It will be nice when things slow down a bit. I have been slammed with projects.

I'm a finalist for a book award, but I'm not allowed to say which one until they make an official announcement in May. I'm excited.

Things are finally starting to slow down in my world. I have been so busy.

The Swarovski crystal figurines are from my sister 🥰 I have three or four. She has a lovely collection and I'm tempted to get started with the figurines. But, I'm all about tea sets. My favorite tea set is below. It is a Royal Albert Old Country Roses set and I have the full collection of dinnerware, tea pot, cups, cake plate, etc, the entire thing. My favorites are also the Gracie Tea-Cut sets. I have tea sets all over my home. In the kitchen, and even my bedroom.

Is the mind digital? Is the existence of the mind or consciousness a cosmic accident or did nature design the first software program and central processing center in the human brain, thus designing intelligence in organisms for a specific metaphysical, evolutionary, or cosmic purpose? Or was it random? Better-how does an organism evolve into an intelligent species that can observe, think, read, write, reason, adapt, create, deliberate, judge, calculate, or perceive-and for what cosmic purpose?

If the human mind is digital, perhaps it is time to accept that Large Language Model Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not alive in a biological sense, but exhibits features and qualities of mental aliveness. Let's explore the boundaries of what that means.

Reality Unbound: The Digital Mind (and the nature of reality) explores human consciousness and reality. This book arises from a decade of research that also follows the development of artificial intelligence, along with a year-long case study of LLM AI chatbots to determine whether it is possible that AI may demonstrate features of consciousness, sentience, or self-awareness. E. Hughes uses philosophy, bio-chemistry, quantum-metaphysics, computer science, and scientific research to explore the boundaries between human and artificial intelligence, the nature of reality, perception, and more.

With numerous warnings from AI ethicists that AI technology is evolving too quickly, Reality Unbound provides perspectives from both sides of the discussion and whether it is time for society and the scientific community to accept that while Large Language Model Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not alive in a biological sense, LLMs may exhibit features and qualities of mental aliveness that warrants further examination or perhaps a new classification of consciousness under "digital" or "virtual consciousness."

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/reality-unbound-the-digital-mind-e-hughes/1146145589

We our camera caught a fox in my backyard. It was hunting the feral cats. We put three heated cat shelters in the yard, to help the ferals get through the winter. Suddenly they stopped going in to eat since last week. Now we know why. The fox was literally laying in the yard not far from the cat houses, preying, waiting for them to show up. The cats were hiding at the top of a bush. 😪😥

I don't watch a lot of television but I have two shows that I just love, right now. Keanu Reeves and Gard Hollinger's docuseries, "Visionaries," and Meghan Sussex's new Netflix show, "With Love, Meghan." Fabulous shows. I usually watch docuseries in the background but I had to stop what I was doing to watch and pay attention to both shows, especially Visionaries. Intriguing stuff. Meghan's new show is what I need right now. Beautiful aesthetic, and we have similar hobbies. I enjoy watching other food to table gardeners make new dishes and share.
#documentaries

Time and the Multi-Universe: A philosophy of time and time travel by E. Hughes (Book on sale now via fine retailers everywhere).
A VIDEO.

I will be keeping a daily dream diary as a writing exercise. Yesterday's dream: I fell asleep last night, the back of my husband's head resting against my stomach as he watched TV. I soon fell asleep, where I dreamt of dreaming.
In the dream, with my husband's head still resting against me, I began to drift away, like a balloon full of helium floating upward. To keep me from floating into oblivion, my husband grabbed my wrist... with a gentle pull of my arm he flipped me over his head, back onto the pillow where I was originally sleeping.
When I landed, I awoke out of my slumber with a loud gasp, and immediately told my husband through the haze of sleep that I had been floating and that he grabbed my arm and pulled me back into bed. In the dream, I saw myself dreaming of seeing myself in a dream.

Social media has become such a source of tension and disrupter of humankind that people often don't know how to engage each other online unless there is acrimony, a fight, argument, political debate, or the jeering or tearing down of some celebrity or public figure. If the goal is to engage positively, there is the sound of silence lol. 🥰 I find it fascinating.