Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Intuitive physics learning in a deep-learning A.I. model

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A fascinating open source article from Piloto et al. in Nature Human Behaviour that addresses a major shortcoming of current artifician int...
Monday, November 28, 2022

The Computational Society

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The most recent issue of Trends in Cognitive Sciences presents a forum in its 25th Anniversary Series: Looking Forward. Several of the cont...
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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Wednesday, November 23, 2022

The Huberman Lab Cornucopia

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A friend mentioned enjoying a podcast on meditation from hubermanlab.com , so I listened to it, and decided to look a bit further into who A...
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Monday, November 21, 2022

MindBlog in Crypto-Land Part II - Is the crypto industry headed for oblivion?

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In late spring of this year, I was seduced by my son's having made a six hundred-fold return on an investment by virtue of being one of ...
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Friday, November 18, 2022

How focusing on individual-level solutions has led behavioral public policy astray

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MindBlog has been staying out of politics lately, but I think it worthwhile to pass on the abstract of a forthcoming article in Behavioral a...
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...
Monday, November 14, 2022

Poisoned by Twitter - Trump, Musk and Kanye

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Jaron Lanier, a computer scientist whose writing is always worth reading, has done a succinct must-read kind of piece in the NYTimes . I th...
Friday, November 11, 2022

Sleep preferentially consolidates negative aspects of human emotional memory

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The Nov. 1, 2022 issue of PNAS has a special feature on Sleep, Brain, and Cognition. A large body of research suggests that sleep benefits ...
Wednesday, November 09, 2022

The Neurobiology of long COVID

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A number of my friends have reported, having caught break thru Covid even after 3-5 vaccinations, and are having symptoms of long Covid such...
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Monday, November 07, 2022

Sadder but Wiser? Maybe Not.

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It looks like another universally accepted result of psychological research may be wrong - that depressed people have a more accurate readin...
Friday, November 04, 2022

Senescent cells targeted by anti-aging therapies may not be all bad

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Michael Irving does a brief article in New Atlas that points to work by Reyes et al. showing that some senescent od the sort that accumula...
Wednesday, November 02, 2022

Well being increases with diversity of social connections.

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From Collins et al. :  Significance The link between social connection and well-being is well-documented: Happier people tend to spend more...
Monday, October 31, 2022

Molecular markers of eventual chronic diseases of aging are higher in young adults of lower socioeconomic status.

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Sobering work from Shanahan et al. :   Significance The analysis of gene expression in peripheral whole blood of US young adults in their ...
Friday, October 28, 2022

Observing the activity of our prosocial brains

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Interesting work from Lockwood et al. , open source with nice graphics:   Highlights • Prosocial behaviors frequently involve exe...
Wednesday, October 26, 2022

A lucid exposition on non-dual awareness by James Low

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The ‘Waking Up’ app by Sam Harris has posted a series of lectures by James Low that “makes the esoteric teachings of Dzogchen—a non-dual co...
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Monday, October 24, 2022

Generative A.I. - more sociopathic than FaceBook and Twitter?

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Have a look at this article on how the sociopathic effects of Facebook and Twitter could be dwarfed by what open source generative A.I. cou...
Saturday, October 22, 2022

New Perspectives on how our Minds Work

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I want to pass on to MindBlog readers this link to a lecture I gave this past Friday (10/21/22) to the Univ. of Texas OLLI (Osher Lifelong ...
Friday, October 21, 2022

Anxiety - What is it, when is it useful, when is it not?

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The title of this post is the discussion topic for the Nov. 6 Austin Rainbow Forum, a monthly discussion group of LGBT seniors that first me...
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Facebook has no idea where it keeps our personal data.

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A fascinating article from Biddle describing the situation that occured when a court ordered Facebook to turn over information it had coll...