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- God, Human, Animal, Machine: Consciousness and Our Search for Meaning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence – The Marginalian1 savers
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Wheeler’s answer was that matter itself does not exist. It is an illusion that arises from the mathematical structures that undergird everything, a cosmic form of information processing. Each time we make a measurement we are creating new information — we are, in a sense, creating reality itself.
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Consciousness and Our Search for Meaning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence – The MarginalianIf you predictions are underconfident, your movements are insufficiently forceful and you get the psychomotor retardation that all the pathologists describe in depressed people. And what’s the closest analog to depressive psychomotor retardation? Parkinsonian bradyphrenia. What causes Parkinsonian bradyphrenia? We know the answer to this one – insufficient dopamine, where dopamine is known to encode the confidence level of motor predictions.
Toward A Predictive Theory Of Depression | Slate Star CodexYou can do psychophysical studies on color perception in depressed people, you can stick electrodes on their eyeballs, and all of this will tell you that depressed people literally see the world in washed-out shades of gray. Descriptions of their sensory experience sound intuitively like the sensory experience you would get if all your sense organs were underconfident in their judgments.
Toward A Predictive Theory Of Depression | Slate Star CodexLiving in reality means becoming a scientist of shame. It’s an investigation.
I’m Broke and Friendless and I’ve Wasted My Whole LifeI need to come back to reality and live there instead.
I’m Broke and Friendless and I’ve Wasted My Whole LifeIt doesn’t matter if every single human alive believes this. It’s your job to cast this notion out forever.
I’m Broke and Friendless and I’ve Wasted My Whole LifeIt’s time to step into the light and be seen, shame and wrinkles and failures and fears and all.
I’m Broke and Friendless and I’ve Wasted My Whole LifeIt’s a way of seeing your life through a lens that makes everything — good and bad, confusing and clarifying, uplifting and depressing — valuable.
I’m Broke and Friendless and I’ve Wasted My Whole Life