Monday, February 16, 2026

Buying Futures, Renting the Past: How Speculation and Nostalgia Became the Economy

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I want to pass on this condensation by Google Gemini of a recent essay by Kyla Scanlon   In her essay, "Buying Futures, Renting the Pas...
Friday, February 13, 2026

MindBlog is now 20 years old.

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I just realized that MindBlog is now starting its 21st year. I asked both Chat GPT 5.2 and Google Gemini about this, and paste in Gemini...
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Thursday, February 12, 2026

Against the Machine

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I'm using this blog post to archive for myself ChatGPT 5.2's summary of Paul Kingsnorth’s "Against the Machine: On the Unmaking...
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

I am not my problem

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I use this MindBlog to go back and look myself up occasionally, and so pass on this re-post of my 10/26/2025 post: An explanation of the str...
Sunday, February 08, 2026

The Future of Being Human

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I want to point to Patrick Tanguay's recent Sentiers piece and in particular to Johar's essay .  I asked both ChatGPT and Google Ge...
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...
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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, ...