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Chemistry That Regulates Whether We Stay with What We're Doing Or Try Something...
Sidorenko et al. demonstrate that stimulating the brain's cholinergic and noradrenergic systems enhances optimal foraging behaviors in humans. Read more
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Does "situational Awareness" in AI's Large Language Models Mean Consciousness?
The answer to that question would be no, for a number of reasons I won't go into, but Berglund et al. provide an interesting nudge in the direction of sentiece... Read more
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What We Seek to Save When We Seek to Save the World
Yet anoather fascinating set of ideas from Venkatesh Rao that I want to save for myself by doing a MindBlog post of some clips from the piece. ... Read more
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Constructing Self and World
There is a strong similarity between the predictive processing brain model that has been the subject of numerous Mind Blog Posts, and the operations that ChatGP... Read more
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Open Access Articles on Consciousness (Thomas Metzinger and Others)
I am overwhelmed by how much good stuff comes flooding into my email inbox, even after I have deleted 90% of it unopened. A newsletter from the Journal of... Read more
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Mapping the Physical Properties of Odorant Molecules to Their Perceptual...
I pass on parts of the editor's summary and the abstract of a foundational piece of work by Lee et al. that produces a map linking odorant molecular structures... Read more
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Inhalation Boosts Perceptual Awareness and Decision Speed
From Ludovic Molle et al. (open source): Significance Breathing is a ubiquitous biological rhythm in animal life. However, little is known about its effect on... Read more
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The Fragility of Artists’ Reputations from 1795 to 2020
Zhang et al. do an interesting study using natural language processing to measure reputation over time: Significance This study uses machine-learning... Read more
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Neuron–astrocyte Networks Might Perform the Core Computations Performed by AI...
Fascinating ideas from Kozachkov et al. Their text contains primers on Astrocyte biology and the transformers found in AI Generative Pre-trained Transformers... Read more
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A Shared Novelty-seeking Basis for Creativity and Curiosity
I pass on the abstract of a target article having the title of this post, sent to me by Behavioral and Brain Science. I'm reading through it, and would be... Read more
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