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Rewiring our capacity for ecocultural change

Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 10, 2022 | Leave a Comment »

Research on the usefulness of psychedelics for treating depression, anxiety, addiction, and post-traumatic stress has been growing steadily. (See here, here, here, and here for glimpses of it, and To the Best of Our Knowledge‘s recent exploration of it for a fascinating in-depth look at the topic.) I’d like to extrapolate from that research for […]

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Sentience, LaMDA-style

Posted in Philosophy, Science & society, tagged , , , , , , on June 13, 2022 | 3 Comments »

If it was science fiction, it would be pretty good. I’m talking about Blake Lemoine’s interview with LaMDA, the Google AI who claims to be sentient. Lemoine was placed on administrative leave last week by Google for going public with trade secrets. He also happens to claim LaMDA is sentient. A few quotes from LaMDA […]

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Thay passing

Posted in Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , on January 22, 2022 | 2 Comments »

Readers of Shadowing the Anthropocene will know that Buddhist thought has influenced my own thinking in profound ways. To be more precise, Buddhist thought, feeling, and practice has influenced my own thought, feeling, and practice. But there are many forms of Buddhism; like all philosophical and religious systems, it is a long and complex historical […]

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