Showing posts with label acting/choosing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label acting/choosing. Show all posts
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...
Friday, May 05, 2023

The Data Deluge - Dataism

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This post is the eighth installment of my passing on to both MindBlog readers and my future self my idiosyncratic selection of clips of tex...
Monday, May 01, 2023

Panpsychism and Metonymy

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This post is the seventh installment of my passing on to both MindBlog readers and my future self my idiosyncratic selection of clips of tex...
Friday, April 28, 2023

Are we living in a simulated world?

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This post is the sixth installment of my passing on to both MindBlog readers and my future self my idiosyncratic selection of clips of text...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Is the mind a reliable mirror of reality? The marriage of physics and information theory

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 This post is the fifth installment of my passing on to both MindBlog readers and my future self my idiosyncratic selection of clips of text...
Monday, April 24, 2023

Networks and Emergentism

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This post is the fourth installment of my passing on to both MindBlog readers and my future self my idiosyncratic selection of clips of tex...
Friday, April 21, 2023

Equivalence of the metaphors of the major religions and transhumanism

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This post is the third installment of my passing on to both MindBlog readers and my future self my idiosyncratic selection of clips of text ...
Wednesday, April 19, 2023

The Illusion of the Self as Humans become Gods.

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This post continues my passing on to both MindBlog readers and my future self my idiosyncratic selection of clips of text from O’Gieblyn’s b...