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Wolfgang Schwarz
Personal blog · umsu.dephilosophymath
Wolfgang Schwarz writes wo's weblog, a personal blog at umsu.de about philosophy and math. Since 2014, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “The lure of free energy (2013)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked on HN as a source in discussions of consciousness and physics, where the posts address the philosophy of mind and whether science can explain how conscious beings arose.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The lure of free energy (2013)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-06-24
What Hacker News says?
>Physics and the other hard sciences do not seem to lend a lot of clarity as to how a self-organizing piece of the universe developed into beings that believe themselves to be conscious Look, the theories aren't definitive yet, but we've definitely got them: http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/10/86/2013047... https://www.umsu.de/wo/2013/600 >believe they in some sense have the power of mind-over-matter A…
Comment linking /wo/2013/600
on “Consciousness and its Place in Nature (2002)”Submitted On Functional Decision Theory as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tree proof (semantic tableau) generator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The lure of free energy (2013) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Time Consistency and Stationarity (2017) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tree Proof Generator as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
