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I have been fortunate to be have been alive for a while now but have never got around to going to see a total eclipse until 12 August this year. It was, in my view, well worth the trouble and expense.
Caspar Henderson
British writer and journalist on science, the environment and human rights; author of The Book of Barely Imagined Beings (2012), A New Map of Wonders (2017) and A Book of Noises (2023).
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What they believe
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Seeing a total solar eclipse is well worth the trouble and expense.
I have been fortunate to be have been alive for a while now but have never got around to going to see a total eclipse until 12 August this year. It was, in my view, well worth the trouble and expense.
fullofnoises.substack.comSaid 3 Sept 2026This on korrents
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The idea that AI can become sentient or conscious is ill-founded.
My baseline assumption for some time has been that the idea that AI can become sentient or conscious (at least in the ways humans and [some/other/many] non human beings are) is ill-founded.
fullofnoises.substack.comSaid 31 May 2026This on korrents
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From one piece Sounding Off 2 beliefs · fullofnoises.substack.com
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I realise my assumption may be wrong, and that things change, but right now it looks as if the question of whether or not AI is actually capable of becoming sentient, and if so how far along that road things may be, is fast becoming (almost) beside the point.
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My baseline assumption for some time has been that the idea that AI can become sentient or conscious (at least in the ways humans and [some/other/many] non human beings are) is ill-founded.
11 April 2024
From one piece Deep Listening, and Grön Musik 2 beliefs · fullofnoises.substack.com
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korrents.com
Ray Kurzweil's prediction of brain-scanning nanobots in our bloodstreams by 2030 is a stretch.Their words
There’s a mention of a prediction by Ray Kurzweil that by 2030 nanobots will be swimming through our bloodstreams and scanning our brains from the inside. This sounded like a stretch to me in 2010, and more so today.
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korrents.com
Many works with “quantum” in the title are woo.Their words
I am wary of works with ‘quantum’ in the title because many of them are woo.
30 January 2024
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Their words
Music, by its nature, is all about flow and becoming.
"The world is more a dance than an equation"fullofnoises.substack.com
5 October 2023
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
The Great Animal OrchestraTheir words
He has made an important contribution to documenting that change, and The Great Animal Orchestra is an excellent introduction to his work.
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
The Sounds of LifeTheir words
This is, as I said, a rich field, and in addition to The Sounds of Life, I recommend Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction by David George Haskell.
2 November 2017
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
The Sense of WonderTheir words
The Sense of Wonder is a short piece, barely more than an essay really, though it exists in book form, and it’s essentially just a celebration of being in the world.
28 May 2013
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
Natural HistoryTheir words
The Natural History, written before 79 AD, is one of the key works of European Classical Antiquity, a foundation of the tradition that later became known as natural philosophy and that we now call science.
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
The Descent of ManTheir words
The Descent of Man develops a fuller conception of how natural selection works.
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
The DeepTheir words
Claire Nouvian’s The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss is a large format, full colour bestiary of the real, containing photographs of a couple of hundred among the countless astonishing creatures that live beneath the shallow sunlit layer at the top of the world ocean.
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
Storms of My GrandchildrenTheir words
But if I had to recommend just one book it would be James Hansen’s Storms of My Grandchildren because it is, simultaneously, a good introduction to the science, a first-hand account of what it’s like to be on the receiving end of attempted sabotage by political operatives who know nothing about the science, and a very human call for action.
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Korrents What they believe 6 beliefs — each backed by an exact quote.
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Seeing a total solar eclipse is well worth the trouble and expense.
I have been fortunate to be have been alive for a while now but have never got around to going to see a total eclipse until 12 August this year. It was, in my view, well worth the trouble and expense.
Totality Said 3 Sept 2026
The idea that AI can become sentient or conscious is ill-founded.
My baseline assumption for some time has been that the idea that AI can become sentient or conscious (at least in the ways humans and [some/other/many] non human beings are) is ill-founded.
Sounding Off Said 31 May 2026
Whether AI can really become sentient is fast becoming almost beside the point, because AI that seems conscious is already here.
I realise my assumption may be wrong, and that things change, but right now it looks as if the question of whether or not AI is actually capable of becoming sentient, and if so how far along that road things may be, is fast becoming (almost) beside the point.
Sounding Off Said 31 May 2026
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Many works with “quantum” in the title are woo.
I am wary of works with ‘quantum’ in the title because many of them are woo.
Deep Listening, and Grön Musik Said 11 Apr 2024
Ray Kurzweil's prediction of brain-scanning nanobots in our bloodstreams by 2030 is a stretch.
There’s a mention of a prediction by Ray Kurzweil that by 2030 nanobots will be swimming through our bloodstreams and scanning our brains from the inside. This sounded like a stretch to me in 2010, and more so today.
Deep Listening, and Grön Musik Said 11 Apr 2024
Music, by its nature, is all about flow and becoming.
Music, by its nature, is all about flow and becoming.
"The world is more a dance than an equation" Said 30 Jan 2024
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Recommends The Sounds of Life
This is, as I said, a rich field, and in addition to The Sounds of Life, I recommend Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction by David George Haskell.
fivebooks.com 5 Oct 2023
Recommends The Great Animal Orchestra
He has made an important contribution to documenting that change, and The Great Animal Orchestra is an excellent introduction to his work.
fivebooks.com 5 Oct 2023
Recommends The Sense of Wonder
The Sense of Wonder is a short piece, barely more than an essay really, though it exists in book form, and it’s essentially just a celebration of being in the world.
fivebooks.com 2 Nov 2017
Show 4 more
Recommends Storms of My Grandchildren
But if I had to recommend just one book it would be James Hansen’s Storms of My Grandchildren because it is, simultaneously, a good introduction to the science, a first-hand account of what it’s like to be on the receiving end of attempted sabotage by political operatives who know nothing about the science, and a very human call for action.
fivebooks.com 28 May 2013
Recommends The Deep
Claire Nouvian’s The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss is a large format, full colour bestiary of the real, containing photographs of a couple of hundred among the countless astonishing creatures that live beneath the shallow sunlit layer at the top of the world ocean.
fivebooks.com 28 May 2013
Recommends The Descent of Man
The Descent of Man develops a fuller conception of how natural selection works.
fivebooks.com 28 May 2013
Recommends Natural History
The Natural History, written before 79 AD, is one of the key works of European Classical Antiquity, a foundation of the tradition that later became known as natural philosophy and that we now call science.
fivebooks.com 28 May 2013
Where they publish
Newsletter Full of Noises Essays on sound, wonder and the living world
Open fullofnoises.substack.com
Link verified 1 Nov 2026.
Newsletter The Kinetikon His newsletter of short essays
Open thekinetikon.substack.com
Link verified 1 Nov 2026.
Bluesky casparhenderson.bsky.social Posts on science, nature and wonder
Link verified 1 Nov 2026.
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