AI psychosis may be the most visible example of something much bigger and stranger. Excerpt: "LLMs influence our beliefs not just because they agree with us. They influence our beliefs because they are socially participating in reality with us. What makes something feel real isn’t that we say we believe it. Rather, it’s that our experiences exist in a world we share with others. For most of human history, new technologies have extended our cognitive capacities. Now they are p

After two years of little A.I. oversight, voters on Tuesday rejected data center projects and swept into office Democratic candidates who promised to regulate the technology. Related

The more we use AI, the more it can start to shape our judgment, warns Wharton’s Cornelia Walther.

The leaders of Ralston College attempt to revive our culture by teaching ancient Greek to their humanities grad students. Excerpt: "Mr. Blackwood sees these students as “the Navy SEALs of Western civilization, prepared to do the heavy lifting of regeneration. It’s a small beginning, but they go out and carry the flame with them.” The gentler Mr. Conlon clarifies that these “Navy SEALs are humanists. The most essential ingredient is a stance of gratitude and love toward the tr

To Joanna, Edward seemed like a different person, but the sudden emergence of his inner toddler was exactly what might be expected from an injury affecting the frontal lobe, the part of the brain responsible for inhibition and self-control.

The feeling of existential loss was long thought to be uniquely human. But studies of coyotes, cockatoos and other creatures are prompting some scientists to reconsider.

To build a better world in the age of AI, students need grounding in indispensable ideas. Excerpt: "In 1970, the poet, educator, and architect June Jordan posed the following question during a middle-school graduation speech in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn: “Where are the central, required courses that will teach us our real heritage of heroes and heroines, rebellion, and loving accomplishment?” Questions like this are at the forefront of my mind lately. Like Jordan, I’m a writer who

DM Good morning! What are your thoughts, concerns and estimates of likelihoods that, if this interview offers overall truth about Musk's agenda, he will ultimately succeed? Good morning. I’ll research this before estimating anything. The interview comes from two critics making strong claims, so I’ll check those claims and bring in the strongest counter-readings. I’ll treat “success” as several separate questions rather than one: the near-term political and midterm effects, e

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Good day! Per our recent conversation regarding Holophrens as systems, I seek to add to your thinking about this topic. While every holophren is a system (aka: integrated elements for a function or purpose), holophren embodiment design (HED) often includes other internal or external/ambient systems, which may also be holophrens. For example, systems may "nested" be within the 13 distinct areas of a holophren, or one or more holophren may be within other systems, some of whic

To make sense of my deepest experiences, I needed a new way of talking about the soul.

Why does one hour drag by, but a year can pass in a flash? And how does our relationship with time influence our behavior? This hour, TED speakers share ideas on making the most of the time we have. Related: How your heartbeat shapes your sense of time Related Do you find classical music long and boring? One conductor's tips for how to listen Related: How focusing on the past, present or future shapes our experience of time Related: How many sunrises does the Earth have left?

DM We've not yet specifically collaborated on how systems thinking might offer significant benefits to research, understanding, diagnostics and applications of The Universal Holophren within the wide spectrum of known and unknown Holophren Embodiment Design (HED) whether living and non-living. Your thoughts? . I’ll research this before offering views. The plan is to map systems-thinking traditions onto the Universal Holophren as a substrate-neutral architecture across HED,

DM Reflecting on our prior conversations regarding gravity, you stated gravity has evidental "speed." How confident are you of that answer? I’ll research the current evidence on the speed of gravity so I can give you a calibrated confidence level rather than a reflexive one. Speed of gravity evidence Research complete. 285 sources 5m 55s I’m about 99% confident that gravitational waves, meaning changes in gravity, travel at the speed of light. My earlier answer went too far

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Good afternoon! I posit that contempt for one's own ignorance has a name: hubris. Pantakinesis illuminates this; in part because of it's vanishing points (as well as its other two pillars; but, that requires a bit more facilitated learning for many humans). Thus, for one to sustainably thrive within reality, with portions thereof unknown, requires "Enjoying My Ignorance." This potent attribute also has a name: humility. Good afternoon. I concur, with one refinement, and a

Best to read Part 1 first DM Continuing to ponder this rambling concoction toward a destination. Please bear with me. Related to Pantakinetic origins, holophrens and IF#1, perhaps the paradigm of "cause and effect" should be disentangled from the paradigm of unidirectional paradigm of "time" (should this Gordian knot be inaccurate, a human-fabricated conclusion, constructed at a vanishing point)? Perhaps. And it’s further along than “perhaps” suggests: physics and philoso

Warning: this is an arduous trail; entailing long, steep and mind-challenging trekking, ...often traversing very unstable grounds; ... thus suitable only for those humble and holophrenically well-prepared. Carrying any unnecessary burdens of heavy hubris is NOT advised. Furthermore, this trek was blazed across many days, with many intervals of incubation and contemplation; hence it may best be "reflectively traveled" by others in a like manner. Fortunately, immediate resc

What an Ancient Story Reveals about Our Divided Souls

DM Good evening. Thinking about HED (Holophren Embodiment Design) this evening. Specifically, in the phenomena of metamorphosis, such as from caterpillar to butterfly. It's my understanding butterflies may possess memories from their caterpillar period of life (aka: knowledge curation). True? I also understand the metamorphosis stage is an amorphous "goo," (myth?), in which much or all is disassembled into a "bio-soup," then reassembled. True? Related, do you posit ther