What is Mind?
Consciousness was not some substance in the brain but rather emerged from the complex relationships between the subject and the world. It was part alchemy, part illusion, a collaborative effort that obliterated our standard delineations between self and other. As Brooks put it, “Intelligence is in the eye of the observer.” —
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Your Mind Is Part of the Ecosystem
thereader.mitpress.mit.eduThe Transcendent Brain: The Poetic Physicist Alan Lightman on Spirituality for the Science-Spirited
Maria Popovathemarginalian.orgHindu Vedānta Society of New York, a vice president at Google working on fundamental research in AI and Artificial Life, and a theoretical physicist interested in the foundations of quantum mechanics. From these very different cultural perspectives, we discuss certain similarities and resonance