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Trans-humanism is not merely some geeky tech subculture, nor a futuristic daydream, but a pervasive phenomenon that is already impacting our humanness itself. Were talking about the merging of human beings with technology, and not just at the physical level, but possibly a merging that encroaches upon the most intimate dimensions of the soul.

And energy is the currency of the soul. Without it, stressors can overwhelm you, leaving self-doubt and anxiety in control. But by raising your field of energy, you live an elevated life: one of true transformation, high achievement, and success.

Stefanie Bruns, the founder of Business Flow Academy, believes that states of high energy are paramount in finding fulfillment in life. A psychologist and business mentor for 16 years, Bruns has dedicated herself to helping successful people break through their self-limitations and soar to new heights in business.

People buy into your level of energy. Its not only about your marketing strategy or your gift, she begins. Sometimes, people want to stay in the aura of an expert. If you raise your energy, you elevate your life.

Stefanie Bruns, Founder of Business Flow Academy

However, with transhumanism comes potential risks to our mental health, and therefore a potential dampening of our vibrational frequency. We have already seen this with the unintended negative impacts of screen-time, social media, and more advancements have on our lives. This is where positive technology comes in.

Although many scientific efforts have been devoted to acknowledging the risks of digital technologies, the question of how computers could be used to improve people's well-being has been much less explored.

This was the main motivation for the development of a novel research areaPositive Technologywhich aims at investigating how ICT-based applications and services can be used to foster positive growth of individuals, groups and institutions.

Positive technology or technology designed to improve the quality of our lives has boomed over the last few years. Now we have everything from happiness apps to physiological sensors that detect stress to digital objects that remind you to practice gratitude.

Through a discussion with Bruns, it became clear that while technology, particularly artificial intelligence, is often used to benefit mental health or business success separately, by combining the two use cases.

Reaching Your True Transformation

People rely on their past experiences to dictate their future actions and give unlimited gravity to the words of others. There are chains of the past. And when you get free from the past, you can create a better future, Bruns explains. Everybody tells themselves a story, and its our duty to find out whether the story is useful or dysfunctional.

Whether we hold on deeply to what we were told as a child or allow negative thoughts to sow seeds in our lives, this behavior can be highly damaging to our mental state. In letting past behaviors and actions define us, we rob ourselves of the energy needed to grow. But regression and victimhood will work against you in manifesting the life of abundance you envision. If you see yourself in these patterns of negativity, its time to create a new story.

Up until now, we have been on our own to deal with these emotions. But there are promising indications that AI can help.

Emotion regulationa person's ability to effectively manage and respond to an emotional experienceis a key aspect of psycho-social functioning and well-being. How could digital tools be used to support this process?

A study titled, New Technologies for the Understanding, Assessment, and Intervention of Emotion Regulation addresses this discusses the potential of integrating technologies such as AI-enabled virtual reality, wearable biosensors, smartphones, and biofeedback for improving understanding, assessment, and intervention of emotion regulation.

Every thought, and every action, has a special electromagnetic energy. If you tell yourself or others who you are every day, you will become that person, Bruns says. She believes that people in any stage of life can fall victim to this. Despite a successful career and an abundance of wealth, a lack of guidance can be all that stands between you and greater states beyond high achievement.

Whether youre a business owner, a coach, a doctor, or otherwise, AI has shown promising in developing a new perspective to overcome your doubt and elevate your life.

This all being said, a human touch will always be needed. True spirituality is and has always been the exploration of the wider field of reality; true spirituality cannot be other than true humanness.

Everything starts with you. If you have guidance on this path, you can reach your goals easily. Even with years of expertise, we all have blind spots where we fail to self-reflect. You need a mirror to explore your blind spots and find areas to grow and improve. A mentor can be that mirror for you, Bruns explains.

The Path of Joy

Bruns believes that overcoming doubt has everything to do with your personal identity: a crucial detail that many disregard when building or expanding their business. People may create a website, produce a product, and find the right price point, but in stepping into the vast field of marketing, they begin to get lost. On the surface, many people appear to have everything they need to build a successful business. But when we dig deep, step in and find their weakest point, we often discover that there are limitations in their personal life that manifest in their business, Bruns says. If your electromagnetic field is in a bad place, you wont be ready to work when you wake up - even if you slept for eight hours or more.

