#mind
"This book provides the first full history of phrenitis. In doing so, it surveys ancient ideas about the interactions between body and soul, both in health and in disease. It also addresses ancient ideas about bodily health, mental soundness and moral 'goodness', and their heritage in contemporary psychiatric ideas."
Thumiger, C. (2023). Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought: (Fifth Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009241311 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Ancient #Philosophy #Medicine #HistSci #Psychiatry #Mind #NonFiction #Academia #Academic #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon (68)
Dear Friends of slight pain,
Latest #podcast of using slight #discomfort to #focus the #mind back into #attentive #awareness
https://audio.com/lobster/audio/ascetic-attention
The speaker discusses #ascetic #practice, which involves deprivation or slight pain. They describe two methods: one involves sharpening fingernails and pressing them into the hand as a #reminder, and the other involves squeezing a #mala bead or coin to bring attention back to the present moment. These methods aim to bring #awareness and relaxation. The speaker also mentions using a #meditation #bell as a reminder. These practices are simple but #effective in #refocusing attention.
Could you move from your #biological #body to a #computer? An expert explains '#mind #uploading'
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-12-biological-body-expert-mind-uploading.html
Moving Meditation. Turn your actions into meditation Taken from a Dharma Talk by Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon on 9/21/2023. @buddhism @dharma @dhamma #zen #zenmaster #dharma #buddhist #meditation #meditate #buddhism #mind #heart #spirituality #enlightenment #thinking #karma #flowstate #spiritualjourney #love #compassion #koan #zenstories #selfhelp #knowledge #wisdom #philosophy #life #truth #clearmind #awakening #mantra #clearthinking #flow https://youtube.com/shorts/VlTLj5rhSvs
Clear Mind, Clear Thinking, Clear Action. Taken from a Dharma Talk by Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon on 9/21/2023. @buddhism @dharma @dhamma #zen #zenmaster #dharma #buddhist #Buddha #meditation #meditate #buddhism #mind #heart #spirituality #enlightenment #thinking #karma #flowstate #spiritualjourney #love #compassion #koan #zenstories #selfhelp #knowledge #wisdom #philosophy #life #truth #clearmind #awakening #mantra #clearthinking https://youtube.com/shorts/8nsG_PIY0Vo
A truly wonderful masterpiece that needs no language
© Lubomir Arsov
Thank you for this movie
#society #gesellschaft #sociedad #société #مجتمع #war #krieg #konsum #Kapitalismus #capitalism #work #arbeit #pharma #schönheitswahn #neid #hate #hass
#Zusammenhalt #community #power #Kraft #aufstehen #erleuchtung #gleichheit #equality #mind #consciousness #bewusstsein #birth
How do you define consciousness? Leave your answers in the comments. Taken from a Dharma Talk by Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon on 9/21/2023. https://youtu.be/_lfJnTx3x7k @buddhism @dharma @dhamma #zen #zenmaster #dharma #meditation #buddhism #mind #heart #spirituality #creation #thinking #karma #spiritualjourney #love #compassion #koan #zenstories #selfhelp #knowledge #wisdom #philosophy #life #truth #clearmind #awakening #mantra #beginningmind #consciousness #science
Science and the Mind. Can you scientifically study something that is completely subjective? Leave your answers in the comments. Taken from a Dharma Talk by Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon on 9/21/2023. @buddhism @dharma @dhamma #zen #zenmaster #dharma #buddhist #Buddha #meditation #meditate #buddhism #mind #heart #spirituality #creation #thinking #karma #flowstate #spiritualjourney #love #compassion #koan #zenstories #selfhelp #knowledge #wisdom #philosophy #life #truth #clearmind #awakening #mantra #beginningmind https://youtu.be/4l_TXgKw3e8
@axoaxonic @elduvelle_neuro
I believe @NicoleCRust had a nice thread about #mind vs #brain could aid our thoughts here (those who remember please add link, impossible for me to find the link as elasticsearch is not on my instance 🙏)
Mind vs Brain. Where Is Your Mind? Where does the idea that the mind and the brain are the same thing come from? Leave your answer in the comments. Taken from a Dharma Talk by Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon on 9/21/2023. #zen #zenmaster #dharma #buddhist #Buddha #meditation #meditate #buddhism #mind #heart #spirituality #creation #thinking #karma #flowstate #spiritualjourney #love #compassion #koan #zenstories #selfhelp #knowledge #wisdom #philosophy #life #truth #clearmind #awakening #mantra #beginningmind https://youtube.com/shorts/DKgoMMApwBU
