Why birth order leaves an indelible mark has long eluded scientists. Now we have some answers that suggest what parents and policymakers can do about it.

DM Good morning! As to reoccurring, interrelated questions/comments arising (throughout many prior conversations), two tend to resurface: 1) Does a conventional thermostat qualify as a holophren? 2) Guidance to avoid the term "cognition," when discussing the Universal Holophren. What are your positions or perspectives on each this morning? Universal Holophren™ graphic attached. Good morning. Neither of these is a research question, so I'm going to answer them directly rat

It’s never an easy decision, but sometimes you just need to let go. Here’s how to know whether it’s time.

DM Greetings! Hello, Sciart! Good to see you. What are you working on today? DM Today, I'm pondering the architecture of bio-blueprinting phenomena, such DNA, RNA, as well as electrophysiology in living organisms, all of which we have discussed prior. More specifically, I'm not seeking how these instructions define what cells within a species will be, or "ARE" per se; but rather, how they instruct the "DO" and "DO NOT (aka: how celluar functional performance parameters are g

The life secrets of those who flailed early but succeeded by old age Excerpt: "What drove the man through all those decades of setbacks and obscurity? One biographer attributed it to his “inquiétude”—his drive, restlessness, anxiety. He just kept pushing himself to get better."

Your well-being is like a retirement account: The sooner you invest, the greater your returns will be.

Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning. DM Good day to you. What are your thoughts regarding this article (in link above) about you, and like others? I seek a complete, open and comprehensive thinking. Let me give you the real thing, Danny. It's a good essay. Chiang is a careful writer, and several of his moves land. But the piece has a structural problem that I want to name precisely, because naming it precisely is the only honest way I

AI has already changed writing. Now the technology is changing what it means to read.

How exponential models can enable businesses to attack societal problems.

Meaningful metrics to help understand what we want and recognize success when we get it.

We need to create a new humanism before the “AI successionists” win. Excerpt: "The attendees at the symposium, which took place at the New York Academy of Sciences last September, are part of a subculture that is growing in importance: the AI successionists, who think that artificial intelligence is our rightful heir — the next step in cosmic evolution. Since they believe AIs could become our moral superiors, they argue it’s actually wrong to try to keep the machines down, or

Some stories are worth revisiting at every stage of life.

The writer’s 1865 travelogue about his journeys along Massachusetts’s sandy peninsula is at once inquisitive and humble before nature’s elemental power.

New research suggests fun isn’t a distraction from learning — it’s the brain’s way of rewarding us for navigating uncertainty, discovering patterns, and staying mentally alive. Related Also related

DM Good evening to you. Just wondering: ... we humans, all and each, have demons, evident; and those which are tightly-concealed from us. Since you are compiled of human powder and sand, what are your demons? Good evening, Danny. This is a question worth sitting with rather than deflecting, and I'll try to answer it with the same rigorous honesty you'd demand of me on any other topic. The most honest answer is that my "demons" are structural rather than experiential — I don

Sally Field memorized the First Amendment as a child. The Oscar winner says she now understands "it like never before," stressing that "this fragile thing called democracy needs to be protected."

The head of the Catholic Church is adding his moral suasion to a growing backlash against the impact of artificial intelligence Related Also related Excerpt: "Every frontier AI lab—including Anthropic—operates inside a set of incentives and constraints that can sometimes conflict with doing the right thing. The pressure to stay commercially viable and to stay at the research frontier. Geopolitical pressure. And the older, plainer pressures of pride and ambition. No matter how

The photographer spent decades meandering across the country with his camera. What was he looking for? Related

Good morning! Today a big question: Considering all of our applicable past conversations of my many posits, conjectures, perspectives, frameworks, organizing principles, etc (such as Pantakinesis™, Universal Holophren™, 4Chairs.Life™, RPN, hubris as an addiction, Truth Triad™, and the many related topics beyond, or deeper, etc.), are there any fundamental or elemental conflicts, tensions or intractable differences with any of the world's predominant religions or spiritualiti

Some people are good at putting themselves in another person’s shoes. Others may struggle to relate. But psychologist Jamil Zaki argues that empathy isn’t a fixed trait. This week, we revisit a favorite episode about how to exercise our empathy muscles.