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• Future-Capable: Curiosity, Adaptability, and Kindness in the Age of AI

  I want to pass on the following edited Claude 4.8 reduction of a Colin Lewis article which I recommend you read through in full form:Curiosity, Adaptability, an... Read more

  The 22 june 2026 by   Deric Bownds
  @DericBownds
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• Some Thoughts on 'The Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience' (SCENE)

  Last year the Simons Foundation announced a massive multi-centre grant project called SCENE: The Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience. Read more

  The 19 june 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
  @PsychScientists
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• Boredom Can Be Good for You...

  Embracing boredom can calm the brain.... I pass on a science-for-the-general-public Neuroscience News summary of an article from The Conversation:Summary:... Read more

  The 19 june 2026 by   Deric Bownds
  @DericBownds
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• When the Self Dissolves, the Precuneus Goes Quiet: A Rigorous Test of...

  A recurring question on this blog is how much of what we take to be fixed about experience—time, space, agency, the bounded self—is actually a construction the... Read more

  The 17 june 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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• Experimental Evidence for Direct Perception: Persisting Layout (Gibson, 1979,...

  We've now completed the first two sections of the book, which lay out the ecological approach. Gibson now turns to a review of the (at the time) existing... Read more

  The 15 june 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
  @PsychScientists
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• A Dimmer Switch for Reward: the Vagus Sets the Gain

  In a Trends in Neurosciences Article Wang, Liu, and Bai, simplify and summarize the extensive experiments of Onimus, Arrivet and Gangarossa. Here is a Claude... Read more

  The 15 june 2026 by   Deric Bownds
  @DericBownds
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• Spontaneous Problem-solving in Bumble Bees

  From Bhambore et al., in the June 4 issue of Science Magazine: Editor’s summaryRecent research has revealed that bumble bees are much more cognitively advanced... Read more

  The 12 june 2026 by   Deric Bownds
  @DericBownds
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• Cleaning Our Brains During Deep Sleep

  I monitor my sleep both with the Oura Ring and the Apple watch, and have observed that my mental clarity and feeling rested on waking positively correlates... Read more

  The 10 june 2026 by   Deric Bownds
  @DericBownds
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• AI Construed as a Brilliant friend...Claude's New Constitution

  Colin Lewis, AI Research Scientist and Developer, has written a Substack essay on Anthropic Claude's New Constitution which deserves your careful reading. Read more

  The 08 june 2026 by   Deric Bownds
  @DericBownds
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• Postdoc Position in Philosophy of Science with Focus on Astrophysics...

  This is an open call for a postdoctoral position (3 year, full time, without teaching duties) within Juliusz Doboszewski’s [ https://sites.google. Read more

  The 02 june 2026 by   Wuthrich
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