PinnedChris BashaHonour culture is destroying Albanian families“Lower your voice because the neighbours might hear you.”Aug 16, 2020Aug 16, 2020
Chris BashaAI isn’t ‘really’ intelligent, but neither are humansMisconceptions about consciousness and intelligence are leading us to draw incorrect conclusions about AI and its dangersMay 4, 20231May 4, 20231
Chris BashaWhy I Am Not a Stoic (And You Shouldn’t Be Either)The Eastern approach is different. It recognises that there’s a non-thought-based way of living.Dec 6, 20212Dec 6, 20212
Chris BashaWhat Comes First, Mind or Brain?Minds depend on brains. That’s a fact. Do brains produce minds? That’s a tricky question.Sep 6, 2021Sep 6, 2021
Chris BashaA Slippery Slope Into SolipsismWhen everything is an abstraction in the mind, where is the real world?Aug 30, 20212Aug 30, 20212
Chris BashaWe Can Never See People for Who They Really AreNo two minds are nurtured the same way, nor do we have reasons to believe the built-in algorithms are always identical.Aug 23, 2021Aug 23, 2021
Chris BashaFast Entertainment, Stimulation, and Clarity of MindI call this type of entertainment Fast Entertainment because just like fast food, it feels good now but is disastrous later.Aug 16, 2021Aug 16, 2021
Chris BashaThe Toll Of Letting Social Media Mediate Our RelationshipsIs it worth sacrificing meaningful communication for the sake of ease? Do we really want to let social media mediate our relationships?Aug 9, 2021Aug 9, 2021
Chris BashaLeaping from consciousness to the nature of realityHinduism asserts that meditative experiences reveal the true fabric of objective reality.Aug 2, 2021Aug 2, 2021
Chris BashaAre you in a virtual reality?We can never be in touch with objective reality — the reality that is ‘out there’, beyond the mediation of our senses.Jul 26, 2021Jul 26, 2021