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Jim Mason
Jim Mason

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What is a Sunset?

Sunsets happen every day. They can invoke feelings of beauty and awe in all of us. But what, really, is a sunset?

Philosophy

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What is a Sunset?
What is a Sunset?
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My Most Important Conclusion

It might help us all to acknowledge it

Humanity

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My Most Important Conclusion
My Most Important Conclusion
Humanity

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Reflections

Some make us look foolish, and some make us look wise. We are imperfect mirrors for each other’s lives. — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Read every story from Jim Mason (and thousands of other writers on Medium): https://jmason37-80878.medium.com/membership

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Reflections
Reflections
Reflections

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Age of Awareness

·Sep 10

What the U.S. Political Crisis Illustrates

About how human institutions and supra-organisms operate The continuing crisis in the United States over the process of Presidential elections is a large-scale example of how we humans behave as a species of social animal. The crisis illustrates how collections of people (human supra-organisms), human cultural institutions, and human language…

Organization

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What the U.S. Political Crisis Illustrates
What the U.S. Political Crisis Illustrates
Organization

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Age of Awareness

·Jul 28

How We Interpret What We See

What you see is not exactly what you get If you are like many people, you will be able to see a face on the coffee mug pictured above. Our brains have built-in networks for face detection and memory, including detection of simple eyes-mouth-nose patterns and capable of distinguishing thousands…

Vision

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How We Interpret What We See
How We Interpret What We See
Vision

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Woodworkers of the World Unite!!!

·Jun 29

Aliens Are Among Us

Will our human relationships survive? We have created them as servants, now building some of them as images of ourselves, and they are becoming our trusted assistants and even confidants. It’s trending like this: “Hey Google, what is the market forecast for today?” “Siri, make me a reservation for a…

Artificial Intelligence

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Aliens Are Among Us
Aliens Are Among Us
Artificial Intelligence

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Age of Awareness

·May 23

Learning through Language versus Learning by Multi-Sensory Experience

It comes down to how brains are built and grow — Many people are worried about recent developments in artificial intelligence, and rightly so. From sophisticated facial recognition software to software that can generate cogent text and surprising works of art, computational devices that people have created seem about to out-perform our human abilities, possibly rendering us obsolete. In assessing that…

Artificial Intelligence

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Learning through Language versus Learning by Multi-Sensory Experience
Learning through Language versus Learning by Multi-Sensory Experience
Artificial Intelligence

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Apr 3

Phones Untied Have Become Dangerous

We have helped them become symbiotic and even parasitic to our minds and bodies Time was when telephones were unintelligent devices attached by cords to our walls. I joke that phones should be kept tied up like they used to be, because of the dangerous animals that they are. But…

Technology

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Phones Untied Have Become Dangerous
Phones Untied Have Become Dangerous
Technology

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Woodworkers of the World Unite!!!

·Apr 2

I Learned a New Four-Letter Word Yesterday

And I’m already becoming a bit fond of it.

Words

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I Learned a New Four-Letter Word Yesterday
I Learned a New Four-Letter Word Yesterday
Words

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Mar 31

Individualization and Artificial Intelligence

Would you want an experienced self-driving car or the latest general version? The recent development of many artificial cognitive agents, such as robotic devices and large-language models for text generation, raises an interesting general question about the value of individualization. We humans, taking ourselves as a pinnacle of an “intelligent”…

Artificial Intelligence

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Individualization and Artificial Intelligence
Individualization and Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence

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Jim Mason

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