Personal Life Updates and Reading Notes

This week we’re going over what AI can’t “afford” to do that the human brain can! Next week we will cover more on the “neuroscience” (actually just programming) of AI, as well as the ecological impacts. No need to sit tight, this week we’re sensing, feeling, and moving through the communal Schauer as a collective to spite some *very much* artificial intelligence. 

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Book Club:

For information about my book club, as well as cost, schedule, and additional learning opportunities, please visit my Substack, linked below. 

The outline, as well as the platform it will be hosted on - likely Patreon (not Substack, even though I do know the platform can host book clubs) will go up on my Substack at noon PST on Wednesday, September 10. 

I hope you all can join, I am so beyond excited to read and share with you all!

My Substack:  https://substack.com/@sarahschauer?utm_source=user-menu

Book Club Book:

Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Makes a Fuller, Better Life - Shigehiro Oishi, PhD

Resources: 

Your Brain Instantly Sees What You Can Do, AI Still Can’t

https://neurosciencenews.com/human-ai-visual-encoding-29279/

The Human Brain Doesn’t Learn, Think or Recall Like an AI. Embrace the Difference

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-07-09/human-brain-artificial-intelligence-model

Mind Brain Lecture: Neuroscientist Anthony Zador on the Future of AI and the Brain

https://news.stonybrook.edu/university/mind-brain-lecture-neuroscientist-anthony-zador-on-the-future-of-ai-and-the-brain/

• Don’t agree with this guys aim or enthusiasm, but his opinion is revealing

The Posterior Parietal Area V6A: An Attentional-Modulated Visuomotor Region Involved in the Control of Reach-to-Grasp Action

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763422003128

Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation - Christopher Kemp

Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 

Tech Agnostic - Greg M. Epstein

The Order of Time - Carlo Rovelli 

Additional Links

The Huntington Library & Gardens

 https://www.huntington.org

Madeline Garden & Bistro

https://www.instagram.com/madeline_garden/?hl=en

Photoskin: Illuminating Body Gloss 

• Glistening “body oil”

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