Monday, January 30, 2023

How sleep shapes what we remember and forget.

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I have found monitoring the quality of my sleep to be a fascinating and useful activity. I use both the Oura ring and Apple watch to monit...
Friday, January 27, 2023

MindBlog's 2010 recital and lecture in Istanbul

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I've been meandering back over old MindBlog posts and found an orphaned .mov file that I've reposted to my YouTube channel, quite a...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

The Evolution of Peace

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I pass on the abstract of an article by Luke Glowacki that has been submitted to the network of Behavioral and Brain Science reviewers who m...
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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Friday, January 20, 2023

A quick MindBlog riff on what a self is....

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Spilling out what I was thinking at breakfast this morning, deciding to fire it off, probably incomprehensible to most readers, perhaps to a...
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Mindful attention enhances brain network control and uncouples past from the present

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Zhou et al. (open source) do an interesting experiment on mindfulness and brain network control:   Significance Practicing mindfulness he...
Monday, January 16, 2023

COVID-19 and brain aging

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Over the Christmas and New Year's holidays I was hit first by a mild Covid infection that lasted only a few days (I've had all 5 vac...
Friday, January 13, 2023

Materialism meets transcendence

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I want to pass on the URL to a PBS series by Alan Lightman that I plan to start watching as soon as I can, based on the following descripti...
Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Awe as a Pathway to Mental and Physical Health

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Reading this open source review from Maria Monroy and Dacher Keltner leaves me feeling substantially more mellow! Their abstract, followed ...
Monday, January 09, 2023

AI After Death: interactions with AI representations of the deceased

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 I want to pass on to MindBlog readers the following excellent notes that Terry Allard made to guide a discussion at the Nov. 29, 2022 sessi...
Friday, January 06, 2023

Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty

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Wow, in an article with title of this post Breznau et al. show that different research teams presented independently with the same data and...
Wednesday, January 04, 2023

A deep-learning model of prescient ideas demonstrates that they emerge from the periphery

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 The abstract of a fascinating open source article from Vicinanza et al.: Where do prescient ideas—those that initially challenge convent...
Monday, January 02, 2023

Enlightenment, Habituation, and Renewal - Or, Mindfulness as the opiate of the thinking classes?

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This New Year’s post is directed to the small number of MindBlog readers who might be sympathetic to some of my private random rants. Perha...
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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&...