Deric's MindBlog

This blog reports new ideas and work on mind, brain, behavior, psychology, and politics - as well as random curious stuff. (Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column.)

Monday, September 29, 2025

Platforms like X and TikTok are destroying our culture.

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I pass on most of a recent Sam Harris piece : Charlie Kirk was a political prodigy on the Right and adored by a younger generation of Repub...

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Friday, September 26, 2025

Evolved mental errors that underlie our current cultural and political malaise

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I recently looked back at a book I read in 2019, “ Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than ...

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Could humans and AI become a new evolutionary individual?

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This PNAS opinion piece (open source) by Rainey and Hochberg is well worth a read. It suggests that as different AI implementations suffus...

Monday, September 22, 2025

Enlightenment, Habituation, and Renewal - non-dual awareness as the opiate of the thinking classes.

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Enlightenment traditions in Abrahamic, Buddhist, Hindu, or other schools of meditative insight have a common issue. How can the central cano...

Friday, September 19, 2025

Value, Purpose, Meaning, Futures

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Value, purpose, and meaning vary between religions and cultures, and are best viewed as emergent properties supporting altruistic behavior...

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