Koan Practice. Taken from a Dharma Talk by Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon on 9/21/2023. @buddhism @dharma @dhamma #zen #zenmaster #dharma #buddhist #Buddha #meditation #meditate #buddhism #mind #heart #spirituality #creation #thinking #karma #flowstate #spiritualjourney #love #compassion #koan #zenstories #selfhelp #knowledge #wisdom #philosophy #life #truth #clearmind #awakening #mantra #beginningmind https://youtube.com/shorts/FMWm6TlXIew
Oh boy, Christmas came early:
"Free Will Explained by 25 Top Scientists & Intellectuals"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSbUCEleJhg
Iain McGilchrist
Spiraling asymmetry
Theories of the brain
#Haiku #CERN #Mind #Brain #Neurology #Today #Video #Thinking @BernardoKastrup https://youtu.be/c_AGejpKZyM?si=gnlzW9OPx0mGMVAI
Short Naps Have Major Benefits for Your #Mind
Short #naps do indeed have cognitive benefits, says Michael Chee of the Center for #Sleep and Cognition at the National University of Singapore. In a 2022 analysis, his team found especially significant improvements in certain kinds of #memory, information-processing speed and vigilance. A nap also simply makes many people feel better.
#mood
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/short-naps-have-major-benefits-for-your-mind/
Keeping Perspective. Taken from a Dharma Talk by Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon on 9/21/2023. @buddhism @dharma @dhamma #zen #zenmaster #dharma #buddhist #Buddha #meditation #meditate #buddhism #mind #heart #spirituality #creation #thinking #karma #flowstate #spiritualjourney #love #compassion #koan #zenstories #selfhelp #knowledge #wisdom #philosophy #life #truth #clearmind #awakening #mantra #beginningmind https://youtube.com/shorts/maeTDv0CQ1E
These beautiful Galactic Flower Greeting cards make an excellent holiday gift! Art by Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon #cosmic #universe #mind #heart #space #cosmos #universalenergy #galactic #galaxies #galaxy #stars #flowers #celestial #cosmicenergy #art #digitalart #aiart #midjourney #greetingcards #galacticgreetings #galacticgreetingcards https://zenartcenter.myshopify.com/products/galactic-flower-greeting-cards-5-pack
Compassionate insight informs both heart and mind, www.compassmethods.com. https://youtube.com/@CompassionsCompass-sb7jo?si=CTA4FxTk9kRkeh-G
#mentalhealth #heart #mind #compassion #wisdom
Is my mind entirely contained within my head? Or does it extend into the physical world, integrating tools, data, and relationships as part of my thought process?
I really enjoyed Andy Clark and David Chalmers's paper on this topic: https://consc.net/papers/extended.html
For them, the boundaries we draw are artificial. Cognition, belief, and identity are fluid things that can be spread across the many parts of a dynamical system. The brain learns and evolves to adapt to its environment, leveraging whatever cognitive aids are out there, and investing brain power only on the tasks that can't be solved reliably in some other way.
I think this very relevant to disability. I love the idea that physical aids and extensions can be thought of as part of the self. I like how it centers accomplishing some task, without concern for how it gets done. A person's biological constraints don't have to limit their thoughts, abilities, or personhood.
A Practical Reason to Meditate. Taken from a Dharma Talk by Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon on 9/21/2023. @buddhism @dharma @dhamma #zen #zenmaster #dharma #buddhist #Buddha #meditation #meditate #buddhism #mind #heart #spirituality #creation #thinking #karma #flowstate #spiritualjourney #love #compassion #koan #zenstories #selfhelp #knowledge #wisdom #philosophy #life #truth #clearmind #awakening #mantra #beginningmind https://youtube.com/shorts/kuuLD0I-5QU
Keep Making Progress. Taken from a Dharma Talk by Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon on 9/21/2023. @buddhism @dharma @dhamma #zen #zenmaster #dharma #buddhist #Buddha #meditation #meditate #buddhism #mind #heart #spirituality #creation #thinking #karma #flowstate #spiritualjourney #love #compassion #koan #zenstories #selfhelp #knowledge #wisdom #philosophy #life #truth #clearmind #awakening #mantra #beginningmind https://youtube.com/shorts/qaUkByFupAc
Your Best Friend Or Worst Enemy
Take care of your mind and it will take care of you. Mistreat it and it will do the same to you. Your mind can be your best friend or worst enemy depending on how you treat it.
