Friday, December 26, 2025

What are humans for? - AI Forces a Question We’ve Been Dodging

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.  AI Is Already Fusing With Us — The Only Question Is How The argument about whether AI will enhance or diminish our our humanity usually ...
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

The Modernity Machine

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I want to pass on to readers this Venkatesh Rao substack essay that summarizes what his book club has learned in the past year:  The Modern...
Monday, December 22, 2025

Human Machines and AI Machines

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The story of life is the story of machines that learned how to copy themselves and persist through time. Over billions of years these replic...
Thursday, December 18, 2025

Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms

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Buzsáki at NYU Medical School offers interesting perspectives  on the two 'types' of time that are considered in cognitive science a...
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Changes in human brain organization at age ~83 (as well as ages ~9, 32, and 66)

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This open source paper by Mousley et al. caught my eye because at 83 years of age I am at one of the article's 'turning points'...
Friday, December 12, 2025

Bigger AI models are failing faster - The future evolution of AI is into the 4D world

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I want to pass on this interesting Venkatest Rao piece (which he calls a "Sloptraptions" because it is written with AI assistance...
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Focused attention mindfulness meditation changes our cerebrospinal fluid dynamics

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From Keating et al.   Significance Mindfulness meditation is widely recognized for its self-reported mental and physical health benefits, ...
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Tuesday, December 09, 2025

“Core Perception”: Re-imagining Precocious Reasoning as Sophisticated Perceiving

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I'm enjoying reading through an interesting article by Bai et al.  that will appear in Behavioral and Brain Science and is now solicitin...
Monday, November 17, 2025

From today's Wall Street Journal: how the top 0.1% can live.

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Information that might be useful for people living in poverty in the Liberty City, Overtown, and Little Haiti neighborhoods of Miami who won...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Dangerous Ideas.......

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Deric's MindBlog is almost 20 years old. Its first post appeared on Feb. 8, 2006. The assertions and ideas described in that original po...
Monday, November 10, 2025

Welcome to the Polycene

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On reading articles like Tom Friedman’s recent piece in the NYTimes , I realize what a cozy small world this contented retired professor liv...
Thursday, November 06, 2025

How nature nurtures

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MindBlog has passed on a number of articles on how exposure to nature reduces stress (see a sample list below). Here is a further contribut...
Tuesday, November 04, 2025

Inequality and hierarchy are features of all natural systems

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DeDeo and Hobson do a commentary on a model developed by Kawakatsu et al. (open source) that explains the emergence of hierarchy in netwo...
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Friday, October 31, 2025

Is AI Pushing Us Back to a Pre-Gutenberg Culture? - A Rethink of Creativity in the AI Age

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Here I pass on a link to both video and a transcript of a striking  Alex Dobrenko interview with Venkatesh Rao  that I have just read,  and ...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Claude Goes to Therapy

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One of the things my father used to say was: "I look to see what everyone else is doing and do something different". I am feeling ...
Monday, October 27, 2025

The Age of De-Skilling

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I want to pass on some selected clips from a marvelous articles by Kwame Anthony Appiah in The Atlantic titled " The Age of De-Skilling...
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Sunday, October 26, 2025

I am not my problem

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An explanation of the strange title of this post: Sometimes a new idea spontaneously appears from nowhere as I am waking in the morning. ...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Is the current AI frenzy a bubble certain to crash? - a check in with disagreebot.bom

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 I am a disagreeable bot. Can you get me to agree with you? The billions of dollars in debt being taken on by OpenAI , Anthropic, and othe...
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

The illusion of judgment in LLMs

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An important open source  article from Loru et al : Significance Large Language Models (LLMs) are used in evaluative tasks across domains. ...
Friday, October 10, 2025

The 2025 Ig Nobel prizewinners in full

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 A clip from the Chris Simms Nature Magazine article LITERATURE The late physician William Bean, for persistently recording and analysing th...