Exclusive interview with Nicolae Țibrigan: Disinformation, the body, and the war on reality
Dr. Nicolae Țîbrigan explores disinformation as a psychological and somatic attack that exhausts attention, exploits trauma and identity, and undermines our ability to process reality and maintain civic judgment. He addresses the personal costs of defending truth, the visibility paradox, deceptive vs. exhausting disinformation, and the fusion of behavioral psychology with algorithms, micro-targeting, and generative…
The distributed layered Self
The self is neither a little person inside the brain nor a vague everywhere. It is an emergent process, grounded in critical nodes, sustained by distributed interaction, and shaped by body, prediction, memory, language, relationship, culture, sleep, and time.
The distributed Self and it’s criticism
A strong model of the self must do two things at once: synthesize what is fragmented and resist the temptation to explain more than it has earned. The distributed mind is a powerful map, but it becomes more credible when it admits its omissions, its metaphors, and the unresolved problem of integration.
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