Showing posts with label unconscious. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unconscious. 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, January 31, 2024

Thoughts on having a self - Deric's MindBlog as WebLog - January 2024

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In the spirit of the original personal WebLogs of the 1990s that morphed into Blogs that enjoyed a golden era in the 2000s, I am offering re...
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, January 23, 2023

Our different styles of thinking.

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An interesting recent article by Joshua Rothman , the ideas editor of newyorker.com, notes several recent books that describe different styl...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2022

The neurophysiology of consciousness - neural correlates of qualia

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This is a post for consciousness mavens.Tucker, Luu, and Johnson have offered a neurophyiological model of consciousness, Neurophysiological...
Friday, February 18, 2022

Illusory faces are more likely to be perceived as male than female

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Interesting observations from Wardle et al. : Despite our fluency in reading human faces, sometimes we mistakenly perceive illusory faces ...
Friday, October 15, 2021

The dark side of Eureka: Artificially induced Aha moments make facts feel true

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Fascinating observations from Laukkonen et al : Some ideas that we have feel mundane, but others are imbued with a sense of profundity. We ...
Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Useful Delusions

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I want to pass on to MindBlog readers some background information on the recent book " Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the S...
Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Five myths about consciousness

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In a perspective piece for the Washington Post Christof Koch (chief scientist and president of the Allen Institute of Brain Science) does a...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Implicit racial bias is preserved by historical roots of social environments.

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Payne et al. note that geographic differences in implicit racial bias correlate with the number of slaves in those areas in 1860. Signifi...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

Upstairs/ Downstairs in our Brain - Who (or what) is running our show?

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I want to pass on to MindBlog readers the lecture notes and slides from a talk I gave yesterday to "NOVA" - one of five senior l...
Friday, February 02, 2018

Mental autonomy - developing a ‘culture of consciousness’.

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One of MindBlog's threads has been presentation and discussion of work on the default mode network of our brains that mediates our mind ...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

An essay on the real problem of consciousness.

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For those of you who are consciousness mavens, I would recommend having a glance at Anil Seth’s essay , which does a clear headed descriptio...
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Race based biases in deception judgements.

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From Lloyd et al. : In six studies (N = 605), participants made deception judgments about videos of Black and White targets who told trut...