Category: Found objects
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Ice-cream wild.
“Let the case for the destruction of the earth rest. We are smothered with facts. They are both depressing and endless. What is unsettling is that we are all so apathetic.The social reasons for our apathy are numerous: religious traditions such as Christianity and Buddhism that glorify acceptance and condemn emotion (particularly anger) and judgment;…
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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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