Just finished: Performing as #Human in 2026: AI's latest twist on 200 years of #MediatedPresence
blog.jesparent.com/p/performing...
#digitalhumanities #history #audience #philosophy
This throwback screenshot is awesome. From CogSci 2021 s/o @orthogonal-lab.bsky.social @bradly-alicea.bsky.social #CognitionFutures @jopro.org !
The program session we hosted was "Trajectories in Cognitive Science"
Much of the challenge right now is balancing supporting the pursuit, positively, of outcomes and implementations, while maintaining (or, perhaps, addressing) the legitimacy crises that have emerged around tech- and #ai - #hype.
substack.com/@jesparent/n...
"The results were so divergent that one has to wonder: If we cannot agree on how to define a ripple, what else might we be getting wrong?"
đ¶ Ripple in still water...
www.thetransmitter.org/reproducibil...
"...Homo academicus is caught between two fields of power: on one side, the forces of money and politics; on the other, the âwriters and artistsâ and âhereticsâ who produce cultural capital in the first place."
lareviewofbooks.org/article/acad...
Great essay by Ted Chiang on consciousness. He nails the centrality of context.
"An observation doesnât become a convincing piece of evidence because of any specific detail in whatâs observed; the context in which that observation takes place is also essential."
www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
boy, been on that trajectories train for a long time now,huh