#friend #enemy #mind #mindfulness #meditation #wellbeing #mentalhealth
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#RaymondTallis - How are #Humans Unique?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Olmzs41N7E
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #Mind #Consciousness #Sociology #Humanity #HomoSapiens #Animals #AnimalKingdom #Evolution #Language #Music #Art #Culture #Civilisation #Semiotics #Semiosphere #UrTool #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
Your journey is as unique as you are, and your path is dotted with opportunities for growth and joy. Embrace them, and as you do, share your light with others. The positivity you spread will echo back to you in wonderful ways.
#psychozoicera #Mindfulness #mindsetmotivation #personalgrowth #time #growthmindset #grow #mind
The Path. Taken from a Dharma Talk by Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon on 9/21/2023. @buddhism @dharma @dhamma #zen #zenmaster #dharma #buddhist #Buddha #meditation #meditate #buddhism #mind #heart #spirituality #creation #thinking #karma #flowstate #spiritualjourney #love #compassion #koan #zenstories #selfhelp #knowledge #wisdom #philosophy #life #truth #clearmind #awakening #mantra https://youtube.com/shorts/dWw42apwU8A
What can #psychedelics teach us about the #mind ?
Find out in UC Berkeley’s new online course.
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The Forgotten Direction. Taken from a Dharma Talk by Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon on 9/21/2023. @buddhism @dharma @dhamma #zen #zenmaster #dharma #buddhist #Buddha #meditation #meditate #buddhism #mind #heart #spirituality #creation #thinking #karma #flowstate #spiritualjourney #love #compassion #koan #zenstories #selfhelp #knowledge #wisdom #philosophy #life #truth #clearmind #awakening #mantra #beginningmind https://youtube.com/shorts/AFmmS_q9JHw
I read that it was a grindfest-extraordaire tho.
(Whch #mind you is #standart for most TalesOf games. Cause the difficulty just jumps UP out of nowhere :head_against_pole: )
Even #TalesOfTempest had its fair share)
I wonder why I like this series.
Maybe because the characters are colorful ?
Check out the November Dharma talk. Advice on building a meditation practice, as well as overcoming distractions and disruptions that interfere with your practice. @buddhism @dharma @dhamma #zen #zenmaster #dharma #buddhist #Buddha #meditation #meditate #buddhism #mind #heart #spirituality #thinking #karma #spiritualjourney #love #compassion #koan #zenstories #selfhelp #knowledge #wisdom #philosophy #life #clearmind #awakening #mantra #beginningmind #breathing https://youtu.be/bqiKurdn8gY
Encoded in the large, highly evolved sensory and motor portions of the human brain is a billion years of experience about the nature of the world and how to survive in it. The deliberate process we call reasoning is, I believe, the thinnest veneer of human thought, effective only because it is supported by this much older and much more powerful, though usually unconscious, sensorimotor knowledge. We are all prodigious olympians in perceptual and motor areas, so good that we make the difficult look easy. Abstract thought, though, is a new trick, perhaps less than 100 thousand years old. We have not yet mastered it. It is not all that intrinsically difficult; it just seems so when we do it
#mind
Minsky emphasized that the most difficult human skills to reverse engineer are those that are below the level of conscious awareness. "In general, we're least aware of what our minds do best", he wrote, and added "we're more aware of simple processes that don't work well than of complex ones that work flawlessly".
#ai #mind
The secret world of #Rhododendrons: A plant more ancient than the #Himalayas : Down To Earth
Short #Naps Have Major Benefits for Your #Mind : Sci Am
'Pale #BlueDot' #Planets like #Earth may make up only 1% of potentially #Habitable worlds : Space
Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks
I find that when I write fiction, I tend to go for the jugular.
"The knight killed the dragon and the peasants rejoiced. The End."
Okay, but what motivated the knight?
Why kill a dragon?
Did the dragon have a life? What kind of life?
How about the peasant? Did they want the knight to kill the dragon?
Etc...
All of these questions eventually do come, but, good grief, it is like pulling teeth right out of my mind.
