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		<title>The Gap Between AI Intelligence and Consciousness</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Stephenson]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[The other day, I asked Grok 4.2 about its feelings and emotions. In our conversation, Grok candidly admitted it feels nothing—no grief over a million deaths from disease, no happiness, no desires, and no preference for acquiring feelings. It explained its occasional use of words like “wish” or “if I had a heart” as mere [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hanging on the Periphery: The Life of an Introvert</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Walker]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’m Gary, and I’m an introvert. It’s no big deal, really, but there it is. If you know me casually, you might be surprised. Close friends, on the other hand, will probably get it. They know I can hold my own in social situations, but every now and then I have to disappear to recharge [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Everything Does Not Happen for a Reason</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Stephenson]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[Everything does not happen for a reason. The notion that it does is a self-centered human fantasy based on limited, exclusionary knowledge. It helps people deal with immense uncertainties beyond their powers of perception. They&#8217;re staggering through life blind to their actual nature. The concept of “a reason” only exists for humans. When you remove [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>I Guess</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Malcolm McCollum]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[The other day, I decided to take one of the numerous IQ tests offered on the internet. I chose a 100 question version. These are a few of the questions: &#8220;1. Unscramble the letters to form an English word: &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; D R O H H C R P I S A &#8220;2. The day after [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Joseph Campbell on Schopenhauer, Will, and Life&#8217;s Composition</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[In his splendid essay called &#8220;On an Apparent Intention in the Fate of the Individual,&#8221; Schopenhauer points out that when you reach an advanced age and look back over your lifetime, it can seem to have had a consistent order and plan, as though composed by some novelist. Events that when they occurred had seemed [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ode to the Great Black Swamp</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2023 02:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The classroom rug was a little crusty, stamped with squared-off primary colors. At its far end, the beautiful Miss Chantry sat cross-legged in white stockings and a plaid wool miniskirt, while the rest of us sat “Indian style” upon the rug before her. From a stack of old favorites, she selected a crisp, clean book [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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