This is why it is crucial for all business leaders to implement a positive integration of human and technological support. For example, Rocky.ai is combining the strengths of a virtual assistant and a leadership coach and brings this together in a soft-skill training application, which is available at all times.

In another example, clinical research psychologist Dr. Alison Darcy created Woebot, a Facebook-integrated computer program that aims to replicate conversations a patient might have with his or her therapist. Woebot is a chatbot that resembles an instant messaging service. The digital health technology asks about your mood and thoughts, listens to how you are feeling, learns about you and offers evidence-based cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) tools.

If psychology pertains to the connection between our emotions, psychiatry explains their involvement in our biochemical processes. Our microbiome has a significant involvement in the biomagnetic field of our body, and every cell needs a special voltage. Without the right level of energy, our cells dont have that voltage and fail to operate at their maximum potential. The consequences manifest in all areas of our life, from our emotional regulation and wellbeing to the manner in which we make decisions. Bruns believes in the importance of seeing our mind, brain, and energy field as one, but many are unconsciously able to do so.

There are definite signs that machine learning, algorithms, and data can be utilized to effectively align these aspects of being in a way that was previously left for us to do on our own. In other words, AI can speed up the process of energy and life enhancement.

AI in psychiatry is a general term that implies the use of computerized techniques and algorithms for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental illnesses, and could be applied similarly to enhance our lives. For example, current approaches for the diagnosis of psychiatric disorders largely rely on physician-patient questionnaires that are most of the time inaccurate and ineffective in providing a reliable assessment of symptoms.

These limitations can, however, be overcome by applying artificial intelligence (AI) to electronic medical database and health records. This indicates that we can aggregate data from our everyday lives to eventually eradicate negative thought patterns.

Bruns explains, People are still making unhealthy divisions in their life. Often, people repeat and reinforce negative outlooks and behaviors and justify them by saying, Its only a thought. But however intrusive or untrue it may be, our thoughts still have electromagnetic voltage, Bruns explains. Every emotion has a special vibration. If you feel guilt and shame, your vibrational energy is very low. If you feel unconditional love, its much higher. But you cant access these higher planes of emotional vibration if your body is not in good condition. You cant use antidepressants or wait idly for the problem to go away on its own. You have to step deeper and heal from within to raise your field of energy. Then, and only then, will you follow the path of your joy and serve your cosmic mission.

Stefanie Bruns, Founder of Business Flow Academy

Music is an excellent example of not only the physical manifestations of vibrations, but also evidence of how AI can impact our vibrational levels in the future. Studies now repeatedly show that music engages the brain at almost every level. The term for these studies is now referred to as Musical Neuroscience or Cognitive Musicology, It is this awareness, amongst others, that this article seeks to uncover, including music's healing qualities.

In one study, researches used an artificial intelligence system to study the catalog of melodies produced by a wide variety of different proteins. They had the AI system introduce slight changes in the musical sequence or create completely new sequences, and then translated the sounds back into proteins that correspond to the modified or newly designed versions.

Elevated Business Success

Now that we have uncovered the evolving potential of AIs ability to impact our body and minds energy vibrations positively, how can these be applied to create physical manifestations such as business success?

The path of your joy is unique to you and you only. But in reaching the destination, many have certain prerequisites in common: fulfillment in ones relationship, an abundance of free time, and a thriving autonomous business. Its a fact: your professional success and your energy levels are intrinsically correlated.

Bruns remarks of the phenomenon, It makes a huge difference to your market if you write copy in a higher zone of your energy. If your level of energy is high, its infectious, and people will want to be a part of it. They will choose you because it feels right. However, if you post because you feel you have an obligation to do so, it will come from a place of low energy. Your audience will feel that, too, she explains.

The HeartMath Institute proved this concept conclusively: people can feel other people. That would mean when you speak, release a video, or write copy, youre putting out your unique electromagnetic impulses into the universe. Ensure that your authenticity, level of expertise, and enthusiasm for what you do remain congruent in all marketing materials. If you do, youll reach a state of self-alignment. And youll never have to guess what your audience wants to hear next.

