Friday, May 29, 2026

The World is Unraveling: A 3-Step Guide to Staying Sane & Useful

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MindBlog has now put out a series of AI assisted posts on the disintegration of the world we have known and the infusion of LLMs into our po...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2026

The Counterintuitive Need to Slow Down and Find Spaciousness

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I pass on the following edited clips from ChatGPT and Claude condensations of a conversation between Nate Hagens and Iain McGilchrist.  Whil...
Monday, May 25, 2026

Getting Gooier: How AI Is Reshaping Human Nature

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This post is the result of my back and forth interaction with Claude Sonnet 4.6 that has yielded the following summary of  Venkatesh Rao...
Thursday, May 21, 2026

Agentic AI and the next intelligence explosion

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This post is the second of two recursive returns to engage the ideas of Blaise Agüera y Arcas, which were the subject MindBlog posts on 3/13...
Tuesday, May 19, 2026

AI Is Not an Alien Intruder — It Is the Latest in a Four-Billion-Year Evolutionary Cascade of Symbiotic Transitions

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This post is the first of two recursive returns to engage the ideas of Blaise Agüera y Arcas, which were the subject MindBlog posts on 3/13/...
Sunday, May 17, 2026

The Tech Mirage: Why the U.S.-China AI Race Is Failing Us All

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I asked ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek to summarize Yi-Ling Liu's recent New York Times essay , in the form of a MindBlog post,  ...
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Activating the evolved healing mechanisms of the placebo response requires permission from a safe environment

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I want to point to an article on the placebo effect published at theconversation.com , and recommend that you read it.  I asked the four LLM...
Monday, April 27, 2026

When Execution Gets Cheap, What Remains Scarce? - The last biological moat.

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I have enjoyed reading  a recent essay by Aneesh Sathe , which I recommend you read in full. I will pass on here the equally amazing job tha...
Friday, April 24, 2026

The Refusal to Dehumanize - Rewilding Creativity

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..  I find it impossible to keep up with the prolific output stream of Indy Johar on Substack, but two recent posts ( The Refusal to Dehuman...
Wednesday, April 22, 2026

The Physiology of Agency in the Age of AI

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There is a question lurking beneath the current wave of enthusiasm about artificial intelligence that I think deserves more serious attentio...
Monday, April 20, 2026

What a self is.

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Reading Michael Pollan’s account of his meeting with Anil Seth in his recent book "A World Appears" has prompted me to write down ...
Friday, April 17, 2026

From Animal to Humans - Multimodality as a safeguard of honesty in communication and language

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I pass on the abstracts of an article by Hex et al to appear in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.  Motivated readers can obtain a PDF of the ma...
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Executive Function: Universal Capacity or Schooled Skill?

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A recent PNAS article by Kroupin and colleagues challenges one of the most widely assumed constructs in cognitive science: that “executive ...