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#neurology

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RaymondPierreL3

@BrianJopek
While I thought Pavlozitz’s blog post was quite good, it suffers from a poor disctinction between compassion and empathy. This confusion is widespread. I have recently caused an uproar on my timeline about this because most comments confound the two terms.

Empathy is generally described as the ability to take on another person's perspective, to understand, feel, and possibly share and respond to their experience. (Source: Wikipedia)

Compassion is a social [act] which motivates people to go out of their way to relieve the physical, mental, or emotional pains of others and themselves. Compassion is sensitivity to the emotional aspects of the suffering of others. When based on notions such as fairness, justice, and interdependence, it may be considered partially rational in nature. (Source: Wikipedia)

If I were to sum it up, I would say that empathy, inate in human nature (possibly due to physionomy - mirror brain cells), allows us to feel as if in the mind of another — it’s an imagining that arouses deep-seated feelings, especially of suffering as the Other. Compassion, on the other hand, is a social act which results from moral/ethical imperatives which enables us to live harmoniously with Others. I.e. Empathy is not an act, whereas compassion is.

#Empathy#Compassion#Morals
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RationizedInsanity🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸

I am always studying how the #brain works as I have a few very complicated #disorders associated with it, and #neurology so my desire to understand myself leads me to trying to understand the #science of why.

I was studying how different #drugs affect the nervous system, and into the topic of mixing them, and how that leads to your perception.

You can't get "high" in multiple ways at once.

Your brain turns it all into one input, and it's like an entirely different drug.

#addiction#writing
ResearchBuzz: Firehose

The Conversation: What happens to your brain when you watch videos online at faster speeds than normal. “Watching quickly is also potentially a good way of making sure you sustain your attention and engagement for the entire duration to avoid the mind wandering. But what about the disadvantages? It turns out that there are one or two of those as well.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/12/the-conversation-what-happens-to-your-brain-when-you-watch-videos-online-at-faster-speeds-than-normal/

ResearchBuzz: Firehose | Individual posts from ResearchBuzz · The Conversation: What happens to your brain when you watch videos online at faster speeds than normal | ResearchBuzz: Firehose
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#brains#contentconsumption#digitalmediaconsumption
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> One striking theme involved genes that guide how distant #brain regions talk to each other. Visual-processing circuits appeared to run hotter, while the so-called default mode network, linked to daydreaming and social reflection, ran cooler. Those connectivity signatures match traits many #autistic individuals report – keen pattern recognition alongside social fatigue.

earth.com/news/scientists-link

Earth.comScientists link autism to Neanderthal DNA found in modern humansRecent research suggests that some of these genetic variants inherited from Neanderthals could be linked to autism spectrum disorder.
#neurodivergent#AuDHD#neurology
Miguel Afonso Caetano

"We often hear A.I. outputs described as “generic” or “bland,” but averageness is not necessarily anodyne. Vauhini Vara, a novelist and a journalist whose recent book “Searches” focussed in part on A.I.’s impact on human communication and selfhood, told me that the mediocrity of A.I. texts “gives them an illusion of safety and being harmless.” Vara (who previously worked as an editor at The New Yorker) continued, “What’s actually happening is a reinforcing of cultural hegemony.” OpenAI has a certain incentive to shave the edges off our attitudes and communication styles, because the more people find the models’ output acceptable, the broader the swath of humanity it can convert to paying subscribers. Averageness is efficient: “You have economies of scale if everything is the same,” Vara said.

With the “gentle singularity” Altman predicted in his blog post, “a lot more people will be able to create software, and art,” he wrote (...) But other studies have suggested the challenges of automating originality. Data collected at Santa Clara University, in 2024, examined A.I. tools’ efficacy as aids for two standard types of creative-thinking tasks: making product improvements and foreseeing “improbable consequences.” One set of subjects used ChatGPT to help them answer questions such as “How could you make a stuffed toy animal more fun to play with?” and “Suppose that gravity suddenly became incredibly weak, and objects could float away easily. What would happen?” The other set used Oblique Strategies, a set of abstruse prompts printed on a deck of cards, written by the musician Brian Eno and the painter Peter Schmidt, in 1975, as a creativity aid. The testers asked the subjects to aim for originality, but once again the group using ChatGPT came up with a more semantically similar, more homogenized set of ideas."

newyorker.com/culture/infinite

The New Yorker · A.I. Is Homogenizing Our ThoughtsBy Kyle Chayka
#AI#GenerativeAI#Neurology
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RationizedInsanity🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸

Fun fact-

Your brain isn't a single consciousness.

It's more like a group of bickering smaller consciousness trying to make sense of all the information independently, then your perception of reality is the general sum of all that information.

The left and right half are essentially two different people by themselves.

Then they have their own counsel too.

You're like seven souls all trapped in one consciousness.

#writing#biology#neurology
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