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Due to AI chatbots’ increasing ability to simulate human-like interactions, some people “fall in love” and develop emotional attachments to chatbots. Couples therapy, anyone?

Art appreciation isn’t just a brain experience. Research shows that art can measurably change bodily responses, revealing how deeply art affects us.

As scores of young adults rely upon family for help and housing, hallmarks of adulthood and identity are forever altered. Two authors and research shed light on the trend.

The new school year brings new rules about devices and AI. But the real question isn’t about technology—it’s about what children actually need to thrive in an AI-infused world.

Therapy isn’t just about what happened in the past. Sometimes the most powerful healing happens in the room, in the relationship between therapist and client.

“Cultivating a questioning mind, of which conversation is the chief instrument, enriches our relationship with the world.” We are each born with a wilderness of possibility within us. Who we become depends on how we tend to our inner garden — what qualities of character and spirit we cultivate to come abloom, what follies we…

“Grief is a heart-wrenchingly painful problem for the brain to solve… to live in the world with the absence of someone… ingrained in your understanding of the world… For the brain, [they are] simultaneously gone and also everlasting, and you are walking through two worlds at the same time.” “‘Tis good — the looking back…

In an earlier essay I explained why I use AI images in my D&D content. This was not offered as an excuse or justification as I agree it is morally wrong to use these images. In another essay I presented the argument that using AI generated images is wrong because AI companies engage in theft….

“Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.” The third volume of Anaïs Nin’s diaries has been on heavy rotation in recent weeks, yielding Nin’s thoughtful and timeless meditations on life, mass movements, Paris vs. New York, what makes a…

What if all the ideas and values surrounding our lives are like pieces of sediment in a river? Some never quite settle and get swept away, lost to the currents of time. But some take hold, solidify, become part of the cultural bedrock that underpin our lives. With the help of a geologist and a…