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The day will come when AI can answer almost all of our questions

The day will come when AI can answer almost all of our questions.

I doubt it will be able to know on its own what questions we want to ask. In that respect, we will have knowledge or information AI does not have.

AI will also not know what we humans are going to ask each other or say to each other. And only a human interlocutor can answer a subjective question we ask them about themself.

Only humans have complex subjectivity which is difficult for us to figure out. AI may be able to help us with that to some degree.

But how will it help us with the complex subjectivity that exists between two or more humans?

With the help of some sort of brain monitoring device worn or embedded in a human, AI will have some calculable grasp on our subjectivity.

Would it ever be good enough to be a substitute for a human companion?

Is subjectivity anything else but confusion within the human system? Or is it a nonrational transient appraisal or measure of the system?

Subjectivity can be beautiful, ugly, inspiring, boring, intriguing, illusory.

FIML may wind up being the only thing humans can do that AI cannot do. ABN

The day will come when AI can answer almost all of our questions

The day will come when AI can answer almost all of our questions.

I doubt it will be able to know on its own what questions we want to ask. In that respect, we will have knowledge or information AI does not have.

AI will also not know what we humans are going to ask each other or say to each other. And only a human interlocutor can answer a subjective question we ask them about themself.

Only humans have complex subjectivity which is difficult for us to figure out. AI may be able to help us with that to some degree.

But how will it help us with the complex subjectivity that exists between two or more humans?

With the help of some sort of brain monitoring device worn or embedded in a human, AI will have some calculable grasp on our subjectivity.

Would it ever be good enough to be a substitute for a human companion?

Is subjectivity anything else but confusion within the human system? Or is it a nonrational transient appraisal or measure of the system?

Subjectivity can be beautiful, ugly, inspiring, boring, intriguing, illusory.

FIML may wind up being the only thing humans can do that AI cannot do. ABN

The day will come when AI can answer almost all of our questions

The day will come when AI can answer almost all of our questions.

I doubt it will be able to know on its own what questions we want to ask. In that respect, we will have knowledge or information AI does not have.

AI will also not know what we humans are going to ask each other or say to each other. And only a human interlocutor can answer a subjective question we ask them about themself.

Only humans have complex subjectivity which is difficult for us to figure out. AI may be able to help us with that to some degree.

But how will it help us with the complex subjectivity that exists between two or more humans?

With the help of some sort of brain monitoring device worn or embedded in a human, AI will have some calculable grasp on our subjectivity.

Would it ever be good enough to be a substitute for a human companion?

Is subjectivity anything else but confusion within the human system? Or is it a nonrational transient appraisal or measure of the system?

Subjectivity can be beautiful, ugly, inspiring, boring, intriguing, illusory.

FIML may wind up being the only thing humans can do that AI cannot do. ABN

The day will come when AI can answer almost all of our questions

The day will come when AI can answer almost all of our questions.

I doubt it will be able to know on its own what questions we want to ask. In that respect, we will have knowledge or information AI does not have.

AI will also not know what we humans are going to ask each other or say to each other. And only a human interlocutor can answer a subjective question we ask them about themself.

Only humans have complex subjectivity which is difficult for us to figure out. AI may be able to help us with that to some degree.

But how will it help us with the complex subjectivity that exists between two or more humans?

With the help of some sort of brain monitoring device worn or embedded in a human, AI will have some calculable grasp on our subjectivity.

Would it ever be good enough to be a substitute for a human companion?

Is subjectivity anything else but confusion within the human system? Or is it a nonrational transient appraisal or measure of the system?

Subjectivity can be beautiful, ugly, inspiring, boring, intriguing, illusory.

FIML may wind up being the only thing humans can do that AI cannot do. ABN

The day will come when AI can answer almost all of our questions

The day will come when AI can answer almost all of our questions.

I doubt it will be able to know on its own what questions we want to ask. In that respect, we will have knowledge or information AI does not have.

AI will also not know what we humans are going to ask each other or say to each other. And only a human interlocutor can answer a subjective question we ask them about themself.

Only humans have complex subjectivity which is difficult for us to figure out. AI may be able to help us with that to some degree.

But how will it help us with the complex subjectivity that exists between two or more humans?

With the help of some sort of brain monitoring device worn or embedded in a human, AI will have some calculable grasp on our subjectivity.

Would it ever be good enough to be a substitute for a human companion?

