you-love-brain-rot-here’s-why.-|-marvin-liyanage

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This is part 1 in a 3 part series on the neuroscience of brain rot — silly nonsense videos that are changing our brains through our phones. As someone who makes short-form video content I’m fascinated by why silly AI slop and brain rot videos get millions of views. IContinue Reading

do-llms-follow-the-first-amendment?

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This interview is an episode from ‪@The-Well, our publication about ideas that inspire a life well-lived, created with the ‪@JohnTempletonFoundation. Subscribe to The Well on YouTube ► https://bit.ly/thewell-youtube Watch all of Mchangama’s interviews ► https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_B7bI1QVmJBpGqPZQP1mSFrN1Rfy0CR5 What happens when the technology mediating nearly all our information begins to decide what speechContinue Reading

we-are-living-through-a-slowdown-in-human-progress-|-jason-crawford

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“People got skeptical, fearful, doubtful of the very idea of progress in the 20th century and we allowed that to slow down progress itself.” Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, Why 2025 is the single most pivotal year in our lifetime | Peter Leyden ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5k72A30kUcContinue Reading

how-your-brain-is-wired-to-heal-after-trauma-|-george-bonanno:-full-interview

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“There are at least three very much interrelated misconceptions about trauma right now.” Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, [Sentence case video title] ► [YouTube’s share link of video] We may think that trauma leaves irreversible scars, reshaping our brain and emotional regulation permanently. The science,Continue Reading

evolution-begins-with-error,-not-design-|-sean-b.-carroll

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“Chance invents and natural selection propagates that chance invention.” Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, The mind-bending probability of our existence | Sean B. Carroll: Full Interview ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hOjpxNHgQc Evolution doesn’t create with intent: it begins with error. Random mutations, filtered through time and circumstance, giveContinue Reading

the-illusion-of-shared-reality:-why-no-two-minds-see-the-same-world-|-anil-seth-&-jonny-thomson

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“Consciousness is fundamental. It’s a fundamental property of the world that we inhabit, a fundamental property of the universe.” Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, How to grow deeply happy | Jonny Thomson ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WShJeNX7W8 What does it mean to be conscious, and why does itContinue Reading

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“Consciousness is fundamental. It’s a fundamental property of the world that we inhabit, a fundamental property of the universe.” Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Watch Sean Carroll’s Full Interview with Big Think ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TBNJyztai0 What does it mean to be conscious, and why does it feel likeContinue Reading

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This interview is an episode from ‪@The-Well, our publication about ideas that inspire a life well-lived, created with the ‪@JohnTempletonFoundation. Subscribe to The Well on YouTube ► https://bit.ly/thewell-youtube Watch all of Schnitker’s interviews ► https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_B7bI1QVmJD3Txt76o1eObfk0ICzrVWD Gratitude connects us, but how we express it might matter more than we think. BaylorContinue Reading