Sand cat (Felis margarita): Off University Spotlight - 'Off-University creates new strategies to uphold and sustain academic life and knowledge threatened by anti-democratic and authoritarian regimes. It was established for and by academics from Turkey yet addresses itself to academics all over the world' * Grüße Julia, @StrutzJulia kennst du kostenlose ocw.mit.edu centric #WUaSwiki Turkey @WorldUnivAndSch https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Turkey, geplant auf Türkisch -https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Turkish_language?

Hi Team, Julia Strutz (is that your Twitter feed in the set of Twitter posts below?:), All, 

Greetings from MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, planning accrediting online major universities in Turkey and in all 200 countries, and in their main languages for free-to-students' Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD, IB high school/similar, AA, and Master's degrees. Thanks to PubPub for sharing this article about Off-University. How might we best communicate further?

Found these resources online about Off-University and you - 

julia.strutz@hu-berlin.de, mail@off-university.de, mail@replito.de

https://www.iaaw.hu-berlin.de/de/querschnitt/medialitaet/querschnitt/personen/dr-julia-strutz


Die "Off-University": Eine Online-Uni für entlassene türkische Forscher
Das Erdogan-Regime hat tausende Wissenschaftler auf die Straße gesetzt. Nun wollen sie mit Hilfe deutscher Kollegen im Internet weiterhin Seminare anbieten, sagt Initiatorin Julia Strutz im DW-Interview.


The "Off-University": An online university for dismissed Turkish researchers
The Erdogan regime has put thousands of scientists on the streets. Now, with the help of German colleagues, they want to continue offering seminars online, says initiator Julia Strutz in a DW interview.

https://www.dw.com/de/die-off-university-eine-online-uni-für-entlassene-türkische-forscher/a-40817660

https://help.pubpub.org/pub/7ahjgmvj/release/1

https://off-university.com/en-US/Lesson/Detail/introduction-to-postcolonial-and-decolonial-theory?i=1152

Grüße Julia, @StrutzJulia kennst du kostenlose ocw.mit.edu centric #WUaSwiki Turkey @WorldUnivAndSch https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Turkey, geplant auf Türkisch -https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Turkish_language? Ich habe auf #PubPub von #OffUniversity @off_university https://help.pubpub.org/pub/7ahjgmvj/release/1 & dir erfahren.



https://mobile.twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1635660104916774914

Academic Press at World Univ & Sch planned with machine translation too in all 7151 living languages
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1635662700377255941


Languages at World Univ & Sch - planning all 7151 known living languages, each a wiki school for open teaching and learning -

Grüße Julia, @StrutzJulia kennst du kostenlose https://t.co/7wfvxKn0r3 centric #WUaSwiki Turkey @WorldUnivAndSchhttps://t.co/Q1YwQTHUfu, geplant auf Türkisch -https://t.co/3xoMHAtNmI? Ich habe auf #PubPub von #OffUniversity@off_universityhttps://t.co/u5T5fFiArM& dir erfahren.

— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) March 14, 2023

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1635659870132215813?s=20


https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1635662405186330624

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1635663072210681856

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1635663392710053888

Grüße Julia, @StrutzJulia kennst du kostenlose ocw.mit.edu centric #WUaSwiki Turkey @WorldUnivAndSch https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Turkey, geplant auf Türkisch -https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Turkish_language? Ich habe auf #PubPub von #OffUniversity @off_university https://help.pubpub.org/pub/7ahjgmvj/release/1 & dir erfahren.

Grüße Julia, @StrutzJulia kennst du kostenlose https://t.co/M2OWxg1nEj centric #WUaSwiki Turkey @WorldUnivAndSchhttps://t.co/FbURSwVuc8, geplant auf Türkisch -https://t.co/RZZBgLn2Mt? Ich habe auf #PubPub von #OffUniversity@off_universityhttps://t.co/hMhci6lJTk& dir erfahren.

