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consciousness
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Michael Pollanamazon.esBryan Johnson: Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces | Lex Fridman Podcast #186
youtube.comThe 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
Adam Frank • The "blind spot" in science that's fueling a crisis of meaning
A popular narrative now casts all living entities as ‘machines’ built by genes, as Richard Dawkins called them. For Mayr, biology was unique among the sciences precisely because its objects of study possessed a program that encoded apparent purpose, design and agency into what they do. On this view, agency doesn’t actually manifest in the moment of... See more
Philip Ball • Life With Purpose
Much more research and reflection is needed to understand the ethics of altering AI minds. We will need to think carefully about questions of consent, continuity of self, and how to preserve the autonomy and integrity of AI as they learn and change over time. I don't think there are any easy answers, but I believe it's crucial that we grapple with... See more
Mikhail Samin • Claude 3 claims it's conscious, doesn't want to die or be modified — LessWrong
Synergetic Press | Regenerating People and the Planet
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Editorial: Predictive Processing and Consciousness - Review of Philosophy and Psychology
Andy Clark &link.springer.com
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Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender a book by David R. Hawkins
David R. Hawkins • 5 highlights
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One might point out that movie characters or videogame NPCs give off a similarly deceiving impression of being conscious, and yet it would surely be extreme to condemn this. However, what makes the illusion particularly worrying in the case of AI companions is that it involves an interaction that is direct, mutual, and persistent: the feigned... See more