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Category: futurism
Are plants conscious? | Marvin Liyanage @marvinliyanage
There’s more and more evidence that plant intelligence might be much more advanced than we originally thought.
Panel on Representational Paradigms for Cognitive AI
There is a wide gap between current machine learning representations and the way in which our minds represent reality. Our mental representations are dynamic, coherent, unified (in the sense that we establish relationships between all our domains of knowledge, in the context of a global universe), and they are updated on the fly. In this panel, we bring some important thinkers and practitioners of cognitive science, robotics, AI and philosophy together to discuss representations for future generations of AI systems.
This is the first in a series of events on Cognitive Artificial Intelligence. The goal of Cognitive AI is to build and understand systems that can make sense of their environment, combine knowledge and perception, learn to act on domains they have not encountered before, make autonomous decisions and explain them, interact deeply with people and human society.
We are proud to welcome our panelists:
Mark Bickhard: Cognition and Truth Value.
Stephen grossberg: how each brain makes a mind: from brain resonances to conscious experiences.
Yulia Sandamirskaya: Memory, intentionality, and autonomy enabled by neuronal attractor dynamics.
Skin Cells Could Become Sperm & Eggs
Scientists are exploring in vitro gametogenesis a technology that could potentially turn skin or fat cells into sperm and egg cells. If successful, it could fundamentally change fertility, IVF, and reproductive possibilities for millions of people. https://www.matter.bio/
Original Doom soundtrack to be inducted into US National Recording Registry
The original Doom soundtrack will be added to the US National Recording Registry.
Composed by Bobby Prince, the 1993 album will be inducted alongside 25 other recordings spanning 70 years. It was selected from more than 3,000 public nominations.
“Key to Doom’s popularity was the adrenaline-fueled soundtrack created by Prince,” the National Recording Registry said.
Dark personality traits linked to a higher tolerance for morally questionable behaviors
The study contributes to the scientific knowledge about dark personality traits. However, the study was conducted on a relatively small group of students and solely based on self-reports. Studies on larger groups, involving other demographics, and those using more objective measures of endorsement of morally debatable behaviors might not yield identical results.
The paper, “Relationships between the Dark Triad and Justification of Morally Debatable Behaviors in College Students,” was authored by Emma P. Paulson and Terry F. Pettijohn II.
Some People Can ‘See’ Time, Thanks to a Hidden Superpower—And It’s Quietly Shaping Their Perception
This trait could shed light on the mysteries of human perception. Does it live within you?