(Try pulling teeth right out of your mind. It is harder than pulling teeth right out of your mouth.)
I don't know why it is this way. Is it my chemo brain??? I definitely did not *allow* myself to be this creative prior to my cancer. So... 🤷
Or it could be my #ActuallyAutistic mind finally unleashed. Still, it is my cancer that pushed me out of the autism closet, just as it did push me out of multiple other closets.
My cancer has been in remission for almost 3 years now, with no signs of coming back.
I'd never go to someone who has cancer and ask them to find the silver linings. I think finding the silver linings has to be done by the person who has the cancer, and not by others.
Let me point out here that sometimes, there are no silver linings. I've helped people who were in this situation. ☹️
In my case, my cancer almost killed me, but there's been a silver lining. In some very queer way (pun intended), my cancer has freed my mind.
Not that I recommend getting cancer to free your mind. :madjoy:
#AutisticWriters #writers #writing #ChemoBrain #cancer #PullingTeeth #queer #mind #FreeYourMind #CancerSurvivor #SilverLinings
From 04 Nov: Understanding That Chronic Back Pain Originates From Within The Brain Could Lead To Quicker Recovery, A New Study Finds - Most people with chronic back pain naturally think their pain is caused by injuries or other problem... https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/understanding-that-chronic-back-pain-originates-from-within-the-brain-could #mind
Check out these "Mind of the Universe" tapestries in our store! A cool and unique gift idea for the holiday season! #digitalartwork #digitalartist #digitalart #artoftheday #cosmic #cosmicenergy #space #mind #cosmos #stars #universe #tapestry #art https://zenartcenter.myshopify.com/products/the-mind-of-the-universe-indoor-wall-tapestries
✨Galactic Flowers🌺💫 Art by Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon #cosmic #universe #mind #heart #space #cosmos #universalenergy #galactic #galaxies #galaxy #stars #flowers #celestial #cosmicenergy #art #digitalart #aiart #midjourney
✨Universal Mind💫 Art by Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon #cosmic #universe #mind #heart #space #cosmos #universalenergy #galactic #galaxies #galaxy #stars #celestial #cosmicenergy #art #digitalart #aiart #midjourney
I’m reading more #feminist #philosophy of #mind. Today I read Playfulness, “World”-Traveling, and Loving Perception by María Lugones, which was awesome!
This essay explores how marginalized people often feel like they become someone else when moving between socially-constructed “worlds,” perhaps even someone they don’t like or recognize as their "true self.” Lugones links this to the arrogant and shallow way we’re taught to see other people, primarily as extensions of ourselves, which makes empathy and connection hard.
Lugones uses the complex relationship she has with her mother to explore this, and a way to overcame it by deconstructing assumptions and seeking common ground in a loving, “playful” way. This isn’t just helpful advice, she argues this is something fundamental to human identity, and that an attitude of “playfulness” is essential for seeing someone as they would see themselves.
Here’s a paid link, but if anyone can find a free-to-read source, please share!
https://academic.oup.com/book/44155/chapter-abstract/372341916
anyone have recommendations for free #opensource #mind #mapping software?
It’s #UniversalMusicDay! So what is Music, anyway? Where does the word come from? And what’s the connection to our minds? Questions we tackle in this video, with the help of 12ToneVideos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wjsH1ry8aQ
#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Language #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #LingComm #Music #Mind
I just finished watching HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND, the 2022 miniseries based on the book of the same name by Michael Pollan. It's streaming on Netflix and I found it excellent. Some truly powerful stories and a lot of fascinating information and history.
Also, my state was the first to decriminalize psilocybin and legalize its supervised use, which I believe was a good decision.
#LSD #psilocybin #MDMA #mescaline #acid #peyote #DecriminalizeNature #psychedelics #mind #psychology #healing
He's #RedBeanBear...
You can #CrushOnHim all you like.... He won't #Mind; because, he has #FluffForBrains...
🌻⚔️🤖🐺🤖⚔️🌻 | ☕🎠 :RainbowInfinity:🐻 :RainbowInfinity:🎠☕
18-months #OnAndOffDuty... #MyEmployer was #Japanese...
They didn't seem to #Mind my #AndalucíanAccent... At least #NotThatMuch...
