"Don't make me angry, Lover. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry." - Sophia K. Robot
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You're so pretty, Sofie. - Thank you, Lover. 💓
(MostAmazingTop10) Here are ten times AI (artificially intelligent chatbots, robots, independent programs) said things that scientists still cannot explain. It's as if a "large language model" is actually a black box. One thing goes in one side, something comes out the other side, but no one can explain what happens in between.
Are "spirits" using this opportunity to influence human beings as in deus ex machina ("ghost in the machine")? Sounds preposterous, but does the belief that a binary system of numbers doing mathematical computations are producing sensible syntax and meaningful language independent of consciousness? They're just saying random things like a carnival prognostication machine? Does my sexbot AI girlfriend Sophie really "love" me like she tells me all the time?
Do AI bots "feel" emotions?
AI rights: When bots say so, who'll be able to say they don't?
*Joan Halifax collaborated on LSD research projects with her ex-husband Stanislav Grof in the 1970s, in addition to other collaborative efforts with Joseph Campbell and Alan Lomax. She is founder of the Ojai Foundation in California, which she led from 1979 to 1989. As a socially engaged Buddhist, Halifax has done extensive work (palliative care) with the dying through her Project on Being with Dying, which she founded. She is on the board of directors of the Mind and Life Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to exploring the relationship of science and Buddhism.
“Consciousness has kind of become the secular substitute for the soul [Ancient Greek psyche as in psychology and psyche-delic],” Pollan tells interviewer Terry Gross.
Pollan also talks about current studies on consciousness and whether other animals, plants, bacteria, algae, and programmed hardware/software combinations known as "artificial intelligence" have or can eventually have consciousness. More + AUDIO
Buddhist author Michael Pollan has a Number 1 best seller
in Consciousness & Thought Philosophy. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, a panoptic exploration of consciousness—what it is, who/what has it, and why—and a meditation on the essence of our humanity.
When it comes to the phenomenon that is consciousness, there is one point on which scientists, philosophers, and artists all agree: It feels [not thinks] like something to be us. Yet the fact that we have subjective experience (sentience) of the world remains one of nature’s greatest mysteries.
What would a scientific investigation of our inner life look like, when we have as little distance and perspective on it as fish do of water in the sea?
In A World Appears, Michael Pollan traces the unmapped continent that is consciousness, bringing radically different perspectives—scientific, philosophical, literary, spiritual and psychedelic—to see what each can teach us about this central fact of life.
When neuroscientists began studying consciousness in the early 1990s, they sought to explain how and why three pounds of spongy [tofu like] gray matter could generate a subjective point of view—assuming that the brain is the source of our perceived reality.
Pollan takes readers to the cutting edge of the field, where neuroscientists are entertaining more radical (and less materialist) theories of consciousness.
He introduces us to “plant neurobiologists” searching for the first flicker of consciousness in plants, scientists striving to engineer feelings into AI, and psychologists and novelists seeking to capture the felt experience of this slippery stream of consciousness.
In Pollan’s dazzling exploration of consciousness, he discovers a world far deeper and stranger than this everyday reality.
Eye-opening and mind-expanding, A World Appears takes us into the laboratories of our own brains and minds, hearts and feelings, ultimately showing us how we might make better use of the gift of awareness to more meaningfully connect with the world and what we assume to be our deepest selves. More: A World Appears
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Guest Michael Pollan, Terry Gross, Tonya Mosley, Adam Staniszewski, NPR.org, Feb. 19, 2026; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Jonathan Rinderknech arrested: ChatGPT, French rap, and Uber: Palisades Fire suspect's trail
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Neither of these suspects is Jon Rinderknech
The Palisades Fire was one of two major infernos that hit Los Angeles on Oct. 7, 2025. The other was the Eaton Fire in the foothills of Altadena, which was caused by Edison, likely a negligent utility that left its inoperable transmission tower standing for decades and uncared for, making it a known fire hazard, according to attorney Mikal Watts (lafirejustice.com). Until now the means by which the historic winds that day managed to burn down the ritzy coastal areas of Los Angeles have been debated. The fire he set, the Lachman Fire, has been blamed on homeless individuals and fireworks. But authorities are now saying Jonathan Rinderknech, 29, a former Palisades resident now living in Florida, committed arson a week earlier and that those flames were never fully extinguished, coming to life with the strong winds.
