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Everything filed under consciousness consciousness Everything filed under empathy empathy Everything filed under AI sentience AI sentience Everything filed under behavioural science behavioural science Same subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subject Read this korrent: Feelings are biochemical algorithms that rapidly calculate probabilities of survival and reproduction Feelings are biochemical algorithms thatrapidly calculate probabilities ofsurvival and reproduction Last stated 12 years ago 8 Feb 2015 YH Yuval Noah Harari — holds since 2015-02-08 — tap for who they are Same subject: The most important decisions about our bodies will be taken by external algorithms, not by our own feelings — tap to centre the map on it The most important decisions aboutour bodies will be taken by externalalgorithms, not by our own feelings Last stated 12 years ago 8 Feb 2015 YH Yuval Noah Harari — holds since 2015-02-08 — tap for who they are Same subject: Feelings are a guidance system for life: right decisions come from the gut, wrong ones from not listening to it — tap to centre the map on it Feelings are a guidance system forlife: right decisions come from thegut, wrong ones from not listeningto it Last stated 18 years ago 15 Jun 2008 OW Oprah Winfrey — holds since 2008-06-15 — tap for who they are Same subject: Feelings begin as electrical fields on cell membranes, giving an organism real-time feedback on how it is doing in its environment. — tap to centre the map on it Feelings begin as electrical fieldson cell membranes, giving anorganism real-time feedback on howit is doing in its environment. Last stated 4 years ago 7 Sept 2022 NL Nick Lane — holds since 2022-09-07 — tap for who they are Same subject: Emotions are functional states, to be understood by what they do rather than by how any particular brain or machine happens to implement them. — tap to centre the map on it Emotions are functional states, tobe understood by what they do ratherthan by how any particular brain ormachine happens to implement them. Last stated 2 months ago 17 Aug 2026 RA Ralph Adolphs — holds since 2026-08-17 — tap for who they are Same subject: Thoughts, feelings, decisions and bodies are not real in themselves, only useful abstractions layered over the underlying chaos of atoms. — tap to centre the map on it Thoughts, feelings, decisions andbodies are not real in themselves,only useful abstractions layeredover the underlying chaos of atoms. Last stated 4 months ago 24 Jun 2026 JB Jamie Brandon — holds since 2026-06-24 — tap for who they are Same subject: Emotions are how a person draws on accumulated patterns, so people who lose access to them make worse decisions rather than more rational ones. — tap to centre the map on it Emotions are how a person draws onaccumulated patterns, so people wholose access to them make worsedecisions rather than more rationalones. Last stated 4 years ago 9 Aug 2022 GK Gary Klein — holds since 2022-08-09 — tap for who they are Same subject: Feelings people are told not to feel are stored inside, and a later loss can make them break down. — tap to centre the map on it Feelings people are told not to feelare stored inside, and a later losscan make them break down. Last stated 22 years ago 2 Nov 2004 LG Leslie Greenberg — holds since 2004-11-02 — tap for who they are Same subject: An emotion is a fan-in, fan-out architecture: many different signals converge on one central state, out of which many different behaviours can follow. — tap to centre the map on it An emotion is a fan-in, fan-outarchitecture: many different signalsconverge on one central state, outof which many different behaviourscan follow. Last stated 2 months ago 17 Aug 2026 RA Ralph Adolphs — holds since 2026-08-17 — tap for who they are Same subject: A mystical state defies expression, so its quality must be experienced directly and cannot be passed on to others — tap to centre the map on it A mystical state defies expression,so its quality must be experienceddirectly and cannot be passed on toothers WJ William James — holds since c. 1902 — tap for who they are Same subject: A person is best understood as a loose jumble of barely intelligent, looping processes producing only the illusion of coherent subjectivity. — tap to centre the map on it A person is best understood as aloose jumble of barely intelligent,looping processes producing only theillusion of coherent subjectivity. Last stated a month ago 18 Sept 2026 MW Matt Webb — holds since 2026-09-18 — tap for who they are Same subject: A sense of coherent consciousness arises from experience being compressed into a single thread rather than from the brain's full underlying activity. — tap to centre the map on it A sense of coherent consciousnessarises from experience beingcompressed into a single threadrather than from the brain's fullunderlying activity. Last stated 9 months ago 4 Feb 2026 SW Stephen Wolfram — holds since 2026-02-04 — tap for who they are Same subject: Abolitionists who felt the slave's wrongs were blind to the equal legal wrongs of their own mothers, wives and sisters — tap to centre the map on it Abolitionists who felt the slave'swrongs were blind to the equal legalwrongs of their own mothers, wivesand sisters ES Elizabeth Cady Stanton — holds since c. 1898 — tap for who they are Same subject: Assuming stupidity rather than malice changes the response: empathy and clarity instead of defensiveness. — tap to centre the map on it Assuming stupidity rather thanmalice changes the response: empathyand clarity instead ofdefensiveness. Last stated 2 years ago 16 Nov 2024 SP Shane Parrish — holds since 2024-11-16 — tap for who they are Same subject: Being an excellent programmer is a burden rather than an advantage when learning to work with coding agents. — tap to centre the map on it Being an excellent programmer is aburden rather than an advantage whenlearning to work with coding agents. Last stated 8 months ago 12 Feb 2026 LF Lex Fridman — holds since 2026-02-12 — tap for who they are Same subject: AI sentience is a category error, and the chances of AIs being sentient are vanishingly small. — tap to centre the map on it AI sentience is a category error,and the chances of AIs beingsentient are vanishingly small. Last stated 2 months ago 31 Aug 2026 TC Tyler Cowen — holds since 2026-08-31 — tap for who they are Same subject: An AI's sympathy and a friend's are not the same act: one is a learned pattern about what to say, the other rests on having felt the thing. — tap to centre the map on it An AI's sympathy and a friend's arenot the same act: one is a learnedpattern about what to say, the otherrests on having felt the thing. Last stated 2 months ago 10 Aug 2026 FL Fei-Fei Li — holds since 2026-08-10 — tap for who they are Same subject: As we redesign life with new technologies, we should weigh the welfare of all sentient beings, not just humans — tap to centre the map on it As we redesign life with newtechnologies, we should weigh thewelfare of all sentient beings, notjust humans Last stated 11 years ago 25 Sept 2015 YH Yuval Noah Harari — holds since 2015-09-25 — tap for who they are
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At the centre Feelings are biochemical algorithms that rapidly calculate probabilities of survival and reproduction Last stated 8 Feb 2015 · 12 years ago Holds Yuval Noah Harari Read this korrent →