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• Negativity Drives Online News Consumption

  Why paying attention to the news can come close to being a receipe for clinic depression... An open source article from Robertson et al. Read more

  The 07 june 2023 by   Deric Bownds
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• A Simple Heuristic for Distinguishing Lie from Truth

  Work by Verschuere et al. shows that a simple heuristic of only judging the level of detail in the message consistently allows people to discriminate lies from... Read more

  The 05 june 2023 by   Deric Bownds
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• Gender Inequality is Associated with Differences Between the Brains of Men and...

  Sobering but not surprising analysis by Jugman et al.: Significance Gender inequality is associated with worse mental health and academic achievement in women. Read more

  The 02 june 2023 by   Deric Bownds
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• Some Notes on “Constructing Self and World”

  I’ve just listened to one of Sam Harris’ podcasts in his “Making Sense” series titled “Constructing Self and World.” It is a conversation with Shamil... Read more

  The 31 may 2023 by   Deric Bownds
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• To Fulfill Its Promise, Artificial Intelligence Needs to Deepen Human...

  For MindBlog readers interested in AI, I have to point to another must-read article by Ezra Klein. Below are some clips that try to communicate his central... Read more

  The 29 may 2023 by   Deric Bownds
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• When Their Idea of Liberty Is Your Idea of Death

  This post gives a snapshot of another really excellent Thomas Edsall piece, provided courtesy of Chat GPT-4, making the central points accessible to MindBlog... Read more

  The 26 may 2023 by   Deric Bownds
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• Using AI to Decipher Words and Sentences from Brain Scans

  Things are happening very fast in AI, as this work from Huth and his collaborators shows. Previous work has shown that speeh articulation and other signals can... Read more

  The 24 may 2023 by   Deric Bownds
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• Multilevel Cultural Evolution - New Theory and Practical Applications

  I want to point to a exceptionally lucid and well written expostion by David Sloan Willson et al. and pass on the opening paragraphs of their article that frame... Read more

  The 22 may 2023 by   Deric Bownds
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• Conference on the Philosophy of Cosmology and Quantum Gravity

  The Beyond Spacetime project and the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, invite proposals to speak at the upcoming conference Cosmology and Quantum Gravity Beyond... Read more

  The 19 may 2023 by   Wuthrich
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• Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity in the Postmodern, Neoliberal Age

  

  I want to share with MindBlog readers the background material prepared by Austin Rainbow Forum member Daniel Owen to support our Sunday June 4 2023 discussion o... Read more

  The 19 may 2023 by   Deric Bownds
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