consciousness
Tanuj and
consciousness
It is predictable, then, that users are consistently fooled into believing that their AI companions are conscious persons, capable of feeling real emotions.
The Illusion of Consciousness in AI Companionship — PRISM
Charles Broskoski on self-discovery that happens upon revisiting things you’ve accumulated over time
Laurel Schwulstthecreativeindependent.comwe now have growing reasons to suspect that agency is a genuine natural phenomenon. Biology could stop being so coy about it if only we had a proper theory of how it arises. Unfortunately, no such thing currently exists, but there’s increasing optimism that a theory of agency can be found – and, moreover, that it’s not necessarily unique to living... See more
Philip Ball • Life With Purpose
Nobody knows how consciousness works – but top researchers are fighting over which theories are really science
Tim Baynetheconversation.com
debate
Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most
Riverhead Books • 6 highlights
amazon.comLetting Go: The Pathway of Surrender a book by David R. Hawkins
David R. Hawkins • 5 highlights
bookshop.org
The striking paradox is that science tells us both that we’re peripheral in the cosmic scheme of things and that we’re central to the reality we uncover. Unless we understand how this paradox arises and what it means, we’ll never be able to understand science as a human activity, and we’ll keep defaulting to a view of nature as something to gain... See more