@memeorandum@universeodon.comExclusive: Harvard Law Review Axes 85 Percent of Submissions Using Race-Conscious Rubric, Documents Show (Aaron Sibarium/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/campus/exclusive-harvard-law-review-axes-85-percent-of-submissions-using-race-conscious-rubric-documents-show/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p58#a250619p58
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialTo give some examples:
When police get vastly differential results at investigating crimes against some groups (e.g., Black women) vs. others (e.g., white men), that's malcompetence. Probably plenty of simple malice involved too, and probably the whole gamut of mechanisms I mentioned in the last post are involved here.
Another example, from my own experience: when I stumble over the names of my non-white students but pronounce my white students' names flawlessly, that's malcompetence on my part, because the net effect of my selective incompetence is to make some students feel less welcome in my classroom, which hurts their learning. I'm my case, the reasons for the incompetence are not conscious nor (I think) unconscious malice, but instead a differential capability picked up from a certain kind of upbringing and then (sometimes) insufficiently mitigated by capability-building effort. Because of how I grew up, my ability to pronounce different names is biased (this is true of everyone in the world; most people don't have a classroom instructor position that causes it to matter so much). When I'm successful at mitigating my malcompetence, I use practice time with student intro videos to pare down my competence gap for the specific students in my class. This is time consuming (several hours per week for the first few weeks of classes) and I'm sad to admit that I don't always invest that time. But it's a great example of malcompetence because I have a introspective access to it.
@Dragofix@veganism.socialCalls for criminal probe into New Jersey slaughterhouse after repeated welfare violations https://www.speciesunite.com/news-stories/calls-for-criminal-probe-into-new-jersey-slaughterhouse-after-…
@arXiv_qbioNC_bot@mastoxiv.pageGeo-Somatic Resonance Theory A Vibrational Framework for Sleep as Planetary Entrainment
Brathikan Vijayamohan Mankayarkarasi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14760
@detondev@social.linux.pizzamore n more zoomers falling to npc theory, how do we better teach ppl that other ppl are also conscious
@jake4480@c.im#NowPlaying PremRock's sophomore LP from earlier this year, has billy woods on it and more, this thing is ridiculous. Check the Captain Beefheart, Tears for Fears and Smashing Pumpkins mentions and SO much more 🔥 This is some conscious, heady, extremely flowy shit
@blaise@mastodon.cloud"Mike Lee visualizes why porn makes him so self-conscious that he wants to ban it for everybody, completely."
https://gizmodo.com/gop-senator-introduces-bill-to-make-all-porn-a-federal-crime-following-project-2…
@cdarwin@c.imMorabo Morojele’s creative career was remarkable.
What wove his three identities together – musician, development worker and writer – was his conscious, committed pan-Africanism
and his master craftsman’s skill with sound:
the sound of his drums and the sound of his words as they rose off the page.
Through his books, and his (far too few) recordings, that beauty lives with us still.
Robala ka khotso (Sleep in peace)
@Rob_Oost@mastodon.social @jake4480@c.imWhy AI Will Never Be Conscious-- Recursive Identity Requires Collapse https://osf.io/fn6cv
@pre@boing.worldI read "Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It" by Christof Koch.
Interesting book which spends like 8 or 9 chapters detailing all the experiments which prove beyond much doubt that consciousness, and self awareness, is a thing done by a brain.
It describes how perception is a construction of a description, has a chapter called "computational mind"
And then spends the last two chapters describing why he thinks the mind can't be computed, because drugs have made him think experience is some kind of magic associated with highly interconnected causal structures.
Apparently, he thinks, once things become interconnected enough they become able to cause things independently of the physics running those connections.
Which is crazy, obviously. There's nothing causal in direct connections between neurons that isn't equally causal in modeled connections between virtual neurons.
All his evidence in the book from neural MRI scans to the effects of psychedelic drugs and symptoms of strokes and disease point to the brain simulating a virtual reality which is the basis of perception.
That simulated world in which we live is full of colour and shape and sounds and emotions and millions of mental constructs that are built to be correlated by the senses with the outside world, but are not equal to the world itself. We live in a dream constructed to correlate with reality.
But then instead of taking the next step: That consciousness itself is a property of a simulated being inside that mental model of the universe, a property which the brain simulates and applies to the virtual self that's doing the experiencing inside that model, he jumps towards some magic implying pan-psychism or that sufficiently interconnected networks become causally self-complete for some reason nobody can fathom.
Sure, colour and shape and emotions are all made up by the brain but experience can't be! For some reason.
You see in truth dualism is false, in that there is no spirit realm in which ghosts animate the matter of the body somehow.
Yet also, dualism is true, in that there is a simulated mental reality which we live in, computed by the brain in which all perception and experience are created, which is related-to but separate-from the unfolding complicated dance of energy that is the universe our bodies interact with.
People take some DMT trip, and the model of the universe emulated by their brain collapses and breaks. Their virtual simulated self inside their mind has these experiences of being one with the universe or the experience of feeling dead yet conscious or whatever, and these hippies think that the broken down simulated experience is real and reflects how consciousness is more fundamental than the atoms that make up the neurons in their brain.
Instead of realizing it shows them that their experienced universe is a simulacrum, they think they get a more direct experience of reality somehow. A consciousness more pure than any mere base atom.
"Then I am myself the world" is a great title. Everything you ever experience is created and simulated in your brain like a dream, the whole universe is inside your head. Even the fact of experience itself.
But that isn't the conclusion Koch reaches somehow, he just jumps from describing the evidence that this is so straight into ascribing super-causal magic consciousness to particular arrangements of atoms that integrated information theory suggest have high correlation, and thinks therefore conciousness is itself the entire universe.
Ah well, fun book. I like arguing in my head with authors that are wrong.
#reading #books #consciousness #thenIAmMyselfTheWorld
@arXiv_qbioNC_bot@mastoxiv.pageResonance Complexity Theory and the Architecture of Consciousness: A Field-Theoretic Model of Resonant Interference and Emergent Awareness
Michael Arnold Bruna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20580
