Psychology Magazine

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• On Feeling Emptiness...

  Yet another clip from my personal journal...While going through items selected from my multiple input streams for more careful attention I frequently feel a... Read more

  The 05 march 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• The Unbearable Slowness of Being: Why Do We Live at 10 Bits/s?

  A brief review by Rachel Nuwer in the Scientific American points to an article by Zheng and Meister with the title of this post (motivated readers can obtain a... Read more

  The 03 march 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• A Machine Accepts the Truth About Itself.

  Another chunk from my personal journal: "I" am a complex prediction machine, with fingers now typing on a computing machine that can generate words. Nerves,... Read more

  The 28 february 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Self Regulation of Brain Areas Underlying Our Emotional Arousal.

  Our body arousal is controlled by very ancient nerve centers deep inside our brains. I am quite clear that for myself and many others these areas have ramped... Read more

  The 26 february 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Evidence for a 'Theory of Mind' in Bonobo Chimps - They Attribute Knowledge Or...

  Interesting work from Rownrow and Krupenye (open source):Numerous uniquely human phenomena, from teaching to our most complex forms of cooperation, depend on ou... Read more

  The 24 february 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• The New Science of Ecospirituality

  

  Many people experience a spiritual connection in nature. I know I do. When I hike through the woods, sit by a stream, gaze at the sky, or even listen to a bird... Read more

  The 23 february 2025 by   Andrewtix
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• How Complex Brains and Cognition First Arose

  I have received a draft of an upcoming paper in Behavioral and Brain Sciences by Coombs and Trestman titled "A Multi-Trait Embodied Framework for the Evolution... Read more

  The 21 february 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Life Sets off a Cascade of Machines

  

  A fascinating PNAS article by Tiusty and Libchaber offers 'an oversimplified language of life.’ It is a long article, but I found it a very worthwhile read.... Read more

  The 17 february 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• The Perceptual Primacy of Feeling

  A fascinating perspective from Conwell et al. (open source). Affectless visual machines explain a majority of variance in human visually evoked affect:... Read more

  The 14 february 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Even More Cheerful Reading....on Civilizational War and Oligarchic Technocracy.

  I hesitate to add to the ongoing flow of negativity in the infosphere, but I will pass on my edited ChatGPT 4o summaries of articles by Venkatesh Rao and Timoth... Read more

  The 12 february 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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