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• Reflections on The Predictive Self.

  I pass on another interaction with ChatGPT 4o that has amazed me, Below is my prompt, followed by its response. (Anthropic Claude. Read more

  The 14 march 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Critical Fragility in Sociotechnical Systems

  Here is the abstract and part of the introduction (giving examples of system breakdowns) of a fascinating and approachable analysis by Moran et al. Motivated... Read more

  The 12 march 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Psychological Ownership and GenAI - Illusion, Dilution, Or Loss

  In the post just before this one, I described a co-authorship with Chat GPT-4o that majorly diminished my sense of agency or 'psychological ownership' with... Read more

  The 10 march 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Deric and Chat GPT 4o on the Enteroceptive Self in a Small World - Taking...

  My following exchange with Chat GPT 4o - in which it responds to some of my idea fragments - convinces me that AI's current power to integrate and expand on... Read more

  The 07 march 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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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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