Friday, December 30, 2022

The pitfalls of defining neural correlates of brain functions

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Rust and Le Doux do a useful brief opinion piece from which I pass on two clips, and recommend you read the whole open source text. ...ne...
Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Wormholes in quanturm computers

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I pass on this link to a YouTube video sent out by the Chaos and Complex Systems Discussion group at the University of Wisconsin. Totally f...
Monday, December 26, 2022

Rigorous study does not find that exercise and mindfulness training improve cognitive function in older adults.

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Wow, here is a study by Lenze et al. - not confirming the results of numerous other less rigorous studies reported in MindBlog posts - that...
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Friday, December 23, 2022

A smart phone intervention that enhances memory in older adults.

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Martin et al.  offer an open source article that describes a smartphone intervention that enhances real-world memory and promotes differenti...
Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Neurocomputational evidence that conflicting prosocial motives guide distributive justice

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A fascinating perspective and analysis from Hu et al. who show that three prosocial motives (fairness, harm aversion, and rank reversal ave...
Monday, December 19, 2022

Can we move beyond social media's current destruction of civil society?

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I strongly recommend that you read Ezra Klein's NYTimes essay on Twitter. He begins by noting that the metaphor of Twitter as a global ...
Friday, December 16, 2022

The dawn of mediocre computing.

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This post is a followup on MindBlog's 12/07/22 post on OpenAI's ChatGPT essay generating system. It was mentioned in Venkatesh Rao...
Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Individuals prefer to harm their own group rather than help an opposing group

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From Gershon and Fridman :   Significance Understanding the principles guiding decisions in intergroup conflicts is essential to recognizi...
Monday, December 12, 2022

Autism attenuates the perception of the mind-body divide

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A fascinating piece of work from Berent et al. :   Significance Across cultures, people consider the mind as ethereal, distinct from the b...
Friday, December 09, 2022

How modern human brains are different from those of other hominids and chimps.

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Work pointed to in the previous post continues to add to the list of behaviors once presumed to be unique to humans that have now been foun...
Wednesday, December 07, 2022

OpenAI’s ChatGPT answers some questions from MindBlog

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Given a recent posting in which I played with the DALL-E 2 A.I. system that generates images when you tell it what you want to see, I was...
Monday, December 05, 2022

A collection of animal stories

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I've accumulated several items on animal behaviors in my list of potential post subjects, and have decided to simply pass them on to all...
Friday, December 02, 2022

The Z-Library Kerfuffle and the whack-a-mole problem

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Several months ago a friend told me about the Z-Library that he was using to download recently published fiction to evaluate candidates for ...
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...