Showing posts with label deric. Show all posts
Showing posts with label deric. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 04, 2023

Anthropic Claude's version of my writing on the Mind

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This post describes the first of my personal encounters with AI  that has left me completely in awe of its capabilities. Since 1993 I have b...
Monday, September 11, 2023

Glance at Deric's MindBlog only once in a while? Try a dynamic view in the right column.

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  I find this mosaic view most engaging. I suspect Blogger (owned by Google) is using its algorithms to cherrypick the most interesting or ...
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...
Monday, July 17, 2023

MindBlog's reading list.

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I've decided to pass on links to articles I have found worthwhile reading , realizing that I am not going to have time to frame their id...
Saturday, June 10, 2023

How do we define spirituality and what it’s role is in our daily lives?

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This post is primarily directed to Austin TX people who will be attending the Sunday 2 p.m. July 2 meeting of the Austin Rainbow Forum that ...
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Wednesday, May 10, 2023

MindBlog paragraphs bloviating on the nature of the self ask Google Bard and Chat GPT 4 for help

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I can’t resist passing on this example of checking out what Google Bard and OpenAI’s Chat GPT-4 might do with some of my opaque paragraphs. ...
Friday, February 24, 2023

MindBlog picks some of its favorite posts on defining what a self is…

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The following links are from a recent scan of what pops up if I click on items in ‘Selected MindBlog Categories’ in the right column of this...
Friday, January 20, 2023

A quick MindBlog riff on what a self is....

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Spilling out what I was thinking at breakfast this morning, deciding to fire it off, probably incomprehensible to most readers, perhaps to a...
Monday, January 02, 2023

Enlightenment, Habituation, and Renewal - Or, Mindfulness as the opiate of the thinking classes?

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This New Year’s post is directed to the small number of MindBlog readers who might be sympathetic to some of my private random rants. Perha...
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Friday, November 25, 2022

The non-duality industry as a panacea for the anxieties of our times?

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One of MindBlog's subject threads is meditation, and some recent posts have dealt with characterizing non-dual awareness (to find these,...
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Monday, September 12, 2022

Non-duality as a platform for experiencing daily life.

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I pass on abstracted edited clip from a recent podcast conversation between Sam Harris and M.I.T philosopher Kierna Setiya on “Philosophy an...
Monday, June 06, 2022

I am not my problem

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An explanation of the strange title of this post: Sometimes a new idea spontaneously appears from nowhere as I am waking in the morning. T...
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Saturday, May 21, 2022

Mozart and Brahms Piano Trios at an 80th birthday house concert

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This post falls in the 'random curious stuff' category mentioned under MindBlog's title. On May 15, one day before my 80th birth...
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Monday, February 07, 2022

MindBlog is 16 years old... It's first post: "Dangerous Ideas"

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I repeat MindBlog's first post... of ideas that are now considered more commonplace than dangerous. Edge.org soldiers on, but its '...
Saturday, May 22, 2021

I owe my soul to the company store (Google).

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As I pass through my 79th birthday I offer a cathartic rant - without worrying about whether its parts cohere: I am the white collar equiv...
Monday, March 22, 2021

Points on having a self and free will.

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 A recent podcast by Sam Harris summarizing his ideas on the question of whether we have free will motivates me to do a further summary her...
Wednesday, February 17, 2021

MindBlog Outage

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Greetings from Austin Texas, where I live. Winter storm Texas can't handle. Third day of massive power outage, looks like at least one m...
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Friday, February 05, 2021

MindBlog's 15th birthday

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Mindblog has been chugging along for 15 years, it's contents reflecting what I find interesting and am reading about at the moment. It s...
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Monday, July 27, 2020

Dynamic Views of MindBlog

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In my review of old blog posts I've come across mention of a link I placed at the top right corner os this page... Dynamic Views of Mind...