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• 4 Places That Inspire Spiritual Connection and Well-Being

  Can you think of a place where you feel a spiritual connection? Perhaps there’s a location that feels sacred to you – a site you perceive as holy or divine or... Read more

  The 03 may 2025 by   Andrewtix
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• This Totally Nails It - That Thing in Your Head Called Language Has Got a Mind o...

  

  From Elan Barenholtz's Substack. He is an Assoc. Prof. of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton. So, now that we’ve caught language in a jar,... Read more

  The 26 april 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Mastering Diverse Control Tasks Through World Models

  Hafner et al. offer an amazing open source article that presents an algorithm s mimicking the way in which our brains actually solves problems. Read more

  The 07 april 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• An Example of AI Representing Concepts Outside the Current Sphere of Human...

  An open source article from the latest PNAS from Schut et al.:Significance As AI systems become more capable, they may internally represent concepts outside... Read more

  The 01 april 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Belief in Belief, Like Religion, is a Cross-cultural Human Universal

  Fascinating open source research reported by Gervais et al. (Open source):Significance Religion is a cross-cultural human universal, and religions may have... Read more

  The 01 april 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Deric and DeepSeek R1 on the Enteroceptive Self in a Small World - Taking...

  This post on an exchange with DeepSeek R1 is a followup on my previous post describing the Chat GPT 4o response to some of my idea fragments - further convincin... Read more

  The 27 march 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Parents Convey a Male Default in Child-directed Speech

  Interesting open source article describing experiments by Leshin et al. (Our current MAGA overlords would like to ban such perspectives. Read more

  The 19 march 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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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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