Neuroscience
by Abie Cohen and · updated 4d ago
Neuroscience
Without synchrony and the deeper forms of connection that lie beyond it, we may be at greater risk for mental instability and poor physical health. With synchrony and other levels of neural interaction, humans teach and learn, forge friendships and romances, and cooperate and converse. We are driven to connect, and synchrony is one way our brains h
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https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/351893/consciousness-ai-machines-neuroscience-mind
The great substrate debate: Biochauvinism versus artificial consciousness
Mary Martin added 10d ago
If consciousness really can arise in a jumble of silicon chips, we run the risk of creating countless AIs — beings, really — that can not only intelligently perform tasks, but develop feelings about their lives.
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Rather than asking if each new AI system is finally the one that has conscious experience, focusing on the more fundamental que
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the pregnant person body is not an ‘external environment’ within which the foetus is solitary and ‘confined’, waiting for the ‘lightbulb’ of consciousness to be switched on at a given timepoint when the neurogenesis is completed. Here I propose that both the easy and hard problem of developmental consciousness cannot be addressed without putting th
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brain waves and mindfulness
- Research has shown a staggering number of health benefits associated with dispositional optimism, from improvements in cardiovascular health, to how quickly wounds heal, to slower disease progression.
from What We Get Wrong About Manifesting
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- Together, wanting and liking encourage us to pursue rewards. But these sensations can also stand alone, creating situations where you might know that you enjoy something but don’t want to go after it, or where you might have a strong desire for something that you don’t get much pleasure from.
from You can want things you don’t like and like things you don’t want | Psyche Ideas
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- “I think in 50 or 100 years time we will have discovered the entity that is consciousness,” he told me. “It will be taken for granted that it wasn’t produced by the brain, and it doesn’t die when you die.”
from The New Science of Death: ‘There’s Something Happening in the Brain That Makes No Sense’ by Alex Blasdel
Mary Martin added 3mo ago
- neural pathways we don’t use die off over time. What makes our brains hold on to these pathways — and create more — is not simply repeating the same things we’ve learned over and over again, but continually taking on difficult problems.
from Stanford duck syndrome: How the myth of effortless genius hurts learning
Laura Pike Seeley added 4mo ago