“We gave AI our knowledge, not the world from which that knowledge arose.” I spent months trying to fix my prompts. The problem wasn’t my prompting. A cautionary tale for any researcher using AI to develop original work. #CognitiveScience #AIResearch #LLM #MachineBehavior #PromptEngineering #PhilosophyOfMind #Aphantasia #Anendophasia #mentalimagery https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cautionary-tale-researchers-when-llm-reabsorbs-your-cristina-gherghel-zy5gf

"No equation precedes the pain. The body does not model the wound of the Other; it transduces it. No mental simulation is required when the self is not a mirror, but a conductor." I’ve published a new research paper examining the structural dissociation between empathy, moral valuation, and simulation-based models of social cognition. https://open.substack.com/pub/cristinagherghel/p/empathy-without-mental-imagery-why?r=6bmg7x&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true Open access on Zenodo. #Empathy #Aphantasia #MentalImagery #CognitiveScience #PhilosophyOfMind #Neuroscience