Wednesday, May 01, 2024

How blue light regulates the body, brain, and immune system

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Here is the abstract from a PNAS perspectives article by Slominski et al.   with the title "Photo-neuro-immuno-endocrinology: How the u...
Monday, April 29, 2024

An expanded view of human minds and their reality.

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I want to pass on this recent essay by Venkatesh Rao in its entirety, because it has changed my mind on agreeing with Daniel Dennett that t...
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

The world of decentralized everything.

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Following up on my last post on the Summer of Protocols sessions , I want to pass on (again, to my future self, and possibly a few techie Mi...
Monday, April 08, 2024

New protocols for uncertain times.

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I want to point to a project launched by Venkatest Rao and others last year: “The Summer of Protocols.”  Some background for this project ca...
Friday, April 05, 2024

Our seduction by AI’s believable human voice.

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 I want to point to an excellent New Yorker article by Patrick House titled  “ The Lifelike Illusion of A.I. ”  The article strikes home for...
Wednesday, April 03, 2024

Neurons help flush waste out of our brains during sleep

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More information ( summarized here ) on what is happening in our brains while we sleep is provided by Jiang-Xie et al. ,, who show that acti...
Monday, April 01, 2024

When memories get complex, sleep comes to their rescue

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Here I point to a PNAS article by Lutz et al. and a commentary on the work by Schechtman. Here is the Lutz. et al. abstract: Significance R...
Friday, March 29, 2024

How communication technology has enabled the corruption of our communication and culture .

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I pass on two striking examples from today’s New York Times, with few clips of text from each: A.I.-Generated Garbage Is Polluting Our Cultu...
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Brain changes over our lifetime.

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This video from The Economist is one of the best I have seen for a popular audience. Hopefully the basic facts presented are slowly seeping ...
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Monday, March 25, 2024

If you want to remember a landscape be sure to include a human....

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Fascinating observations by Jimenez et al.   on our inherent human drive to understand our vastly social world...(and in the same issue of P...
Friday, March 22, 2024

The magic of spurious correlations...

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 I have to pass on this link , sent to me by my techie son, Jonathan:  
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Fundamentally changing the nature of war.

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I generally try to keep a distance from 'the real world' and apocalyptic visions of what AI might do, but I decided to pass on some ...
Monday, March 18, 2024

The Physics of Non-duality

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 I want to pass on this lucid posting by "Sean L" of Boston to the community.wakingup.com site : The physics of nonduality In thi...
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Thursday, March 14, 2024

An inexpensive Helium Mobile 5G cellphone plan that pays you to use it?

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This is a followup to the previous post describing my setting up a G5 hotspot on Helium’s decentralized 5G infrastructure that earns MOBILE ...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

MindBlog becomes a 5G cellular hotspot in the the low-priced ‘People’s Cell Phone Network’ - Helium Mobile

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I am writing this post, as is frequently the case, for myself to be able to look up in the future, as well as for MindBlog techie readers wh...
Monday, March 11, 2024

How AI’s GPT engines work - Lanier’s forest and trees metaphor.

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Jaron Lanier does a piece in The New Yorker titled " How to Picture A.I. " (if you hit the paywall by clicking the link, try openi...
Friday, March 08, 2024

Explaining the evolution of gossip

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 A fascinating open source article from Pan et al. : Significance From Mesopotamian cities to industrialized nations, gossip has been at ...