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 14, 2023

https://mobile.twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1635660104916774914

Academic Press at World Univ & Sch planned with machine translation too in all 7151 living languages
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1635662700377255941

Languages at World Univ & Sch - planning all 7151 known living languages, each a wiki school for open teaching and learning -

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1635659870132215813?s=20


https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1635662405186330624

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1635663072210681856

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1635663392710053888

With 

206 NOCs

This is a list of nations, as represented by National Olympic Committees (NOCs), that have participated in the Summer Olympic Games

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_participating_nations_at_the_Summer_Olympic_Games#:~:text=This%20is%20a%20list%20of,editions%20of%20the%20Olympic%20Games.

What does David Chalmers think about consciousness?


David Chalmers is a prominent philosopher of mind who is best known for his work on the problem of consciousness. He is a leading proponent of the view that consciousness is a fundamental aspect of reality that cannot be reduced to or explained by physical processes.

Chalmers is perhaps most famous for his formulation of the "hard problem of consciousness," which is the problem of explaining how subjective experience arises from objective physical processes. Chalmers argues that this problem is so difficult that it cannot be solved by current scientific methods, and he proposes that we need to develop new explanatory principles and perhaps even a new science of consciousness to fully understand the nature of conscious experience.

Chalmers has also developed a number of other influential ideas in the philosophy of mind, including the concept of the "zombie argument," which is a thought experiment designed to show that consciousness cannot be explained by physical processes alone. He has also explored the relationship between consciousness and information processing, and has proposed that consciousness may be a fundamental aspect of the universe, much like space and time.





David Chalmers is a philosopher and cognitive scientist who is well-known for his work on the nature of consciousness. He is credited with coining the term "hard problem of consciousness" to describe the challenge of explaining why and how subjective experiences arise from neural activity in the brain.

Chalmers argues that consciousness is a fundamental aspect of reality, which cannot be reduced to or explained solely in terms of physical processes. He distinguishes between the "easy problems" of consciousness, such as the ability to discriminate, categorize, and react to environmental stimuli, which he believes can be explained by cognitive science, and the "hard problem" of explaining why and how these cognitive processes give rise to subjective experiences.

Chalmers is a proponent of a dualistic view of consciousness, which holds that consciousness is not reducible to or identical with physical processes in the brain, but rather exists as a separate ontological category. He also explores the possibility that consciousness is a fundamental feature of the universe, akin to space and time, and that it may have its own fundamental laws and principles.

Overall, Chalmers' views on consciousness have been influential in shaping the debate around the nature of subjective experience and the limits of scientific explanation.

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David Chalmers
@davidchalmers42

what are some new and interesting results about the relative capacities of multimodal models and pure language models on the same (text) tasks?

(yes, i just happen to be thinking about "do language models need sensory grounding for meaning and understanding?".)

https://twitter.com/davidchalmers42/status/1635696511840399360?s=20



David Chalmers
@davidchalmers42

the new GPT-4 data seem quite relevant here: the version with vision only slightly outperforms the language-only version on some standard tests.

https://twitter.com/davidchalmers42/status/1635701588823080960?s=20

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#KYRepSen #MitchMcConnell was in hospital & now is out. As possibly the only realistic Republican contender for #USpresidency in 2024, could his hospitalization have helped him dodge a #RepiblicanPartyLeaders' bullet to get him to run To wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Political… @WorldUnivAndSch?

Dear Tom McLeod, (& Mark MacLeod, my 1st cousin, in Portland Maine, and in Newfoundland, Canada),

Greetings in Alabama, from Pittsburgh, PA, (and the SF Bay Area California). I've seen your McLeodSoftware.com sign on many trucks both driving across the country, and most recently, in western Pennsylvania, where I looked up your website on my smartphone.

I just tried to enter the following information into the form that had popped up from your website on my smartphone, but couldn't enter all the information, since the form didn't work:

Tom McLeod, President and CEO of McLeod Software 

Twitter - Getting to the point where driverless technology is ready for you to order driverless car

Getting to the point where driverless technology is ready for you to order driverless car via your smartphone & it drives you to your destination autonomously (level 5) won't likely become a reality until 2040 or later - https://www.imaginationtech.com/future-of-automotive/when-will-autonomous-cars-be-available/https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Electric_and_Hybrid_Vehicles @WUaSPress ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1635377201746182144

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1635406584783474691?s=20

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1635407019585990657?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1635406774806384640?s=20

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1635406832671019008?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1635406710360920065?s=20