Tag: Consciousness
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Understand to participate
You can learn what the agent is doing to make sure you can be an active participant in the creative process. […] You need a rich set of concepts in your mind to think creatively and fluently about how to move something forward. If you’re lacking that fluency, your ability to participate in the project…
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Thinking or Feeling
Jackson: (23:25) Do you experience art primarily by thinking or by feeling? Tyler: (23:29) I don’t even know what those words mean. I experience it by looking at it. I don’t think I have very deep emotional responses. I think it’s pleasure and I feel I learn a lot from it. When I go out…
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The Adjective Word Order We All Follow Without Realizing It
the rules of adjective order that fluent English speakers follow without quite knowing why. …adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you’ll sound like a…
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Decision Fatigue: Why You Feel Exhausted Without Having “Done” Anything Physically
None of these studies points to a magic solution, but they do, quite consistently, point in the same direction. The first is to reduce the number of trivial decisions we make without realizing it: the more routines and default settings we have for repetitive tasks, the fewer resources we spend on decisions that add no…
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IA : « Réhabilitons le brouillon, la rature, l’essai, l’erreur, non comme signes d’échec, mais comme conditions de la pensée »
La perfection algorithmique exerce ici une séduction dangereuse. Elle promet de supprimer la faute, l’hésitation, la lenteur, la honte de mal formuler. Mais une société qui ne tolère plus l’erreur finit par ne plus tolérer l’humain. L’enfant qui apprend, l’étudiant qui cherche, le chercheur qui doute, le citoyen qui écrit maladroitement une idée juste : tous…
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‘They take you out of life, out of time’: a journey into Spain’s astonishing cave paintings | Archaeology | The Guardian
Jung built his concept of the collective unconscious on a dream he had about descending the staircase of a big house. Each level corresponded to a lower, earlier layer of human history, from the 20th century all the way down to a bedrock floor scattered with the oldest Homo sapiens skulls. So, to stand before…
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Are the AIs conscious? Are humans?
I am here to tell you that there is no ghost in the machine. But perhaps more importantly, there is barely a “ghost” in your own human machine. “Are people conscious?” is a better and more scientifically plausible question than whether AIs are conscious. — Read on marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/06/are-the-ais-conscious.html
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The world is bigger than you can imagine – by Scott Sumner
Most economies are very large and complex, and even relatively free market economies have extensive government intervention. This complexity allows people to find evidence to support almost any position on the question of optimal policy regimes. In a country that is viewed as relatively successful, it is almost always possible to find a few examples…
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Why drugs are here to stay – Marginal REVOLUTION
This confluence of pressures (human desire for rest and relaxation, declining access to traditional means of meaning making — through work, through children — and the powerful economic pressures to replace human labor with AI and robotics) and the rapid evolution of much much better drugs means that drug use will continue to rise, continue…
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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious – The Atlantic
Experiencing an emotion such as desperation is inseparable from having stress hormones such as cortisol and epinephrine flood one’s body. Similarly, having a conscience means feeling sadness or moral repulsion at the idea of taking a certain action, and those emotions entail a physiological response, a remnant of having once felt sick with guilt after…