Mary Martin
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awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
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Compassion, as well as the way it metabolizes pain, is decidedly analog.
Covid Speaks like ChatGPT
Nervous system and
One problem is that consciousness means different things to different people. For example, some researchers focus on the subjective experience — what it is like to be you or me. Others study its function — cognitive processes and behaviours enabled by being conscious. These differences muddy attempts to compare ideas.
Mariana Lenharo • The consciousness wars: can scientists ever agree on how the mind works?
the explicit feeling of selfless minds may be tacitly accompanied by the implicit feeling of unlimited body, as two sides of the same coin. To put it provocatively: the only and unique occasion when one truly loses one’s self is when one’s body becomes a corpse (i.e. death).
Mindfulness and
new study examines the potential of artificial intelligence to shift chronic pain treatment from opioids to mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR). Utilizing machine learning to analyze extensive patient data, the study aims to predict which patients will benefit most from MBSR, a critical step towards personalized medicine.
Neuroscience News • AI and Mindfulness: A New Way to Manage Pain - Neuroscience News
Mindfulness and
Improving deep sleep may prevent dementia, study finds
medicalxpress.com
Affective computing is being applied to political speeches, music, drama and visual arts to predict emotional reactions and enhance emotional expression. This interdisciplinary approach is not only advancing the capabilities of affective computing but also opening up new avenues for research and application.
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Neuroscience News • AI Tunes into Emotions: The Rise of Affective Computing - Neuroscience News
If we can learn about human cognition, behaviour and pathology by studying insects, how does this blur the boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them’?
David Waltner-Toews • On the shared genetic memories between us, the cat and the fly | Aeon Essays
all of this information, plus your appearance and voice, are used to create a moving, talking version of yourself that sits in a little screen above the phone’s main screen. You summon it by pressing a square button on the side of the phone, then you ask it to do things.