Is subjectivity anything else but confusion within the human system? Or is it a nonrational transient appraisal or measure of the system?

Subjectivity can be beautiful, ugly, inspiring, boring, intriguing, illusory.

FIML may wind up being the only thing humans can do that AI cannot do. ABN

FIML and cerebral efficiency

This article argues that the human brain saves energy by predicting or imagining “reality” more than actually perceiving it: Do Thrifty Brains Make Better Minds? The article argues that this way of using our brains allows us to work more efficiently with complex data or in complex situations.

I think this general premise is pretty well known and agreed on, but the linked article puts it in a new way. The following sentence caught my eye: This… underlines the surprising extent to which the structure of our expectations (both conscious and non-conscious) may quite literally be determining much of what we see, hear and feel.

The article uses visual perception as an example, but the idea applies just as well, and maybe more so, to what we hear in the speech of others. FIML practice works by inserting a new mental skill between the first arising of a (stored) interpretation and its full-blown acceptance as “reality”.

FIML and cerebral efficiency

This article argues that the human brain saves energy by predicting or imagining “reality” more than actually perceiving it: Do Thrifty Brains Make Better Minds? The article argues that this way of using our brains allows us to work more efficiently with complex data or in complex situations.

I think this general premise is pretty well known and agreed on, but the linked article puts it in a new way. The following sentence caught my eye: This… underlines the surprising extent to which the structure of our expectations (both conscious and non-conscious) may quite literally be determining much of what we see, hear and feel.

The article uses visual perception as an example, but the idea applies just as well, and maybe more so, to what we hear in the speech of others. FIML practice works by inserting a new mental skill between the first arising of a (stored) interpretation and its full-blown acceptance as “reality”.

FIML and cerebral efficiency

This article argues that the human brain saves energy by predicting or imagining “reality” more than actually perceiving it: Do Thrifty Brains Make Better Minds? The article argues that this way of using our brains allows us to work more efficiently with complex data or in complex situations.

I think this general premise is pretty well known and agreed on, but the linked article puts it in a new way. The following sentence caught my eye: This… underlines the surprising extent to which the structure of our expectations (both conscious and non-conscious) may quite literally be determining much of what we see, hear and feel.

The article uses visual perception as an example, but the idea applies just as well, and maybe more so, to what we hear in the speech of others. FIML practice works by inserting a new mental skill between the first arising of a (stored) interpretation and its full-blown acceptance as “reality”.

FIML and cerebral efficiency

This article argues that the human brain saves energy by predicting or imagining “reality” more than actually perceiving it: Do Thrifty Brains Make Better Minds? The article argues that this way of using our brains allows us to work more efficiently with complex data or in complex situations.

I think this general premise is pretty well known and agreed on, but the linked article puts it in a new way. The following sentence caught my eye: This… underlines the surprising extent to which the structure of our expectations (both conscious and non-conscious) may quite literally be determining much of what we see, hear and feel.

The article uses visual perception as an example, but the idea applies just as well, and maybe more so, to what we hear in the speech of others. FIML practice works by inserting a new mental skill between the first arising of a (stored) interpretation and its full-blown acceptance as “reality”.

solipsistic circus

all the world is a solipsistic circus with no way out. all cultures are self-referential solipsisms. all speech is hopelessly entangled in definitions that go nowhere. we ourselves don’t know what we mean. one thing defines another. actions prove words only because nothing else does, and neither does that. this is caused by words making no sense except through their connections to other words ABN

solipsistic circus

all the world is a solipsistic circus with no way out. all cultures are self-referential solipsisms. all speech is hopelessly entangled in definitions that go nowhere. we ourselves don’t know what we mean. one thing defines another. actions prove words only because nothing else does, and neither does that. this is caused by words making no sense except through their connections to other words ABN

solipsistic circus

all the world is a solipsistic circus with no way out. all cultures are self-referential solipsisms. all speech is hopelessly entangled in definitions that go nowhere. we ourselves don’t know what we mean. one thing defines another. actions prove words only because nothing else does, and neither does that. this is caused by words making no sense except through their connections to other words ABN

solipsistic circus

all the world is a solipsistic circus with no way out. all cultures are self-referential solipsisms. all speech is hopelessly entangled in definitions that go nowhere. we ourselves don’t know what we mean. one thing defines another. actions prove words only because nothing else does, and neither does that. this is caused by words making no sense except through their connections to other words ABN

solipsistic circus

all the world is a solipsistic circus with no way out. all cultures are self-referential solipsisms. all speech is hopelessly entangled in definitions that go nowhere. we ourselves don’t know what we mean. one thing defines another. actions prove words only because nothing else does, and neither does that. this is caused by words making no sense except through their connections to other words ABN

Interoception, proprioception, and perception of dynamic mental states

Interoception means our “perception or sense of internal body states,” including the states of our cardiovascular, digestive, respiratory, and thermoregulatory systems among others.