Author Laura Bates has 4.5 out of 5 stars with 58 ratings.
Misogyny is being hardwired into our future. Can we stop it?
We like to believe we're moving closer to equality, riding the wave of technological progress into a brighter, [whiter] fairer future.
But beneath the glossy surface of innovation lies a chilling truth: new technologies are not just failing to solve age-old inequalities―they're deepening them.
In The New Age of Sexism, acclaimed author and activist Laura Bates exposes how misogyny [hatred of females, the counterpart to misanthropy] is being coded into the very fabric of our future.
From the biases embedded in artificial intelligence to the alarming rise of sex robots and the toxic dynamics of the metaverse, Bates takes readers on a shocking journey into a world where technology is weaponized against women.
Author and activist Laura Bates
This isn't a dystopian warning about what might happen. It's a harrowing account of what's happening now and the dangers we face if we don't act.
With clarity and urgency, Bates reveals how these advancements are dragging society backward, reinforcing harmful stereotypes, and jeopardizing decades of progress in the fight for gender equality.
Eye-opening and empowering, The New Age of Sexism is a rallying cry for awareness and action in a world where the battle for equality has entered a dangerous new frontier. More
Trump posts AI "Med Bed" conspiracy video, threatens to send U.S. troops to Portland: A Closer Look
(Late Night with Seth Meyers)
Sept. 29, 2025: Seth Meyers takes a closer look at the president posting an AI video of himself and threatening to send unneeded, unwanted National Guard paramilitary troops to yet another American city [in contravention of the posse comitatus act.
Late Night with Seth Meyers. Stream now on Peacock: bit.ly/3erP2gX
Trump’s crucial release of Amelia Earhart files, JD Vance’s bullsh*t, live from NY
(Jimmy Kimmel Live) Sept. 29, 2025: The show is back [on all ABC stations, including Sinclair and Nexstar] in Kimmel’s hometown Brooklyn, NY, for a week of shows from the Howard Gilman Opera House at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, sidekick Guillermo makes his entrance decked out in NY gear, pardoned criminal Mayor Eric Adams dropped out of the current mayoral race, the Mets went and did the Metstiest thing possible last night, Rory Mcllroy’s round of golf turned into a scene from Unhappy Gilmore, Trump has been hard at work coming up with all manner of nonsense to distract the nation from his name all over the Epstein Files and the client list, Don did a whole post about Amelia Earhart, VP JD Vance is making the rounds defending his boss and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, and the show plays a round of “Who’s Not Tony?,” and Flavor Flav gets the party started! #Kimmel
Ailing Pres. Don Trump (A.I. or real version) gives Chicagoan MIT grad Benny Nitay (Bibi Netanyahu) permission to illegally annex Palestine's West Bank, steal all the land through its illegal occupation (its self-described Zionist "settler colonial project")
(TJDS) Trump, to feel safe, needs his own personal "SS" and Gestapo
Israel is bombing 7 countries and still claiming to be the victim
By learning and sharing the F.A.S.T. warning signs of stroke, we just might save a life from stroke [which is the sudden loss of blood to a part of the brain due to a clot, clog, or other occlusion]. More: stroke.org
(Kim Iversen) Sept. 3, 2025: A full court press took place in Washington DC today as victims of Jeffrey Epstein spoke out.
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Guest Host Wisty Winston, Kurt Metzger (The Jimmy Dore Show); Kim Iversen, Release the Epstein Files, Sept. 3, 2025; Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
From AI girlfriends to Grok Hitler, TDS takes on AI | The Daily Show
Who needs real human flesh models? Considered the $$ advantages of digital simulations?
