We all wonder what babies are thinking when they’re up to their adorable shenanigans‚ and one baby finally gave us a clue in this hilarious video. This oldie-but-goodie TikTok clip is having another round of fame‚ which makes sense because it’s too funny to get old. It shows a little guy named Cason enjoying a meal in his high chair. And he does what so many babies do—throws his food on the floor. In most cases‚ parents think babies are playing a game or learning about cause and effect when they toss toys‚ drinks‚ and snacks‚ but Cason proves that there may be something more nefarious motivating them. @briaallyse I have too much fun with this look #babiesoftiktok #DontDropTheOhYeah #YearOnTikTok #thingsbabiesdo #toddlersoftiktok #whatgangstersdo #momof3 ♬ – The short video shows the aftermath of a particularly messy situation. The baby had tossed cereal‚ fruit‚ and milk on his mom’s wooden floor. He looked upon the mess with his hands clasped and his face twisted into an evil smile as though his plot to creates chaos and messes had been successful. Over 25 million views later‚ and people can’t stop laughing at Cason’s reaction. “My baby cousin does that and we call it his pennywise face ‚” one knowing commenter wrote. “This baby knows something we don’t ‚” someone wrote about the video. “He’s plottin’‚” a commenter joked. “This baby knows something we don’t ‚” someone else laughed. Of course‚ this adorable baby is much sweeter than the video suggests‚ as his mom pointed out in the comments. Though‚ Cason does have a habit of hilariously stirring up trouble. But we think that’s something all babies should do&;#33; @briaallyse #onthisday THREE years HOW&;#33;&;#63; #christmastreeboy #ellendegeneres ♬ original sound – Cannizzaro Fam Remember to share this story with everyone who needs a smile today&;#33; You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Baby’s Evil Plans Are Finally Coming Together In This Hysterical Video  appeared first on InspireMore.

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The Left’s winter of discontent appears to be transitioning into a summer of rage as college campus unrest heats up with the warmer weather. Well-funded and well-organized anti-Israel protests are spreading from one college campus to another. And they are becoming a feature in America’s Democrat-run cities as mobs of radicals have been able to shut down roads‚ bridges‚ busy intersections‚ and businesses with impunity. Unlike in 1968 when similar student unrest was eventually met with force when protests got out of line‚ most of America’s institutions have become willingly or unwillingly helpless in the face of this chaos. There won’t be a Richard Daley-type Democrat to restore order during protests at this year’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Those days are long gone. Good luck to the Windy City. Left-wing political leaders and college administrators have been paralyzed by this threat. Most of their responses have been mealy-mouthed or evasive‚ despite the fact that several protests have turned violent and have been boiling over with antisemitism. They are effectively letting activists have a “heckler’s veto” over their institutions.  When the activists abuse other students and faculty—whose “crimes” are being Jewish or “Zionist”—Ivy League administrators offer hybrid online learning as the solution. Think about that for a moment. The best that these temples of “diversity‚ equity‚ and inclusion” can offer to people who’ve literally been the victims of bigotry and intolerance is COVID-era Zoom learning and canceled graduation ceremonies. In the institutions that pride themselves on being the most academically elite in the world and pillars of diversity and tolerance‚ we see weakness‚ idiocy‚ and hate in the boldest of colors. That’s what is being exposed. And it’s important that they are being exposed‚ because as ridiculous and pathetic as some of the protesters are‚ they wield a disproportionate amount of power. The Ivy League establishment now totally accepts the Left’s moral and ideological framework. All they have to offer in resistance is a few voices on the outside pleading for a return to sanity or feeble attempts to shift blame. My feeling is that these calls for moderation will fall on deaf ears. The Left’s activist base sees blood. They know that the establishment can’t resist kowtowing to their demands—from the presidents of Columbia and Harvard to the president of the United States. Hamas and Iran have called the student radicals “leaders of the future‚” and it’s hard to deny that’s true. Ivy League and other elite colleges have been the pipeline to power in this country. These are the people who will staff the White House and the human resource departments of the world’s largest companies. They are the footsoldiers of the countless nongovernmental organizations that soak up billions of taxpayer and donor dollars to promote left-wing causes. I’d like to point out a few examples of our nation’s “leaders” of the future. Here we have the flag of a terrorist organization. Great stuff: At @Princeton‚ Hezbollah flags. pic.twitter.com/OxvrpxiHQS— Myles McKnight (@MylesJMcKnight) April 25‚ 2024 No big deal‚ just a protest leader calling for mass murder. Oh‚ and he delivered this screed directly to Columbia University administrators‚ and they did nothing: “Zionists don’t deserve to live.”Meet Khymani James‚ a leader of Columbia University’s anti-Israel Gaza Solidarity Encampment.He said this during a live-stream which included a meeting with the school over threatening social media posts. My latest:pic.twitter.com/E0Bv4Etltr— Kassy Akiva (@KassyDillon) April 25‚ 2024 The best and brightest: This lobotomized zombie beat out 95% of people who applied to Columbia https://t.co/r9zq64ifyf— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) April 25‚ 2024 This one really gets me. They don’t even know why they are protesting. You would expect students at New York University and Columbia to‚ like‚ know stuff&;#63; NEW: Pro-Palestine protester has no clue why she is protesting and then asks a friend why they are protesting who also has no clue.Remarkable.Reporter: &;quot;Why are you protesting&;#63;&;quot;Protester: &;quot;Demanding that NYU stops&;#33; I honestly don't know what NYU is doing… Do you know what… pic.twitter.com/cI46n6YNht— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 24‚ 2024 There you have it. This is the Ivy League‚ where nose rings are in‚ facts are out‚ and tuition is nearly $70‚000 a year. Now‚ there are some on the Right who think we spend too much time covering and talking about the current meltdown in higher education. I can understand where they are coming from. Why devote this much time to unrest at privileged universities when we have so many other‚ bigger problems that affect far more people&;#63; Obviously‚ issues like millions of illegal aliens coming into our country‚ a fentanyl and drug crisis that’s destroying the lives of countless young Americans‚ and the mass chemical castration of children based on gender ideology are all much worse problems than whatever civil discord happens at Columbia University or the University of Southern California. However‚ I think it’s important to give continued coverage to the insanity that is tearing away at the Left’s political coalition.  And this is about more than just politics and strategy. It’s about revealing to the world what’s at the heart of our elite institutions. What happens at universities won’t just stay at universities‚ as we should all know at this point. It is‚ after all‚ the universities that are the source of some of the most toxic malignancies in our society. They are at the heart of the cultural revolution. To top it all off‚ it’s these people and failed institutions that now want the American taxpayer to cover some or most of the nearly $2 trillion in student loan debt that’s piled up over recent decades. The message from campus radicals is that America is the “number one terrorist” in the world—now pay off my loans. Maybe it’s universities like Harvard—sitting on a nearly $50 billion endowment—that should foot the bill. Yet‚ the Left wants Americans to pony up for this scam. This is why we need to keep a spotlight on the escalating college campus situation‚ outside of the sanitized lens that most of the left-wing media would like to put on it. We need to let the American people see what’s become of higher education; they need to see what that vision of the world is and how they cope with conflict. If we do‚ maybe more people will open their eyes to the problem and things will finally begin to change. The post Left-Wing Activists Are Showing Who Is Really in Charge on Ivy League Campuses appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Researchers have identified a chemical in the atmosphere of planet K2-18b‚ a substance believed to be linked exclusively to biological processes. This revelation has propelled K2-18b‚ located 124 light years away in the constellation of Leo‚ to the forefront of exoplanetary research. K2-18b‚ a planet with a radius approximately 2.6 times that of Earth‚ orbits a red dwarf star within the region commonly referred to as the habitable zone. This zone is the range of orbits around a star within which a planetary surface can support liquid water given sufficient atmospheric pressure. The excitement among astronomers and astrobiologists peaked when traces of dimethyl sulphide were detected in the planet’s atmosphere back in 2015. This compound‚ typically associated with biological activity‚ has never been observed on another planet until now. The discovery was so unexpected that Dr. Nikku Madhusudhan‚ the lead researcher‚ experienced a week of restless contemplation before sharing the findings with his team. “It was a real shock‚ I had sleepless nights for a week‚” said study leader Dr Nikku Madhusudhan. “That week‚ I didn’t even muster the courage to break it to my own team.” The presence of dimethyl sulphide raises the tantalizing possibility of an ocean brimming with life forms on K2-18b. However‚ the scientific community remains cautiously optimistic as further analysis is required to confirm these initial findings. The James Webb Space Telescope will play a pivotal role in the ongoing investigation. Its advanced instruments are expected to provide a more detailed understanding of the planet’s atmosphere and potential biosignatures. If confirmed‚ it would mark the first detection of life beyond our solar system‚ a milestone in the quest to understand our place in the universe. The research team‚ along with the global scientific community‚ awaits for the next phase of data that could potentially rewrite textbooks. An exclusive interview with Dr. Madhusudhan offers insight into the emotional journey of the discovery and the scientific significance of the findings. The post James Webb telescope to investigate strongest sign of alien life appeared first on Anomalien.com.