Proprioception means “one’s own” or “ones’ individual” (Latin proprius) “perception.” We normally use this word to refer to our physical position in the world—whether we are standing or sitting, how we are moving, and how much energy we are using.

Both interoception and proprioception generally refer to physical states of the body though, of course, how we interpret those states may involve much more than immediate physical considerations.

Erroneous interoception or the misinterpretation of internal states is is generally thought to be an important contributing factor to many psychological disorders, including anxiety, depression, panic disorder, and more.

Consider some other levels of interoception—our states of mind; our mental impressions of other people and of ourselves; our senses of our own psychologies.

These levels of psychological reality are normally accessed through introspection, meditation, mindfulness, and psychotherapy. All of these methods are good, but each of them lacks ongoing, real-time input from another human being, thus missing the dynamic functioning of the human mind in real-life situations.

FIML corrects this problem by providing objective, dynamic access to real-time psychological functioning. FIML is a method or tool for optimizing human psychology by honing our perceptions of our mental states as they actually function in real-world situations.

Interoception, proprioception, and perception of dynamic mental states

Interoception means our “perception or sense of internal body states,” including the states of our cardiovascular, digestive, respiratory, and thermoregulatory systems among others.

Proprioception means “one’s own” or “ones’ individual” (Latin proprius) “perception.” We normally use this word to refer to our physical position in the world—whether we are standing or sitting, how we are moving, and how much energy we are using.

Both interoception and proprioception generally refer to physical states of the body though, of course, how we interpret those states may involve much more than immediate physical considerations.

Erroneous interoception or the misinterpretation of internal states is is generally thought to be an important contributing factor to many psychological disorders, including anxiety, depression, panic disorder, and more.

Consider some other levels of interoception—our states of mind; our mental impressions of other people and of ourselves; our senses of our own psychologies.

These levels of psychological reality are normally accessed through introspection, meditation, mindfulness, and psychotherapy. All of these methods are good, but each of them lacks ongoing, real-time input from another human being, thus missing the dynamic functioning of the human mind in real-life situations.

FIML corrects this problem by providing objective, dynamic access to real-time psychological functioning. FIML is a method or tool for optimizing human psychology by honing our perceptions of our mental states as they actually function in real-world situations.

Interoception, proprioception, and perception of dynamic mental states

Interoception means our “perception or sense of internal body states,” including the states of our cardiovascular, digestive, respiratory, and thermoregulatory systems among others.

Proprioception means “one’s own” or “ones’ individual” (Latin proprius) “perception.” We normally use this word to refer to our physical position in the world—whether we are standing or sitting, how we are moving, and how much energy we are using.

Both interoception and proprioception generally refer to physical states of the body though, of course, how we interpret those states may involve much more than immediate physical considerations.

Erroneous interoception or the misinterpretation of internal states is is generally thought to be an important contributing factor to many psychological disorders, including anxiety, depression, panic disorder, and more.

Consider some other levels of interoception—our states of mind; our mental impressions of other people and of ourselves; our senses of our own psychologies.

These levels of psychological reality are normally accessed through introspection, meditation, mindfulness, and psychotherapy. All of these methods are good, but each of them lacks ongoing, real-time input from another human being, thus missing the dynamic functioning of the human mind in real-life situations.

FIML corrects this problem by providing objective, dynamic access to real-time psychological functioning. FIML is a method or tool for optimizing human psychology by honing our perceptions of our mental states as they actually function in real-world situations.

Interoception, proprioception, and perception of dynamic mental states

Interoception means our “perception or sense of internal body states,” including the states of our cardiovascular, digestive, respiratory, and thermoregulatory systems among others.

Proprioception means “one’s own” or “ones’ individual” (Latin proprius) “perception.” We normally use this word to refer to our physical position in the world—whether we are standing or sitting, how we are moving, and how much energy we are using.

Both interoception and proprioception generally refer to physical states of the body though, of course, how we interpret those states may involve much more than immediate physical considerations.

