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• Agentic AI and the Next Intelligence Explosion

  This post is the second of two recursive returns to engage the ideas of Blaise Agüera y Arcas, which were the subject MindBlog posts on 3/13/26 and 3/16/26. Read more

  The 21 may 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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• AI Is Not an Alien Intruder — It Is the Latest in a Four-Billion-Year...

  This post is the first of two recursive returns to engage the ideas of Blaise Agüera y Arcas, which were the subject MindBlog posts on 3/13/26 and 3/16/26.... Read more

  The 19 may 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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• The Tech Mirage: Why the U.S.-China AI Race Is Failing Us All

  I asked ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek to summarize Yi-Ling Liu's recent New York Times essay, in the form of a MindBlog post, and pass on Gemini's... Read more

  The 17 may 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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• MA Programme in Philosophy at USI Lugano

  If you are a philosophy or physics student who is about to complete a BA/BS or MA/MS and would like to pursue philosophy of physics, you should definitely have ... Read more

  The 05 may 2026 by   Wuthrich
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• The Theory of Affordances (Gibson, 1979, Chapter 8)

  The most influential part of this book is the theory of affordances. We still argue a lot about what these are and how they work, because they are slightly weir... Read more

  The 05 may 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• 2nd CFA: Swiss Physical Society, 24-28 August 2026

  EXTENDED DEADLINE for abstracts: 15 May 2026The next annual meeting of the Swiss Physical Society (SPS) will take place at the EPF in Lausanne 24 – 28 August... Read more

  The 04 may 2026 by   Wuthrich
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• Activating the Evolved Healing Mechanisms of the Placebo Response Requires...

  I want to point to an article on the placebo effect published at theconversation.com, and recommend that you read it. I asked the four LLM's I frequently consul... Read more

  The 29 april 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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• When Execution Gets Cheap, What Remains Scarce? - The Last Biological Moat.

  I have enjoyed reading a recent essay by Aneesh Sathe, which I recommend you read in full. I will pass on here the equally amazing job that Claude Sonnet 4. Read more

  The 27 april 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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• The Refusal to Dehumanize - Rewilding Creativity

  .. I find it impossible to keep up with the prolific output stream of Indy Johar on Substack, but two recent posts (The Refusal to Dehumanize and Rewilding... Read more

  The 24 april 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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• The Physiology of Agency in the Age of AI

  There is a question lurking beneath the current wave of enthusiasm about artificial intelligence that I think deserves more serious attention than it has... Read more

  The 22 april 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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