Category: Being
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Self-reference. Beauty.
When something pleases us visually - whether it's a fine piece of artwork, a beautiful feat of architecture, or an untouched natural landscape - new research demonstrates there is a pattern of activity in what's known as the default mode network (DMN). The DMN is a large-scale system of interacting regions in the brain that…
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Children's Philosophy Episodes 1 & 2: How a child answers the great questions by... not answering
About Children's Philosophy: A series of articles that will show how small children answer the greatest philosophical questions of humanity. Philosophers need to question everything. And in order to do that, one must think as a child again! One can find wisdom in crazy persons and in children. So that is what I did: I…
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Touching the untouched.
Jellyfish are about 95% water, which makes them very difficult to study because most of the underwater tools available to marine biologists are clunky, heavy, and often shred jellyfish and other delicate creatures to pieces. A new ultra-soft gripper uses fettuccini-like 'fingers' inflated with water to gently grasp jellyfish and release them without harm, allowing…
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What is Being? A child's answer...
Once I asked a child what Being is... (Once I asked my self what Being is...) And the child answered... "It is just a word dad" (And I laughed...) And my dad was impressed... And the whole world of philosophy kept on going... Trying to figure out what Being is.
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AI. Quantitative. Quantitative. Tautologies.
Artificial Intelligence engineers should enlist ideas and expertise from a broad range of social science disciplines, including those embracing qualitative methods, in order to reduce the potential harm of their creations and to better serve society as a whole, a pair of researchers has concluded. (1) Life is not about measuring. Life is not about…
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