Friday, July 04, 2025

Emotional synchrony among sports fans.(Will Elon Musk's android army be able to do this?)

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From Xygalatas et al :  Abstract Sporting events are powerful social phenomena that extend beyond the game itself, offering a unique lens ...
Wednesday, July 02, 2025

Why is jogging an antidepressant?

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I pass on this brief description by Sarah Lemprière of work by Xia et al :  Physical exercise can reduce depressive symptoms, and sever...
Monday, June 30, 2025

Global coordination of brain activity by the breathing cycle

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A fascinating review y Tort et al. that I have enjoyed reading. Motiated readers can obtain a copy of the article by emailing me.  Abstract ...
Friday, June 27, 2025

Take caution in using LLMs as human surrogates

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Gao et al. point to problems in using LLM's as surrogates for or simulating human behavior in research (motivated readers can obtain a P...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

A critique of the MIT AI and cognitive debt study - confusion of "cognitive debt" with "role confusion"

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Here I am passing on a commentary on and critique of the work pointed to by the previous MindBlog post. It was written by Venkatehs Rao in...
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Monday, June 23, 2025

MIT study - Our brains can accumulate cognitive debt by using AI for writing tasks

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I pass on the abstract of a multiauthor work from MIT. Undergrads, EEG caps on, wrote three 20-minute essays. Those who leaned on GPT-4o sh...
Monday, June 16, 2025

Rejecting blind builder and helpless witness narratives in favor of constitutive narratives

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I want to pass on this concise ChatGP4o summary of a recent piece by Venkatesh Rao  titled "Not Just a Camera, Not Just an Engine"...
Saturday, June 14, 2025

AI ‘The Illusion of Thinking’

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  I want to pass on this interesting piece by Christopher Mims in todays Wall Street Journal: A primary requirement for being a leader in ...
Friday, June 06, 2025

Benefits and dangers of anthropomorphic conversational agents

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Peter et al. offer an interesting open source essay. They ask: "should we lean into the human-like abilities, or should we aim to dehu...
Friday, May 30, 2025

Socially sensitive autonomous vehicles?

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Driving around in the Old West Austin neighborhood where I live I am increasingly spooked (the uncanny valley effect) at four-way stop signs...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Energetics and evolutionary fitness

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I pass on the first paragraph of a perspectives piece in PNAS by Vermeij et al. that gives their message more thoroughly than the paper...
Monday, May 26, 2025

Evidence of a social evaluation penalty for using AI

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 From Reif et al. (open source) , systematic observations that confirm my own experience, Significance As AI tools become increasingly prev...
Friday, May 23, 2025

A new route towards dystopia:? Sonifying tactile interactions and their underlying emotions to allow ‘social touch.’

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Our Tech-World overlords may be using work like the following from de Lagarde et al. to find ways for us to avoid requiring the evolved su...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Why does AI hinder democratization?

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Here is the abstract from the open source article of Chu et al in PNAS:  This paper examines the relationship between democratization and t...
Monday, May 19, 2025

AI is not your friend.

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I want to pass on clips from Mike Caulfield's piece in The Atlantic on how "opinionated" chatbots destroy AI's potential,...
Friday, May 16, 2025

On replacing the American establishment - the ideological battle for the soul of Trump World.

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 I want to pass on the first few paragraphs from Chaffin and Elinson's  piece in the May 10 Wall Street Journal, which give a juicy summ...
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Our human consciousness is a 'Controlled Hallucination' and AI can never achieve it.

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I want to suggest that readers have a look at an engaging popular article by Darren Orf that summarizes the ideas of Anil Seth. Seth is a n...
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Monday, May 12, 2025

How ketamine breaks through anhedonia - reigniting desire

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When chronic depression has not been relieved by behavioral therapies such as meditation or cognitive therapy ketamine is sometimes found to...