Erroneous interoception or the misinterpretation of internal states is is generally thought to be an important contributing factor to many psychological disorders, including anxiety, depression, panic disorder, and more.

Consider some other levels of interoception—our states of mind; our mental impressions of other people and of ourselves; our senses of our own psychologies.

These levels of psychological reality are normally accessed through introspection, meditation, mindfulness, and psychotherapy. All of these methods are good, but each of them lacks ongoing, real-time input from another human being, thus missing the dynamic functioning of the human mind in real-life situations.

FIML corrects this problem by providing objective, dynamic access to real-time psychological functioning. FIML is a method or tool for optimizing human psychology by honing our perceptions of our mental states as they actually function in real-world situations.

In early Buddhism, Buddhists believed that nirvana is achievable in this life

It has been shown conclusively that in the earliest sutras Buddha is shown as having attained nirvana in this lifetime, and did not lose it during the decades before his death. Hundreds of years later, in Normative Buddhism, the early picture of Buddha’s enlightenment as nirvana had become increasingly modified, to the point that many came to consider it impossible to attain nirvana in one lifetime. Nevertheless, this must not mislead us into thinking that such was the view of the Buddha’s followers in his lifetime, or soon after his death. It is logically necessary for the Buddha to have achieved nirvana and for his followers to have believed that they could do the same thing if they imitated him, in order for such later ideas to have developed in reaction to it. If the Buddha had not achieved his remarkable, heroic breakthrough, there would have been no Buddhism.

Beckwith, Christopher I.. Greek Buddha: Pyrrho’s Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia (pp. 42-43). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.

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In early Buddhism, it is also true that no one thought of the Buddha as a god. The Buddha himself, even in ‘Normative Buddhist’ texts claims that he is ‘just a man’ and that anyone can achieve nirvana if they do the work (karma). It would probably be a good thing for Buddhists today to emphasize these points; and by so doing, remind Buddhism of its deepest roots — Nirvana is a real state that anyone can achieve if they do the work; and all dharmas (things) are characterized by the Three Signs, or Trilakṣaṇa: “All dharmas are anitya ‘impermanent’…. All dharmas are duḥkha ‘unsatisfactory, imperfect, unstable’…. All dharmas are anātman ‘without an innate self-identity’.” ABN

In early Buddhism, Buddhists believed that nirvana is achievable in this life

It has been shown conclusively that in the earliest sutras Buddha is shown as having attained nirvana in this lifetime, and did not lose it during the decades before his death. Hundreds of years later, in Normative Buddhism, the early picture of Buddha’s enlightenment as nirvana had become increasingly modified, to the point that many came to consider it impossible to attain nirvana in one lifetime. Nevertheless, this must not mislead us into thinking that such was the view of the Buddha’s followers in his lifetime, or soon after his death. It is logically necessary for the Buddha to have achieved nirvana and for his followers to have believed that they could do the same thing if they imitated him, in order for such later ideas to have developed in reaction to it. If the Buddha had not achieved his remarkable, heroic breakthrough, there would have been no Buddhism.

Beckwith, Christopher I.. Greek Buddha: Pyrrho’s Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia (pp. 42-43). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.

__________

In early Buddhism, it is also true that no one thought of the Buddha as a god. The Buddha himself, even in ‘Normative Buddhist’ texts claims that he is ‘just a man’ and that anyone can achieve nirvana if they do the work (karma). It would probably be a good thing for Buddhists today to emphasize these points; and by so doing, remind Buddhism of its deepest roots — Nirvana is a real state that anyone can achieve if they do the work; and all dharmas (things) are characterized by the Three Signs, or Trilakṣaṇa: “All dharmas are anitya ‘impermanent’…. All dharmas are duḥkha ‘unsatisfactory, imperfect, unstable’…. All dharmas are anātman ‘without an innate self-identity’.” ABN

In early Buddhism, Buddhists believed that nirvana is achievable in this life

It has been shown conclusively that in the earliest sutras Buddha is shown as having attained nirvana in this lifetime, and did not lose it during the decades before his death. Hundreds of years later, in Normative Buddhism, the early picture of Buddha’s enlightenment as nirvana had become increasingly modified, to the point that many came to consider it impossible to attain nirvana in one lifetime. Nevertheless, this must not mislead us into thinking that such was the view of the Buddha’s followers in his lifetime, or soon after his death. It is logically necessary for the Buddha to have achieved nirvana and for his followers to have believed that they could do the same thing if they imitated him, in order for such later ideas to have developed in reaction to it. If the Buddha had not achieved his remarkable, heroic breakthrough, there would have been no Buddhism.

