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From talking tools to metahumans: social interaction, semiotic skill, and the authority of AI chatbots Des outils parlants aux métahumains : interactions sociales, compétences sémiotiques et autorité des robots conversationnels

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
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If insects have phenomenal consciousness, could they suffer?

Animal Sentience, 2016
Klein & Barron’s (K & B’s) suggestion that insects have the capacity for phenomenal consciousness is a refreshing and challenging departure from the cautious and agnostic stance that is taken by many researchers when considering this possibility.
Elizabeth S. Paul, Michael T. Mendl
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Attentional Structure and Phenomenal Unity

Open Philosophy, 2022
Some authors argue that phenomenal unity can be grounded in the attentional structure of consciousness, which endows conscious states with at least a foreground and a background.
Wiese Wanja
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Recent progress in studies of the last million years of human physical and behavioural evolution Avancées récentes dans l’étude du dernier million d'années d’évolution physique et éthologique de l'espèce humaine

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article presents a synthesis of recent developments in the study of human evolution over the past five years. It begins with an overview of hominin species nomenclature and diversity, followed by an examination of the proposed population bottleneck ∼900,000 years ago.
James Cole, Eleanor M.L. Scerri, Mateja Hajdinjak, Chris Stringer   +3 more
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What if We Seem to Seem and Not Seem? Estimating the Unreasonable Price of Illusionism

Problemos
With its strategic consideration of phenomenal consciousness illusorily seeming to us, illusionism claims to deny phenomenality and thereby obviate the hard problem of consciousness.
Biplab Karak
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Parental Perceptions on Antenatal Information About Extremely Preterm Birth: A Qualitative Study

Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim Antenatal information is essential for families facing the possibility of an extremely preterm (EPT) birth. Their information needs are not always clear and communication can be challenging during this stressful, uncertain time. We explored parental perceptions about antenatal information provided during perinatal counselling about EPT ...
Gonzalo Solís‐García, Laura Valladares Salado, María Carmen Bravo, María Sánchez‐Holgado, Sara López Magallón, Carlos Zozaya Nieto, Aranzazu Fernandez Sanchez, Francisco López Sánchez, Adelina Pellicer   +8 more
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Magical Realist Hauntings in Children's Everyday Encounters With Death, or, How to Believe in Impossible Things

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern deaths have become reiterations. That is, despite exhibiting a seemingly high‐level of diversity in death's representations in everyday lives, death suffers from a particular onto‐epistemological poverty that prevents it from being imagined otherwise.
Zhaoxi Zheng, Rebecca E. Olson, Sally Staton   +2 more
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Liver Organoids: From Disease Modelling to Regenerative Medicine

Cell Proliferation, EarlyView.
Liver organoids provide a versatile platform for disease modelling and drug discovery, leveraging stem cells and engineering techniques. They bridge research and clinical applications, offering significant potential for advancing precision medicine and regenerative therapies for liver diseases.
Tiepeng Wang, Xiaotian Qu, Jinhong Si, Junkang Meng, Ting Zhang, Shuliang Niu   +5 more
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Approaching the nature of consciousness through a phenomenal analysis of early vision. What is the explanandum?

Frontiers in Psychology
Loorits (2014) identifies the solution to the hard problem of consciousness in the possibility of fully analyzing seemingly non-structural aspects of consciousness in structural terms.
Bruno Forti
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Towards a Theory of Inquiry Dialogue Questions

Educational Theory, EarlyView.
Abstract The success of an inquiry dialogue depends on the quality of its central question. Yet, evaluating inquiry dialogue questions is harder than it appears. One approach is to maintain that inquiry dialogue questions are philosophical questions, but there is no successful method of identifying all and only philosophical questions. Another approach
Aaron Yarmel
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