Deric's MindBlog

This blog reports new ideas and work on mind, brain, behavior, psychology, and politics - as well as random curious stuff. (Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column.)

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Monday, August 12, 2024

Human Distinctiveness in Different Cultures

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I want to pass on a clip of text from Samuel Arbesman's recent Substack email, on the path dependence of fundamental ideas about ourselv...

Wednesday, July 03, 2024

Cumulative human culture began ~600,000 years ago, during the Middle Pleistocene

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An interesting study by Paige and Perreault : Significance Our species, Homo sapiens, occupies a uniquely diverse set of ecological habi...

Friday, May 10, 2024

Blueprint - Nicholas Christakis on the evolutionary origins of a good society

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This opinion piece by Frank Bruni in the NYTimes motivated me to download and read Nicholas Christakis' Magnum Opus “Blueprint” (very...

Friday, May 03, 2024

Can there be scientific criteria for what is moral behavior?

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I want to pass on an essay by Sam Harris updating his 2011 book "The Moral Landscape." I'm doing this mainly so that I can...

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...

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