Psychiatry has finally found an objective way to spot mental illness
Steep decline in TB, malaria, infant and maternal deaths in India
Joy for families as cystic fibrosis drug prices fall within reach
The NIH is hiring (read the replies!)
Despite what you might think, America’s social safety net has grown consistently and dramatically in the last 50 years Link
The Barren Midwife: On Socratic Method and Psychotherapeutic Art
‘What is assumed in all these ideas about pain is a tacit and powerful premise: those who can suffer must have bodies. Flesh, blood and a nervous system are treated as preconditions for experience. The possibility that non-biological entities might experience something akin to suffering is rarely entertained. Clouds, rocks, digital simulations or hypothetical intelligences without bodies have traditionally fallen outside the moral circle, precisely because suffering has historically been equated with corporeality. The moral puzzles of the 21st century are pushing against that assumption: what if experience, awareness or distress could exist without the warmth and flesh of a body? How should we engage entities whose pain we cannot detect with the senses we are built to trust?’ Link
I am, therefore I think – how Heidegger radically reframed being
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The AI critical article looks like it was written by AI, including all the characteristic syntax markers: “The real tragedy isn’t that students use ChatGPT to do their course work. It’s that universities are teaching everyone—students, faculty, administrators—to stop thinking. We’re outsourcing discernment. Students graduate fluent in prompting, but illiterate in judgment; faculty teach but aren’t allowed the freedom to educate; and universities, eager to appear innovative, dismantle the very practices that made them worthy of the name.”