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Mashup Score: 45
Can active inference model consciousness? We offer three conditions implying that it can. The first condition is the simulation of a world or reality model, which determines what can be known or acted upon. The second is inferential competition to enter the world model. Only the inferences that coherently reduce long-term uncertainty win, determining the threshold for consciousness and what we call Bayesian binding. The third is epistemic depth, which is the reflexive sharing of the world model throughout the system. Due to this recursive loop in a hierarchical system (such as a brain), the world model contains the knowledge that it exists. This is different from self- consciousness, because the entire world model non-locally knows itself and continuously evidences this knowing (i.e., field-evidencing). This Epistemic Depth Theory is deeply revealing about meditation and psychedelic states, minimal phenomenal experience, and provides a new vision for conscious artificial intelligence.
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Mashup Score: 10OSF - 7 day(s) ago
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Urban-Rural Differences in Anxiety and Depression in the UK, New Zealand, and Norway https://t.co/0BCFyXJftC via @OmidVEbrahimi et al https://t.co/rFUaY5jrIQ
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Mashup Score: 35Conscious artificial intelligence and biological naturalism - 2 month(s) ago
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to develop, it is natural to ask whether AI systems can be not only intelligent, but also conscious. I consider why some people think AI might develop consciousness, identifying some biases that lead us astray. I ask what it would take for conscious AI to be a realistic prospect, pushing back against some common assumptions such as the notion that computation provides a sufficient basis for consciousness. I’ll instead make the case for taking seriously the possibility that consciousness might depend on our nature as living organisms – a form of biological naturalism. I will end by exploring some wider issues including testing for consciousness in AI, and ethical considerations arising from AI that either actually is, or convincingly seems to be, conscious.
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RT @bimedotcom: Conscious artificial intelligence and biological naturalism https://t.co/lf1lXn0Qxa ✍️@anilkseth via @OSFramework 💡"This p…
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Mashup Score: 38Sharing Clinically Relevant Research Results with Active-Duty Special Operations Forces Personnel: Toward an Ethical Framework for Responsible Disclosure - 2 month(s) ago
Structured acquisition and analysis of individual-level health data in the context of biomedical research can yield novel results with potential clinical or personal relevance to participants. While approaches to returning individual-level research results to study participants in civilian contexts has received some attention, unique ethical considerations informing approaches to sharing military research results, and particularly in research studies involving active-duty Special Operations Forces (SOF) personnel, have been underexplored. As the number of research studies enrolling active-duty military personnel grows, an ethical framework to guide responsible handling and sharing of individual-level research results in these distinctive contexts is crucial to safeguard the rights and welfare of research participants and to elucidate appropriate practices for investigators. After exploring the landscape of ethical, clinical, legal and logistical considerations both motivating and compl
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Is it appropriate to share clinically relevant research results with active-duty Special Operations Forces? We explore ethical, legal & operational perspectives, with the goal of empowering Operators who seek information about their brain health. https://t.co/Pxv6x8kdBz https://t.co/NVWr69AU1q
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Mashup Score: 15Approximate 1 in 7 Scientific Papers Are Fake v2.pdf - 3 month(s) ago
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Approximate 1 in 7 Scientific Papers Are Fake https://t.co/MCvQ20Y2BZ via @jamesheathers https://t.co/emX7ct19om
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Mashup Score: 15Approximate 1 in 7 Scientific Papers Are Fake v2.pdf - 3 month(s) ago
Presented by OSF
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Approximate 1 in 7 Scientific Papers Are Fake https://t.co/MCvQ20Y2BZ via @jamesheathers https://t.co/emX7ct19om
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Mashup Score: 15Characterizing the Cognitive and Mental Health Benefits of Exercise and Video Game Playing: The Brain and Body Study. - 3 month(s) ago
Two of the most actively studied modifiable lifestyle factors, exercise and video gaming, are regularly touted as easy and effective ways to enhance brain function and/or protect it from age-related decline. However, some critical lingering questions and methodological inconsistencies leave it unclear what aspects of brain health are affected by exercise and video gaming, if any at all. In a global online study of over 1000 people, we collected data about participants’ physical activity levels, time spent playing video games, mental health, and cognitive performance using tests of short-term memory, verbal abilities, and reasoning skills from the Creyos battery. The amount of regular physical activity was not significantly related to any measure of cognitive performance; however, more physical activity was associated with better mental health as indexed using the PHQ-2 and GAD-2 screeners for depression and anxiety. Conversely, we found that more time spent playing video games was asso
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“Characterizing the Cognitive and Mental Health Benefits of Exercise and Video Game Playing: The Brain and Body Study” by Conor J Wild et al. PsyArXiv https://t.co/tQyjjs5r79
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Mashup Score: 5
In neuroscience, the search for the causes of behavior is often just taken to be the search for neural mechanisms. This view typically involves three forms of causal reduction: first, from the ontological level of cognitive processes to that of neural mechanisms; second, from the activity of the whole brain to that of isolated parts; and third, from a consideration of temporally extended, historical processes to a focus on synchronic states. While modern neuroscience has made impressive progress in identifying synchronic neural mechanisms, providing unprecedented real-time control of behavior, we contend that this does not amount to a full causal explanation. In particular, there is an attendant danger of eliminating the cognitive from our explanatory framework, and even eliminating the organism itself. To fully understand the causes of behavior, we need to understand not just what happens when different neurons are activated, but why those things happen. In this paper, we introduce a
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RT @WiringTheBrain: @KordingLab Beyond mechanism – extending our concepts of causation in neuroscience https://t.co/6ZdbB0n1Oj via @OSFrame…
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Mashup Score: 8Foreign Funding of U.S. Higher Education Predicts Campus Erosion of Democratic Speech Norms and Antisemitism - 3 month(s) ago
We examined relations between foreign funding of U.S. colleges and universities and campus political developments. Seven studies investigated associations between foreign funding and campus liberal democratic norms, specifically, deterioration of free speech and academic freedom, and presence of antisemitism. Study I found that 349 colleges and universities received a total of almost $18 billion from foreign sources between 2014 and 2019. Study II examined relationships of foreign funding to campus deplatforming of speakers and punitive actions for speech protected by academic freedom. Main results were: 1. overall foreign funding was not strongly related to campus speech outcomes; 2. higher levels of deplatforming and speech punishment occurred on campuses that received funding from member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and from authoritarian countries. Study III found weak evidence that foreign funding was associated with college students’ reported exposure to anti
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Foreign Funding of U.S. Higher Education Predicts Campus Erosion of Democratic Speech Norms and Antisemitism https://t.co/tgfNDFH146 via @OSFramework
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Mashup Score: 3OSF - 3 month(s) ago
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"Unfollowing hyperpartisan social media influencers durably reduces out-party animosity" https://t.co/r4DnwxAJ4N
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Perhaps consciousness isn't binary—but a spectrum of complexity. From Unified Experience to Reflective Awareness to Epistemic Depth. It's layers of awareness that define our understanding of mind and self. https://t.co/ApF63lXOyj https://t.co/blLfMNjttt