How does/would HeartMath Institute use AI to capture, and analyze data related to 1) impact of their services and 2) the energy/thoughts/electromagnetic impulses of clients.

Alignment with ones self is something that many people neglect. But in the pursuit of an elevated life, consider how you nourish your body in all forms: emotionally, mentally, and nutritionally. These small details eventually amount to a much greater picture. Bruns discusses these concepts in her free training program, Crushing Your Energy Identity Code, which delves into both the importance of Hawkins Scale of Emotion and how it influences your life in lower stages of vibrancy.

Your Energetic Impact

As Bruns explains, after persistent burnout and frustration over a lack of progress, many people ask themselves whether theyre even in the right field. They wonder whether their true calling is in something else and consider making a complete pivot. However, when faced with energetic incongruence, changing your career path is merely an escape, not a solution. Bruns shares that everything starts with a connection to your real purpose - your cosmic mission.

If there were no limit to what Artificial Intelligence could know about you, it could not only supply you with reading materials, but with foods, medical suggestions, social events, interesting ideas, friends, and lovers. It could also begin to help you make decisions in your life much the same way as Google maps now sets the fastest route for travel, avoiding traffic congestion. Perhaps one day there will be an app called Google Life, which will know you better than you know yourself, or at least claim to, and guide you through life decisions.

What will be increasingly missing is human self-awareness, the inner life as the domain of aspiration, wisdom, conscience, and what will increasingly disappear are the possibilities of true individuality, creativity, moral striving, selfless sacrifice, and transcendent awareness.

Instead our focus will be adding more information to the glut of information, posting more self-conscious images of ourselves, authoring more self-preoccupied narratives of our lives, repeating formulaic opinions, floating on the surface of a never-ending river of external data.

The cosmic mission is a vision bigger than yourself. When I ask people what their biggest vision is, I often hear responses alluding to luxury: a bigger house, a nicer car, or life in a warmer country. But I ask them once again - whats your biggest vision? Then, they understand. Their eyes light up. Your biggest vision, and your ultimate driver, is what you can do for others. We are all on this earth to help in any way we can. To help with something or somebody, she explains. Bruns believes that if you are connected with your cosmic mission in a way that enriches lives, youll jump out of bed every morning without wishing the day away. The power of a purpose-filled life allows you to overcome trauma, heighten your energy, live a joyful life, and enrich the world.

We are energetic beings. Ancient cultures have held this truth far longer than any modern civilization. And as energetic beings of light, each and every cell has an electromagnetic field to keep in alignment. As Bruns observes, This is not new knowledge; this is old knowledge. But we have new evidence. Experts have explored the effects of meditation on our human brain, and there are remarkable differences in our synaptic activity before and after reaching heart congruence.

Quantum computers are predicted to be capable of accomplishing things ordinary computers cannot, which reminds us of how our brains can achieve things that are still beyond artificial intelligence.

After embracing what it means to be an energetic being, were better equipped to thrive in business from our highest zone of genius: an area of complete fulfillment and true transformation. This means that were able to send our ideal messaging into the market, leverage our unique selling point, and succeed in business in a way that stays congruent with our energy signature.

In doing so, we attract our ideal clientele. We earn what we deserve to earn. And most of all, we reclaim our time.

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Positive Technology And The Cosmic Mission: How AI Is Helping Humans Achieve States Of High Energy And Success - Forbes

Throughout most of the seventeenth century, residents of London could buy, from street hawkers who fought one another for sales territory, a peculiar sort of newspaper. It cost a penny, sold about five or six thousand copies a week, and consisted of a single page. On one side, readers would learn how many of their neighbors had died the previous week, in each parish. On the other, readers would learn what was believed to have killed them.

Jaundice was common, as was Apoplex, an old word for a stroke, and Dropsie, which meant swelling. Other entries seemed to answer the question How did he die? with descriptionsDead in the Streets or Stilborn or Suddenlyinstead of actual causes. The deaths were usually assessed and recorded by pairs of older women, who were employed by parishes to go to the local church whenever its bell tolled a death. During one February week in 1664, these searchers, as they were known, recorded three hundred and ninety-three burials across the city. Death causes and counts ranged from Aged (thirty-two victims) and Consumption (sixty-five) to Scalded in a Brewers Mash (one).

