Essentia Foundation
"we aim to create intellectual space and legitimacy for the notion that, at its most fundamental level, all reality unfolds in an extended field of mentation" -- essentiafoundation.org
Science
Itzhak Bentov
Priority request. "was a Czechoslovakia-born Israeli-American scientist, inventor, mystic and author. His many inventions, including the steerable cardiac catheter, helped pioneer the biomedical engineering industry" -- wikipedia.
correlation of psychiatric pharmaceuticals for adolescents and school shootings
Request: the school shooting phenomenon seems to coincide with increased adolescent use of antidepressant and antipsychotic medications. Is there a connection?
Veritasium (YouTube channel)
Science and math channel with 11 million subscribers and 1.4 billion views (as of 2021). Sample video included.
level: consciousness is quantum in nature
Request: Quantum physics suggests that everything in the physical world can be broken down into discrete quanta, of which any further division is impossible... [e.g. a string's vibration] can only exist in either the fundamental frequency, or a discrete harmonic of that fundamental.
Foundation Books (Asimov)
Request: There is a current Apple TV series which you have calibrated purporting to be based upon these book. Values portrayed in the show are nothing like those portrayed in the books.
dogma
A principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true.
probablistic causation
Informally, A probabilistically causes B if A's occurrence increases the probability of B. This is sometimes interpreted to reflect imperfect knowledge of a deterministic system... [or] that the causal system under study has an inherently indeterministic nature -- wikipedia.
number of civilizations in the Milky Way
Priority request: Yes, life is intrinsic to the universe, nonetheless I'm curious if there are other civilizations out there or if humanity "is alone".
Michael Raduga's lucid dreaming research
Priority request. 33 publications on researchgate.net.
the study of consciousness
Interdisciplinary field that integrates psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, cognitive science, computer science, and other disciplines to understand the nature of subjective experience and awareness -- Brave AI.
permaculture
Agriculture "concept in opposition to Western industrialized methods and in congruence with Indigenous or traditional knowledge" -- wikipedia.
central nervous system
The part of the nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord, the retina and optic nerve, and the olfactory nerve and epithelia -- wikipedia.
mathematics
"the science of structure, order, and relation that... deals with logical reasoning and quantitative calculation, and its development has involved an increasing degree of idealization and abstraction of its subject matter" -- britannica.
quantum computing
Current capacity of using the "collective properties of quantum states, such as superposition and entanglement, to perform computation."