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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“If a machine can think but not feel anything, does it deserve to be called intelligent?”
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I don't think I play fair on here
I look at who wrote things before I start reading and I read through the lens of my pre-existing opinion of them. I just noticed it a few minutes ago, and tried to read a comment without doing it. Something in my brain was screaming "But how do I file this info??... - Shera JoyCry...
Awareness of Awareness rambling thoughts
What keeps me up at night or what entertains me when other reasons (hormones, sugar, light/sound, etc.) keep me up at night is thinking bout awareness and what is aware of the thinking.... I've done more research now on Andy Clark's work, and another pillar of his philosophical perspective is called "extended mind" which speaks more to the nondual experience.... - onlooks like I've been wrong and spreading misinformation about the disproven "triune brain theory"bylaymanpascal...
The basic idea of thinking on terms of brain systems with an evolutionary slant continues to be suggestive but I think we'll need to shift toward information systems rather than anatomical chunks and the correlations between arrangements/proportions and emergent phases of the... - Josh...
Brain as a Prediction Machine
This is my first post on here since Dara invited me a few months ago. Feels like it might be a fun place to discuss consciousness and brains. In my Cognition and Emotion class in grad school, we just watched this video.... - zookatron...
looks like I've been wrong and spreading misinformation about the disproven "triune brain theory"
The final—and most important—problem with this mistaken view is the implication that anatomical evolution proceeds in the same fashion as geological strata, with new layers added over existing ones. Instead, much evolutionary change consists of transforming existing parts.... - Enzo...
- Redelman...
Cultural evolution science has gotten pretty good at describing how cultures change, spread, and persist. What it doesn't yet have — at least not in integrated form — is a theory of cultural formation at the substrate level: how culture gets patterned into individual nervous... - david...
Isn’t part of the paradox the nounification of "truth" in English? It seems the closest synonym might be "Tao" which is neither simply static, nor simply dynamic, and not representable, only experienceable.... - Sara Schultz...
- david...
I've heard this as observational or situational blindness, and it is a fascinating topic. John Vervaeke talks about our awareness system, which is constantly being attuned to what we "obviously" need to be paying attention to, and calls this "recursive relevance... - onDoes anyone else have aesthetic preferences about the 6 digit numbers that get texted, emailed or generated as part of a website sign in process?by
Reminds me of the Bouba/Kiki effect. 6 and 9 and nice round bouba numbers. 1 and 7 are pretty Kiki