Thank you for listening and sharing 💕 (despite my super rushed presentation I hope you liked it!)

@maryunis.bsky.social presenting on Margaret Cavendish at the @aahpsss.bsky.social 2025 conference #aahpsss2025 #hps

The ways that AI is catalyzing our own self-destruction:
- faster and deeper wealth transfer upwards to charlatans and cretins
- empowering the worst humans on earth
- lowering critical thinking skills
- consuming natural resources at staggering rate
- breaking psychological health of millions

Dear Dalia, this post is really interesting and also key for my current research. I was wondering if you could recommend me any book or articles on the topic. Thank you!

Tonight's discussion concerns the difference between organicism and vitalism, because so often the two are confused. To my mind, the key difference is that organicism can make more sense of death, while vitalism - because everything is alive - can't. For vitalism, death can only be illusion.