For the same reasons that todays newspapers report coronavirus case numbers on their front pages, the London papers, known as Bills of Mortality, became particularly popular when disease swept through the city. During the 1665 plague, Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary about feeling saddened or cheered by the latest numbers from the Bills, while a contemporary named John Bell noted that the Bills allowed people to know the places which are therewith infected, to the end such places may be shunned and avoided. But most of the time, according to the London merchant John Graunt, the Bills were little more than matters of curiosity, especially if there were deaths that were rare, and extraordinary in the week current. He didnt consider this to be odd or unseemly. Death, after all, was the most basic fact of life.

Eventually, though, Graunt began to wonder if the Bills could be put to other, and greater uses. He painstakingly collected and organized decades of the death records, creating long tables of numbers. These first known tabulations of population-level health data are now widely recognized as the birth of epidemiology. Graunt pored over them. What types of death were most common? Which groups did they afflict? Why did some causes spike at certain times, while others stayed fairly constant? And, most of all, what could a lot of separate, individual deaths, taken together, tell him about the society in which they occurred? Although Graunt wanted, as he put it in a treatise, to understand the fitness of the Country for long Life, he believed that it was in its deaths that he would find answers.

In Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer (Riverhead), Steven Johnson credits John Graunt with creating historys first life tableusing death data to predict how many years of remaining life a given person could expect. (One Dutch contemporary, a proto-actuary, took Graunts tables a bit too literally, writing confidently to his brother, You will live to until about the age of 56 and a half. And I until 55.) In fact, Graunts estimates were more of a guess than a calculation: when he wrote his treatise, in the sixteen-sixties, the Bills of Mortality didnt record peoples age at death, and they wouldnt for another half century. Yet his guesses about survival rates for different age groups turned out to be remarkably accurate in describing not just London at the time but humanity as a whole. For most of our long history as a species, our average life expectancy was capped at about thirty-five years.

Johnson calls this phenomenon the long ceiling. Analysis of ancient burial sites, of modern people living in hunter-gatherer societies, and of pre-industrial city dwellers all tell a similar story, Johnson writes: Human beings had spent ten thousand years inventing agriculture, gunpowder, double-entry accounting, perspective in painting, but these undeniable advances in collective human knowledge had failed to move the needle in one critical area.

That began to change in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In what the economist Angus Deaton has named the great escape, average life expectancies broke the ceiling: what had been a very long, flat line finally rose, at first gradually and then dramatically. Between the Spanish flu of 1918 and the coronavirus pandemic of 2020, global life expectancy doubled. These developments, Johnson argues, should be printed in newspaper headlines and hawked on street corners like the old Bills of Mortality. Extra, extra: The average human has received thousands and thousands of extra days in which to live.

Johnson tries to account for those days. Which scientific or civilizational advancements should we thank for them? He groups innovations by those which have saved millions of lives (this list begins with the AIDS cocktail, anesthesia, and angioplasty), hundreds of millions of lives (here the roster goes from antibiotics to pasteurization), and, finally, billions of lives, a small but illustrious pantheon of three: artificial fertilizer, hygienic plumbing, and vaccines.

Johnson gives a hasty tour of the stories behind a few of these life-giving innovations. He explains how centuries-old practices in China, India, and the Middle East eventually inspired a vogue for smallpox variolation among the British aristocracy in the eighteenth centuryeven then, you needed an influencer to start a trend. And he returns to the same well, or, rather, pump handle, that featured in his 2006 book, The Ghost Map, about the disease detectives who investigated a cholera outbreak in the early days of germ theory. Yet he cautions that its shortsighted to think of these advancements in terms of a few brilliant geniuses having eureka moments.

Instead, the innovations that have saved the most lives are the product of piecemeal improvements, built on networks of support and inspiration, and spread by social movements. Most were not blockbuster therapies or expensive medicines but unsexy, low-tech ideas, like water chlorination or better techniques for treating dehydration. Almost none, he points out, came from profit-seeking companies. And many were just advancements in basic bureaucracythe creation of public institutions that could systematically track health data, require that drugs be tested and regulated, or enforce simple safety measures.

