Mary Martin
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awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
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Interestingly, many users who emotionally mourned the ‘loss’ of GPT-4o expressed complete awareness of its lack of consciousness. And yet, in many cases, the subjective grief that they felt was no less real. This demonstrates that the power of the illusion is such that a given user might not actually believe that their AI companion is conscious,... See more
The Illusion of Consciousness in AI Companionship — PRISM
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
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To type "tap" your fingers don't have to trace out the form of the letters — they just make three relatively simple and uniform movements. In comparison, it takes a lot more brainpower, as well as cross-talk between brain areas, to write than type.
As schools reconsider cursive, research homes in on handwriting's ...
Philosopher argues that mindfulness rests on dubious philosophical foundations
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The Empathy Trap: Lessons from Contemplative Medicine | Jud Brewer
“When we can see how being with suffering doesn't deplete us, and, in fact, energizes us... then also we can know what our limits are, instead of trying to be the hero.”
“When we can see how being with suffering doesn't deplete us, and, in fact, energizes us... then also we can know what our limits are, instead of trying to be the hero.”
The Empathy Trap: Lessons from Contemplative Medicine | Jud Brewer | New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care
What happens when what we’re thinking becomes increasingly transparent to technology and therefore to the rest of the world?
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These findings are consistent with research demonstrating that mindfulness meditation increases positive emotions while decreasing negative and anxious emotions.
IJSES Editor • The Power of Mindfulness, Applications, and Benefits of Mindfulness
Just because the computations are happening under the hood and they're vast and complex, it doesn't mean they're guaranteed to be correct. Intuition is quite often wrong or makes a decision based on things that you wouldn't feel proud of doing if you had access to it.
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