Is AI already conscious?
Why it’s difficult and perhaps even morally perilous to rule out the possibility of AI consciousness - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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Art and Springtime in Upstate NY
Plus, solace in Leah Ke Yi Zheng’s divine paintings, Ali Cherri accuses Israel of war crimes, and a revealing new survey of POC-led arts orgs.
The antibiotic trap
Easy access to desperately needed drugs has made India the global accelerant of our antimicrobial resistance crisis - by Assa Doron & Alex Broom Read on Aeon
Kinder than necessary
If it’s just the right amount of necessary kindness, it’s not really kindness. It’s pleasantness. If the people in our circle begin to experience behavior that’s kinder than necessary, the expectations for what’s necessary will ratchet forward, making everything more pleasant.
Watch 434 Avant-Garde and Surreal Short Films Online: Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Luis Buñuel and Many More
Much has been written lately about the crisis in Hollywood, which has left many apparently sure-fire blockbusters floundering, theaters empty, and production jobs lost. There are many factors in play — some of them, as few diagnoses fail to point out, structural — but can we
How a Clean, Tidy Home Can Help You Survive the Atomic Bomb: A Cold War Film from 1954
Not too far back, we revisited some Cold War propaganda that taught upstanding American citizens How to Spot a Communist Using Literary Criticism. It’s a gem, but it has nothing on the 1954 film, The House in the Middle. Selected for preservation in the National Film Registry
Sentinels of the Soul: Kahlil Gibran’s Moving Letter to a Soldier in a Senseless War
War is an ism — nationalism, dogmatism, capitalism — paid for by an is: the living beingness of human beings made a sacrificial offering to an ideology so powerful it has quelled the two things that make us most human: compassion and critical thinking. “Those people who see
Diseases of the Will: Neuroscience Founding Father Santiago Ramón y Cajal on the Six Psychological Flaws That Keep the Gifted from Living Up to Their Gift
"Our neurons must be used ... not only to know but also to transform knowledge; not only to experience but also to construct."
Relationship Rupture and the Limbic System: The Physiology of Abandonment and Separation
"A relationship is a physiologic process, as real and as potent as any pill or surgical procedure."