Showing posts with label acting/choosing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label acting/choosing. Show all posts
Monday, March 03, 2025

The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?

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A brief review by Rachel Nuwer in the Scientific American points to an article by Zheng and Meister with the title of this post (motivated ...
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Friday, February 21, 2025

How complex brains and cognition first arose

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I have received a draft of an upcoming paper in Behavioral and Brain Sciences by Coombs and Trestman titled "A Multi-Trait Embodied Fra...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Everything we experience comes from inside

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I pass on this cryptic paragraph from my personal journal: Everything we experience is coming from inside us - our illusion of having a self...
Wednesday, January 08, 2025

Predictive coding for social perception

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Rittershofer et al. introduce a special issue of Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews titled " Neurobiology of Social Interactions A...
Monday, December 09, 2024

An AI framework for neural–behavioral modeling

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Work of Sani et al. (open access) is reported in the Oct. 2024 issue of Nature Neuroscience. From the editor's summary: Neural dynamics...
Saturday, December 07, 2024

Battle of the Bots - AI gets creative with Brain Hacks

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This post is meant to archive my recent exercise of asking  ChatGPT 4o, Perplexity , Gemini+ advanced ,  and Anthropic  (which does not off...
Friday, November 29, 2024

MindBlog's Brain Hacks

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Introspective awareness and modulation of both ancient and more recently evolved aspects of our cognition: Brain Hack #1 -The reptilian brai...
Sunday, September 29, 2024

Tokens of sanity

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-Being a calm space in which nothing can hurry -An animal body that pretends to be human -Dissociating from the word cloud and...
Monday, August 26, 2024

The brain simulates actions and their consequences during REM sleep

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During REM sleep our brains make up and work though simulated scenarios, while putting our bodies into paralysis so we don't thrash abou...
Wednesday, July 10, 2024

From nematodes to humans a common brain network motif intertwines hierarchy and modularity.

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Pathak et al. (abstract below) suggest the evolved pattern they describe may apply to information processing networks in general, in partic...
Friday, December 15, 2023

The ebb and flow of physical and cognitive fatigue

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Matthews et al. Have investigated moment-to-moment fluctuations in fatigue using behavioral experiments and computational modeling to offer...
Monday, October 23, 2023

Architectural experience influences the processing of others’ body expressions

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An open source article by Presti et al :   Significance The motor system has been recognized as a fundamental neural machinery for spatial...
Monday, October 09, 2023

What your brain is doing after the light turns green.

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 Gandhi and collaboratores show that if you step out to cross the street without looking right or left the neural activity in the brain is ...
Monday, September 25, 2023

Emergent analogical reasoning in large language models

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Things are moving very fast in AI development. From Webb et al : The recent advent of large language models has reinvigorated debate over ...
Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Chemistry that regulates whether we stay with what we're doing or try something new

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Sidorenko et al. demonstrate that stimulating the brain's cholinergic and noradrenergic systems enhances optimal foraging behaviors in ...
Monday, August 28, 2023

A shared novelty-seeking basis for creativity and curiosity

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I pass on the abstract of a target article having the title of this post, sent to me by Behavioral and Brain Science. I'm reading throug...
Wednesday, July 26, 2023

A MindBlog paragraph on non-dual awareness massaged by Bard and ChatGPT-4

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This post is using MindBlog to archive a further example example of the sort shown in Monday’s post ...of GPT bots editing  a paragraph I wr...
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Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Turing, von Neumann, and the computational architecture of biological machines

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I pass on the abstract of a PNAS perspective article by Hashim M. Al-Hashimi (motivated readers can obtain a PDF of the article from me). ...
Monday, May 15, 2023

People who talk too much

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I host a monthly discussion group in Austin TX, The Austin Rainbow Forum, that meets at 2 pm on the first Sunday of every month to consider ...
Friday, May 12, 2023

Virality

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This post is the ninth and final installment of my passing on to both MindBlog readers and my future self my idiosyncratic selection of clip...