Interesting stuff but it hurts so much that the writer has the common misconception of pavlov's dog doing a circus trick. Sure the dog also consciously understands the connection between bell and food. But the physiological reaction of the saliva flowing is not a conscious decision of the dog. Circus tricks with animals existed long before Pavlov. The key discovery is that there is a physiological reaction which cannot be suppressed anymore consciously. That's why PTSD is such a bitch to be treated: even with the stimulus gone, the physiological reaction remains.
That said, the article is still worth a read.
The article just reminds me that I hate modern journalism and try to not read any news articles.
Hyperbolic attention grabbing headline followed by appeal to authority, appeal to authority, appeal to authority, counter opinion appeal to authority that the previous appeal to authority might all be wrong.
So wide reaching and all over the place, the reader and can pick from the menu on what point they want to use as confirmation of what they already believe to be true. Then the article can be cited in a type of scientistic, mostly wrong, gossip.
IMO a complete waste of time.
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Perhaps I failed to read the nuances between lines, but I don't find the article contradicting what you said.
Blood Music by Greg Bear
Quite a special scifi novel that starts like this. Quite grounded at the beginning, but it then evolves into body horror and later becomes quite abstract.
Greg's first novel, one of the more hard science speculations. It is a great novel.
> Selves are more technically defined by biologists and neuroscientists as “agents”
Someone shoot me please
Whenever I need to feel a little happier I look up "agentic" on ahdictionary.com just to see it's not a word again
It's more funny if you s/selves/elves/g