Posts tagged as identity

Link Building Resilience by Wasting Time

Research suggests that engaging in some activities we assume are nonproductive—as tiny exercises—may actually be a smart way to spend time, especially at work. These practices can make people more-resourceful problem solvers, more collaborative, and less likely to give up when the going gets tough. In other words, they can make people more resilient.

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(Image: Carol & Mike Werner/Visuals Unlimited/Getty)  WHEN you woke up this morning, you found the world largely as you left it. You were still you; the room in which you awoke was the same one you went to sleep in. The outside world had not been rearranged. History was unchanged and the future remained unknowable. In other words, you woke up to reality. But what is reality? The more we probe it, the harder it becomes to comprehend.

(Image: Carol & Mike Werner/Visuals Unlimited/Getty) 

WHEN you woke up this morning, you found the world largely as you left it. You were still you; the room in which you awoke was the same one you went to sleep in. The outside world had not been rearranged. History was unchanged and the future remained unknowable. In other words, you woke up to reality. But what is reality? The more we probe it, the harder it becomes to comprehend.

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Don’t you think this chair is so beautiful in its own aspect? This is the design concept by Italian Designer Fabio Novembre, named the Nemo Chair (*luckily not the Emo Chair), which is a leisure chair. If you really like it, you can actually buy it, cause its up for sale at a store named Driade Store, over at Milan Design Week.

Don’t you think this chair is so beautiful in its own aspect? This is the design concept by Italian Designer Fabio Novembre, named the Nemo Chair (*luckily not the Emo Chair), which is a leisure chair. If you really like it, you can actually buy it, cause its up for sale at a store named Driade Store, over at Milan Design Week.

Link Could self-aware cities be the first forms of artificial intelligence?

The main underlying idea is the attribution of experiences to instances of the Self, a fundamental aspect of human-like cognition… A unique feature of our approach is that we understand the Self as an idealized abstraction represented in the cognitive system rather than the system itself or any of its aspects: the body, the software, etc. Furthermore, this abstraction is never represented explicitly as a structure or a set of mechanisms. So here’s why cities might have an edge over, say, the Internet as a whole, when it comes to developing self awareness. Because every city is different, and every city has its own identity and sense of self — and this informs everything from urban planning to the ways in which parking and electricity use are mapped out. The more sophisticated the integrated systems associated with a city become, the more they’ll reflect the city’s unique personality, and the more programmers will try to imbue their computers with a sense of this unique urban identity. 

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Listening to a message from another person feels different than listening the same message from your own self.
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Who Am I?

Who Am I?