Friday, April 28, 2023

Are we living in a simulated world?

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This post is the sixth installment of my passing on to both MindBlog readers and my future self my idiosyncratic selection of clips of text...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Is the mind a reliable mirror of reality? The marriage of physics and information theory

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 This post is the fifth installment of my passing on to both MindBlog readers and my future self my idiosyncratic selection of clips of text...
Monday, April 24, 2023

Networks and Emergentism

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This post is the fourth installment of my passing on to both MindBlog readers and my future self my idiosyncratic selection of clips of tex...
Sunday, April 23, 2023

How does a meditation app move toward becoming a corporate behemoth?

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I've spoken highly of Sam Harris' "Waking Up" App, which now clocks me as having done 776 practice or theory sessions.  I ...
Friday, April 21, 2023

Equivalence of the metaphors of the major religions and transhumanism

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This post is the third installment of my passing on to both MindBlog readers and my future self my idiosyncratic selection of clips of text ...
Wednesday, April 19, 2023

The Illusion of the Self as Humans become Gods.

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This post continues my passing on to both MindBlog readers and my future self my idiosyncratic selection of clips of text from O’Gieblyn’s b...
Monday, April 17, 2023

Disenchantment of the world and the computational metaphors of our times.

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I am doing a second reading of Meghan O’Gieblyn’s book “Gods, Humans, Animals, Machines” and extracting clips of text that I find most inter...
Friday, April 14, 2023

Breath - Some basic facts and instructions

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I’ve enjoyed reading through James Nestor’s book “ Breath - The new science of a lost art, ”  and I tried out some of the exercises he point...
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Wednesday, April 12, 2023

The Physics of Intelligence - and LDMs (Large Danger Models)

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I want to pass on my abstracting of an interesting article by Venkatesh Rao , another instance of my using MindBlog as my personal filing sy...
Monday, April 10, 2023

If we don’t master AI, AI will master us - A brief list of articles by prominent intellectuals.

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With technology companies now choosing speed over caution in the race to develop the dominant A.I. Chatbot application,  I’m using this pos...
Friday, April 07, 2023

Our heartbeat shapes our perception of time (and a comparison of how ChatGPT and Google Bard condense an account of work showing this)...

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Ellen Barry has done a review of work by Sadeghi et al , as well as others, on how heart-brain interactions influence our perception of tim...
Wednesday, April 05, 2023

The fundamentals of empathy

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Akinrinade et al. show that the neuropeptide oxytocin is responsible for emotional fear contagion, and involves the same regions of the brai...
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Monday, April 03, 2023

Can we fight cancer in ourselves with thoughts?

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David Linden, a professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins Medical Schoo, has done an interesting piece on his own experience with a tumor ...
Friday, March 31, 2023

Humans are more than AI machines - OpenAI's chatGPT edits a MindBlog preliminary draft

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I am feeling majorly freaked out now. .. I asked ChatGPT to improve one of the draft paragraphs that I mentioned in this past Tuesday's ...