Beckwith, Christopher I.. Greek Buddha: Pyrrho’s Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia (pp. 42-43). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.

__________

In early Buddhism, it is also true that no one thought of the Buddha as a god. The Buddha himself, even in ‘Normative Buddhist’ texts claims that he is ‘just a man’ and that anyone can achieve nirvana if they do the work (karma). It would probably be a good thing for Buddhists today to emphasize these points; and by so doing, remind Buddhism of its deepest roots — Nirvana is a real state that anyone can achieve if they do the work; and all dharmas (things) are characterized by the Three Signs, or Trilakṣaṇa: “All dharmas are anitya ‘impermanent’…. All dharmas are duḥkha ‘unsatisfactory, imperfect, unstable’…. All dharmas are anātman ‘without an innate self-identity’.” ABN

I'm very proud to be listed as a co-author on this newly published paper --although most of the hard work was done by my co-authors Caterina Marino and Judit Gervain. In "Singing to the newborn brain uncovers early traces of specialized neural networks" we analyzed the neural activity of infants in response to #speech, #songs, and #humming using functional near-infrared spectroscopy. The results are available #openaccess in Communications Psychology
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-026-00451-6
#developmentalpsychology #language #psycholinguistics #speech

BUDDHISM: The original meaning of ‘duḥkha’ is most likely ‘badly standing, unsteady’ and not suffering

…although the sense of duḥkha in Normative Buddhism is traditionally given as ‘suffering’, that and similar interpretations are highly unlikely for Early Buddhism. Significantly, Monier-Williams himself doubts the usual explanation of duḥkha and presents an alternative one immediately after it, namely: duḥ-stha “‘standing badly,’ unsteady, disquieted (lit. and fig.); uneasy,” and so on. This form is also attested, and makes much better sense as the opposite of the Rig Veda sense of sukha, which Monier-Williams gives in full as “(said to be fr. 5. su + 3. kha, and to mean originally ‘having a good axle-hole’; possibly a Prakrit form of su-stha q.v.; cf. duḥkha) running swiftly or easily (only applied to cars or chariots, superl[ative] sukhátama), easy”. It would seem that there were two forms of each word; Prakrit and Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit chose the -kha forms instead of the -stha forms, which survived nevertheless in a much smaller way. The most important point here is that duḥ + stha literally means ‘dis-/ bad- + stand-’, that is, ‘badly standing, unsteady’ and is therefore virtually identical to the literal meaning of Greek astathmēta, from a- + sta- ‘not- + stand’, both evidently meaning ‘unstable’. This strongly suggests that Pyrrho’s middle term is in origin a simple calque.

Beckwith, Christopher I.. Greek Buddha: Pyrrho’s Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia (p. 30). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.

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The First Noble Truth of Buddhism is usually translated as the truth of ‘suffering, unsatisfactoriness, or stress’. Beckwith presents a sound argument that it actually indicates a philosophical argument that untrained views are ‘badly standing, unsteady’ and not to be relied upon. Beckwith’s argument references Pyrrhonism because Pyrrho is known to have studied Buddhism in Bactria where he lived for ten years in Alexander’s court. During that time Pyrrho learned Buddhist philosophy and used it as the basis of Pyrrhonism, the earliest from of Greek skepticism. Beckwith is working with only attested documents. His argument that Pyrrhonism comes directly from Buddhism is very strong. I highly recommend his book Greek Buddha: Pyrrho’s Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia. ABN

🤦‍♂️ Oh, joy! Another thrilling 12-minute treatise on code complexity that rivals a calculus textbook in zest. Apparently, if you throw enough fancy terms like Cyclomatic and Halstead at your #JavaScript spaghetti, it suddenly becomes gourmet 🤔👌. Who knew #psycholinguistics held the key to #refactoring nightmares? 🍝🔍
https://philodev.one/posts/2026-04-code-complexity/ #codecomplexity #softwaredevelopment #programminghumor #HackerNews #ngated