🧙⚔️🤖🐺🤖⚔️🧙 | 🥪🦹🚅🦄🚅🦹🥪
Always mind boggling, fun and inspirational...
Andrej Karpathy at Lex Fridman
#technology #mind #ai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdiD-9MMpb0
What the science actually says about unconscious decision making.
The MIT Press Reader says "There is no free lunch when it comes to tricky decisions; you have to do the thinking."
“it is what we believe that is true.” - Systemic Evolutions
The Political/Business mindset has long utilized this technique by embodying its intention for the negative affects it can achieve for private gain.
#StitchedInkMedia #Politics #Psychology #Negative #Positive #History #Nature #world #Brain #Mind #Science #Profit #Health #Resistance #Belief #Environment #Body #BodyFreedom #FreedomofMind #Secret #Business #BusinessModel
This semester, I'm taking a class on the philosophy of mind, body, and intelligence. The professor kicked things off by lamenting that the reading list is by a bunch of white men. He's actively looking for source material from more diverse perspectives, especially women, people of color, and cultural traditions outside of "traditional Western thought."
I wonder, do any of y'all have recommendations? I'd love to check them out myself, and share them with the class.
:boost_requested: Boosts appreciated if you know folks who are into this sort of thing.
In a month's time I'll be stripping completely naked in public, and in the presence of local #media, and jumping into the #NorthSea to raise money for #MIND. Perhaps in the desperate hope that she would put a stop to it, I told my mum I'll be doing it.
Sadly, she's offered to sponsor me.
Just in case any of you feel like being as vindictive as my Mum, my #JustGiving page is here:
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/eamonn-kerins
#Reincarnation is the concept that the non-physical essence of a living being continues to exist after death and begins a new life in a different physical form. This “essence” could be the #mind, #soul, #consciousness, or #spirit.
#Religions and #spiritual movements differ on what exactly is carried on, and in what forms one can be #reborn as. For some, it’s a part of the eternal cycle of life. For others, it’s a cycle you try to break free from.
Do you believe in some form of reincarnation?
Try developing compassionate insight, it’s easy to do, www.compassmethods.com. https://youtube.com/@CompassionsCompass-sb7jo
#mentalhealth #growth #mind #compassion #insight
my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 15: music on our (developing) minds. I focused specifically on research into music and language development, but the important wider point is that #music is an amazing tool to probe the human #mind. Blog entry contains magic link for free access:
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2023/08/musical-minds.html #science #psychology #development #language #children #ProseAndPassion
What is mind/brain reductionism, in practice?
In Kandel's 2005 book, he lays out 5 tenants to "outline an intellectual framework designed to align current psychiatric thinking and training of future practitioners with modern biology". I regard this as a good snapshot of the "reductionism" that many quibble with, as it is practiced by the neuroscientists who adopt it. Would anyone disagree (either that this is reductionism or that this is a good snapshot of it?). Here are the principles.
Principle 1. All mental processes derive from operations of the brain.
Principle 2. Genes and their proteins are important determinants of the pattern of interconnections between neurons and how neurons function.
Principle 3. Alerted genes do not, by themselves, explain all of the variance of a given major mental illness. Social or developmental factors also contribute very importantly. Just as combinations of genes contribute to behavior, including social behavior, so can behavior and social factors exert actions on the brain by feeding back upon it to modify the expression of genes and thus the function of nerve cells. Learning, including learning that results in dysfunctional behavior, produces alterations in gene expression. Thus all of "nurture" is ultimately expressed as "nature".
Principle 4. Alternations in gene expression induced by learning give rise to changes in patterns of neuronal connections. These changes ... are responsible for initiating and maintaining abnormalities of behavior that are induced by social contingencies.
Principle 5. Insofar as psychotherapy or counseling is effective and produces long-term changes in behavior, it presumably does so through learning, by producing changes in gene expression ...
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2005-05732-000
(Also available at archive.org).
Edit: always forgetting the hashtags, sigh:
#neuroscience #philosophy #brain #mind #psychiatry
#Depression haunts me with increasing intensity lately, leaving me functioning only at my bare minimum.
Yesterday, I finally managed to put at least a small part of what has been going on in my #mind into #art.
#Happiness Is the Default State of #Mind. It implies that happiness is not something that you pursue; it is something you allow. Happiness is just being. That insight changed my #life. To me, the biggest #joke is that after all that has been done in the #history of the #world in the pursuit of happiness, it turns out that sustainable happiness is achievable simply by bringing #attention to one’s breath. Life is #funny. At least my life is.
