Wednesday, June 24, 2026

What six AI models do and don’t know about me

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This post (for blogging and AI nerds) is the result of choosing an article by Noah Smith  from my daily input stream to actually read throug...
Monday, June 22, 2026

Future-Capable: Curiosity, Adaptability, and Kindness in the Age of AI

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I want to pass on the following edited Claude 4.8 reduction of a Colin Lewis article  which I recommend you read through in full form: Curio...
Friday, June 19, 2026

Boredom can be Good for You...

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Embracing boredom can calm the brain.... I pass on a science-for-the-general-public  Neuroscience News summary of an  article from The Conve...
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

When the Self Dissolves, the Precuneus Goes Quiet: A Rigorous Test of Meditation’s “Many-to-(n)One” Continuum

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 A recurring question on this blog is how much of what we take to be fixed about experience—time, space, agency, the bounded self—is actual...
Monday, June 15, 2026

A dimmer switch for reward: the vagus sets the gain

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In a Trends in Neurosciences Article Wang, Liu, and Bai, simplify and summarize the extensive experiments of Onimus, Arrivet and Gangarossa...
Friday, June 12, 2026

Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees

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From Bhambore et al. , in the June 4 issue of Science Magazine:  Editor’s summary Recent research has revealed that bumble bees are much mo...
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Cleaning our brains during deep sleep

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I monitor my sleep both with the Oura Ring and the Apple watch, and have observed that my mental clarity and feeling rested on waking positi...
Monday, June 08, 2026

AI construed as a brilliant friend...Claude's New Constitution

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Colin Lewis, AI Research Scientist and Developer, has written a Substack essay on Anthropic Claude's New Constitution which deserves yo...
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/...