The most effective changes have to do with saving the lives of children. When Graunt analyzed London deaths, he estimated that, for every hundred children conceived, about 36 of them die before they be six years old. Twenty-four more died before reaching the age of sixteen, fifteen more before turning twenty-six, and so on, the rate of attrition falling slightly with each decade until perhaps but one surviveth 76. For much of human history, our early years were so stalked by disease and infection and diarrhea that between a third and a half of us never escaped our own perilous childhoods. Especially in the long years before smallpox was eradicated, Johnson writes, being a child was to forever be on the brink of death.

And the peril was universal. Before the advent of proper hygiene and effective medicine, the children of the lite died just as often and just as early as those of the poor. The rich may even have died more often, since they could pay for the treatments of the time, which generally did them more harm than good. (Readers are given grim descriptions of the illnesses of George III and his foe George Washington, both of whom were made sicker by the medical care they received, and reminded that George III became king only because the Stuart line had ended with Queen Anne, a half century earlier. Despite her wealth and power, and despite eighteen pregnancies, only one of her children survived past the age of twoand he died at age eleven.) Extra life was one thing money could not buy.

But that equality of loss would soon change. Deaton showed that the great escape was accompanied by another trend, which is now known as the great divide. In the past couple of centuries, as changing conditions increased life expectancies within wealthy nations, average life expectancies in poorer onesthe ones bearing the brunt of imperialism, resource extraction, and disease imposed by the wealthygot shorter. Eventually, average lives lengthened around the world, narrowing the gap, but they still lengthened substantially more for some people, in some places, than for others. Of all the forms of inequality, Martin Luther King, Jr., said in 1966, by which time the divide was entrenched, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman. Even in modern American cities, people born into poor neighborhoods can expect to live as many as thirty years fewer than people who are born in affluent ones across town. And that was before the covid-19 pandemic further widened our existing gaps.

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We've Had Great Success Extending Life. What About Ending It? - The New Yorker

Back in February, the VR horror shooter Into The Darkness was first announced. Since then, eager fans have been waiting patiently for further updates. In the first of several videos to come out, the developers are releasing overview videos to share the progress with Into The Darkness.

The video series will showcase various aspects of the game to come. These can range from experimenting with the physics mechanics, combat demonstrations, and the dark corners of the world.

The first video presents the powerful double-barrel shotgun. Apparently a frequent request from hungry fans, the video displays the weapon in all of its glorious usefulness. It can be utilized as a blunt weapon to knock robotic foes down, blast deadly shots from a certain critical distance, and be held as a defensive item to fend off against aggressive adversaries. The anticipation elevates for the double-barrel shotty with the rockin music to back up the action scenes.

Into The Darkness blasts the player into the near future. Humanity is attempting immortality; in other words, recent science experiments permit the process of transferring human consciousness onto machines. As Agent Frank, youre on a mission to investigate a facility that specializes in the said process, dubbed transhumanism. As fate would have it, trouble begins to stir beyond the shadows.

With a physics-based system, Into The Darkness allows the player to mess around with the games sandbox. For one thing, you can climb and hold onto a railing with one hand while the other hand can gun down an enemy. Another example is simply breaking the glass to traverse from one window to another.

Some of its VR horror shooter gameplay is similar to Stress Level Zeros experimental VR experience, BONEWORKS. Into The Darkness seems to be more fast-paced and chaotic than the previously mentioned title (think BONEWORKS with a dash, slash, and DOOM Eternal greatest action moments). Be sure to keep a lookout for the other videos to eventually release by going to the publishers (GameBoom VR) YouTube channel here.

Are you looking forward to the next overview videos from the developers? Be sure to leave a comment down below on what special items you would like to see from future videos on Into The Darkness.

C. Anthony Rivera is a content writer from the city of Chicago. His articles and reviews have been published on Gamemite, GamingBolt, and now on The Nerd Stash. And yes, deep dish pizza is the best.

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Step 'Into The Darkness' with the Double-Barrel Shotgun Overview - The Nerd Stash