LINK: An A.I. Says There Are Six Main Kinds of Stories w/nice Vonnegut anecdote
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LINK: An A.I. Says There Are Six Main Kinds of Stories w/nice Vonnegut anecdote
A New Theory Explains How Consciousness Evolved The next evolutionary advance was a centralized controller for attention that could coordinate among all senses. In many animals, that central controller is a brain area called the tectum. (“Tectum” means “roof” in Latin, and it often covers the top of the brain.) It coordinates something called overt…
LINK： The power struggle that led to Turkey’s coup attempt More recently by this account, the AKP that came to power as a coalition of Islamists and liberals, is newly at odds with a group known as the Gulen movement, a powerful religious fraternity whose global network of media outlets, schools and commercial enterprises make…
By Sy Montgomery ON AN UNSEASONABLY WARM day in the middle of March, I traveled from New Hampshire to the moist, dim sanctuary of the New England Aquarium, hoping to touch an alternate reality. I came to meet Athena, the aquarium’s forty-pound, five-foot-long, two-and-a-half-year-old giant Pacific octopus. For me, it was a momentous occasion. I…
LINK: More surprising things about the octopus, our favorite cephalopod “The octopus also shows a rather human-like intelligence: It can show a kind regard or a dislike for people it encounters. According to one account, an octopus took a particular distate for one volunteer researcher and would squirt her with water any chance it got.“
LINK: The Near Certainty of Anti-Police Violence “Until we move to the broader question of policy, we can expect to see Walter Scotts and Freddie Grays with some regularity. And the extent to which we are tolerant of the possibility of more Walter Scotts and Freddie Grays is the extent to which we are tolerant…
LINK: Taiwan Pivots Away from China, Towards the South I know, The National Interest, but still somewhat relevant