Be Nice
What’s the harm in just being rude and uncivil?
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Psychology
People Like Us: How Our Brains View Others
At the most fundamental level of biology, we recognize the innate advantage of defining differences in species. But even within species, is there something in our neural circuits that leads us to find comfort in those like us and unease with those who may differ?
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Facebook Experiment Demonstrates Transfer of Emotional States via Social Media
Facebook is the subject of a heated debate for a psychological experiment the company has conducted on nearly 700,000 people without their knowledge. The Facebook experiment was carried out in 2012 and was related to the manipulation of content on users’ newsfeeds to analyze the effect on the user’s sentiment.
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Video Friday: The Beckley Foundation’s Program of Psychedelic Research
A talk describing Beckley's collaborative pilot study with Johns Hopkins University on the treatment of addiction with psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy and its results.
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Mindapps and The Neurosingularity Project
When Bigger Heads and Better Brains Surpass Our Current Ones
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An Integral Framework for Transhumanism
At first examination Transhumanism is a complex and quickly evolving Promethean school of thought loosely woven together with a variety of conversations and points of view. It is kind of a crazy quilt of ideas and technologies in which it is difficult initially to discern much more than a common definition. It seems there are already a few manifestos still glowing from Hephaestus' forge. There is ...
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Aaron Sloman on Psychology and Artificial Intelligence – Oxford Interview
Aaron Sloman – Artificial Intelligence – Psychology – Oxford Interview This a transcript of a video, of Aaron Sloman being interviewed by Adam Ford, at the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Winter Conference, St Anne’s College, Oxford University, December 2012. The interview was on 9th December 2012: Adam Ford posed a number of questions to direct the interview, as indi...
Read More »What Will Come After Language?
Language, and how it relates to mind and reality … and about what may come AFTER language as we know it, when mind and reality change dramatically due to radical technological advances.
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Hearing Voices: Risks of Voice Synthesis and the Merger of AR Games and Storytelling
The human psyche is highly fragile in the times of stress, and it's only appropriate to assume that the simulated voices will follow us more and more, just like the GPS in your car telling you to turn around the corner. We must apply tight user experience guidelines to some of these simulations.
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