Monday, December 30, 2024

Awe as a Pathway to Mental and Physical Health

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Reading this open source review from Maria Monroy and Dacher Keltner leaves me feeling substantially more mellow! Their abstract, followe...
Thursday, December 26, 2024

Oliver Sacks - The Machine Stops

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  A slightly edited MindBlog post from 2019 worth another read: I want to point to a wonderful short essay written by Oliver Sacks before ...
Monday, December 23, 2024

Steven Fry: "AI: A Means to an End or a Means to Our End?"

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I have to pass on to MindBlog readers and my future self this  link to a brilliant lecture by Steven Fry. It is an engaging and entertainin...
Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Sculpting new visual categories into the human brain.

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Fascinating work from Iordan et al. (open source) I pass on the abstract and the first paragraph of the article that makes more clear what...
Monday, December 16, 2024

Analysis of the dumbing down of language on social media over time

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Di Marco et al. (open source) do a comparative analysis of 8 different social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Voat, Reddit, Us...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

Sustainability of Animal-Sourced Foods - how to deal with farting cows...

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I've just read through a number of articles in a Special Feature section of  the most recent issue of PNAS on the future of animal and ...
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Neurons in the amygdala jointly encode the status of interacting individuals

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From Lee et al.: Highlights -Monkeys infer the social status of conspecifics from videos of dyadic interactions   -During fixations, neural ...
Monday, December 09, 2024

An AI framework for neural–behavioral modeling

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Work of Sani et al. (open access) is reported in the Oct. 2024 issue of Nature Neuroscience. From the editor's summary: Neural dynamics...
Saturday, December 07, 2024

Battle of the Bots - AI gets creative with Brain Hacks

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This post is meant to archive my recent exercise of asking  ChatGPT 4o, Perplexity , Gemini+ advanced ,  and Anthropic  (which does not off...
Friday, December 06, 2024

Magnetic soft microrobots for erectile dysfunction therapy!

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I can't resist passing on these abstracts describing work  reported by  a large number of researchers at  South China University of Tech...
Thursday, December 05, 2024

The Future of Warfare

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Passing on an article from today's WSJ that I want to save, using MindBlog as my personal archive:   OpenAI Forges Tie-Up To Defense ...