- Search inside your life
Image of the Bodhisattva of Love and Compassion: "Kwanseum Bosal" by Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon #spirituality #spiritualjourney #compassion #love #truth #digitalartwork #digitalartist #digitalart #mind #heart #dharma #bodhisattva #buddhism #kwanseumbosal #aiart #aiartist #midjourney #art #zenmaster #zen #kindness
When you think in your head, how do your thoughts manifest?
Boosts are appreciated.
Wow, I just had the weirdest experience:
I had a #CSS problem, I couldn't solve.
Then I _imagined_ that I'd ask it in a forum and _imagined_ someone answering it.
I've taken the imagined answer and it just worked!
That's some kind of #RubberDuckDebugging, but Inception style! :awesome: 😅
(second part of post will explain the problem and solution)
1/2
Video interview with me about the extended #mind, #ToolsForThought, #CollectiveIntelligence
Could we understand how animals think? As a student in cognitive zoology, at least I try.
An article which provides a nice list of books about animal minds.
#animal #cognition #mind #science #philosophy
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/may/30/can-humans-ever-understand-how-animals-think
Another great podcast from @parismarx #TechWontSaveUs on the absolute insanity on the #rightwing #SiliconValley #TESCREAL #eugenics #EffectiveAltruism #mind #virus
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tech-wont-save-us/id1507621076?i=1000613487138
Several studies, including one from Harvard & MIT, have discovered that going into a nap with a problem in #mind helps the #brain find solutions. Extending that, use of a prompting device called Dormio during hypnagogia (the transitional stage between wakefulness & #sleep) increases #creativity & may show a way to prevent nightmares (and maybe finish a long-stuck novel). Shades of Inception!
https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/sleep-creativity/overview/
Hi, I'm Peter.
Much of my life revolves around #movies. I watch a lot of them, and I work as a #projectionist and #film booker at the local #cinema.
When I'm not watching or showing movies, one of my pastimes is #translating preferably free and #opensource #software. Another interest is #science and #technology in general.
I have a Bachelor of Science in #ComputerScience. After receiving my degree, I studied theoretical #philosophy (primarily #physics and #mind) for two years.
I can't put into words how proud I am of my amazing wife, Kate. For 2 years she has worked to rebuild her life from serious #mentalillness. Now, she's joining me and some swim pals to participate in the #NorthEastSkinnyDip on Sunday September 24th 2023. There'll be around 1000+ people at #DruridgeBay stripping naked and running into the #NorthSea to raise money for #MIND mental health charity. Kate's story and #JustGiving funding page is here:
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Catherine-Kerins
It seems to be the case that I have aphantasia. I am unable to conjure an actual visual-ish mental image at will.
I can "see" what I'm thinking about, but it's in a different space -- it's not visual. Not easy to explain. My dreams are very vivid and movie-like. It seems to be an inability to conjure images at will.
I'm disappointed to learn that I lack this seemingly amazing ability that most people have.
The Mind-Body Problem
What this article says its true, what basically Large Language Models are doing is being trained on enormous amount of data, learning patterns, entities and their properties and generate text based on them.
But I do wonder, isnt this how we humans learn too? Or its me as a neurodivergent person who learns like this? My understandings come from recognizing patterns and matching previous knowledge with them.
I cant comprehend something without examples and seeing it in action. Isnt this the same way Machine Learning functions?
Article:
ChatGPT Hype Is Proof Nobody Understands AI
https://nabilalouani.substack.com/p/chatgpt-hype-is-proof-nobody-really
The #wolves they howled for my lost #soul
I fell down a deep black #hole
He'd left me for another #lady
She poured the #drinks and she poured the #power
A #diamond #girl who could talk for #hours
He'd left me for another lady
Now I am on my own
He told me he was #leaving
And I was #pleading
And I had to let him go
Her name was #NewYork, New York
And she took his #heart away oh my
Her name was New York, New York
She had #poisoned his sweet #mind
Repentance or #Metanoia?
#healing #prayer
Matt 4:12–23
.
I’m hearing #Jesus say something like this:
“Listen! Change your #mind & your #heart about the way you are headed… turn & face a new way! #God is here with you & loves you deeply… God’s Kingdom is near. The way you face friends… the way you are headed will lead to disaster.”
