Deric's MindBlog

This blog reports new ideas and work on mind, brain, behavior, psychology, and politics - as well as random curious stuff. (Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column.)

Thursday, March 05, 2026

Empathy as a Brain Rhythm: Orexin, Theta Oscillations, and Prosocial Behavior

(The following is the final installment of a series of three posts on using ChatGPT to assist in the generation of MindBlog posts. I think ...

A MindBlog-ready ChatGPT synthesis

This post continues from the previous one to show ChatGPT's response to my prompt "Let's go with the empathy / orexin paper fo...

Will Deric’s Mind Blog be firing Deric soon? Is AI is doing his job better?

The short answer to both questions is yes and no. I am finding that ChatGPT 5.2 ($20/month version) will scan the TOCs (tables of contents...

Monday, February 23, 2026

The geometries of change and the value of being human

I pass on and also archive for myself the following three ChatGPT 5.2 summaries of three recent Johar essays: Summary of The Geometries of ...

Friday, February 20, 2026

Changing our systems of governance

I have found Johar's essay From Power Diagrams to Settlement-Construction: What we may be missing about the New Right to be worth sever...

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

New Ferality - Seeking new ways of being wild in new nature

This post is to archive this link to a recent Venkatesh Rao essay, and also pass on condensations of its main ideas done by Google Gemini a...

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