Tam Hunt: Why is my awareness here‚ while yours is over there&;#63; Why is the universe split in two for each of us‚ into a subject and an infinity of objects&;#63; How is each of us our own center of experience‚ receiving information about the rest of the world out there&;#63; Why are some things conscious and others apparently not&;#63; Is a rat conscious&;#63; A gnat&;#63; A bacterium&;#63; These questions are all aspects of the ancient “mind-body problem‚” which asks‚ essentially: What is the relationship between mind and matter&;#63; It’s resisted a generally satisfying conclusion for thousands of years. The mind-body problem enjoyed a major rebranding over the last two decades. Now it’s generally known as the “hard problem” of consciousness‚ after philosopher David Chalmers coined this term in a now classic paper and further explored it in his 1996 book‚ “The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory.” Chalmers thought the mind-body problem should be called “hard” in comparison to what‚ with tongue in cheek‚ he called the “easy” problems of neuroscience: How do neurons and the brain work at the physical level&;#63; Of course they’re not actually easy at all. But his point was that they’re relatively easy compared to the truly difficult problem of explaining how consciousness relates to matter. Over the last decade‚ my colleague‚ University of California‚ Santa Barbara psychology professor Jonathan Schooler and I have developed what we call a “resonance theory of consciousness.” We suggest that resonance – another word for synchronized vibrations – is at the heart of not only human consciousness but also animal consciousness and of physical reality more generally. It sounds like something the hippies might have dreamed up – it’s all vibrations‚ man&;#33; – but stick with me. All about the vibrations All things in our universe are constantly in motion‚ vibrating. Even objects that appear to be stationary are in fact vibrating‚ oscillating‚ resonating‚ at various frequencies. Resonance is a type of motion‚ characterized by oscillation between two states. And ultimately all matter is just vibrations of various underlying fields. As such‚ at every scale‚ all of nature vibrates. Something interesting happens when different vibrating things come together: They will often start‚ after a little while‚ to vibrate together at the same frequency. They “sync up‚” sometimes in ways that can seem mysterious. This is described as the phenomenon of spontaneous self-organization. Mathematician Steven Strogatz provides various examples from physics‚ biology‚ chemistry and neuroscience to illustrate “sync” – his term for resonance – in his 2003 book “Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe‚ Nature‚ and Daily Life‚” including: – When fireflies of certain species come together in large gatherings‚ they start flashing in sync‚ in ways that can still seem a little mystifying. Lasers are produced when photons of the same power and frequency sync up. – The moon’s rotation is exactly synced with its orbit around the Earth such that we always see the same face. – Examining resonance leads to potentially deep insights about the nature of consciousness and about the universe more generally. Sync inside your skull Neuroscientists have identified sync in their research‚ too. Large-scale neuron firing occurs in human brains at measurable frequencies‚ with mammalian consciousness thought to be commonly associated with various kinds of neuronal sync. For example‚ German neurophysiologist Pascal Fries has explored the ways in which various electrical patterns sync in the brain to produce different types of human consciousness. Fries focuses on gamma‚ beta and theta waves. These labels refer to the speed of electrical oscillations in the brain‚ measured by electrodes placed on the outside of the skull. Groups of neurons produce these oscillations as they use electrochemical impulses to communicate with each other. It’s the speed and voltage of these signals that‚ when averaged‚ produce EEG waves that can be measured at signature cycles per second. Gamma waves are associated with large-scale coordinated activities like perception‚ meditation or focused consciousness; beta with maximum brain activity or arousal; and theta with relaxation or daydreaming. These three wave types work together to produce‚ or at least facilitate‚ various types of human consciousness‚ according to Fries. But the exact relationship between electrical brain waves and consciousness is still very much up for debate. Fries calls his concept “communication through coherence.” For him‚ it’s all about neuronal