At New Scientist Live, neuroscientist Sarah Garfinkel will reveal the ways your heart and other organs shape your mind and what you think Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2216105-how-your-heart-really-does-shape-your-thoughts-memories-and-emotions/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Tag: Emotions
Emotion-Detection Applications Are Built On Outdated Science, Report Warns
maiden_taiwan writes: Can computers determine your emotional state from your face? A panel of senior scientists with backgrounds in neuroscience, psychology, computer science, electrical engineering, biology, anthropology, psychiatry, pediatrics, and public affairs spent two years reviewing over 1,000 research papers on the topic. Two years later, they have published the most comprehensive analysis to date and concluded: “It is not possible…
Google Glass May Have an Afterlife As a Device To Teach Autistic Children
While Google stopped selling its augmented-reality glasses to customers due to privacy concerns, Google Glass lived on as something to be used by researchers and businesses. The New York Times reports of a new effort from Stanford researchers to use Google Glass to help autistic children understand emotions and engage in more direct ways with those around them. The glasses could…
Don’t Waste Your Emotions on Plants, They Have No Feelings, Grumpy Scientists Say
You can talk to your plants — but they won’t care. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65905-plants-dont-think-or-feel.html
Huawei Personnel Worked With China’s Military on Research Projects
Several Huawei employees have collaborated on research projects with Chinese armed forces personnel, indicating closer ties to the country’s military than previously acknowledged by the smartphone and networking powerhouse, Bloomberg reported Thursday. From the report: Over the past decade, Huawei workers have teamed with members of various organs of the People’s Liberation Army on at least 10 research endeavors spanning artificial…
Woman Who Requested Mariah Carey Cake Got Marie Curie Instead
The birthday girl was probably feeling emotions when she saw what the baker had done. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65726-marie-curie-cake.html
Security Cameras + AI = Dawn of Non-Stop Robot Surveillance
AmiMoJo shared this post from one of the ACLU’s senior technology policy analysts about what happens when security cameras get AI upgrades: [I]magine that all that video were being watched — that millions of security guards were monitoring them all 24/7. Imagine this army is made up of guards who don’t need to be paid, who never get bored, who never…
Teach the World: Listening to the Learner
By Rupal Nayar On April 3rd, 2019, Thomas Friedman kicked off the 2019 Coursera Partners Conference quoting Dov Siedman: “When you press pause on a machine, it stops. But when you press pause on human beings they start — start to reflect, rethink assumptions, and reimagine a better path.” For the dynamic world of online […]
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A quarter of people who meditate experience negative mental states
More than a quarter of people who regularly meditate say they have experienced negative mental states, including anxiety, fear and disturbed emotions Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2202323-a-quarter-of-people-who-meditate-experience-negative-mental-states/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Meditation needs more research: Study finds 25 percent suffer unpleasant experiences
More than a quarter of people who regularly meditate have had a ‘particularly unpleasant’ psychological experience related to the practice, including feelings of fear and distorted emotions, a new study has found. Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190509142724.htm