Anne-Laure Le Cunff @neuranne
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Anne-Laure Le Cunff @neuranne
Remember that knowledge is a process, not a possession.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Building an Antilibrary: The Power of Unread Books
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“Knowledge is power,” wrote Francis Bacon. But Bacon’s vast knowledge did not keep him from taking bribes and falling into disgrace. Clearly, Bacon’s knowledge did not have the power to save him from himself.[a.] What Bacon overlooked, we now make explicit: Knowledge is useful in the service of an appropriate Model of the Universe[b.] , and not oth
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Sam Lessin on LLMs
Knowledge is a process, not a possession
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Why I have an antilibrary (the power of unread books)
"I grew up implicitly thinking that intelligence was this, like really special human thing and kind of somewhat magical. And I now think that it's sort of a fundamental property of matter..." @sama
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Mark Twain said a century ago, “It’s not what you don’t know that gets you into trouble, it’s what you know for sure that ain’t so.
Tom Kelley • Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All
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I too have tussled with, a decade later, in contemplating the challenge of cultivating wisdom in the age of information, particularly in a media landscape driven by commercial interest whose very business model is predicated on conditioning us to confuse information with meaning. (Why think about what constitutes a great work of art — how it moves ... See more
Maria Popova • Susan Sontag on Storytelling, What It Means to Be a Good Human Being, and Her Advice to Writers
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YOUR BRAIN AS AN ABSTRACTION MACHINE • - I came across this Kerouac quote today and it grabbed me because it captures some of the most fundamental modern understanding about the way our brains work. What he’s referring to here is that when we shut off our perception of the outside world (by closing our eyes and focusing on the sensations occurring within the confines of our skin) we enter what’s called “interoceptive awareness”. - Our brains are remarkable in that we can focus our perception on internal events, a.k.a. interoception or on external events which is called “exteroception”. Most meditative practices involve a shift to the former. - Our brains are also remarkable in that we can focus our perception on the past, the present, or the future, or a combination of those. Most meditative practices also involve directing our focus to the present, again underscoring that we can control our perception to some extent. - Now here’s the remarkable part and the “lesson” I believe Kerouac was referring to: Because your brain is in the confines of your skull (the exception being your eyes which are part of the brain but outside the cranial vault), everything you know and perceive about the outside world is your brain’s abstract representation of what is “out there”. - It FEELS real but it’s just a picture, an abstract movie of what your brain assumes is around you based on your prior experience. And it’s accurate enough that it allowed us to evolve to be the dominant species on the planet, and certainly the best at building technologies. - I never thought of Kerouac as a neuroscientist, but I’m impressed by the amount of modern and accurate neuroscience information this short quote encapsulates. - We can learn a lot about ourselves by deliberately moving our perception from external to internal now and again. That process of shifting gives us a glimpse of how our nervous systems work. - Put any questions you might have in the comments section below this post, and as always, thank you for your interest interest in science! - @hubermanlab @stanford.med @stanford - #neuroscience #science #ciencia #neurociencia
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