Painful Intelligence: What AI can tell us about human suffering
Aapo Hyvärinen's book "Painful Intelligence" models human suffering through AI, exploring its mechanisms and proposing interventions informed by computational neuroscience and philosophies like Buddhism and Stoicism.
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Such findings underscore the well-known fact that there are different dimensions to the experience of pain: the sensory, the emotional, and the cognitive, all of which contribute to the overall sense of suffering that accompanies physical discomfort.
S = P x R. The amount of suffering you experience is equal to the actual pain multiplied by the mind’s resistance to that pain.