💡The Science: You don't "have" an emotion; you "do" an emotion. Emotions are "ad hoc" categories, meaning your brain constructs them in the moment to serve a specific function or goal in a specific situation. Your brain combines ingredients—like past experiences and body

"There is a pervasive assumption that quantum theory only applies at the scale of atoms and below." "The idea that there is a clean boundary between the quantum world and the classical world is starting to collapse." "Biology is undergoing a shift away from classical

Interview: "How the brain constructs reality" Host: Institute of Art and Ideas youtube.com/watch?v=82T2Pm…

💡The Science: There is no single "fear circuit" or universal facial expression for any emotion. In reality, you might cry in fear, freeze in fear, or even laugh in fear depending on the context. This is called "population thinking": emotions are a diverse population of

💡The Science: When your brain predicts a threat, it aggressively budgets energy, flooding you with cortisol and glucose to prepare for a fight. Once this physiological "fuel dump" has occurred, you cannot use logic to stop it because the biological reality has already been set

Dr Fei-Fei Li (Fei-Fei Li ) on limitations of LLMs. 🎯 The same vibe of what Yann LeCun says. "Language is purely generated signal. You don't go out in nature & there's words written in the sky for you. There is a 3D world that follows laws of physics"

Yann LeCun's (Yann LeCun ) new paper along with other top researchers proposes a brilliant idea. 🎯 Says that chasing general AI is a mistake and we must build superhuman adaptable specialists instead. The whole AI industry is obsessed with building machines that can do absolutely

💡The Science: Emotion words are not just labels we put on feelings after they happen; they are tools that help "wire" the brain. Words act as abstract features that help the brain group different physical sensations together to make them functional. They are "invitations to form

Say it again louder for the folks in the back: AI makes you stupid

There are very good reasons why LLMs are very unlikely to be conscious. noemamag.com/the-mythology-…

Remember that you cannot take seriously LLM statements as evidence for their consciousness, for if you do, then no falsifiable and non-trivial theory of consciousness could apply to them

Why must LLMs hallucinate? The answer in this paper - a low threshold for guessing because of rewards during post-training - is part of the explanation, but another is that they are designed not to store and retrieve facts but to mash up probabilistic associates. Out of curiosity

gian stay grounded bud, have a sandwich, we have to keep existing, no point in ramping up your emotions

Consciousness film with Anil Seth let’s goo 🍿

💡 The Science: After mapping a feeling, AKA “zooming in” (see my earlier post), then "zooming out" to observe your body as a whole without judgment flattens your brain's expectations. It reduces the brain's reliance on deep, emotional predictions. ⏰Why This Matters: This

Get in loser, we're here to figure out the Universe and to make friends along the way

Why is everyone crazy these days

Stunning

Honestly I’m surprised we got this far in a simulation that runs primarily on oil and religion.

When we make AI agents, are they becoming more like us ? Or us more like them? All artificial agents are hybrid by design because they contain biomimetic cognitive abilities baked in by their Geppetto Check out our new preprint with Shaun Gallagher👇🏼 osf.io/preprints/psya…