Mary Martin
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Mary Martin
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The brain evaluates the images it is processing against a “reality threshold.” If the signal passes the threshold, the brain thinks it’s real; if it doesn’t, the brain thinks it’s imagined.
Yasemin Saplakoglu • Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference. | Quanta Magazine
Do animals experience mental illness?
Modern science shows animals and humans may experience fear-based anxiety in similar ways.
Modern science shows animals and humans may experience fear-based anxiety in similar ways.
Do animals experience mental illness?
“It seems like there’s a dog paper every day,” says Alan McElligott, a zoologist at the City University of Hong Kong who has studied the minds of goats and other farm animals. “It’s almost impossible to keep up with it.” What’s worse, others say, most money for livestock research still goes to studies aimed at improving milk or meat yields, not to... See more
ByDavid Grimm • 'Not dumb creatures.' Livestock surprise scientists with their complex ...
Mindfulness Research and awareness
nature
Adoption of potentially consciousness-altering practices may be leading to a rise in emergent phenomena (EP): sudden unusual mental or somatic experiences often interpreted as spiritual, mystical, energetic, or magical in nature. It is unclear how frequently these altered states of consciousness occur and what the clinical implications may be.
... See moreif an animal
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s life is worth
living without having a point and without being meaningful in any of the usual senses, then
perhaps a human life can also be worth living without that.
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s life is worth
living without having a point and without being meaningful in any of the usual senses, then
perhaps a human life can also be worth living without that.
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APA PsycNet
psycnet.apa.orgnervous system and dogs
Content filtering doesn’t catch implicit deception. Safety guardrails don’t prevent fabricated intimacy if the AI isn’t saying anything explicitly harmful. Warning labels don’t help if users don’t understand that emotional manipulation is happening. The control mechanisms are fundamentally different depending on whether we’re addressing harm or... See more
When AI Learns to Manipulate: The Line Between Harm and Exploitation (Class #15)
Located in the town of Gelephu in Southern Bhutan, Mindfulness City is described as an economic hub that will lay the foundations for the country’s future growth. Spanning more than 386 square miles (250,000 acres), the site will include a new international airport, railway station, hydroelectric dam, healthcare center, and multiple public spaces.... See more