Showing posts with label evolution/debate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evolution/debate. Show all posts
Monday, December 11, 2023

There are more living cells on Earth than stars in the universe: ~ 10^30 vs. ~ 10^22

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These numbers come from a fascinating piece by Dennis Overbye summarizing work by a team of biologists and geologists . Selected clips: A...
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Wednesday, November 08, 2023

Self-Organization: Nature's Intelligent Design

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I was to pass on this link to a talk by Clint Sprott, who initiated the Chaos and Complexity Discssion group that I was an active member of...
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, October 11, 2023

Unification of physics and biology by "Assembly Theory"

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An international collaboration of researchers  in an open source article in Nature Magazine ,  has developed a new theoretical framework tha...
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...
Friday, September 15, 2023

What we seek to save when we seek to save the world

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Yet anoather fascinating set of ideas from Venkatesh Rao that I want to save for myself by doing a MindBlog post of some clips from the pie...
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 22, 2023

Multilevel cultural evolution - new theory and practical applications

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I want to point to a exceptionally lucid and well written expostion by David Sloan Willson et al. and pass on the opening paragraphs of the...
Monday, May 08, 2023

Can a theory of events-in-time - our future history - ever be crafted?

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I first drafted this as I usually do to pass on clips that attempt to extract the core points from a fascinating brief piece by Venkatesh R...
Wednesday, April 05, 2023

The fundamentals of empathy

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Akinrinade et al. show that the neuropeptide oxytocin is responsible for emotional fear contagion, and involves the same regions of the brai...
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Friday, March 31, 2023

Humans are more than AI machines - OpenAI's chatGPT edits a MindBlog preliminary draft

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I am feeling majorly freaked out now. .. I asked ChatGPT to improve one of the draft paragraphs that I mentioned in this past Tuesday's ...
Monday, April 11, 2022

The road to our larger brains

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Bertrand et al. address the question of how and why mammals evolved large brain sizes relative to their body mass by characterizing the tim...
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Thursday, July 15, 2021

Evolutionary models of financial markets.

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Levin and Lo's introduction of a PNAS special issue on evolutionary models of financial markets is an interesting read. A few clips: ...
Wednesday, May 05, 2021

Evidence that monkeys have conscious awareness of self - they know what they saw.

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Ben-Haim et al. Disentangle perceptual awareness from nonconscious processing in rhesus monkeys   Significance Many animals perform co...
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

The case against reality

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Over the past year I've dipped into and out of Donald Hoffman's ideas several times, looking back at Geffer's article in Granta...
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Monday, March 08, 2021

Sexiest birds on the planet - Manakins have the best moves

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Elizabeth Pennisi describes reports from a recent virtual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology on the genetic und...
Friday, February 12, 2021

You've gotta watch this - A billion year journey of Earth's tectonic plates

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The article by Andrews in the New York Times describes the history of tectonic plate theory and brings into vivid focus how us humans are j...
Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Evidence that aerobic exercise reverses aging.

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Brett et al. show (in mice) that aerobic exercise rejuvenates quiescent skeletal muscle stem cells in old mice and accelerates muscle tissu...
Friday, January 10, 2020

Great graphics - a review of cerebral cortex structure/folding from mice to humans.

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I pass on this open source review article for the small number of MindBlog readers who might find it useful in their teaching. The summary ...
Friday, December 06, 2019

Same-Sex behavior in animals - a new view.

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Monk et al. offer a fresh perspective on the "problem" of how same-sex sexual behavior could have evolved. It is a problem only i...