Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Critical fragility in sociotechnical systems

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Here is the abstract and part of the introduction (giving examples of system breakdowns) of a fascinating and approachable analysis by Moran...
Monday, March 10, 2025

Psychological ownership and GenAI - Illusion, dilution, or loss

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In the post just before this one , I described a co-authorship with Chat GPT-4o that majorly diminished my sense of  agency or 'psycholo...
Friday, March 07, 2025

Deric and Chat GPT 4o on the enteroceptive self in a small world - taking refuge in troubled times

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My following exchange with Chat GPT 4o - in which it responds to some of my idea fragments - convinces me that AI's current power to in...
Wednesday, March 05, 2025

On feeling emptiness...

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Yet another clip from my personal journal... While going through items selected from my multiple input streams for more careful attention I ...
Monday, March 03, 2025

The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?

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A brief review by Rachel Nuwer in the Scientific American points to an article by Zheng and Meister with the title of this post (motivated ...
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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...