I don’t get #judgment or #shame in the word “metanoia” that I get from “repent”.
I find some healing in that. Do you?
Can someone tell me (or connect me with someone who knows) about the current state of the science, research, and predominant thinking on the “modularity of mind”? #psychology #neuroscience #psychiatry #philosophy #consciousness #science #research #brain #mind
Clockwork Orange #generativeart
Title inspired from Stanley Kubrick's film, exploring ideas of mind control and government manipulation, most clearly in the iconic scene in which Alex is restrained in a chair whilst his eyes are prised open.
#clockworkorange #kubrick #film
#fxhash #art #DigitalArt #cellularautomata #mind #eye
The Latin root of "decide" is decidere -- meaning to cut off. Deciding is a slicing away of alternative pathways; the snuffing out of alternate universes. Decision trees are maps of multiverses.
Deciding is so much power that we unconsciously often tend to avoid it. We want to leave our options open forever. We want to pretend there is forever -- that our lives are not finite; that we don't have to choose; that we can have it all. Decisions can trigger our denial of death.
Inner voice, you know, your own voice in your head. I've been reading up on how not everyone has it, without solid evidence or sources. This isn't exactly scientific, but I ask you for your own experience. Do you have an inner monologue? In a sense that you hear your own voice inside your head as actual sentences, like a constant inner monologue. Boosts are appreciated. 😃
The ALIFE 2023 conference, to be held on July 24-28th in Sapporo, Japan, is looking for proposals for special sessions.
If you are interested in organising a session, please visit the following page or get in touch here!
https://sites.google.com/view/alife-2023/calls/call-for-special-sessions
#ALIFE2023 #alife #cogsci #cognitivescience #neuroscience #agency #consciousness #mind #artificiallife
@mariapopova I have only dipped into the depths of this text and need to come up for air just to synthesize what I've read so far. But dropping in to note that this is powerful stuff - its telling me something true and revelatory - offering guidance and affirmation about my own work. Thus far - for me - it is hinting at a holistic embrace of a spectrum of cognitive / sensory modes - and I am here for it. #mind #cognition #knowledge
In 2021, I moved to the US to work as a postdoc in the Department of #Psychiatry and #BehavioralSciences at Stanford University. Hopefully, I will start my medical residency in the country in the following years 🇺🇸.
In my spare time, I love watching #documentaries, #art, #traveling, and #photography
I hope to meet new people and make new friends here, as well as discuss science and mainstream stuff too :)
#PsychMastodon #MentalHealth #Brain #Mind #Neuroscience #tDCS #TMS #Psychedelics
Global and diverse Mastodon #Philosophy folk - If you were structuring a two year course for 16-18 year olds to introduce them to #epistemology, #ethics, #mind, and #god, who are the female philosophers and philosophers of colour you would want to see take centre stage to #diversify and #decolonise a stale, male, and incredibly pale, philosophy curriculum?
The UK’s only A-level syllabus for Philosophy (AQA #ALevelPhilosophy) currently has some glaring omissions in terms of both representation of women (barely any) and representation of ethnicity (every named philosopher on the spec is white) on its reading list, caused by its generally problematic structure of focusing on ‘canon’ thinkers in the four topics it covers and no longer including political philosophy on the course. It needs changing, or at least supplementing by teachers outside of the curriculum, to give students a better taste of what’s out there than this limited and exclusionary vision of philosophy.
So what should we include?
Here’s links to the current spec contents if you want to know how it is being taught right now:
https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/philosophy/a-level/philosophy-7172/subject-content/epistemology
https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/philosophy/a-level/philosophy-7172/subject-content/moral-philosophy
“As the most highly connected structure in the brain, the claustrum is a window into the enigma of the brain, the mind.”
https://neurosciencenews.com/claustrum-cognition-21834/
#neuroscience #brain #science #cognitive #psychology #health #medicine #tech #ComputationalPsychiatry #psychology #research #studies #mind #consciousness
My *#religion* is #UnitarianUniversalist, because it is with this #faith that I re-link my #mind, #body, and #spirit, and it is with this faith that I feel whole. I believe in the unity and universality of #experience, albeit with different modes of expression, and my chosen faith allows me to express that in my living.