Another Note: On the Theory of Monetized Empathy
https://www.tilley.blog/another-note-on-the-theory-of-monetized-empathy/
Another Note: On the Theory of Monetized Empathy
https://www.tilley.blog/another-note-on-the-theory-of-monetized-empathy/
#Zoomposium with Dr. #Patrick #Krauß: Building instructions for #artificial #consciousness
Transferring the various stages of #Damasio's #theory of consciousness 1:1 into concrete #schematics for #deeplearning. To this end, strategies such as #feedforward connections, #recurrent #connections in the form of #reinforcement learning and #unsupervised #learning are used to simulate the #biological #processes of the #neuronal #networks.
More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/10/24/bauanleitung-kuenstliches-bewusstsein/
No one talks enthusiastically and profoundly about Parsons anymore? Well, then you should listen to Daniel Silver on Give Theory a Chance:
https://thesocietypages.org/theory/2025/03/21/daniel-silver-on-talcott-parsons/
This week's BBC "Add to Playlist" is brilliant, as always. Where else are you going to hear ragtime, prog rock, rap and electronic pop treated with equal standing?
Making music was close to my heart when I was younger, and I love hearing professionals analyse it in Interesting ways, and with obvious joy and enthusiasm.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00290fc
#music #theory #geek
of course, you can pick locrian (the "darkest" mode) or lydian (the "brightest" mode) and use those as a reference, too. for example, six sharps starting from locrian can get you to lydian through all the other modes (5, 2, 6, 3, 7, 4) and similarly, six flats can get you from lydian to locrian through all other modes (4, 7, 3, 6, 2, 5), with Dorian in the center. so the symmetry of the Dorian mode occurs not only in its intervals but also in its modal relationships #theory #music #musicTheory
Do you know of any self-organized, bottom-up, locally-rooted educational organizations?
I am asking this because I am talking intensely with @ceci about ideas and dreams we have for our home city, #Sanremo, Italy.
We are both coming to the conclusion that an autonomous, independent, cooperative, critical, and deeply rooted university is one of the very very few projects that could give young people in the area a real chance not to emigrate.
As we are also both deeply in love with fringe academia, it would also be the only reason for us to somehow maintain a bond with our homeland.
Please, boost and share this, and send us any kind of suggestions! We particularly welcome Italian initiatives.
Nabeel et al. present a method to derive models of theoretical ecology from stochastic time series data. This data-driven method may help empirical tests of ecological theories and to discover unknown principles. Read now ahead of print!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/734083
#Apes point out hidden treats only when #humans are #unaware of their #location.
❛❛ It's a #sign of a #cognitive ability called #Theory of #Mind. ❜❜
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPD9jqXEv7Y 2025 Feb 04
https://www.SmithsonianMag.com/smart-news/when-bonobos-know-what-you-dont-theyll-tell-you-its-a-sign-of-a-cognitive-ability-called-theory-of-mind-180985991/ 2025 Feb 05
https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind … #TheoryOfMind
if you curate your feed to support #dogma, evolution will #curate you out (over time) #biology #selection #fitness #evolution #theory #NaturalSelection
Is it possible that adults have lower #neuroplasticity because of the taboos? Restriction on thought and what ideas can be explored teach kids to ask fewer questions resulting in their brains drying out by adulthood. Could that be the case?
Is that a #theory ?
A #Theory in #Science MUST be falsifiable aka it must be possible to proof it's wrong, if it's wrong. So every #Scientist has to live with being wrong. To be slightly less wrong than the ones before you is a big achievement - not only in science, but everywhere in life, actually.
What we call "being right" normally also just means "being slightly less wrong". Keep that in your mind. Always. Everywhere.
Elon Musk Finally Admits Social Security Is on the Chopping Block
The richest man in the world is trying to convince the American people that they all deserve less.
In an interview with Fox News on Monday,
Elon Musk spread debunked lies about Social Security and Medicare to justify eliminating them.
“The waste and fraud in entitlement spending … that’s the big one to eliminate, that’s the sort of half trillion, maybe six or seven hundred billion a year,” Musk said.
“That is also a mechanism by which the Democrats attract and retain illegal immigrants, by essentially paying them to come here, and they’re turning them into voters. This is why the Democrats are so upset about the situation,”
he added, unsubtly echoing a white nationalist, #Great #Replacement #theory talking point while #Larry #Kudlow nodded along.
“If we turn off this gigantic money magnet for illegal immigrants, then they will leave. And they will lose voters.”
Trump has said he won’t touch Social Security or Medicare, but Musk’s entitlement math makes it clear that both those programs, as well as Medicaid, are on the chopping block.
Millions of older Americans—many of them red-state Republicans—will lose the vital benefits they rely on.
And the millions of younger Americans who’ve been having those benefits taken out of their paychecks for years will never see the fruits of that.
Musk’s lies continued:
“Why are there 20 million people who are definitely dead marked as alive in the Social Security database?” he asked.
“Why were hundreds of millions of dollars of Small Business Administration loans given out to people aged 11 and under? We have an enormous number of people marked alive who are 160.”
️This has been long debunked.
“The reported data are people in our records with a Social Security number who do not have a date of death associated with their record. These individuals are not necessarily receiving benefits,”
acting Social Security commissioner Lee Dudek said in February.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192579/elon-musk-social-security-medicare-entitlements
Biological
Paradigms Are a changin'
Mitochondria
#haiku #Levin #Borg #Kastrup #Biology #VitaminD #Research #Science #Cytology #Mitochondria #Physics #Cancer #Theory #Praxis #Biochemistry #Tuesday #Thoughts @BernardoKastrup #Video #YouTube #Education https://youtu.be/wSgdapxKq6o?si=QNwfmpG3Fkz__N64
The chapter-by-chapter review of Larry DiMatteo’s Principles of Contract Law and Theory continues today. This time, its less principles and more theory. Fun stuff, from economics to ethics and more.
#law #contracts #books #theory &Law&Economics
The #theory of #stupidity - Dietrich #Bonhoeffer & Hannah #Arendt & Bertrand #Russell https://youtube.com/watch?v=53ZaXpIn2fg&si=s71N4W23ecSTv3Ol
I want to learn more about modernism and modernity as a cultural movement. It feels like so much of what’s going on right now is about pushing and pulling against modernism.
Do you have any book recommendations? Articles? Anything is welcome
Autotheory is cool because it "speaks from the I." Because of that, it's a bit less prescriptive than theory tends to be under certain writers. It's honest about the fact that one is theorizing based on their own experience.