Mary Martin

The History and Future of Dietary Guidance in America

Power is making one description seem more real or natural than others.

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 question of

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cognition is the result of information processing distributed across all cellular systems in the body, including the brain, which is, in our view, (part of) the body. Speaking about brain-body-environment interactions in constituting cognition may be misleading because it tacitly inherits the distinction between mind (brain) and body. Cognitive... See more

Summary: Researchers find that intense focus on music triggers powerful emotional responses with therapeutic benefits.

the existence of mindfulness as an innate trait is questionable as mindfulness in the traditional Buddhist terms and, in an applied sense, was developed as a practice; a skill to be developed throughout one's lifetime regardless of one's prevailing psychological phenomena

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