🤦‍♂️ Oh, joy! Another thrilling 12-minute treatise on code complexity that rivals a calculus textbook in zest. Apparently, if you throw enough fancy terms like Cyclomatic and Halstead at your #JavaScript spaghetti, it suddenly becomes gourmet 🤔👌. Who knew #psycholinguistics held the key to #refactoring nightmares? 🍝🔍
https://philodev.one/posts/2026-04-code-complexity/ #codecomplexity #softwaredevelopment #programminghumor #HackerNews #ngated

🤦‍♂️ Oh, joy! Another thrilling 12-minute treatise on code complexity that rivals a calculus textbook in zest. Apparently, if you throw enough fancy terms like Cyclomatic and Halstead at your #JavaScript spaghetti, it suddenly becomes gourmet 🤔👌. Who knew #psycholinguistics held the key to #refactoring nightmares? 🍝🔍
https://philodev.one/posts/2026-04-code-complexity/ #codecomplexity #softwaredevelopment #programminghumor #HackerNews #ngated

🤦‍♂️ Oh, joy! Another thrilling 12-minute treatise on code complexity that rivals a calculus textbook in zest. Apparently, if you throw enough fancy terms like Cyclomatic and Halstead at your #JavaScript spaghetti, it suddenly becomes gourmet 🤔👌. Who knew #psycholinguistics held the key to #refactoring nightmares? 🍝🔍
https://philodev.one/posts/2026-04-code-complexity/ #codecomplexity #softwaredevelopment #programminghumor #HackerNews #ngated

🤦‍♂️ Oh, joy! Another thrilling 12-minute treatise on code complexity that rivals a calculus textbook in zest. Apparently, if you throw enough fancy terms like Cyclomatic and Halstead at your #JavaScript spaghetti, it suddenly becomes gourmet 🤔👌. Who knew #psycholinguistics held the key to #refactoring nightmares? 🍝🔍
https://philodev.one/posts/2026-04-code-complexity/ #codecomplexity #softwaredevelopment #programminghumor #HackerNews #ngated

Linguistics and psychology meet in FIML

FIML is a practical technique that optimizes communication between partners by removing as much micro ambiguity as possible during real-time interpersonal communication.

FIML will also greatly improve meso and macro understanding between partners, but the basic FIML technique rests on micro analyses of real-time communication. (See Micro, meso, and macro levels of human understanding for more on this topic.)

Real-time micro communication means communication within just a few seconds. If we are reading we can focus on a word or phrase and think about it as long as we like. If we are listening to someone speak, however, we normally cannot stop them to analyze deeply a particular word choice, a particular expression, a particular tone of voice, or anything else that happens quickly.

This missing piece in the puzzle of interpersonal communication is of great—I would argue massive—importance because huge mistakes can be and often are made in a single moment.

FIML practice corrects this problem. In other posts I have referred to psychological morphemes, which are defined as:

The smallest meaningful unit of a psychological response. It is the smallest unit of communication that can give rise to an emotional, psychological, or cognitive reaction.

The theory of FIML claims that psychological morphemes arise quickly and if they are not checked or analyzed can have massive influence on how people hear and think from that point on. This is why the practice of FIML focuses greatly on the initial arising or manifestation of a psychological morpheme. The morpheme may be habitual, having origins in the distant past, or it may have first arisen in the moment just before the FIML query that seeks to understand it.

The important point is that the person in whom the psychological morpheme has arisen, or has just begun to arise, realizes than it has arisen due to something that seems to have originated in the other person, their FIML partner.

This is the reason a basic FIML query is begun—because one partner notices a psychological morpheme arising within themself and wants to be sure it is correctly based on objective data shared with the partner. If the partner honestly does not support the interpretation of the inquirer, then the inquirer will know that the psychological morpheme that had arisen in their mind is a mistake. By stopping that mistake, they further stop a much larger mistaken psychological or emotional response from taking hold in their mind.

The stopping of a much larger mistaken psychological or emotional response from taking hold in the mind is the point at which FIML practice greatly influences psychological well-being. If we can see from the honest answers of a trusted partner that some of our most basic emotional responses are not justified—are mistakes—we will in most cases experience a rapid extinction of those responses.

In some cases of deep-seated mistaken interpretations, we may need to hear many times that we are mistaken, but extinction will follow just as surely even though it takes longer. FIML can’t cure everything but a great many people who are now dissatisfied or suffering with their emotional or psychological conditions will benefit from FIML practice. With the help of a trusted FIML partner it is easier to extinguish mistaken interpretations than it may seem upon fist hearing of this technique.

