Showing posts with label acting/choosing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label acting/choosing. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Executive Function: Universal Capacity or Schooled Skill?

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A recent PNAS article by Kroupin and colleagues challenges one of the most widely assumed constructs in cognitive science: that “executive ...
Monday, April 13, 2026

The Default Mode Network as a Bidirectional Interface Between World and Mind

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I want to pass on the abstract of a PNAS contribution from Zhang et al. titled " Sender–receiver subdivisions of the default mode netwo...
Thursday, April 09, 2026

AI, Agency, and the Quiet Hollowing of Mind

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Reading through the article " A Rational Optimist View Of Preventing Agency Decay " is a rich experience. For readers with less pa...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

AI use can compromise our serendipity, creativity, autonomy, and sense of agency.

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I have been reading numerous articles on pitfalls of using AI, and want to point to two in particular that I highly recommend for a slow and...
Monday, March 16, 2026

The nature of intelligence and selves.

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I want to pass on the result of my extracting what I felt to be crucial chunks of text from Chapters 5 through 9 of Agüera y Arcas’s "W...
Friday, March 13, 2026

A seismic shift in our understanding of intelligence

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I've just spent the last three days reading large chunks of the remarkable book "What is Intelligence" by Agüera y Arcas. It i...
Monday, October 27, 2025

The Age of De-Skilling

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I want to pass on some selected clips from a marvelous articles by Kwame Anthony Appiah in The Atlantic titled " The Age of De-Skilling...
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Tuesday, October 21, 2025

The illusion of judgment in LLMs

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An important open source  article from Loru et al : Significance Large Language Models (LLMs) are used in evaluative tasks across domains. ...
Wednesday, October 08, 2025

Large-scale cortical functional networks are organized in structured cycles

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 Interesting work from Mats et al. (open source)  in Nature Neuroscience. It has some interesting graphics.  Their abstract: The brain seaml...
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

How Humans Work - an integrated model

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I was ruminating this morning over a number of books I have read, and decided to send the following prompt to ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, D...
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