Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Turing, von Neumann, and the computational architecture of biological machines

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I pass on the abstract of a PNAS perspective article by Hashim M. Al-Hashimi (motivated readers can obtain a PDF of the article from me). ...
Tuesday, June 20, 2023

The psychological illusion of "The Good Old Days"

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Mastroianni and Gilbert (open access) do a nice study illustrating that the the universal perception of our ongoing moral decline is a psyc...
Saturday, June 10, 2023

How do we define spirituality and what it’s role is in our daily lives?

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This post is primarily directed to Austin TX people who will be attending the Sunday 2 p.m. July 2 meeting of the Austin Rainbow Forum that ...
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Friday, June 09, 2023

A new place for consciousness in our understanding of the universe

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I want to point MindBlog readers to an article by Thomas Lewton that I enjoyed reading. It describes how theorists are trying to make sense...
Wednesday, June 07, 2023

Negativity drives online news consumption

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Why paying attention to the news can come close to being a receipe for clinic depression... An open source article from Robertson et al. Th...
Monday, June 05, 2023

A simple heuristic for distinguishing lie from truth

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Work by Verschuere et al. shows that a simple heuristic of only judging the level of detail in the message consistently allows people to di...
Friday, June 02, 2023

Gender inequality is associated with differences between the brains of men and women

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Sobering but not surprising analysis by Jugman et al. :   Significance Gender inequality is associated with worse mental health and academ...
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Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Constructing Self and World

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There is a strong similarity between the predictive processing brain model that has been the subject of numerous Mind Blog Posts, and the ...
Monday, May 29, 2023

To fulfill its promise, artificial intelligence needs to deepen human intelligence.

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For MindBlog readers interested in AI, I have to point to another must-read article by Ezra Klein . Below are some clips that try to communi...
Friday, May 26, 2023

When Their Idea of Liberty Is Your Idea of Death

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This post gives a snapshot of another really excellent Thomas Edsall piece , provided courtesy of Chat GPT-4, making the central points acce...
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Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Using AI to decipher words and sentences from brain scans

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Things are happening very fast in AI, as this work from Huth and his collaborators shows. Previous work has shown that speeh articulation a...
Monday, May 22, 2023

Multilevel cultural evolution - new theory and practical applications

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I want to point to a exceptionally lucid and well written expostion by David Sloan Willson et al. and pass on the opening paragraphs of the...
Friday, May 19, 2023

Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity in the Postmodern, Neoliberal Age

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I want to share with MindBlog readers the background material prepared by Austin Rainbow Forum member Daniel Owen to support our Sunday June...
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Wednesday, May 17, 2023

An evolutionary psychology perspective on the politics of leadership

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Thomas Edsall does another of his scholarly analyses, this time putting Trump as the wannabe alpha male in a larger evolutionary context. I ...
Monday, May 15, 2023

People who talk too much

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I host a monthly discussion group in Austin TX, The Austin Rainbow Forum, that meets at 2 pm on the first Sunday of every month to consider ...
Friday, May 12, 2023

Virality

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This post is the ninth and final installment of my passing on to both MindBlog readers and my future self my idiosyncratic selection of clip...
Wednesday, May 10, 2023

MindBlog paragraphs bloviating on the nature of the self ask Google Bard and Chat GPT 4 for help

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I can’t resist passing on this example of checking out what Google Bard and OpenAI’s Chat GPT-4 might do with some of my opaque paragraphs. ...
Monday, May 08, 2023

Can a theory of events-in-time - our future history - ever be crafted?

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I first drafted this as I usually do to pass on clips that attempt to extract the core points from a fascinating brief piece by Venkatesh R...
Friday, May 05, 2023

The Data Deluge - Dataism

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This post is the eighth installment of my passing on to both MindBlog readers and my future self my idiosyncratic selection of clips of tex...
Thursday, May 04, 2023

Yuval Harari's vision of the end of human history.

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I passed on a link to Harai's recent piece in The Economist in Tuesday's post , but I haven't been able to get some of his crys...