In addition to the above, FIML practice itself is interesting and will lead to many enjoyable discussions. Furthermore, FIML practice can also find and extinguish dangerous positive mistaken interpretations. A positive mistaken interpretation is one that feels good but that can lead to dangerous or harmful actions due to overconfidence, false assumptions, and so on.

FIML cannot remove all ambiguity between partners. That may be possible one day with advanced brain scans, but I suspect that even then ambiguity will still be part of our emotional lives. FIML can, however, remove enough ambiguity between partners that they will feel much more satisfied with themselves and with how they communicate with each other. When micro mistakes are largely removed from interpersonal communication, meso and macro emotions and behaviors will no longer be undermined by harmful or neurotic subjective states that have not been analyzed objectively.

We benchmarked the direct competitor of the EyeLink 1000 Plus: VPixx' TRACKPixx3 eye-tracker. Across 8 tasks (see graph), accuracy was mostly similar, especially at the fixation level. A key difference emerged at the sample level: TRACKPixx3 uses an undocumented internal filter which yields smoother sample data but may affect saccade kinematics and fixation onsets. Check the paper for fine-grained results:

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/vucg3_v1

#EyeTracking #VisionScience #Psycholinguistics #ResearchMethods

We benchmarked the direct competitor of the EyeLink 1000 Plus: VPixx' TRACKPixx3 eye-tracker. Across 8 tasks (see graph), accuracy was mostly similar, especially at the fixation level. A key difference emerged at the sample level: TRACKPixx3 uses an undocumented internal filter which yields smoother sample data but may affect saccade kinematics and fixation onsets. Check the paper for fine-grained results:

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/vucg3_v1

#EyeTracking #VisionScience #Psycholinguistics #ResearchMethods

We benchmarked the direct competitor of the EyeLink 1000 Plus: VPixx' TRACKPixx3 eye-tracker. Across 8 tasks (see graph), accuracy was mostly similar, especially at the fixation level. A key difference emerged at the sample level: TRACKPixx3 uses an undocumented internal filter which yields smoother sample data but may affect saccade kinematics and fixation onsets. Check the paper for fine-grained results:

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/vucg3_v1

#EyeTracking #VisionScience #Psycholinguistics #ResearchMethods

We benchmarked the direct competitor of the EyeLink 1000 Plus: VPixx' TRACKPixx3 eye-tracker. Across 8 tasks (see graph), accuracy was mostly similar, especially at the fixation level. A key difference emerged at the sample level: TRACKPixx3 uses an undocumented internal filter which yields smoother sample data but may affect saccade kinematics and fixation onsets. Check the paper for fine-grained results:

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/vucg3_v1

#EyeTracking #VisionScience #Psycholinguistics #ResearchMethods

Some words affect us more than others. It boils down to how they sound
#Science #Language #Linguistics #Psycholinguistics #Communication #Science #Cognition #Memory #Words #Speech #Education #InformationTheory #The14 #The14Media
https://the-14.com/some-words-affect-us-more-than-others-it-boils-down-to-how-they-sound/

Funded postdoctoral position in human intracranial neuroscience
University of Rochester

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-rochester-27778-funded-postdoctoral-position-in-human-intracranial-neuroscience/

#behavioralneuroscience #biolinguistics #cognitiveneuroscience #psycholinguistics #systemsneuroscience #ScienceJob...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-rochester-27778-funded-postdoctoral-position-in-human-intracranial-neuroscience/?fsp_sid=5569

Funded postdoctoral position in human intracranial neuroscience
University of Rochester

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-rochester-27778-funded-postdoctoral-position-in-human-intracranial-neuroscience/

#behavioralneuroscience #biolinguistics #cognitiveneuroscience #psycholinguistics #systemsneuroscience #ScienceJob...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-rochester-27778-funded-postdoctoral-position-in-human-intracranial-neuroscience/?fsp_sid=4323

Hi y'all interested in a tenure-track assistant professorship in #linguistics / #psycholinguistics / #NLP / #compling etc? There's a national competition in Sweden for funding for a position for which you need to be nominated to apply. If you have <5yr PhD age, please email or DM me with a link to a web site/CV. The catch is, I need to nominate someone (for the first selection) before 8am on Monday in Sweden. Pass it on.

Hi y'all interested in a tenure-track assistant professorship in #linguistics / #psycholinguistics / #NLP / #compling etc? There's a national competition in Sweden for funding for a position for which you need to be nominated to apply. If you have <5yr PhD age, please email or DM me with a link to a web site/CV. The catch is, I need to nominate someone (for the first selection) before 8am on Monday in Sweden. Pass it on.

