Category Archives: Life

Remembering The Future – Precognition and The Illusion of Time

Illustration for 'Remembering The Future - Precognition and The Illusion of Time' showing a slender young infant with long brown hair standing in a house corridor experiencing a moment of precognition. Artwork: NaturPhilosophie with AI

Neuroscience says memory can reconstruct the past, but what if it can also sometimes build the future? If time is like a river, perhaps consciousness is a boat that drifts upstream, carrying fragments of tomorrow disguised as déjà vu. Is it really possible to remember the future?

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Consciousness Beyond The Brain: Inside The Radical Scientific Theory Rewriting Reality

Digital illustration of a glowing human silhouette, sitting in a yoga pose, meditating, woven into a cosmic fabric of golden threads and stars. The radiant figure is embedded in a grid-like structure symbolizing consciousness forming space and time, set against a deep blue star-filled universe. Conceptual art representing consciousness as the foundation of reality in a cosmic setting. Artwork: NaturPhilosophie with AI

What happens when we die? This spiritual question has haunted humanity since the dawn of thought. Yet despite centuries of soul-searching, the mystery of consciousness remains unsolved.

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The Lament O’ The Late Train (Or: Get Yer Money Back, Ya Bassa!)

Cartoon illustration of The NaturPhilosopher, a young woman with long brown hair, singing and playing a banjo at Glasgow Central Station. She wears a white top, blue jeans, and brown boots, performing in front of an Avanti West Coast train. The scene humorously critiques train refund frustrations through Scottish folk music styling. Cartoon: NaturPhilosophie with AI

(To be sung with a twinkle in the eye, a very loud, drawn-out groan… and a long neck banjo)

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Stranded Ghost Ships and Disappearing Seas

Stranded Ghost Ships and Disappearing Seas Artwork: NaturPhilosophie with AI

Once vast and shimmering lakes, some of the World’s greatest inland seas are now vanishing before our eyes. This is not just a story of receding shorelines, but a planetary warning.

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Seriously Strange Metals: The Quantum Rebels of Condensed Matter Physics

"Strange Metals and the Quantum Ocean", an illustration. Artwork: NaturPhilosophie with AI

In the classical world of materials science, metals are well-behaved. Their electrons follow predictable rules, their resistivity scales with temperature in a quadratic fashion, and their behaviour is neatly captured by Fermi liquid theory. But in the quantum realm…

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Passing Field Stars and The Three-Body Problem

An illustration for "Passing Stars -The Three-Body Problem" shows the looming threat of a passing field star, with its gravitational pull distorting the solar system and endangering Earth.
Artwork: NaturPhilosophie with AI

For billions of years, the Earth has remained relatively stable within our solar system. However, astrophysical simulations do suggest that this tranquility may not last forever.

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The Message to Voyager

A realistic rendition of the Voyager space probe launched in 1977, as it continues its journey through interstellar space away from our Solar system. Artwork: NaturPhilosophie with AI

In 1977, humankind sent a machine into the interstellar void to tell the Universe who we were. Now, 48 years later, the void may have answered with a message to Voyager…

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Dating Rocks – Methods of Historical Surface Exposure Analysis

Dating Rocks with Cosmogenic Nuclides Artwork: NaturPhilosophie with AI

Our Earth is constantly bombarded with high energy particles and cosmic rays.  These charged particles interact with the atoms in atmospheric gases, producing a cascade of secondary particles.  And you can use those for dating rocks! 

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Zero Point Energy and The Vacuum of Space

Zero Point Energy - The Energy of the Vacuum and Black Holes Artwork: NaturPhilosophie with AI

According to whom you ask, Zero Point Energy can do everything… or nothing at all.  But what is it?  Something that pervades all of space, albeit on a microscale?  The kinetic energy a molecule does retain, even when cooled down to absolute zero?  And could it offer us a source of unlimited energy? 

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Neural Oscillations – Are You Having a Brain Wave?

Brain wave or not brain wave? - Ideation Artwork: NaturPhilosophie

The brain is a bio-chemical organ that emanates electromagnetic waves.  That little, we do know.  And brainwaves are linked to cognitive states from awareness and consciousness, to dream states.  But what are their particularities?  And are brain waves modulated by external frequencies?

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