And that how is together. "The very idea of collectively tuning in to history as it happens has been altered, as the profusion of channels and platforms now funnels audience members into self-segregated affinity groups." - Nieman Lab
Nothing that we know of stops the right side of the brain from connecting with the right side of the body. That wiring scheme would seem much simpler and less prone to errors. - Quanta
"In a world overshadowed by immensely complex crises that demand cooperation across the human species, we are finding it necessary, as if we were toddlers, to identify fruits and colors..." We are standing... at the junction of many burned and sundered bridges; I received a vision of how truly fucked we are. - Guernica
There’s something irrevocably empirical about the fact that poems and novels and paintings and music and films stir cognitive-affective goings-on that have the bearings of sense. And there is something irrevocably empirical, too, in the pressure to admit these goings-on as ‘thoughts’ or ‘meaning’. - Aeon
Something about this ordinary, negligible feeling seems to make it inaccessible to critical reflection. Perhaps because, when irritable, we tend to be at our least reflective – preoccupied with those diminutive miseries whose oversize effect we know would not stand up to criticism. - Aeon
We might typically think of hope as a touchy-feely emotion that, almost by definition, is divorced from real-life experience. In fact, as more research is beginning to show, hope is an important scientific concept—something we can define, measure, analyze, and ultimately cultivate. - The Atlantic
What can we do personally to stave off the displacement that may happen as a result of AI and future-proof ourselves in the age of intelligent machines? - Harvard Business Review
Cancelling is a colloquial term applied to anything from discussion about an author with a critical tone to internet pile-ons or campaigns to deplatform individuals after that person does something their audience perceives as wrong. There is much debate. - The Conversation
As AI proliferates, this lack of originality in our daily language is what will render so many of our jobs irrelevant... It’s clear that one of our best defenses against the rise of the writing machines might be to learn how to think like a poet. - Washington Post
The director of Ghost Dog and Coffee and Cigarettes says that "funnelling creative energy into making music has become a vital escape from some of the stresses and hurdles involved in getting films funded and made." - The Guardian (UK)
I not only worry that "cli-fi" might not be an effective form of environmental expression – I have come to believe that the genre might be actively dangerous, stunting our cultural ability to imagine a future worth living in or fighting for. - BBC
"A host of researchers (is) probing subtle differences in white matter to better understand ... its role in making us who we are — including how much white matter dictates variations between people's everyday behavior, and whether it's implicated in how some patients recover better than others from life-threatening brain injuries." - Nautilus
Human bodies are basically built to see and move forward; human brains tend to conceive of time in that forward way. Octopuses can move in any direction and see almost 360 degrees. They also, unlike most humans, die quickly after reproducing. Can cephalopods offer us a new model of conceiving time? - Aeon
