Monday, September 07, 2026

The moral weight of Human - AI interactions

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I am passing on a document prepared for a meeting of the Chaos and Complex Systems discussion group at the University of Wisconsin Madison. ...
Friday, September 04, 2026

A Theory of Cuteness as Developmental Investment

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I pass on the abstract of an upcoming article by Alexis Garsmeur and Nicolas Baumard in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Motivated readers can...
Wednesday, September 02, 2026

Transcranial focused ultrasound for identifying the neural substrate of conscious perception

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From Freeman et al. at MIT, a pie in the sky advertisement for a potential tool that has regulatory hurdles to clear. Great news if things ...
Tuesday, September 01, 2026

Gennady Lukinykh Reflection

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 This is the last of four videos on Contemporary Russian composers.    

Gennady Lukinykh Romance

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This is the third of four videos I am postings on contemporary Russian piano composers. Gennady Lukinykh (b. 1965) is a composer of romances...

Nikolai Sheiko Miniatures "Instant"

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This is the second in a series of four videos I am posting on contemporary Russian piano composers. Nikolai Sheiko (1938-2023) was a Sovi...

Nikolai Sheiko Prelude Op. 9

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  As I mentioned in my July 27 post , I've been obtaining PDFs of music scores written by contemporary Russian piano composers who fur...
Monday, August 31, 2026

Deric, MindBlog, and exiting the miasma of AI integration

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A relentless steady infusion of AI into our daily lives - sometimes optional, often not - is being carried out to 'improve' our da...
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Friday, August 28, 2026

Can nondual awareness become a civic technology?

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A web search suggests that nondual awareness has developed a substantial digital ecosystem. Sam Harris’s secular Waking Up app claims milli...
Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Curiosity shapes brain-like architectures and functions

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From Poli et al: Abstract:  How does complex cognition emerge from simpler underlying processes? We show that two components are sufficient:...
Monday, August 24, 2026

An AI tool that claims to pick the top 1% of the most original and valid preprints

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Passing on  links on AI choosing research work work judged to be most original and valid: From Naddaf's commentary on "QED Science...
Friday, August 21, 2026

MindBlog's Book-Abstraction Series (2006–2026)

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During the 20 years of this blog I have several times abstracted the contents of new and interesting books in a series of posts. I asked bot...
Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Frictionless Connection, Atomized Lives

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Two recent New York Times pieces published in the same issue describe different aspects of what may be the same large social transition. Jes...
Monday, August 17, 2026

Nondualism versus the Nation-State

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Nathan Gardels, writing in Noema " From The Trap Of Geopolitics To A Geo-Civilizational Paradigm ",  argues that the nation-state...
Friday, August 14, 2026

How AI Changes Everything - The Centaur Era

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A decade ago, AlphaGo dropped a stone on the board that no human Go master would have played — DeepMind put the odds at one in ten thousand....
Wednesday, August 12, 2026

The Vanishing Compass: When No Faction Looks Like the Good Guys

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In his final New York Times column (8/8/2026) , Ross Douthat — departing for CBS's 60 Minutes — offers a striking reversal from his us...
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Monday, August 10, 2026

MindBlog's Intellectual History, 2006–2026

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[Introductory note: I had MindBlog's Google Blogger account download to my M4 MacMini the entire corpus of Deric's MindBlog from 200...
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Friday, August 07, 2026

Reflections on The Predictive Self.

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I pass on another interaction with ChatGPT 4o that has amazed me, Below  is my prompt, followed by its response. (Anthropic Claude.ai, Per...