Reinforcement Learning & Compassionate A.I.
This is rather abstract. There is an agent with a goal, a sensor, and an actor. Occasionally, the agent uses a model of the environment. There are rewards and one or more value functions that value the rewards. Maximizing the goal (through acting) based on rewards (through sensing) is reinforcement learning (R.L.). The agent’s policy Read the full article…
31. COVID Management at Society Level – Why, What, How?
I bring together elements discussed in previous blogs/chapters to show that reckoning with the deeper mind and the COVID-whirlpool may lead to specific society-wide (polity) measures that – on top of common-sense hygienic measures – may lessen the pending calamity. Complexity Some insight in complexity is advisable. [see: “Complex is not Complicated“] In the COVID-whirlpool Read the full article…
Tinnitus: Listening to Your Noise – What Does it Tell You?
Of course, it is your noise, by definition, since it’s not generated in the environment outside you. But it can be even more yours than just through this. Good news, since this leads to possible management from inside out. ►►► WHY read this? An increasing number of people are suffering without satisfactory treatment at present, Read the full article…
About Communication
You have to Listen to hear it. ►►► WHY read this? In a more and more complex world, communication becomes ever more important.◄◄◄ You listen to someone. This someone talks about all kinds of things. You know what it’s about. You understand what that person is saying. But that is not enough. Do you also Read the full article…
A Tale of Two Letters About Remdesivir – Enter Mind – Exit Remdesivir?
Remdesivir or ‘We,’ Which Cure Will it Be? Intrigued by the antiviral drug, remdesivir, I delved into scientific studies about it. The result is a duo of ‘Letters to the Editor’ to the new England Journal of Medicine (top journal of medical science), in May and June 2020. Not even hoping they would accept, indeed, Read the full article…
About Hope
Where there is Hope, there is at least one good feeling that can guide people – including yourself – through the direst situations. Hope makes one less vulnerable while keeping sensitivity and Compassion alive. Hope versus hope It’s not altogether an easy distinction. As with any other ‘deep’ concept, hope can be meant and understood Read the full article…
The Basic Cognitive Illusion
‘Basic cognitive illusion’: the fact that we are non-consciously motivated, but are not consciously aware of this (since it’s non-conscious). We also don’t consciously notice our brain in this. So, there are two levels between consciousness and the physical brain, which gives us the strong illusion of mind-brain divide. [This text is a part of Read the full article…
Demo Cracy
‘Power to the people’ is not self-evident. Who is this ‘people’? And what kind of ‘power’ is desirable? Eventually, democracy is the only worthwhile way, but in which way? ►►► WHY read this? Democracy itself will increasingly be under pressure if we do not act now.◄◄◄ Demos Cratos Demos = people; cratos = power. Power Read the full article…
30. COVID: Why Hiding the Mind?
Since March, I try to focus medical colleagues and other people on the mind in COVID progression, as yet to little avail. This is utterly weird. Weirdness Imagine being as convinced as I am that optimally lending attention to mind→COVID is probably the best we can do, given that a strict population-wide quarantine is not Read the full article…
About Human Depth
Everybody knows it, and nobody knows it. It is nowhere and everywhere As a youth, I used to read a lot of ‘elite literature’ that costs almost nothing for what it’s worth, has nothing to do with how-to-earn-money, and everything with depth. The writers are frequently found in history books of literature. What they wrote Read the full article…
29. Our Mind Is Our Way Out (or Into) COVID – Yes We Can
See my book MINDING CORONA, of which this is a chapter. In e-version on Amazon, this book costs almost nothing. Here is a link to a pdf for free (non up-to-date version). The app (‘Aurelis’) is permanently for free on Google and Apple stores. COVID is a mind-body problem. Most experts in the picture are Read the full article…
Deep Motivation – Read&Do
This is the foreword to my book ‘Deep Motivation’ that you can find on Amazon. A conceptual not-knowing As a matter of fact, motivation stands prior to any human action. Yet in academia, where leaders are taught how to motivate their people, there is an acknowledged ignorance. The leaders themselves also frequently don’t know how Read the full article…
Gentle Strength
This world needs it more than ever. What? Strong gentleness. It is strong because it is gentle. It is gentle because it is strong. It doesn’t avoid gentleness. It doesn’t avoid strength. It’s not vulnerable. It doesn’t avoid vulnerability. It is sensitive. It feels what many issues are about. It listens and helps by being Read the full article…
Dawn of Opening Up
The times, they are a-changing into an era with many unforeseen challenges and possibilities. A.I. makes it even more so. One of the essential changes is a gradual Opening up of who we are as a human species, especially regarding the mind in its non-conscious presence. Openness in several domains As in AURELIS subprojects: Open Read the full article…
Open Mindfulness – Read&Do
This is the foreword to my book ‘Open Mindfulness’ that you can find on Amazon (see menu). Open attention ‘Open’ attention concerning Open Mindfulness is not just the usual attention with which you could shine on all kinds of things, feelings, and thoughts in a different way from usual. Contrary to this, ‘Open’ attention is Read the full article…
Getting Slim – Read&Do
This is the foreword to my book ‘Getting Slim’ that you can find on Amazon (see menu). Diet after diet Many people go on a diet, yet we know that dieting doesn’t work well in the long term. We may posit that these people do want to lose weight sustainably. Then why do they, again Read the full article…
Stressional Intelligence – Read&Do
This is the foreword to my book ‘Stressional Intelligence’ that you can find on Amazon (see menu). Stress is not the amorphous blob that it is frequently purported to be. It is a multifaceted, multidimensional conglomerate, in every aspect related to meanings and deeper meanings. One cannot be stressed by something that is personally meaningless. Read the full article…