Category: Found objects
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AI manipulates language, but it does not think.
Without diving too deep into the linguistic weeds here, the upshot is that human beings, as a species, benefit tremendously from using language to share our knowledge, both in the present and across generations. Understood this way, language is what the cognitive scientist Cecilia Heyes calls a “cognitive gadget” that “enables humans to learn from…
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Video: why your world is not made of STUFF.
OK, here is my favourite philosopher of mind, Bernardo Kastrup, in conversation. This is a really clear and thought-provoking discussion of the philosophical standpoint known as idealism.
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Do near death experiences have a scientific explanation?
There are many smart people in the scientific community who consider near death experiences (or recalled experiences of death RED), to be caused by purely physiological reactions.
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David Suzuki hunkers down.
In a recent interview for iPolitics, David Suzuki the now 89 year old Canadian environmentalist admits that he believes humanity has lost the fight to roll back climate change
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On not being seen.
Another excellent video about the enigmatic photographer Vivien Maier (I posted another one here). I am very intrigued by her supposed total disinterest in becoming discovered or seeking fame, as well as her total gift of the artist’s eye when it comes to both composition and subject matter.
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