Showing posts with label attention/perception. Show all posts
Showing posts with label attention/perception. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 05, 2025

On feeling emptiness...

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Yet another clip from my personal journal... While going through items selected from my multiple input streams for more careful attention I ...
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...
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...
Friday, July 26, 2024

Nuances of non-dual awareness - progress after "waking up" ?

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I want to share clips from a recent exchange at the Waking Up Community that I found very useful.  "Sam,":who is mentioned severa...
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...
Monday, March 18, 2024

The Physics of Non-duality

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 I want to pass on this lucid posting by "Sean L" of Boston to the community.wakingup.com site : The physics of nonduality In thi...
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Friday, February 23, 2024

Using caffeine to induce flow states

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I pass on this link to an article in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (open access) and show the Highlights and Abstract of the art...
Monday, February 19, 2024

Comparing how generative AI and living organisms generate meaning suggests future direction for AI development

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I want to pass on this open source opinion article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences by Karl Friston, Andy Clark, and other prominent figures...
Friday, February 09, 2024

Bodily maps of musical sensations across cultures

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Interesting work from Putkinen et al. (open source) :   Significance Music is inherently linked with the body. Here, we investigated how m...
Friday, January 05, 2024

Capturing non-dual reality in language

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For my own future reference and for MindBlog readers interested in my previous MindBlog posts on non-duality,  I want to pass on the start o...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Meta-Learned Models of Cognition

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I pass on the text of a recent email from Behavioral and Brain Sciences inviting commentary on an article by Binz et al.  I am beginning to ...
Monday, November 06, 2023

Visual event segmentation alters higher-level thought.

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An interesting piece of work from Ongchoco et al. :   Significance Numbers can be unexpectedly powerful. Suppose you must provide the last...
Friday, November 03, 2023

How our genes support our illusory selves - the "Baldwin effect"

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I have been thinking about giving more explanation of a paragraph from my Oct. 25 post, A Materialist's Credo : Modern neuroscience ha...
Wednesday, November 01, 2023

David Brooks on "What is a Person?"

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David Brooks has an astounding ability to simplify and present important ideas. I pass on a few clips from Chapter 5  - titled "What is...
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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 ...