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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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• AI Makes Workloads Worse, Not Better

  An article in today's Wall Street Journal by Ray Smith conforms so completely to my own work experience over the past week (I'm currently feeling fatigued from... Read more

  The 12 march 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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• Empathy as a Brain Rhythm: Orexin, Theta Oscillations, and Prosocial Behavior

  (The following is the final installment of a series of three posts on using ChatGPT to assist in the generation of MindBlog posts. I think this final product... Read more

  The 05 march 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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• A MindBlog-ready ChatGPT Synthesis

  This post continues from the previous one to show ChatGPT's response to my prompt "Let's go with the empathy / orexin paper for your producing a MindBlog-ready... Read more

  The 05 march 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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• Will Deric’s Mind Blog Be Firing Deric Soon? Is AI is Doing His Job Better?

  The short answer to both questions is yes and no. I am finding that ChatGPT 5.2 ($20/month version) will scan the TOCs (tables of contents) of journals such as... Read more

  The 05 march 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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• The Relationship Between Stimulation and Stimulus Information (Gibson, 1979,...

  The first three chapters describe the world to be perceived, at the ecological scale. This chapter opens the section on how we visually perceive that world - vi... Read more

  The 05 march 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
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