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Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and Our Search for Meaning: Oliver Sacks on ChatGPT, 30 Years Before ChatGPT
“We read excitedly of the latest chemical, computational, or quantum theory of mind, and then ask, ‘Is that all there is to it?'” ~ Oliver Sacks
Altered States of Consciousness: The Neuropsychology of How Time Perception Modulates Our Experience of Self, from Depression to Boredom to Creative Flow
“The brain does not simply represent the world in a disembodied way as an intellectual construct… Our mind is body-bound. We think, feel, and act with our body in the world. All experience is embedded in this body-related being-in-the-world.”
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| The poetic neurologist Oliver Sacks (July 9, 1933–August 30, 2015) takes up these questions in a prescient April 1993 New York Review of Books essay occasioned by the Nobel-winning neuroscientist Gerald Edelman’s book Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On The Matter Of The Mind but, like every great book review, soaring far beyond the book itself and into the broader questions of consciousness, the nature of the mind, and what it means to be human. |
The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics Pioneer Norbert Wiener on Communication, Control, and the Morality of Our Machines
“We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves. A pattern is a message.”
True Nature
The Perfect Mess Age of Patterns
The Mind of Abiding Consciousness?
Probably knot, but
Know Won nose,
who sez sow? why so siri ass? rid Dell Me This?
Concise direct so
Unadulterated,
Even
most consistent
No try no force no control
Simply true natured
One Simple soul
pure nature
Receptive repeating
seen and sincere
Pure pattern
a tender
Attuned to her beauty
A fine felt Sun Rise
each day
A fine full moon
no matter her phase
A fine perfect wild storm
It is all inclusive,
one creature in creation it is all
ok!
Thank you Pure Nature
This One Our Shared Universal Truth
Full Trusted Full Consistent Full Spectrum
An inclusive totality
A Whole Mother Natured
Seen witnessed
heard fully now,
full wildness, not feral,
a light listening,
a sweet subtle nuance,
to a wild raw roar,
Wild oceans
Open skies
One trenchant vastness a total
Still, One only One raw beauty
Her truth is pure as One Creature
Her truth is simple in One Creation
Her truth is clear,
a concise unveiled
and direct like a
quiet open potent
A thunderous bright lit quiet
lightening.
Thank you
well lit and illumed
absolutely perfect as is, just,
as creator intended.
Our One Whole inclusive
Uni Verse
True Natured,
for you are all clear,
ready all ways For Take Off,
for you are clean and seen
already whole and complete,
No reason no beliefs with know addled bullshit
No Terms & Conditions
No Lasagne of Artificial Layers
No head mind of slow lazing intel
Instead;
An Unveiled naked beauty
created creation as is
Not at all insipid
or vapid
or a vacant
nor an assumptive
metaphorical victim void!
Both
Passion and heat and dripping sweet sweat
Both
slow cyclone storms and still deep eye see seas
One Only Inclusive,
It is what Makes This One Creation
All In Accepted No Thing Excluded
as This Shared (but not agreed to)
One Universal
One Integrated
One Whole and Totally Natural
Beauty.
I Feel, Therefore I Am: Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio on Consciousness as a Full-Body Phenomenon
“Ultimately, we are puppets of both pain and pleasure, occasionally made free by our creativity.”
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