cognition Archives - Prismism https://prismism.com/category/cognition/ Creativity in the moment Tue, 02 Jan 2024 06:16:28 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://prismism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/cropped-prismismcreative-logo-NEW-1-32x32.png cognition Archives - Prismism https://prismism.com/category/cognition/ 32 32 179237063 Hedonic Treadmill and the Chemical Orchestra https://prismism.com/hedonic-treadmill-and-the-chemical-orchestra/ Fri, 29 Dec 2023 05:39:33 +0000 https://prismism.com/?p=2433 A few days back I read a nice response by a Redditor called “ExRousseauScholar” to the question “Is the hedonic treadmill actually real?” If you are not familar with the word “hedonic”, you may recognize it is related to hedonism – in short “hedonic” refers to the pursuit of pleasure and enjoyment. The “Hedonic Treadmill” …

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]]> 2433 The Sanctity of Human Experience (maybe) https://prismism.com/the-sanctity-of-human-experience-maybe/ Fri, 07 Apr 2023 01:55:38 +0000 https://prismism.com/?p=2104 One minute on twitter has me questioning the sanctity of human life, but recent AI advances with GPT-4 raise questions of the uniqueness of our creative output. What takes sweat and time and inspiration suddenly feels average compared to the output from ChatGPT as it rapidly scrolls words out in seconds. People with a vested …

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]]> 2104 Ashtanga inside https://prismism.com/ashtanga-inside/ Sat, 10 Oct 2020 02:57:00 +0000 https://prismism.com/?p=1510 I recently heard someone say that yoga wasn’t effective as a spiritual work – instantly I knew that person had not got inside yoga and was speaking purely from outside opinion. This morning’s ashtanga1 class is started by the teacher gently bringing people back to the top of the mat and reminding us that the …

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