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fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

Stop Making Sense

Therapy thrives when clients can be incoherent and play with language, allowing for incoherence to prove valuable as an experiment in living.
Mental health
#information-pollution
fromPsychology Today
4 weeks ago

If You Love Someone with ADHD, You Need to Say This

Your person with ADHD has spent their waking time absorbing words like lazy, thoughtless, and unreliable into their skin. They call themselves even worse.
Mental health
Philosophy
fromPhilosophynow
1 month ago

The Epistemology Professor Losing it in Cincinnati

Communication breakdowns can lead to frustration in family relationships, reflecting deeper philosophical questions about meaning.
fromHarvard Gazette
1 month ago

Does AI understand? - Harvard Gazette

When we see things that speak like humans, that can do a lot of tasks like humans, write proofs and rhymes, it's very natural for us to think that the only way that thing could be doing those things is that it has a mental model of the world, the same way that humans do. We as a field are making steps trying to understand, what would it even mean for something to understand? There's definitely no consensus.
Artificial intelligence
Philosophy
fromDoc
2 months ago

The secret of good metaphors

Metaphors shape our understanding of the brain and body, connecting complex ideas with familiar technologies.
Artificial intelligence
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

AI Is a Smooth Operator, but Shallow Thinker

LLMs compress language but lose the subtlety of human understanding.
They mimic thought, but lack true semantic depth or nuance.
AI fluency hides the deeper cognitive blind spot that coherence isn't comprehension.
#empathy
Mindfulness
fromTiny Buddha
4 months ago

The Power of Silence and How to Really Listen - Tiny Buddha

True knowledge often exists in moments of silence, not just in spoken words.
The essence of communication is in listening beyond mere speech.
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