Monday, October 23, 2023

Architectural experience influences the processing of others’ body expressions

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An open source article by Presti et al :   Significance The motor system has been recognized as a fundamental neural machinery for spatial...
Friday, October 20, 2023

Does a "P-factor" underlie core attributes of mental health maladies?

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I want to point to an open source "Core Concepts" article in PNAS by David Adam that presents "the views of some psychiatris...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Mental problems from early life adversity passed down three generations.

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Early life adversity can result in emotional and behavioral problems throughout adulthood in both humans and mice. Battaglia et al. show th...
Monday, October 16, 2023

Using AI to find retinal biomarkers for patient sex that opthalmologists can be trained to see.

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Delavari et al. do a demonstration of using AI to find aspects of human retina images that identify whether they are male or female retinas...
Friday, October 13, 2023

Blithe Spirits and Heavy Souls

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This post is another abstracting/condensation of a recent Ventkatesh Rao essay with the title of this post (Its subtitle: ‘ Learning an exp...
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Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Unification of physics and biology by "Assembly Theory"

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An international collaboration of researchers  in an open source article in Nature Magazine ,  has developed a new theoretical framework tha...
Monday, October 09, 2023

What your brain is doing after the light turns green.

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 Gandhi and collaboratores show that if you step out to cross the street without looking right or left the neural activity in the brain is ...
Wednesday, October 04, 2023

Anthropic Claude's version of my writing on the Mind

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This post describes the first of my personal encounters with AI  that has left me completely in awe of its capabilities. Since 1993 I have b...
Monday, October 02, 2023

Fluid Fogs and Fixed Flows

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For the MindBlog readers who may have have noted my  "This is the New 'Real World' post and followed me down the rabbit hole o...
Friday, September 29, 2023

AI, a boon for science and a disaster for creatives

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The Sept. 16 issue of the Economist has two excellent articles: How artificial intelligence can revolutionise science and How scientists ar...
Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Memory for stimulus sequences unique to humans?

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Continuing the never-ending quest to find fundamental human abilities or behaviors lacking in other animals (many, like the mirror recogniti...
Monday, September 25, 2023

Emergent analogical reasoning in large language models

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Things are moving very fast in AI development. From Webb et al : The recent advent of large language models has reinvigorated debate over ...
Friday, September 22, 2023

This is the New 'Real World'

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For my own later reference, and hopefully of use to a few MindBlog readers,  I have edited, cut and pasted, and condensed from 3960 to 1933 ...
Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Chemistry that regulates whether we stay with what we're doing or try something new

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Sidorenko et al. demonstrate that stimulating the brain's cholinergic and noradrenergic systems enhances optimal foraging behaviors in ...
Monday, September 18, 2023

Does "situational awareness" in AI's large language models mean consciousness?

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The answer to that question would be no, for a number of reasons I won't go into, but Berglund et al. provide an interesting nudge in t...
Friday, September 15, 2023

What we seek to save when we seek to save the world

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Yet anoather fascinating set of ideas from Venkatesh Rao that I want to save for myself by doing a MindBlog post of some clips from the pie...
Wednesday, September 13, 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, September 11, 2023

Glance at Deric's MindBlog only once in a while? Try a dynamic view in the right column.

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  I find this mosaic view most engaging. I suspect Blogger (owned by Google) is using its algorithms to cherrypick the most interesting or ...
Friday, September 08, 2023

Open access articles on consciousness (Thomas Metzinger and others)

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I am overwhelmed by how much good stuff comes flooding into my email inbox, even after I have deleted 90% of it unopened. A newsletter from ...
Wednesday, September 06, 2023

Mapping the physical properties of odorant molecules to their perceptual characteristics.

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I pass on parts of the editor's summary and the abstract of a foundational piece of work by Lee et al. that produces a map linking odor...