Category: Humans
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Tripping on acid. Finding significance where none is. Finding meaning. Via senses. Where no meaning is there…
An enhanced sense of meaning is one of the hallmarks of the psychedelic experience. People who have been under the influence of drugs like LSD, mescaline or hallucinogenic mushrooms often describe finding profound significance in even the most prosaic objects and sensations. LSD dramatically changes the way people perceive the environment and themselves, often blurring…
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Eye contact. Thinking. Being. With your ears closed.
Maintaining direct eye contact really is strenuous for the brain, according to new research, and it uses up scarce cognitive resources that we need for things like reasoning and verbal processing. There are many reasons for avoiding eye contact ― social anxiety, being lost in thought, or feeling strong emotions like guilt or embarrassment ―…
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Weak. Strong. A weird relationship… (Yes, the weak control the strong)
A new study reports that researchers have demonstrated a way to control light with light using one third – in some cases, even less – of the energy typically required. The advancement, coupled with other developments, could ultimately lead to more powerful, energy-efficient computer chips and other optics-based technologies. “Typically, symmetry connotes harmony and beauty.…
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Computers listening to humans. Humans becoming like computers…
Speech recognition software isn’t perfect, but it is a little closer to human this week, as a Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and Research team reached a major milestone in speech-to-text development: The system reached a historically low word error rate of 5.9 percent, equal to the accuracy of a professional (human) transcriptionist. The system can discern…
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Abortion: A continuous materialistic crime in an immaterial world…
A woman attempting abortion. An abortion which failed to kill the baby, which was born alive after all. A woman regretting the worst decision she ever took. Having to live forever with the death of her child (which died after all even though in the beginning it was alive – for enough time to make…
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