Wednesday, February 28, 2024

What Is a Society?: The Importance of Building an Interdisciplinary Perspective

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I'm passing on the abstract I just received of a forthcoming article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences that I am starting to have a look...
Monday, February 26, 2024

The "enjunkification" of our online lives

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I want to pass on two articles I've poured over several times, that describe the increasing "complexification" or "enjunk...
Friday, February 23, 2024

Using caffeine to induce flow states

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I pass on this link to an article in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (open access) and show the Highlights and Abstract of the art...
Wednesday, February 21, 2024

AI makes our humanity matter more than ever.

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I want to pass on this link to an NYTimes Opinion Guest essay by  Aneesh Raman , a work force expert at LinkedIn,  and Maria Flynn, preside...
Monday, February 19, 2024

Comparing how generative AI and living organisms generate meaning suggests future direction for AI development

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I want to pass on this open source opinion article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences by Karl Friston, Andy Clark, and other prominent figures...
Saturday, February 17, 2024

Gemini 1.5: Unlocking multimodal understanding across millions of tokens of context

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I pass on the PDF of an article from the Gemini Team at Google. Here's the abstract describing a "working memory" system vas...
Friday, February 16, 2024

An agent-based vision for scaling modern AI - Why current efforts are misguided.

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I pass on my edited clips from Venkatesh Rao’s most recent newsletter - substantially shortening its length and inserting a few definitions...
Wednesday, February 14, 2024

How long has humanity been at war with itself?

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I would like to point MindBlog readers to an article by Deborah Barsky with the title of this post. The following clip provides relevant li...
Monday, February 12, 2024

The Art of Doing Nothing

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Deep into the Juniper/Cedar pollen allergy season in Austin TX, I'm being frustrated that I have so little energy to do things. It'...
Friday, February 09, 2024

Bodily maps of musical sensations across cultures

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Interesting work from Putkinen et al. (open source) :   Significance Music is inherently linked with the body. Here, we investigated how m...
Wednesday, February 07, 2024

Historical Myths as Culturally Evolved Technologies for Coalitional Recruitment

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I pass on to MindBlog readers the abstract of a recent Behavioral and Brain Science article by Sijilmassi et al. titled "‘Our Roots Run...
Monday, February 05, 2024

Functional human brain tissue produced by layering different neuronal types with 3D bioprinting

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A very important advance by Su-Chun Zhang and collaborators at the University of Wisconsin that moves studies of nerve cells connecting in ...
Friday, February 02, 2024

Towards a Metaphysics of Worlds

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I have a splitting headache from having just watched a 27 minute long YouTube rapid fire lecture by Venkatesh Rao , given last November at ...
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...