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David August

"Specifically, higher confidence in GenAI is associated with less critical thinking, while higher self-confidence is associated with more critical thinking."

"Used improperly, technologies can and do result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved."

microsoft.com/en-us/research/p

Microsoft ResearchThe Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers - Microsoft ResearchThe rise of Generative AI (GenAI) in knowledge workflows raises questions about its impact on critical thinking skills and practices. We survey 319 knowledge workers to investigate 1) when and how they perceive the enaction of critical thinking when using GenAI, and 2) when and why GenAI affects their effort to do so. Participants shared […]
#AI#GenAI#CognitiveFunction
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The Open Buddhist University

📰 Rich False Memories of Autobiographical Events Can Be Reversed (A free, 8-page article from 2021)

Tags: #Mind #Memory #Communication
buddhistuniversity.net/content

The Open Buddhist University · Rich False Memories of Autobiographical Events Can Be ReversedOver three repeated interviews, participants developed false memories of the suggested events under minimally suggestive conditions (27%) and even more so using massive suggestion (56%). We then used two techniques to reduce false memory endorsement, source sensitization and false memory sensitization. This reversed the false memory build-up over the first three interviews, returning false memory rates in both suggestion conditions to the baseline levels of the first interview.
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Rowan Brad Quni

"It is proposed that when these #autaxys -generated systems achieve a certain threshold of organizational sophistication—particularly involving recursive self-modeling, highly integrated informational processing, and coherent dynamic stability—new phenomenal properties, i.e., subjective experience, can and do emerge as an intrinsic aspect of that specific mode of autaxic patterning."

qnfo.org/releases/2025/New+Way

QNFO16 Autaxys and the Nature of Mind - QNFOA New Way of Seeing Chapter 16: Autaxys and the Nature of Mind Information, Emergence, and Subjective Experience as Complex Autaxic Patterning The Enduring Enigma of Mind–Seeking an Autaxic Grounding…
#OpenScience#nature#mind
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”[Friedrich] Schelling—and I—find it implausible that nature was ever entirely mindless. Instead, nature must have been seeded with proto-mentality from the outset… That realization forces us to revise our picture of nature before scientific investigation even begins.”
—Matthew Segall, Prehensions, Propositions, and the Cosmological Commons
#assumptions #mind #matter
#matter
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“In Plato’s Timaeus you begin to see what we would now call dualism… Aristotle systematizes this… Even so, radical dualism has not yet appeared. Leap to the 1600s. René Descartes codifies mind–body dualism… All subsequent modern philosophy wrestles with that divide—some thinkers tilt toward mind (idealism), others toward matter (materialism)… Contemporary cognitive science debates—“the hard problem” of consciousness—are variations on those early-modern dilemmas. For tens of thousands of years animism was humanity’s baseline; the last few centuries are the anomaly.”
—Matthew Segall, Prehensions, Propositions, and the Cosmological Commons
#mind #body #idealism #materialism #animism
#animism
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“…primal cultures held animistic worldviews. They never separated mind and body; what we call “mind” permeated all things. …life was not mysterious—death was. Human societies built elaborate rituals around death because the disappearance of living presence was baffling. … Fast-forward to early-modern Europe. With the rise of mechanistic science, the polarity flips: death becomes the rule and life the anomaly that needs explaining. Something clearly shifted in humanity’s self-understanding.”
—Matthew Segall
https://footnotes2plato.substack.com/p/prehensions-propositions-and-the
#mind #body #life #death #mechanism #science
Footnotes2Plato · Prehensions, Propositions, and the Cosmological CommonsBy Matthew David Segall
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ScienceOpen

'Perceived Shared Understanding Between Humans and #ArtificialIntelligence: Development and Validation of a Self-Report Scale' - an article from the American Psychological Association (APA) in ' #Technology, #Mind, and #Behavior ' on #ScienceOpen: scienceopen.com/document?vid=f

ScienceOpenPerceived Shared Understanding Between Humans and Artificial Intelligence: Development and Validation of a Self-Report Scale<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d11201157e170">The perception of shared understanding between individuals is key to constructive meaning-making, effective collaboration, and satisfying interaction outcomes. Recent scholarship indicates this operation extends to human–artificial intelligence interactions such that a validated instrument to capture humans’ perceived shared understanding (PSU) with artificial intelligence is key to advancing work in that domain. Building on extant exploratory work, this project develops and initially validates a PSU scale in two studies. Participants shared past large-language model conversations and then reflected on them to respond to a pool of candidate scale items. Exploratory factor analysis yielded a single-factor, eight-item solution interpreted to represent a <i>social-semantic</i> construal of the artificial intelligence’s shared understanding—that is, that they are sharing meaning with someone. The scale demonstrates significant associations with theoretically relevant measures; factor structure and convergent validity are replicated in a separate sample. This novel instrument points to a convergence of sociality and meaning in PSU and serves as a springboard for future research and practical applications. </p>
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