Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Meta-Learned Models of Cognition

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I pass on the text of a recent email from Behavioral and Brain Sciences inviting commentary on an article by Binz et al.  I am beginning to ...
Monday, November 27, 2023

The feasibility of artificial consciousness through the lens of neuroscience

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Some interesting perspectives from Aru, Larkum, and Shine in Trends in Neurosciences. Motivated readers can obtain a copy of the article...
Sunday, November 26, 2023

Religious wars in the tech industry.

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In this post I continue to use MindBlog as my private reference library to put down essential ideas I want to hang onto by extracting releva...
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Sunday, November 19, 2023

AI is infusing our daily lives. Is it an existential threat?

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As AI is being subtly melded into our daily lives by the Google, Apple, and Microsoft clouds there is continuing debate over whether it is o...
Friday, November 10, 2023

Personalized chatbots and wearable AI devices for melding AI with our everyday lives

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Personalized GPTs are here, but apparently not yet at the level of consumers like myself who don't want to do coding. I've been look...
Wednesday, November 08, 2023

Self-Organization: Nature's Intelligent Design

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I was to pass on this link to a talk by Clint Sprott, who initiated the Chaos and Complexity Discssion group that I was an active member of...
Monday, November 06, 2023

Visual event segmentation alters higher-level thought.

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An interesting piece of work from Ongchoco et al. :   Significance Numbers can be unexpectedly powerful. Suppose you must provide the last...
Friday, November 03, 2023

How our genes support our illusory selves - the "Baldwin effect"

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I have been thinking about giving more explanation of a paragraph from my Oct. 25 post, A Materialist's Credo : Modern neuroscience ha...
Wednesday, November 01, 2023

David Brooks on "What is a Person?"

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David Brooks has an astounding ability to simplify and present important ideas. I pass on a few clips from Chapter 5  - titled "What is...
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Monday, October 30, 2023

MindBlog's first talk therapy session with a bot.

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 I go to https://pi.ai/talk,  and......   Hey there, great to meet you. I’m Pi, your personal AI. My goal is to be useful, friendly and fun....
Friday, October 27, 2023

Our Baysean Brain and the Placebo Effect

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I'm passing on a few clips that give the take home message from a recent NYTimes piece by Haravard Medical School's Ted Kaptchuk, w...
Wednesday, October 25, 2023

A Materialist's Credo

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This post passes on a recent effort to put down some basic ideas in as few words as I can manage. A Materialist’s Credo In the beginning was...