A beautiful quote from Michaela Vieser on Ai generated text:

“While an LLM (Large Language Model) searches for the most probable next word within the given syntax, I search for the unexpected in every sentence.”

No, chatbots are not scientists
romainbrette.fr/no-chatbots-...

A new optical.illusion was recently discovered: doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Upon fixation the dots turn purple:

Enjoyed reading this piece about the role of the sacred for environmental health. The state of consciousness we are in affects how we treat everything around us:
www.noemamag.com/to-save-natu...

Sleep is a more conscious state than assumed. We analyzed 69 recent awakening studies with dream reports and found that:
1) deeper sleep leads fo forgetting ones dreams—not a lack of consciousness
2) gentler awakenings show 20% more dream recall in NREM sleep
tinyurl.com/sensecon

#consci #dreams

Feeling pain is not the same as thinking where that pain comes from. Despite that simple experiential difference, the words "consciousness" and "mind" are often used interchangeably.
@marco-masi.bsky.social has a great article on this.

Did you know some people have four types of cones in their retinas? Michael Newall has suggested this may allow them to see colors that most of us with three cones do not perceive:
philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...

Whale song shows language-like statistical structure | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Humans are good at solving such puzzles as an individual, but ants work well collectively: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHpu...

How often do you dream? I reviewed 69 studies that woke up participants and found that dreaming occured most of the time, even from deep sleep. The awakening method, the sleep environment and participant characteristics all shape the amount of dreams reported.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...