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• AI, Agency, and the Quiet Hollowing of Mind

  Reading through the article "A Rational Optimist View Of Preventing Agency Decay" is a rich experience. For readers with less patience, here is a ChatGPT summar... Read more

  The 09 april 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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• Memes Before Machines: The Real Cognitive Risk of the AI Age

  I strongly urge you to read a New York Times opinion piece by Willy Staley titled "Forget the A.I. Apocalypse. Memes Have Already Nuked Our Culture." (unlocked... Read more

  The 07 april 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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• AI Use Can Compromise Our Serendipity, Creativity, Autonomy, and Sense of Agency.

  I have been reading numerous articles on pitfalls of using AI, and want to point to two in particular that I highly recommend for a slow and careful read. Read more

  The 31 march 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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• The Optical Information for Self-Perception (Gibson, 1979, Chapter 7)

  So far we have considered what the world looks like to a point of observation that may or may not be occupied. It was important to Gibson that he establish... Read more

  The 27 march 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• Events and the Information for Perceiving Events (Gibson, 1979, Chapter 6)

  In the previous chapter, Gibson introduced the notion of the ambient optic array and discussed the kinds of information it can have (flow, and invariants). The... Read more

  The 27 march 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• One Terminal Chats with Another to Start Vibe Coding a New Dericbownds.net

  Writing MindBlog posts is on temporary hiatus because I have recently followed Claude's instructions to set up my Mac mini M3 to use Claude code, getting my... Read more

  The 23 march 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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• The Polyvagal Theory is Dead - and HRV Isn't a Simple Indicator of Arousal

  I was recently struck by Baxter's Substack post (its title copied to be the title of this MindBlog post), which noted work critical of Porges' Polyvagal theory... Read more

  The 18 march 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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• The Ambient Optic Array (Gibson, 1979, Chapter 5)

  

  In the previous chapter, Gibson laid the foundations for an ecological optics by distinguishing between stimulation and stimulus information. Read more

  The 16 march 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• The Nature of Intelligence and Selves.

  I want to pass on the result of my extracting what I felt to be crucial chunks of text from Chapters 5 through 9 of Agüera y Arcas’s "What is Intelligence" whic... Read more

  The 16 march 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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• A Seismic Shift in Our Understanding of Intelligence

  I've just spent the last three days reading large chunks of the remarkable book "What is Intelligence" by Agüera y Arcas. It is best accessed at... Read more

  The 13 march 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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