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• The Perceptual Primacy of Feeling

  A fascinating perspective from Conwell et al. (open source). Affectless visual machines explain a majority of variance in human visually evoked affect:... Read more

  The 14 february 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Even More Cheerful Reading....on Civilizational War and Oligarchic Technocracy.

  I hesitate to add to the ongoing flow of negativity in the infosphere, but I will pass on my edited ChatGPT 4o summaries of articles by Venkatesh Rao and Timoth... Read more

  The 12 february 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• We Are Towers of Fantasies

  Another cryptic clip from my personal journal:We are built of predictive fantasies at every level of our being - from single cells up through transient... Read more

  The 10 february 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Structural and Cognitive Mechanisms of Group Cohesion in Primates

  I pass on the abstract of a draft version of a new article by Robin Dunbar that I am reading through. It will appear in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.... Read more

  The 07 february 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• A Human Machine Writes

  Scanning back through previous MindBlog posts, I came across the following paragraph what I wrote and posted on 7/24/24. I like it, and decided to post it again... Read more

  The 05 february 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• “Now Is the Time of Monsters”

  

  I pass on links to two articles in the same vein, one by Ezra Klein, the other by Ventkatesh Rao, with Klein noting how we are facing four epoch-changing events... Read more

  The 03 february 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Space Rover

  

  Stewart Lawrence Sinclair. 2024. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc. [ISBN 978-1-5013-9995-4 159 pages, including index. US$14.95 (softcover).]What are space rovers and... Read more

  The 01 february 2025 by   Jkinyoun
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• Tokens of Sanity

  I repeat my September 29, 2024 "Tokens of sanity" post with a few edits: -Being the calm space in which nothing can hurry -A animal body that can dissociate... Read more

  The 31 january 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Everything We Experience Comes from Inside

  I pass on this cryptic paragraph from my personal journal:Everything we experience is coming from inside us - our illusion of having a self, our sense of agency. Read more

  The 29 january 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Regions of Our Brains Making Multiple Predictions of Others' Actions.

  I want to point to an excellent review and summary by Lin and Wittmann in Trends in Neurosciences of work by Ma et al. in J.Neurosci. Read more

  The 27 january 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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