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Neuroscience research into people with aphantasia, who don’t experience mental imagery, is revealing how imagination works and demonstrating the sweeping variety in our subjective experiences. Introduction Two years ago, Sarah Shomstein…

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Bookmark Yanis Varoufakis: Marx predicted our present crisis – and points the way…
For a manifesto to succeed, it must speak to our hearts like a poem while infecting the mind with images and ideas that are dazzlingly new.

November 24 2023, 11:33am | Comments
Bookmark The Genius Neuroscientist Who Might Hold the Key to True AI |…
When King George III of England began to show signs of acute mania toward the end of his reign, rumors about the royal madness multiplied quickly in the public mind. One…

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Bookmark DeepMind AI creates algorithms that sort data faster than those built by…
You have full access to this article via your institution. An artificial intelligence (AI) system based on Google DeepMind’s AlphaZero AI created algorithms that, when translated into the standard programming language…

July 10 2023, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark AI and the threat of "human extinction": What are the tech-bros worried…
On May 30, a research organization called the Center for AI Safety released a 22-word statement signed by a number of prominent "AI scientists," including Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI;…

July 10 2023, 2:53am | Comments
Bookmark Solutionism is rampant in artificial intelligence hype.
I won’t watch House of the Dragon, despite its high ratings. The HBO show is a prequel to Game of Thrones, and that series ended so badly I don’t want anything more to…

April 18 2023, 4:52am | Comments
Bookmark Solutionism is rampant in artificial intelligence hype.
I won’t watch House of the Dragon, despite its high ratings. The HBO show is a prequel to Game of Thrones, and that series ended so badly I don’t want anything more to…

April 18 2023, 12:52am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Creative and/or weird uses and abuses of Twitch streaming I am interested in innovative, creative uses and/or abuses of the Twitch streaming platform. Streamers who have used the platform as a creative medium, regardless of its (main) intention as a place for game streaming. Art and performance are what come to mind,…

November 17 2022, 7:11am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Black Swan events disrupting or delaying (pop) cultural releases I am looking for examples of (pop) cultural events/releases that were delayed or cancelled because an unforeseeable event eerily echoed their content in some way. For instance, I just discovered that Kylie Minogue's 6th album 'Impossible Princess' was delayed by almost a year…

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Bookmark How to Change Your Mind About COVID-19 - The Atlantic
In the spring of 2020, as Americans continued to proclaim their excitement for basketball games and parades, an ER doctor named Dylan Smith watched in dismay. Was everyone else ignoring reality?…

June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments
Bookmark ‘The Game is Over’: AI breakthrough puts DeepMind on verge of achieving…
Human-level artificial intelligence is close to finally being achieved, according to a lead researcher at Google’s DeepMind AI division.

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Your mind’s eye can already paint a picture of what Mars looks like. You will probably conjure up the image of a barren landscape of scattered boulders and pebbles under a…

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Bookmark How to Change Your Mind About COVID-19 - The Atlantic
In the spring of 2020, as Americans continued to proclaim their excitement for basketball games and parades, an ER doctor named Dylan Smith watched in dismay. Was everyone else ignoring reality?…

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Bookmark ‘The Game is Over’: AI breakthrough puts DeepMind on verge of achieving…
Human-level artificial intelligence is close to finally being achieved, according to a lead researcher at Google’s DeepMind AI division.

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Bookmark No music on Mars: Sound is different on the red planet -…
Your mind’s eye can already paint a picture of what Mars looks like. You will probably conjure up the image of a barren landscape of scattered boulders and pebbles under a…

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Bookmark Did Covid Change How We Dream? - The New York Times
To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Deirdre Barrett’s body was in bed, but her mind was in a library.…

November 25 2021, 2:51am | Comments
Bookmark It's Possible to Run Doom on 16 Billion Crabs
Of the many beloved and influential franchises to come out of the medium of video games, Doom is a name that comes to mind for a lot of players.

November 25 2021, 1:51am | Comments
Bookmark Transformation and Transcendence in 1980s Body Horror ‹ CrimeReads
‘My mind is bent to tell of bodies changed into new forms.’ These are the opening words of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

September 14 2021, 3:51am | Comments
Syllabus Cache The Changing Ontology of the Image | The Nordic Journal…
Traditionally we think of images as relatively individualized or delimited phenomena that, in one way or the other, appear to the human mind and apparatus of perception. Currently, however, we are witnessing an intensification of what we might…

July 4 2021, 10:36pm | Comments
Bookmark The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction…
Science fiction tells us that a change in a past event, caused by the intervention of a time traveler, will open up a parallel timeline that leads to an alternate present.…

May 31 2021, 1:55am | Comments
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Bookmark The Closing of the Scientific Mind - David Gelernter, Commentary Magazine
The huge cultural authority science has acquired over the past century imposes large duties on every scientist. Scientists have acquired the power to impress and intimidate every time they open their…

April 8 2021, 5:55am | Comments
Bookmark Why “the Mind Is Just a Computation” Is a Fatally Flawed Idea…
The computational theory of mind (CTM) is the theory that the mind is a computation (calculation) done by the brain. That is, the mind works by rule-based manipulation of symbols, which…

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Critical Designer, Activist Engineer: Making Things and Making Things Happen
What happens when design and engineering research results in activism, human rights work, politics, or matters of equity and justice? Engineers and designers are often thought of as “problem-solvers” in mostly technical, practical, and formal senses. But this…

September 9 2020, 3:59am | Comments
Podcast Cache Susan Rogers’ catalyst songs - Take 5 - ABC Radio
Susan Rogers, by her own admission, is a rare bird. A female producer and sound engineer in an industry dominated by men, her drive and commitment would land her side by side with Prince as his star soared.…

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Bookmark How misinformation overwhelmed our democracy - Vox
No matter how President Trump’s impeachment trial plays out in the Senate, one thing is certain: Despite the incontrovertible facts at the center of the story, the process will change very…

January 18 2020, 7:02pm | Comments
Bookmark The Communal Mind · LRB 21 February 2019
Afew years ago, when it suddenly occurred to us that the internet was a place we could never leave, I began to keep a diary of what it felt like to…

January 6 2020, 7:34pm | Comments
Reddit A single inhalation of vapor from dried toad secretion containing 5-methoxy- N, N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT) in a naturalistic setting is related… submitted by /u/-AMARYANA- to r/science [link] [comments]

August 28 2019, 8:25pm | Comments
Bookmark What’s yr take on Evola? Some very late words on Nina Power’s…
The aftermath of the Piazza della Loggia bombing, a 1974 attack carried out by the Evola-inspired group Ordine Nuovo. Debate is a cover-story: never having to be honest about your true…

July 2 2019, 2:44pm | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind Need some psychedelic music getaway, a blend of old and new, long mixes with separate themes? Back in 2008, Amorphous Androgynous / Future Sound of London decided to make the ultimate mixtape. A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind Volume 1: Cosmic…

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