Monday, July 31, 2023

The visible gorilla.

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A staple of my lectures in the 1990s was showing the ‘invisible gorilla’ video, in which viewers were asked to count the number of times th...
Friday, July 28, 2023

Unnarratability -The Tower of Babel redux - where have all the common narratives gone?

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I pass on some clips from Venkatesh Rao's recent Ribbonfarm Studio posting. . Perspectives like his make me feel that one's most eff...
Wednesday, July 26, 2023

A MindBlog paragraph on non-dual awareness massaged by Bard and ChatGPT-4

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This post is using MindBlog to archive a further example example of the sort shown in Monday’s post ...of GPT bots editing  a paragraph I wr...
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Monday, July 24, 2023

The evolution of transhuman forms - a MindBlog paragraph edited by GPT implementations

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In this post I am documenting the final result of passing a paragraph I wrote on future human evolution through a number of different GPT (g...
Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Proxy Failure is an Inherent Risk in Goal-Oriented Systems

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I will pass on the title and abstract of another article to appear in Behavioral and Brain Science for which reviewers comments are being so...
Monday, July 17, 2023

MindBlog's reading list.

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I've decided to pass on links to articles I have found worthwhile reading , realizing that I am not going to have time to frame their id...
Friday, July 14, 2023

‘Adversarial’ search for neural basis of consciousness yields first results

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Finkel does a summary of the first round of results of an 'adversarial colloboration' funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundat...
Wednesday, July 12, 2023

The True Threat of Artificial Intelligence

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I would recommend having a read through Evgeny Morozov's piece in the NYTimes as an antidote to Marc Adreessen's optimistic vision ...
Monday, July 10, 2023

Inheritance of social status - stability in England from 1600 to 2022.

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From historical records Clarks demonstrates (open source) strong persistence of social status across family trees over 400 years, in spite ...
Friday, July 07, 2023

A meta-analysis questions the cognitive benefits of physical activity.

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I give up. If anything was supposed to have been proven I would have thought it would be that exercise has a beneficial effect on brain hea...
Wednesday, July 05, 2023

Why music training slows cognitive aging

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A team of Chinese collaborators has reported experiments in the Oxford academic journal Cerebral Cortex titled "Functional gradients i...
Monday, July 03, 2023

What Babies Know from zero to 1 year - core systems of knowledge

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The journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences has sent out to reviewers the précis of a book, "What Babies Know" by Elizabeth S. Spelk...
Friday, June 30, 2023

Managing the risks of AI in pragmatic ways.

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I want to pass on the final paragraphs of a recent commentary by Venkatesh Rao on the tragedy of the Titan submersible, which was a consequ...
Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Mechanisms that link psychological stress to the exacerbation of gut inflammation.

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Schneider et al. describe one mechanism by which psychological stress deteriorates our health  -  the enteric nervous system relays psycho...
Monday, June 26, 2023

The vagus nerve, heart rate variability, and subjective wellbeing - a MindBlog self experiment

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In this post I pass on to MindBlog readers a NYTimes article by Christina Caron that has been republished several time by the newspaper. It...
Friday, June 23, 2023

Why AI Will Save The World

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I want to pass on the following text of a Marc Adreeessen substack post . This is because my usual extracting of small clips of text to give...