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"Physical Intelligence: thermodynamic roots of agency" by Benjamin DeBari-Cheung

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"Physical Intelligence: thermodynamic roots of agency" by Benjamin DeBari-Cheung

This lecture covers physical intelligence and ecological psychology, presented by Dr. Benjamin DeBari-Cheung, assistant professor of psychology at Thomas Jefferson University, drawing on his graduate research at the University of Connecticut. It builds around…

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Concept: the first ecological psychology commitment is Turvey's 'a psychology for all organisms,' explaining behavior and mental processes in terms a…
Named source: the speaker cites Turvey's 'Hume's dictum,' quoting Hume that a hypothesis explaining a mental operation common to humans and beasts mu…
Concept: generalities of biological behavior cited include perception-action cycles ('perceive to move, move to perceive') and thermodynamic cycles (…

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49 min source · The Verge · 2026-10-27

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David Pierce hosts The Verge Cast and frames the episode around an interview with Kevin Roose about the early, pre-public days of the AI industry. [00:02]
Apple launched a new iMac and MacBook Pro powered by the new M6 chip, which Apple had already launched back in August. [00:23]
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the digital product niche etsy can't touch

6 min source · Alex · 2026-10-27

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[00:03] Etsy's new rules ban AI-generated patterns, recipes, and other items requiring buyer effort, and require sellers to include at least one unaltered photo of…
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[00:25] Enforcement will be hard: AI-generated recipes can be hand-edited to evade detection, while genuinely human-made patterns may still use AI for layout, trans…

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Why a Syria-Israel War Looks Increasingly Inevitable

8 min source · TLDR News Global · 2026-10-27

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[00:00] Protests spread across Syria after Israeli forces killed a disabled man during an incursion into the village of Jamla, Dara province
[01:27] Israeli jets struck military bases across Syria, destroying almost every Syrian aircraft and naval vessel, after ground forces advanced into the UN buffer z…
[01:58] Israel's justification shifted from calling Al-Sharah an 'extremist' to claiming its occupation was needed to protect Syria's Druze minority

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