsletter:
email.nybooks.com/t/y-e-qktujj...
email.nybooks.com/t/y-e-qktujj...
Worse than Nothing
email.nybooks.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"Worse than nothing" on the Supreme Court by Duncan Hosie from the New York Review of Books newsletter:
email.nybooks.com/t/y-e-qktujj...
email.nybooks.com/t/y-e-qktujj...
If you are worried about AI escalation, …
President Trump said he had directed the Pentagon to begin testing nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with Russia and China.
The last full-scale U.S. nuclear weapons test took place in Nevada in 1992.
The last full-scale U.S. nuclear weapons test took place in Nevada in 1992.
A look at past nuclear weapons tests in Russia, China and the U.S.
Trump said the U.S. will test nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with Russia and China. None of the three countries has tested live nuclear weapons since the 1990s.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
If you are worried about AI escalation, …
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Join us for Michael Levin's talk on Wednesday!
Context: bamxi.org/research-act...
To join, please register here: bamxi.org/kontaktnavig...
This talk is co-organized with #AMCS. A huge thank you to @lenoreblum.bsky.social!
#ConSci
Context: bamxi.org/research-act...
To join, please register here: bamxi.org/kontaktnavig...
This talk is co-organized with #AMCS. A huge thank you to @lenoreblum.bsky.social!
#ConSci
October 27, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Join us for Michael Levin's talk on Wednesday!
Context: bamxi.org/research-act...
To join, please register here: bamxi.org/kontaktnavig...
This talk is co-organized with #AMCS. A huge thank you to @lenoreblum.bsky.social!
#ConSci
Context: bamxi.org/research-act...
To join, please register here: bamxi.org/kontaktnavig...
This talk is co-organized with #AMCS. A huge thank you to @lenoreblum.bsky.social!
#ConSci
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claudia passos ferreira's great #TED2025 talk is now online! find out all about consciousness in newborn babies!
Inside the mind of a newborn baby
What if newborn babies are more aware than we ever imagined? Philosopher and psychologist Claudia Passos Ferreira shares groundbreaking neuroscience showing that newborn babies — and possibly even lat...
www.ted.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
claudia passos ferreira's great #TED2025 talk is now online! find out all about consciousness in newborn babies!
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Don’t usually agree with Reagan.
UPDATE: Trump is freaking out about the (very effective) anti-tariffs ad Canada 🇨🇦 is running in 🇺🇸 (during baseball playoffs), saying trade negotiations are now “terminated” — so here it is again 👇🏽
Reagan’s audio is, of course, VERY REAL. He is lying: www.youtube.com/shorts/Mj6N-...
Reagan’s audio is, of course, VERY REAL. He is lying: www.youtube.com/shorts/Mj6N-...
October 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Don’t usually agree with Reagan.
Just finished a fun interview with Will Millership and Calum Chace on #AIConsciousness. May be posted in November.
Riverside recording snapshot
Create your own studio-quality content.
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October 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Just finished a fun interview with Will Millership and Calum Chace on #AIConsciousness. May be posted in November.
As an American, I would like to apologize to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on how he was treated in our house, the White House.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
In tense meeting, Trump told Zelensky to concede land, meet Putin’s demands
In an often fraught encounter, Trump told Zelensky to accept Putin’s terms to end the war, according to people familiar with the meeting.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
As an American, I would like to apologize to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on how he was treated in our house, the White House.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Roughly 42 million people are at risk of losing critical food assistance in Nov. amid the federal government shutdown. I imagine at least 20 million are MAGA. (20 million is clearly more than 7 million who participated in No Kings.) I wonder how Trump, MAGA will respond?
www.cnn.com/2025/10/18/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/18/p...
Millions of Americans are at risk of losing food stamps next month amid shutdown | CNN Politics
Roughly 42 million people are at risk of losing critical food assistance in November amid the federal government shutdown. And it’s not clear whether the Trump administration will step in to find the ...
www.cnn.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Roughly 42 million people are at risk of losing critical food assistance in Nov. amid the federal government shutdown. I imagine at least 20 million are MAGA. (20 million is clearly more than 7 million who participated in No Kings.) I wonder how Trump, MAGA will respond?
www.cnn.com/2025/10/18/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/18/p...
Trump’s Crackdown on Chinese Students Ignores a Startling New Reality www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Crackdown on Chinese Students Ignores a Startling New Reality
www.nytimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Trump’s Crackdown on Chinese Students Ignores a Startling New Reality www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/o...
Huge congratulations @johanneskleiner.bsky.social ! I am excited to follow and participate in BAMXi’s contributions to #ConSci!
It is an enormous pleasure—and a dream, really—to share that the University of Bamberg has approved an initiative dedicated to mathematical approaches in #ConSci. The initiative is called Bamberg Mathematical Consciousness Science Initiative, or BAMΞ for short.
bamxi.org #BAMΞ @uni-bamberg.de
bamxi.org #BAMΞ @uni-bamberg.de
October 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Huge congratulations @johanneskleiner.bsky.social ! I am excited to follow and participate in BAMXi’s contributions to #ConSci!