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, January 26, 2026

The Mythology of Conscious AI

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I've just read through an excellent article in Noema Magazine by Anil Seth explaining why consciousness is more likely a property of li...

Friday, January 23, 2026

The Case for Being Human

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...This Colin Lewis lecture and essay on " Character, Clarity, and connection in a Century of Curated Selves " is a welcome breat...

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Do we have an appetite for transcendence?

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I've been working on a long rambling post on finding meaning in the flow and evolution of the cosmos rather than in the varied anthropom...

Monday, January 05, 2026

Venkatesh Rao's 'World Machines'

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As usual, I found Venkatesh Rao's writinting in his latest piece " The Divergence Machine " a bit opaque and wordy, so I asked...

Wednesday, December 31, 2025

The Institutional Stance - an evolved intuitive theory?

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I have just been sent an article by BBS (Brain and Behavioral Sciences) that is soliciting commentaries on an article by Jara-Ettinger and D...

Monday, December 29, 2025

What our brains are doing as we experience musical pleasure.

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I've been playing more Schubert lately, drawn by his genius for inserting melodic sections within his piano works (sonatas, impromptus, ...

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