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• A Seismic Shift in Our Understanding of Intelligence

  I've just spent the last three days reading large chunks of the remarkable book "What is Intelligence" by Agüera y Arcas. It is best accessed at... Read more

  The 13 march 2026 by   Deric Bownds
  @DericBownds
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• AI Makes Workloads Worse, Not Better

  An article in today's Wall Street Journal by Ray Smith conforms so completely to my own work experience over the past week (I'm currently feeling fatigued from... Read more

  The 12 march 2026 by   Deric Bownds
  @DericBownds
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• Empathy as a Brain Rhythm: Orexin, Theta Oscillations, and Prosocial Behavior

  (The following is the final installment of a series of three posts on using ChatGPT to assist in the generation of MindBlog posts. I think this final product... Read more

  The 05 march 2026 by   Deric Bownds
  @DericBownds
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• A MindBlog-ready ChatGPT Synthesis

  This post continues from the previous one to show ChatGPT's response to my prompt "Let's go with the empathy / orexin paper for your producing a MindBlog-ready... Read more

  The 05 march 2026 by   Deric Bownds
  @DericBownds
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• Will Deric’s Mind Blog Be Firing Deric Soon? Is AI is Doing His Job Better?

  The short answer to both questions is yes and no. I am finding that ChatGPT 5.2 ($20/month version) will scan the TOCs (tables of contents) of journals such as... Read more

  The 05 march 2026 by   Deric Bownds
  @DericBownds
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• The Relationship Between Stimulation and Stimulus Information (Gibson, 1979,...

  The first three chapters describe the world to be perceived, at the ecological scale. This chapter opens the section on how we visually perceive that world - vi... Read more

  The 05 march 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
  @PsychScientists
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• The Meaningful Environment (Gibson, 1979, Chapter 3)

  In Chapter 1, Gibson identified the animal and it's environment as the two mutually defining parts of an ecological system. In Chapter 2, he developed a... Read more

  The 05 march 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
  @PsychScientists
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• Nominalist Determinism and Intelligence

  

  I am a Nominalist Determinist. This is a declaration of war against "ghostly concepts" that have haunted biology and physics for a century. Read more

  The 01 march 2026 by   Bjornostman
  @CarnyEvolution
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• Senior Research Associate/Research Fellow in Foundations of Physics at Universit...

  Application: through  https://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details/?jobId=386857... Read more

  The 27 february 2026 by   Wuthrich
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• We Wrote Another Book!

  

  The Many Worlds of Linus Pauling, now available from World Scientific PublishingWith the 125th anniversary of Linus Pauling’s birth just days away, we are... Read more

  The 24 february 2026 by   Scarc
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