2025: Rejecting Brain Rot
Toward a more embodied and human way of lifeFollowing the data, observing personal experience, and developing another vision for human flourishing can get us a step closer to a fuller, intentional life.
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Experience is Going Extinct
A review of Christine Rosen's "The Extinction of Experience"As more of our daily experience goes mediated and buffered through screens, it’s important to wonder what we’re losing.
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AI and “Qualia,” the Ability to Experience
Robert J. Marks writes on AI's limits in new article at SalvoRobert J. Marks wrote an article for the Spring Issue of Salvo Magazine on AI, covering his ideas on its “non-computability” in the areas of love, empathy, and creativity. The Quality of Qualia I was particularly intrigued by Marks’s thoughts on qualia, a term used to describe the multifaceted realm of sensory experience. We often report on AI’s inability to be creative here at Mind Matters, but what about experiencing the world through touch, smell, and sight? Qualia is related to the mystery of consciousness, another non-computable feature of human life, and according to Marks, is far out of the purview of AI capabilities. Marks writes about the experience of biting into an orange as an example: If the experience Read More ›