Alxat Akbar
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Alxat Akbar
It is a hard task to tend directly to our interpersonal reality without the mediating narrative framework. The epistemology we live in demands that we treat the intersubjective as objective—that is to say, we expect and are expected to treat social knowledge as factual reality, without regard for our personal epistemic distance from the content.... See more
Everyone’s Existential Crisis
We mistake our immediate perceptions for the world-as-it-is – but really, our conscious awareness is a moment-by-moment model, a constant process of re-appraisal and re-integration with the world as it presents itself to us. In this way, our internal model of the world, our consciousness, shapes the world in the same way and just as powerfully as
... See moreJames Bridle • Ways of Being: Beyond Human Intelligence
"the question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
- edsger dijkstra
Yet, as we shall see, there are in fact many ways of doing intelligence, because intelligence is an active process, not just a mental capacity. By rethinking intelligence, and the forms in which it appears in other beings, we will begin to break down some of the barriers and false hierarchies that separate us from other species and the world. In
... See moreJames Bridle • Ways of Being: Beyond Human Intelligence
the effect of closing the gap/ accepting The Entaglement
In the context of such dependence on our manufactured experience, it’s quite alarming to realize that there’s much more going on under the hood of the skull than we might intuitively assume. Sure, perhaps we’ve come to accept on some level — whether through a meditation practice or cognitive behavioral therapy — that our thoughts are not us , that... See more
Is your mind a habitable illusion?
If human beliefs, emotions, and opinions emerge from neural processes that are themselves continuously shaped by environmental and social conditions, then differences in perspective are not merely ideological or moral, but neuro-developmental and situational. Yet in everyday thinking, people rarely interpret disagreement, identity, or social... See more
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Entagelment resistance question prompt draft 1
If beliefs, values, and standpoints emerge from radically different and unstable neural configurations, then disagreement is not merely ideological or moral — it is ontological and cognitive.
And that threatens how humans understand responsibility, identity, and meaning.
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Entagelment resistance question core draft 1
- Human opinions, emotions, and beliefs arise from neural activity.
- Neural structures are shaped by environment (including genetics).
- Environments are shaped by collective human behavior.
- Therefore, there is a recursive, co-developing entanglement between brain, belief, and social reality.
- Despite this, people tend not to interpret disagreement,
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Entagelment resistance question reasoning draft 1
Why do people resist thinking of themselves and others as products of continuously shifting neural configurations that co-produce opinions, emotions, beliefs, and social divisions?
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Entagelment resistance question draft 1