Hi y'all interested in a tenure-track assistant professorship in #linguistics / #psycholinguistics / #NLP / #compling etc? There's a national competition in Sweden for funding for a position for which you need to be nominated to apply. If you have <5yr PhD age, please email or DM me with a link to a web site/CV. The catch is, I need to nominate someone (for the first selection) before 8am on Monday in Sweden. Pass it on.

Hi y'all interested in a tenure-track assistant professorship in #linguistics / #psycholinguistics / #NLP / #compling etc? There's a national competition in Sweden for funding for a position for which you need to be nominated to apply. If you have <5yr PhD age, please email or DM me with a link to a web site/CV. The catch is, I need to nominate someone (for the first selection) before 8am on Monday in Sweden. Pass it on.

Hi y'all interested in a tenure-track assistant professorship in #linguistics / #psycholinguistics / #NLP / #compling etc? There's a national competition in Sweden for funding for a position for which you need to be nominated to apply. If you have <5yr PhD age, please email or DM me with a link to a web site/CV. The catch is, I need to nominate someone (for the first selection) before 8am on Monday in Sweden. Pass it on.

Hello #psycholinguists on Mastodon! I'm currently doing a review on idiosyncrasies in phoneme perception, where it comes from, how it develops through childhood, how we can study it... If you have references or any idea on the topic, I'm more than interested! @psycholinguistics #psycholinguistics #phoneme #perception

Time perception in humans seems to be locked to language processing

(12/12)

This results in empirical predictions. I will now go check the research on the threshold of conscious time perception in humans to see what is known to this day, and to see whether someone has made the link with language processing before.

#Language #Theory #Science #psycholinguistics #linguistics #CognitiveScience #Cognition #mind #time #TimePerception #perception #speech #processing

Time perception in humans seems to be locked to language processing

(10/12)

If you are talking to someone, there is no perceived time between the perception of the act that originates the stimulus (visual presentation of a sentence, or articulatory activity of a speaker) and the comprehension of the content conveyed by the physical stimulus.

#Language #Theory #Science #psycholinguistics #linguistics #CognitiveScience #Cognition #mind #time #TimePerception #perception #speech #processing

Time perception in humans seems to be locked to language processing

(9/12)

However, we do not perceive the passing of time at all when we do processing language. When we process language, we experience it automatically.

#Language #Theory #Science #psycholinguistics #linguistics #CognitiveScience #Cognition #mind #time #TimePerception #perception #speech #processing

Time perception in humans seems to be locked to language processing

(8/12)

It thus follows that sound and light perception take time, and that whatever time this takes, it is less than the time it takes to extract meaning out of sound and light.

#Language #Theory #Science #psycholinguistics #linguistics #CognitiveScience #Cognition #mind #time #TimePerception #perception #speech #processing

Time perception in humans seems to be locked to language processing

(7/12)

The above is true for meaningless sounds. In the case of meaningful stimuli, it is also obvious that content extraction from the stimulus must necessarily take more time than the time needed to process meaningless sensory stimulation.

#Language #Theory #Science #psycholinguistics #linguistics #CognitiveScience #Cognition #mind #time #TimePerception #perception #speech #processing

Time perception in humans seems to be locked to language processing

(6/12)

We know that it actually takes time from sound and light to travel from its source to our sense organs, and that it takes more time for us to transform these vibrations into electrical activity that results in sound/visual perception.

#Language #Theory #Science #psycholinguistics #linguistics #CognitiveScience #Cognition #mind #time #TimePerception #perception #speech #processing

Time perception in humans seems to be locked to language processing

(5/12)

However, notice that when it comes to meaningful linguistic stimulation, be it by means of acoustic or visual means, we do not experience additional time in the extraction of content from the input. Let me break this down:

#Language #Theory #Science #psycholinguistics #linguistics #CognitiveScience #Cognition #mind #time #TimePerception #perception #speech #processing

Time perception in humans seems to be locked to language processing

(4/12)

Senses seem to be immediate though. If something makes a sound, I do not perceive the passing of time between the source of the sound and its perception. Same with vision, smell, touch and taste.

#Language #Theory #Science #psycholinguistics #linguistics #CognitiveScience #Cognition #mind #time #TimePerception #perception #speech #processing