Read Weird Dreams Train Our Brains to Be Better Learners Online

Weird Dreams Train Our Brains to Be Better Learners by Jim Davies Oct 13, 2021 6 minutes Neural networks need to "dream" of weird, senseless examples to learn well. Maybe we do, too.Photo Illustration by MDV Edwards / ShutterstockFor many of us over the last year and more, our waking experience has, you might say, lost a bit of its variety. We spend more time with the same people, in our homes, and go to fewer places. Our stimuli these days,...

Does Technology Have a Soul?

learza (Alex North) from Australia, Aibos at RoboCop, 2005, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. When my husband arrived home, he stared at the dog for a long time, then pronounced it "creepy." At first I took this to mean uncanny, something so close to reality it disturbs our most basic ontological assumptions. But it soon became clear he saw the dog as an interloper. I demonstrated all the tricks I had taught Aibo, determined to impress him. By that point the dog could roll over, shak...

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Empowering Poetic Defiance

Empowering Poetic Defiance: Baudelaire, Kant and Poetic Agency in the Classroom Many strategies for incorporating poetry into non-poetry classes, especially outside of English and associated disciplines, appear to make poetry subservient and secondary in relation to the prose content of the course. The poet under consideration becomes a kind of involuntary servant to one or more prose authors, forced to "speak only when spoken to," and effectively prevented from challenging the ideas of the...

We have already seen that we can have knowledge of two kinds of things: sensible objects and the Ideas

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Vegetables as symbol and pun - John Locke

Neuroscientists Back An Ancient Greek Theory of Consciousness

Neuroscientists Back An Ancient Greek Theory of Consciousness In 2008, neuroscientist Giulio Tononi at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Sleep and Consciousness put forward his "integrated information theory," which is currently accepted as one of the most compelling explanations about what consciousness is. One of the central claims of the theory is that, for consciousness to...