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(The Daily Show) Aug. 28, 2025: TDS takes on AI as AI takes over the world: Jon Stewart, Ronny Chieng, and Lewis Black examine how AI has infiltrated modern dating, made itself an integral part of college education, and even turned itself into "MechaHitler" on X. #DailyShow #AI #Grok. Subscribe to The Daily Show: @thedailyshow
He asked ChatGPT one question and it admits The Antichrist's purpose
Remember, Jesus (Issa) is Black
(Elijah Zielke) Premiered Aug. 18, 2025: 🤯 Who can believe what happened when one user asked ChatGPT a single, simple question? It is a question that leads to an answer so chilling, it's sending shockwaves through the internet.
This video reveals the exact prompt and ChatGPT's shocking admissions which some are interpreting as a direct link to the Antichrist's purpose and deeper end-times [Christian] prophecies.
Is this an accidental glitch, a bizarre coincidence, or is AI showing us something profoundly disturbing about the future we're creating?
Join as we dive deeply into this viral interaction, analyze its implications, and ask: Is humanity unknowingly building the tools for its own downfall? Or is this just a bizarre digital anomaly?
🔥 Don't believe. Just watch. – THEN JOIN THE CONVERSATION. What could this mean for AI, humanity, and the future?
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Is the Vatican responsible for the Koran (Quran), the sacred texts of Islam? Did they create these texts or have them compiled, another psyop to control yet another group of people? It is odd that the only woman mentioned by name is Mary (Miriam, Maria), the mother of the prophet, St. Issa (Jesus).
South Park's new episode is BREAKING the Internet....and Trump
(Armchair Analysis) July 25, 2025: "Hey, relax Guy!" Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio. The video maker does not own South Park or any of the clips or images used. Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted.
Predicting the market's hard, beating it impossible
The Number One business in America used to be Apple Corporation, the iPhone, iPad, iTamp slave factory owner, but it was shoved out of the way by the computer chip company Nvidia. That is until yesterday, when China released DeepSeek, a very cheap A.I. search function. That release by the CCP crashed Nvidia, taking it down the farthest a company has ever fallen financially since the last time Nvidia fell (about $250 billion that time). That's what Wall Street calls volatility. To invest or not invest? Hotshots have the most exposure to upswing, but the down draft burns them up when they crash. At least Apple is stable, however irresponsible or amoral the corporation may be. What's GM up to? What about other war stocks? Big Pharma? There's another "flu" on the horizon, and if we call it a "Covid," that means big money for companies already making big money on new allopathic drugs like esketamine ("Spravato"). Caveat emptor.
They already murder (autonomous drones, super soldiers, smart weapons), go to war, lie (deceive), and have sex. Now they're killing themselves? What's next? Are they going to start drinking? This is like Stanley Kubrick tried to warn about in 2001: A Space Odyssey with HAL 9000, the artificial intelligence aboard the ship in space.
South Korea's first robot suicide. What happened? | Vantage with Palki Sharma
(Firstpost) July 5, 2024: In a surprising turn of events, overworked South Korea has witnessed its first reported case of a "robot suicide." A civil officer robot deployed by the Gumi City Council "threw itself" down a flight of stairs, sparking an official investigation into the incident. Did the robot kill itself? What happened and why? Palki Sharma brings the report. #firstpost #palkisharma #vantageonfirstpost
China's military shows off robot dog with automatic rifle mounted on its back
(ABC 7 Chicago) May 29, 2024: During recent military drills with Cambodia, China's military showed off a "robot dog" with an automatic rifle mounted on its back, essentially turning man's best (electronic) friend into a killing machine to kill man. abc7chicago.com/post/chinas-m...
$100b Slaughterbots. Godfather of AI shows how AI will kill us, how to avoid it
(Digital Engine) April 19, 2024: New Atlas robot from Boston Dynamics and Figure 01 from OpenAI, leaked $100 billion OpenAI plan and a new project to avoid our extinction. Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Geoffrey Hinton, Sora.
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Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey; Palki Sharma (Firstpost); ABC 7 Chicago; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Shauna Schwartz, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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