Showing posts with label brain plasticity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brain plasticity. Show all posts
Monday, April 29, 2024

An expanded view of human minds and their reality.

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I want to pass on this recent essay by Venkatesh Rao in its entirety, because it has changed my mind on agreeing with Daniel Dennett that t...
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Brain changes over our lifetime.

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This video from The Economist is one of the best I have seen for a popular audience. Hopefully the basic facts presented are slowly seeping ...
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Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Fundamentally changing the nature of war.

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I generally try to keep a distance from 'the real world' and apocalyptic visions of what AI might do, but I decided to pass on some ...
Wednesday, March 06, 2024

Deep learning models reveal sex differences in human functional brain organization that are replicable, generalizable, and behaviorally relevant

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Ryali et al. do a massive analysis that argues strongly against the notion of a continuum in male-female brain organization, and underscore...
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Monday, February 12, 2024

The Art of Doing Nothing

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Deep into the Juniper/Cedar pollen allergy season in Austin TX, I'm being frustrated that I have so little energy to do things. It'...
Monday, February 05, 2024

Functional human brain tissue produced by layering different neuronal types with 3D bioprinting

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A very important advance by Su-Chun Zhang and collaborators at the University of Wisconsin that moves studies of nerve cells connecting in ...
Sunday, January 21, 2024

Titles and URLs for key MindBlog posts on selves

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I pass on a chronological list of titles and URLs of MindBlog posts assembled in preparation for a video chat with a European MindBlog reade...
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

If psychedelics heal, how do they do it?

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I pass on from a recent issue of PNAS this informative "News Feature" article by Carolyn Beans (open source).  It discusses stud...
Sunday, December 03, 2023

A flash of clarity on what current LLMs can and can not do. An AI apocalypse does not appear to be eminent...

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In his most recent newsletter, Venkatesh Rao pulls up a twitter thread he wrote in 2017 making what he calls an ontological distinction bet...
Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Neuron–astrocyte networks might perform the core computations performed by AI transformer blocks

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Fascinating ideas from Kozachkov et al. Their text contains primers on Astrocyte biology and the transformers found in AI Generative Pre-tr...
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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Monday, July 24, 2023

The evolution of transhuman forms - a MindBlog paragraph edited by GPT implementations

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In this post I am documenting the final result of passing a paragraph I wrote on future human evolution through a number of different GPT (g...
Friday, July 07, 2023

A meta-analysis questions the cognitive benefits of physical activity.

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I give up. If anything was supposed to have been proven I would have thought it would be that exercise has a beneficial effect on brain hea...
Friday, June 02, 2023

Gender inequality is associated with differences between the brains of men and women

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Sobering but not surprising analysis by Jugman et al. :   Significance Gender inequality is associated with worse mental health and academ...
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Friday, April 07, 2023

Our heartbeat shapes our perception of time (and a comparison of how ChatGPT and Google Bard condense an account of work showing this)...

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Ellen Barry has done a review of work by Sadeghi et al , as well as others, on how heart-brain interactions influence our perception of tim...
Monday, March 13, 2023

Blood-derived signals as potent drivers of both age-related brain dysfunction and brain rejuvenation.

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 An open source review from Bieri et al. has some nice graphics and tables summarizing the varieties of pro-aging and rejuvenating interven...
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Monday, February 27, 2023

Possible mechanism of psychedelic therapeutic effects

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From the latest issue of Science Magazine:   The mechanism underlying psychedelic action Psychedelic compounds promote cortical structura...
Monday, February 20, 2023

Fundamentally rethinking what a mind is and how a brain works.

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The February Issue of Trends in Cognitive Science has an open source Opinions article from Lisa Feldman Barrett and collaborators that sugg...
Friday, December 30, 2022

The pitfalls of defining neural correlates of brain functions

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Rust and Le Doux do a useful brief opinion piece from which I pass on two clips, and recommend you read the whole open source text. ...ne...
Monday, December 26, 2022

Rigorous study does not find that exercise and mindfulness training improve cognitive function in older adults.

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Wow, here is a study by Lenze et al. - not confirming the results of numerous other less rigorous studies reported in MindBlog posts - that...
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