Christina Fedor
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Christina Fedor
“The art of paying attention, the great art,” says the philosopher Alain (1868–1951), “supposes the art of not paying attention, which is the royal art.”
Stanislas Dehaene • How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine …
Digital sleep clinic | Dreem Health
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Essays on health technologies and Silicon Valley’s obsession with engineering bodies and minds, from the critic formerly known as “ed-tech’s Cassandra”
Second Breakfast
Because these feeling tones—pleasant, unpleasant, neutral—condition the reactions of our mind. And then the actions we take. And then the karmic consequences of the actions. It all begins with feeling. ... Now what’s so interesting about the nature of these feelings ... is that when we’re unmindful, they condition these unwholesome roots. Of
... See moreClune also stresses the importance of thinking about the ethics of the new technology from the start. There is a good chance that AI-designed neural networks and algorithms will be even harder to understand than today’s already opaque black-box systems.
Will Douglas Heaven • AI is learning how to create itself
n a modern society pecular aims need to be given out which are linked with the concentration of attention, the segregation of various fragments and various subject in the perception field as a particular example is computerisation. DCA is a counterprocess. The stable deconcentrative conditions in definite terms are appeared at the influence of the... See more
Natalia Molchanova • The freediver's psychological training
Attention Deconcentration
The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science for Greater Mindfulness
John Yates • 1 highlight
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Much of Buddhist philosophy centers around this same idea, this balance between what’s being phrased as “intention” and “attention” – our intentional curiosity about knowledge and growth, and our choice of where to focus our awareness, what to pay attention to.