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Ordinarily, most of us are locked inside what I’ve earlier called ‘the hole of
Bernardo Kastrup • More Than Allegory
What’s true of counterfeiting money should also be true of counterfeiting humans. If governments took decisive action to protect trust in money, it makes sense to take equally decisive measures to protect trust in humans. Prior to the rise of AI, one human could pretend to be another, and society punished such frauds. But society didn’t bother to
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Contrary to many claims, there is an ongoing diminution of mental and perceptual capabilities rather than their expansion or modulation.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
In their sense of ‘I’. And what is that self? What form does it take? One way of thinking of it, as offered by the cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter, is as a looping pattern of abstractions. Our personality may be the most real thing in the world to each of us, but it is a fiction, a configuration, a way of thinking. It isn’t found in the meat
... See moreDerren Brown • Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine
We know more than we know.
Lara Vesta • Year of the Dark Goddess: A Journey of Ritual, Renewal & Rebirth
C'est le célèbre argument du singe dactylographe : combien de temps faudrait-il à un chimpanzé, tapant au hasard sur le clavier d'une machine, pour réécrire l'œuvre de Shakespeare ? Combien de temps faudrait-il à un hasard aveugle pour reconstruire l'Univers ? Certainement bien plus de quinze milliards d'années !… Et ce n'est pas seulement le point
... See moreMichel Houellebecq • Soumission (French Edition)
La révolution technologique et scientifique actuelle implique non pas que des algorithmes et des caméras de télévision peuvent manipuler des individus et des réalités authentiques, mais que l’authenticité est un mythe. Les gens ont peur d’être piégés dans une bulle, mais ils ne se rendent pas compte qu’ils le sont déjà : leur cerveau, lequel est
... See morePierre-Emmanuel Dauzat • 21 Leçons pour le XXIème siècle (French Edition)
There’s no scientific way to prove that something does not exist!
Mo Gawdat • Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
