Monday, October 12, 2026

Casino culture meets the predictive brain

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Max Read has a recent sharp piece in the New York Times Magazine, "Gambling Is the Culture," that I want to pass on, along with s...
Friday, October 09, 2026

Artificial symbiotic intelligence - a future of Agents, AGI and the orchestration of many minds

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I pass on this view of our future  by  Benjamin Bratton ,  Blaise Agüera y Arcas,  and  James Manyika  in its entirety.  It deserves a caref...
Wednesday, October 07, 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 its full form: C...
Tuesday, October 06, 2026

It's a Bitter, Bitter Lesson

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 I can't resist passing this on ,  from Ethan Mollick's Substack "One Useful Thing': ...I thought that getting agents to wo...
Monday, October 05, 2026

Aging as a Continuation of development

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A framework for a more positive view of the aging brain is offered by  Fernandez et al. , in an article in the "Perspectives on Psychol...
Friday, October 02, 2026

Who Broke the World? Who are the villains?...Where do we not want to be?

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I want to point to one of Nate Hagens' "Great Simplification" essays I found interesting. Hagens lays out eight distinct ...
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

"Responsibilism" - Collectivism isn't warmth, it's obligation

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For decades, cross-cultural psychological surveys have puzzled researchers by failing to detect the East-West collectivism gap that field ex...
Monday, September 28, 2026

The depth and quality of deep sleep correlates with resilience to stress.

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I'm finding that as I grow older my resilience and recovery from stressful situations depends crucially on the depth and quality of my d...
Friday, September 25, 2026

The cortex helps organize its own disappearnce from waking consciousness

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A study using mice by Ratliff et al. identifies a sparse population of sleep-active, long-range inhibitory neurons within mouse neocortex wh...
Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behavior

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Some interesting observations reported in Neuron by Huang et al. : Highlights • Prolonged exhalation increases risky decisions by increasing...
Monday, September 21, 2026

Deeper meditation is associated with more reproducible sensory responses

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Nah et al.  do experiments suggesting that meditation depth enhances the functional signal-to-noise ratio of the brain. The study is attempt...
Friday, September 18, 2026

The agentic self: The brain learns whether action matters before deciding what to learn

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A study by Liu et al.  (open access article with interesting graphics) decomposes our “agency” into at least two computations: estimating wh...
Thursday, September 17, 2026

Regulating our subjective well being - our brain's axes of arousal, valence, and agency

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I've read several times through a daunting review article by Feldman et al.  in the July issue of Trends in Cognitive Science  titled ...
Wednesday, September 16, 2026

The deluge of articles on what consciousness is...

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This post violates sentiments I recently expressed about not using AI to generate text in MindBlog posts. After reading through or skimmin...