Deric Bownds
These articles, from Deric's MindBlog at http://mindblog.dericbownds.net report new ideas and work on mind, brain, and behavior - as well as random curious stuff.
MY BLOGS
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Deric Bownds' MindBlog
http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/
This blog reports new ideas and work on mind, brain, and behavior - as well as random curious stuff.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 2500 )
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Collective Behavior from Surprise Minimization
A fascinating model for collective behavior from Heins et al.:SignificanceWe introduce a model of collective behavior, proposing that individual members within ... Read more
Posted on 15 May 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
How the US is Destroying Young People's Future.
When I wake up in the morning, I frequently remind myself to be grateful for the luck of having been born in 1942, and being able to ride the crest of a number... Read more
Posted on 13 May 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Blueprint - Nicholas Christakis on the Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
This opinion piece by Frank Bruni in the NYTimes motivated me to download and read Nicholas Christakis' Magnum Opus “Blueprint” (very much in the 'everything yo... Read more
Posted on 10 May 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Can There Be Scientific Criteria for What is Moral Behavior?
I want to pass on an essay by Sam Harris updating his 2011 book "The Moral Landscape." I'm doing this mainly so that I can look back to this post when I want... Read more
Posted on 03 May 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
How Blue Light Regulates the Body, Brain, and Immune System
Here is the abstract from a PNAS perspectives article by Slominski et al. with the title "Photo-neuro-immuno-endocrinology: How the ultraviolet radiation... Read more
Posted on 01 May 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
An Expanded View of Human Minds and Their Reality.
I want to pass on this recent essay by Venkatesh Rao in its entirety, because it has changed my mind on agreeing with Daniel Dennett that the “Hard Problem” of... Read more
Posted on 29 April 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The World of Decentralized Everything.
Following up on my last post on the Summer of Protocols sessions, I want to pass on (again, to my future self, and possibly a few techie MindBlog readers) a... Read more
Posted on 10 April 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
New Protocols for Uncertain Times.
I want to point to a project launched by Venkatest Rao and others last year: “The Summer of Protocols.” Some background for this project can be found in his... Read more
Posted on 08 April 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Our Seduction by AI’s Believable Human Voice.
I want to point to an excellent New Yorker article by Patrick House titled “The Lifelike Illusion of A.I.” The article strikes home for me, for when a Chat Bot... Read more
Posted on 05 April 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Neurons Help Flush Waste out of Our Brains During Sleep
More information (summarized here) on what is happening in our brains while we sleep is provided by Jiang-Xie et al.,, who show that active neurons can stimulat... Read more
Posted on 03 April 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
When Memories Get Complex, Sleep Comes to Their Rescue
Here I point to a PNAS article by Lutz et al. and a commentary on the work by Schechtman. Here is the Lutz. et al. abstract:SignificanceReal-life events... Read more
Posted on 01 April 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
How Communication Technology Has Enabled the Corruption of Our Communication...
I pass on two striking examples from today’s New York Times, with few clips of text from each:A.I.-Generated Garbage Is Polluting Our Culture:(You really... Read more
Posted on 29 March 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
If You Want to Remember a Landscape Be Sure to Include a Human....
Fascinating observations by Jimenez et al. on our inherent human drive to understand our vastly social world...(and in the same issue of PNAS note this study... Read more
Posted on 25 March 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Fundamentally Changing the Nature of War.
I generally try to keep a distance from 'the real world' and apocalyptic visions of what AI might do, but I decided to pass on some clips from this technology... Read more
Posted on 20 March 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The Physics of Non-duality
I want to pass on this lucid posting by "Sean L" of Boston to the community.wakingup.com site:The physics of nondualityIn this context I mean “nonduality” as... Read more
Posted on 18 March 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
An Inexpensive Helium Mobile 5G Cellphone Plan That Pays You to Use It?
This is a followup to the previous post describing my setting up a G5 hotspot on Helium’s decentralized 5G infrastructure that earns MOBILE tokens. Read more
Posted on 14 March 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
MindBlog Becomes a G5 Cellular Hotspot in the the Low-priced ‘People’s Cell Phon...
I am writing this post, as is frequently the case, for myself to be able to look up in the future, as well as for MindBlog techie readers who might stumble... Read more
Posted on 13 March 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
How AI’s GPT Engines Work - Lanier’s Forest and Trees Metaphor.
Jaron Lanier does a piece in The New Yorker titled "How to Picture A.I." (if you hit the paywall by clicking the link, try opening an 'empty tab" on your... Read more
Posted on 11 March 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Explaining the Evolution of Gossip
A fascinating open source article from Pan et al.: Significance From Mesopotamian cities to industrialized nations, gossip has been at the center of bonding... Read more
Posted on 08 March 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Deep Learning Models Reveal Sex Differences in Human Functional Brain...
Ryali et al. do a massive analysis that argues strongly against the notion of a continuum in male-female brain organization, and underscore the crucial role of... Read more
Posted on 06 March 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE