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How Blue Light Regulates the Body, Brain, and Immune System
Here is the abstract from a PNAS perspectives article by Slominski et al. with the title "Photo-neuro-immuno-endocrinology: How the ultraviolet radiation... Read more
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An Expanded View of Human Minds and Their Reality.
I want to pass on this recent essay by Venkatesh Rao in its entirety, because it has changed my mind on agreeing with Daniel Dennett that the “Hard Problem” of... Read more
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The World of Decentralized Everything.
Following up on my last post on the Summer of Protocols sessions, I want to pass on (again, to my future self, and possibly a few techie MindBlog readers) a... Read more
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New Protocols for Uncertain Times.
I want to point to a project launched by Venkatest Rao and others last year: “The Summer of Protocols.” Some background for this project can be found in his... Read more
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Our Seduction by AI’s Believable Human Voice.
I want to point to an excellent New Yorker article by Patrick House titled “The Lifelike Illusion of A.I.” The article strikes home for me, for when a Chat Bot... Read more
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Neurons Help Flush Waste out of Our Brains During Sleep
More information (summarized here) on what is happening in our brains while we sleep is provided by Jiang-Xie et al.,, who show that active neurons can stimulat... Read more
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When Memories Get Complex, Sleep Comes to Their Rescue
Here I point to a PNAS article by Lutz et al. and a commentary on the work by Schechtman. Here is the Lutz. et al. abstract:SignificanceReal-life events... Read more
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How Communication Technology Has Enabled the Corruption of Our Communication...
I pass on two striking examples from today’s New York Times, with few clips of text from each:A.I.-Generated Garbage Is Polluting Our Culture:(You really... Read more
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If You Want to Remember a Landscape Be Sure to Include a Human....
Fascinating observations by Jimenez et al. on our inherent human drive to understand our vastly social world...(and in the same issue of PNAS note this study... Read more
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Fundamentally Changing the Nature of War.
I generally try to keep a distance from 'the real world' and apocalyptic visions of what AI might do, but I decided to pass on some clips from this technology... Read more
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