Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Thoughts on having a self - Deric's MindBlog as WebLog - January 2024

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In the spirit of the original personal WebLogs of the 1990s that morphed into Blogs that enjoyed a golden era in the 2000s, I am offering re...
Monday, January 29, 2024

Mind blog’s first 18 years - what next? A space for discussions among MindBlog readers?

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This is post number 5,537 of Deric's MindBlog, which will soon be celebrating its 18th birthday.  I started this blog on Feb. 6, 2006, i...
Friday, January 26, 2024

Tolerance of uncertainly as a key to resilience.

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As a followup to the previous post on The Neurobiology of Stress I want to point to Maggie Jackson's opinion piece in the NYTimes title...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

The Neurobiology of Stress: Vulnerability, Resilience, and Major Depression

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A valuable trove of open source articles is provided in the Special Feature section of the Dec. 5 issue of PNAS with an introductory articl...
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Sunday, January 21, 2024

Titles and URLs for key MindBlog posts on selves

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I pass on a chronological list of titles and URLs of MindBlog posts assembled in preparation for a video chat with a European MindBlog reade...
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

If psychedelics heal, how do they do it?

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I pass on from a recent issue of PNAS this informative "News Feature" article by Carolyn Beans (open source).  It discusses stud...
Monday, January 08, 2024

The Importance of Not Being Earnest

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I pass on some of the paragraphs from Rao's latest piece to archive them  for myself here on MindBlog, and to make them available to oth...
Friday, January 05, 2024

Capturing non-dual reality in language

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For my own future reference and for MindBlog readers interested in my previous MindBlog posts on non-duality,  I want to pass on the start o...
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Wednesday, January 03, 2024

Why can't robots check the box that says 'I'm not a robot'?

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Wow, Google knows EVERYTHING I am doing on my computer..... 
Monday, January 01, 2024

On shifting perspectives....

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I pass on clips from a piece in the 12/202/23 Wall Street Journal by Carlo Rovelli, the author, most recently, of ‘ White Holes: Inside the ...
Thursday, December 28, 2023

Origins of our current crises in the 1990s, the great malformation, and the illusion of race.

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I'm passing on three clips I found most striking from David Brooks, recent NYTimes Sydney awards column : I generally don’t agree with ...
Monday, December 25, 2023

Large Language Models are not yet providing theories of human language.

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 From Dentella et al. (open source): Significance The synthetic language generated by recent Large Language Models (LMs) strongly resemb...
Friday, December 22, 2023

Three common assumptions about inflammation, aging, and health that are probably wrong

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The abstract of a recent PNAS article by Thomas W. McDade (motivated readers can obtain the whole article from me):   Significance Inflam...
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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

In Search of Hardness - Protocol studies, the next crypto cycle, and the next age of the world

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I’m using this posting to save for myself some clips of text from Venkatesh Rao’s most recent piece , to continue mulling over where I place...
Monday, December 18, 2023

Traumatic Memories Are Processed as Present Experience

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Ellen Barry points to work by Perl et al. showing that different patterns of brain activity underlie sad versus traumatic autobiographical...
Friday, December 15, 2023

The ebb and flow of physical and cognitive fatigue

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Matthews et al. Have investigated moment-to-moment fluctuations in fatigue using behavioral experiments and computational modeling to offer...
Wednesday, December 13, 2023

AI is a camera, not an engine.

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Yet another brilliant essay from Venkatest Rao on how modern AI puts us into an age of exploration of computational reality. I got halfway ...
Monday, December 11, 2023

There are more living cells on Earth than stars in the universe: ~ 10^30 vs. ~ 10^22

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These numbers come from a fascinating piece by Dennis Overbye summarizing work by a team of biologists and geologists . Selected clips: A...
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Thursday, December 07, 2023

Goggle's Bard and Chat GPT-4 on using AI to explore beyond language and words...

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I show first the prompt I addressed yesterday afternoon to both Bard and ChatGPT-4.  The more nuanced response I received from Bard makes me...
Sunday, December 03, 2023

A flash of clarity on what current LLMs can and can not do. An AI apocalypse does not appear to be eminent...

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In his most recent newsletter, Venkatesh Rao pulls up a twitter thread he wrote in 2017 making what he calls an ontological distinction bet...