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Technology changes our remembrance of the past, our experience of the present, and our imagination of the future by blurring the lines between the three categories, and introducing different forms of understanding and meaning-making to all three – We remember the future, imagine the present, and experience the past. The phenomenon of “ruin porn” is... See more
decay porn – Cyborgology
We can’t address the decline in empathy without addressing the decline in attention. Empathy requires a degree of sustained focus:
Paying attention to an experience someone is sharing
Recalling experiencing a similar emotional response
Sitting with your own and the other person’s inner state
When we are fragmented and distracted, we simply can... See more
Dr. Samaiya Mushtaqsubstack.comPeople are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we’ve lived; they’re the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments. Which is why, even when we’ve experienced the same events as other individuals, we never constructed identical narratives: the criteria used for selecting moments were different f
... See moreTed Chiang • Exhalation: Stories
A quote from When breath becomes air:
“Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.”
do you ever find it weird that as a culture we decided that “progress” just means advancement in technology and numbers on a spreadsheet,
and that things like moral advancement, human joy, positive relationships, fulfillment, psychological development, and purpose don’t count?
River Dakinix.comARE YOU EXPERIENCING POSTING ENNUI?, newyorker
Kyle Chayka’s latest column explores “posting ennui,” a growing reluctance among young social media users to share casual moments online. “I feel like everyone in my generation is kind of a voyeur now,” said 24-year-old Kanika Mehra. “People don’t want to be perceived,” and if they do post, they “feel a... See more
Kyle Chayka’s latest column explores “posting ennui,” a growing reluctance among young social media users to share casual moments online. “I feel like everyone in my generation is kind of a voyeur now,” said 24-year-old Kanika Mehra. “People don’t want to be perceived,” and if they do post, they “feel a... See more
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