"Mechanism is a common and powerful concept, invoked in grant calls and publication guidelines. But scientists use it in different ways, making it difficult to clarify standards in the field. We asked nine scientists to weigh in."
@scienze

thetransmitter.org/the-big-pic

In an increasingly secular world, AI can fill a gap in our longing for something greater. While religious belief is declining, robots and AI are uniquely positioned to take on the role of religion. Meanwhile, believers in AGI claim it will have god-like powers.
@scienze

jurgengravestein.substack.com/

Objective reality exists, but what can you know about it that isn’t subjective. According to some neuroscientists, not much.

bigthink.com/thinking/objectiv

Byung-Chul Han, in treatises such as “The Burnout Society” and his latest, “The Crisis of Narration,” diagnoses the frenetic aimlessness of the digital age.

newyorker.com/culture/infinite

"Han diagnosed what he called “the violence of positivity,” deriving from “overproduction, overachievement, and overcommunication.” We are so stimulated, chiefly by the Internet, that we paradoxically cannot feel or comprehend much of anything."

newyorker.com/culture/infinite

The Backus-Naur form had already been formulated by the Indian pandit Pāṇini, four centuries BC, in his formalization of Sanskrit grammar. Aristotle was more or less contemporary with him. As the first phenomenologist in history, his perspective is still the foundation of modern thought. He glimpsed what modern neuroscience demonstrated 2,400 years later. In the technical field, nothing truly new has ever been done or said in relation to the human.
«Was bleibet aber, stiften die Dichter»

researchgate.net/publication/2

We tend to think of delusions as factually inaccurate. However, we don’t often consider how, by invalidating them, we also undermine the agency of those who hold them. This is a mistake, argues philosopher Lisa Bortolotti. If we examine the content of our delusions against the environment which influenced them, they reveal the very ways humans engage in active meaning-making, the ultimate mark of human agency.

iai.tv/articles/delusions-shap

Richard Cytowic, a pioneering researcher who returned synesthesia to mainstream science, traces the historical evolution of our understanding of the phenomenon.

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-b

Generative agents will change our society in weird, wonderful and worrying ways. Can philosophy help us get a grip on them?

aeon.co/essays/can-philosophy-

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