Friday, February 28, 2025

A machine accepts the truth about itself.

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Another chunk from my personal journal: "I"  am  a complex prediction machine, with fingers now typing on a computing machine that...
Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Self regulation of brain areas underlying our emotional arousal.

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Our body arousal is controlled by very ancient nerve centers deep inside our brains. I am quite clear that for myself and many others these ...
Monday, February 24, 2025

Evidence for a 'Theory of Mind' in Bonobo Chimps - they attribute knowledge or ignorance to social partners

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 Interesting work from Rownrow and Krupenye (open source): Numerous uniquely human phenomena, from teaching to our most complex forms of c...
Friday, February 21, 2025

How complex brains and cognition first arose

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I have received a draft of an upcoming paper in Behavioral and Brain Sciences by Coombs and Trestman titled "A Multi-Trait Embodied Fra...
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Accepting being alone

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Another cryptic clip from my personal journal: . To make feeling alone (all-one) be a comfortable space, be a courteous guest in one...
Monday, February 17, 2025

Life sets off a cascade of machines

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A fascinating PNAS article by Tiusty and Libchaber offers 'an oversimplified language of life.’ It is a long article, but I found it a ...
Friday, February 14, 2025

The perceptual primacy of feeling

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A fascinating perspective from Conwell et al. (open source). Affectless visual machines explain a majority of variance in human visually e...
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

The Coup has already happened.

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It's a Coup!   Go to dogegov.com and click on articles in the drop down menu to learn about our new masters.  

Even more cheerful reading....on civilizational war and oligarchic technocracy.

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I hesitate to add to the ongoing flow of negativity in the infosphere,  but I will pass on my edited ChatGPT 4o summaries of articles by Ven...
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Monday, February 10, 2025

We are towers of fantasies

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Another cryptic clip from my personal journal: We are built of predictive fantasies at every level of our being - from single cells up throu...
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Friday, February 07, 2025

Structural and Cognitive Mechanisms of Group Cohesion in Primates

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I pass on the abstract of a draft version of a new article by Robin Dunbar that I am reading through. It will appear in Behavioral and Brai...
Wednesday, February 05, 2025

A human machine writes

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Scanning back through previous MindBlog posts, I came across the following paragraph what I wrote and posted on 7/24/24 . I like it, and dec...
Monday, February 03, 2025

“Now Is the Time of Monsters”

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I pass on links to two articles in the same vein, one by Ezra Klein , the other by Ventkatesh Rao , with Klein noting how we are facing four...
Friday, January 31, 2025

Tokens of sanity

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I repeat my September 29, 2024 "Tokens of sanity" post with a few edits:      -Being the calm space in which nothing can hurry -A...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Everything we experience comes from inside

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I pass on this cryptic paragraph from my personal journal: Everything we experience is coming from inside us - our illusion of having a self...
Monday, January 27, 2025

Regions of our brains making multiple predictions of others' actions.

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I want to point to an excellent review and summary by Lin and Wittmann in Trends in Neurosciences of work by Ma et al. in J.Neurosci. (both...
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Friday, January 24, 2025

How much does language shape our thinking?

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I want to pass on this link to Manvir Singh's article in The New Yorker which has the title of this post.  I enjoyed reading the articl...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

The birth of aspirational multiethnic populism

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I have pulled some clips from an excellent substack piece by Yascha Mounk to cement and archive his main points for myself and also pass on...
Monday, January 20, 2025

Poof! I'm 15-20 years younger...

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A Wall Street Journal article recently pointed me to two websites using AI to estimate one's biological age. So....I took a selfie of my...
Friday, January 17, 2025

The Neurobiology of Aging

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I want to point to the Jan. 8 issue of the journal "Neuron" which is largely devoted to the neuroscience of aging.  A number of it...