synchronization. Synchronization‚ in terms of shared electrical oscillation rates‚ allows for smooth communication between neurons and groups of neurons. Without this kind of synchronized coherence‚ inputs arrive at random phases of the neuron excitability cycle and are ineffective‚ or at least much less effective‚ in communication. A resonance theory of consciousness Our resonance theory builds upon the work of Fries and many others‚ with a broader approach that can help to explain not only human and mammalian consciousness‚ but also consciousness more broadly. Based on the observed behavior of the entities that surround us‚ from electrons to atoms to molecules‚ to bacteria to mice‚ bats‚ rats‚ and on‚ we suggest that all things may be viewed as at least a little conscious. This sounds strange at first blush‚ but “panpsychism” – the view that all matter has some associated consciousness – is an increasingly accepted position with respect to the nature of consciousness. The panpsychist argues that consciousness did not emerge at some point during evolution. Rather‚ it’s always associated with matter and vice versa – they’re two sides of the same coin. But the large majority of the mind associated with the various types of matter in our universe is extremely rudimentary. An electron or an atom‚ for example‚ enjoys just a tiny amount of consciousness. But as matter becomes more interconnected and rich‚ so does the mind‚ and vice versa‚ according to this way of thinking. Biological organisms can quickly exchange information through various biophysical pathways‚ both electrical and electrochemical. Non-biological structures can only exchange information internally using heat/thermal pathways – much slower and far less rich in information in comparison. Living things leverage their speedier information flows into larger-scale consciousness than what would occur in similar-size things like boulders or piles of sand‚ for example. There’s much greater internal connection and thus far more “going on” in biological structures than in a boulder or a pile of sand. Under our approach‚ boulders and piles of sand are “mere aggregates‚” just collections of highly rudimentary conscious entities at the atomic or molecular level only. That’s in contrast to what happens in biological life forms where the combinations of these micro-conscious entities together create a higher level macro-conscious entity. For us‚ this combination process is the hallmark of biological life. The central thesis of our approach is this: the particular linkages that allow for large-scale consciousness – like those humans and other mammals enjoy – result from a shared resonance among many smaller constituents. The speed of the resonant waves that are present is the limiting factor that determines the size of each conscious entity in each moment. As a particular shared resonance expands to more and more constituents‚ the new conscious entity that results from this resonance and combination grows larger and more complex. So the shared resonance in a human brain that achieves gamma synchrony‚ for example‚ includes a far larger number of neurons and neuronal connections than is the case for beta or theta rhythms alone. What about larger inter-organism resonance like the cloud of fireflies with their little lights flashing in sync&;#63; Researchers think their bioluminescent resonance arises due to internal biological oscillators that automatically result in each firefly syncing up with its neighbors. Is this group of fireflies enjoying a higher level of group consciousness&;#63; Probably not‚ since we can explain the phenomenon without recourse to any intelligence or consciousness. But in biological structures with the right kind of information pathways and processing power‚ these tendencies toward self-organization can and often do produce larger-scale conscious entities. Our resonance theory of consciousness attempts to provide a unified framework that includes neuroscience‚ as well as more fundamental questions of neurobiology and biophysics‚ and also the philosophy of mind. It gets to the heart of the differences that matter when it comes to consciousness and the evolution of physical systems. It is all about vibrations‚ but it’s also about the type of vibrations and‚ most importantly‚ about shared vibrations. Tam Hunt‚ affiliate guest in Jonathan Schooler’s META Lab in UC Santa Barbara’s Psychological and Brain Sciences Department. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The post Even stones may have consciousness‚ scientists study new theory appeared first on Anomalien.com.

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