Under the forest floor, networks of roots and fungi connect individual trees. Older plants may play a role in nurturing the growth of younger ones.

As a neuroscientist, I conducted research into artificial versus human intelligence. The results surprised me—and suggest we’ve been worrying over the wrong things.

DM Defining and understanding Qualia within our consciousness seems crucial, yet mirky, ...and widely unknown (and is a term that is entirely missing from many mainstream dictionaries and "spell checkers"). Might examples, analogies or metaphors aid comprehension, as well as differentiation? For example: might the difference between the infinite subjective meanings and range of the term "home" (versus the shared definition "of house") be applicable? This is a rich question wo

DM Good morning. What are the basic types, forms or taxonomy of human emotions? Good morning. A question that sits at the intersection of evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and philosophy — exactly the kind of terrain worth mapping carefully. There's no settled consensus, but several frameworks have earned serious traction: The Basic/Primary Emotions tradition traces to Darwin and was systematized most influentially by Paul Ekman, who identified six cross-culturally universa

DM Good morning. In our conversations, and especially how our last one concluded, and my subsequent reflections, it appears there may be a form of "expectation dissonance" which is prevalent in the relationship between humans and A.I. Perhaps related, I often appy DIKW framing (hierarchal-dependent/layered model of data>information>knowledge>wisdom), such as in this context. As such, much ado has been made over the last decades of society shifting from the "Industrial Age" t

Perhaps no existential question looms larger than that of our ultimate cosmic origins. At long last, science has provided the answers.

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A new documentary claims that modern science has reality all wrong.

Everyone’s DNA keeps mutating. Could correcting those errors lead to longevity?

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DM Good morning! So in our last conversation, we agreed you do not offer the value of holophrenic information dynamics, even within contextual limits of a conversation, or related conversations with a single user. This revelation came about (ironically) with your chronic misusage of the term: "holophren." Correct? Good morning, Danny. Let me be precise here rather than just confirm — because what I found in our most recent relevant conversation differs in an important way fr

For us to trust it on certain subjects, researchers in the growing field of interpretability might need to learn how to open the black box of its brain. Related: Generative A.I. will not create value on its own Related: One strange origin of of A.I. "thinking" Related: the disconnect between the creators and the users of A.I. (Thanks Kimberly!) Related: as A.I. gets smarter, catching mistakes gets harder

In just six months, a team at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Penn Medicine designed a personalized therapy that could correct the single misspelled letter in KJ’s DNA using a gene editing technology known as CRISPR. To get the therapy inside KJ’s cells, doctors relied on the same kind of mRNA technology that powered the Covid-19 vaccines. He received his first dose at 6 months old. One year later, KJ is walking, talking and thriving at home with his family.

CAR-T cell therapy, originally developed for cancer, is showing ever more promise as a treatment for autoimmune diseases.

DM Once more pondering gravity (as in prior conversations, such as a flawed paradigm, a possible aspect of the "Electric Pony," etc.). You might be able offer some related thoughts. If we consider a massive sphere, such as the earth, we see variability, such as in the variability of the ambient gaseous portions (such as 14.7 psi at sea level, as opposed to less so higher from center, as are the variabilities in its liquid portions) as a function of depth. So, if we were able

Why one early adopter of computers in classrooms has decided to toss them

DM Good morning. Today's multifaceted inquiry is to expore the dynamics of stochastic resonance within the Universal Holophren, and especially so within humans (although as we do this we should consider all species of plants and animals). Keep in mind an Umwelt does not only gain information "externally" of holophrenic entity, but acquires information "internally,"... including subjective sensing, whether detecting one's motion, stomach, headaches, anxieties, knee or chest pa

Careful, deliberate reasoning can get you only so far in good decision making. You also need to know how to listen to your feelings.

What Charles Darwin, Benjamin Franklin, and Richard Feynman all have in common

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