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An Epilogue
I want to pass on a clip from the epilogue of Jim Holt's 2012 book "Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story" in which he describes his attendin... Read more
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CFP: New Approaches to the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Linkoping, 27-29 No...
Submissions: 300-word abstract (excl. references) + 120-word bio sent to Harald Wiltsche (harald.wiltsche@liu.se) in an email with the subject line “Submission... Read more
The 22 august 2024 by Wuthrich
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Human Distinctiveness and Artificial Intelligence
I pass on some random thoughts occasioned by the previous post. What is distinctive about humans? -There are millions of humans, there can be only a few LLMs,... Read more
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Human Distinctiveness in Different Cultures
I want to pass on a clip of text from Samuel Arbesman's recent Substack email, on the path dependence of fundamental ideas about ourselves. Read more
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Selections from the Proceedings of the National Academny of Sciences (PNAS.org)
Below are URLs of journal articles I find interesting and think might be of interest to some MindBlog readers. Most are open source. Email me if you hit a... Read more
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The Art of Pretending to Govern
Venkatesh Rao's most recent installment of his RibbonFarm Breaking Smart series has comments on the seminal ideas of James Scott, a writer who recently died. Read more
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Psilocybin Desynchronizes Our Brains During Ego Dissolution
From Siegel et al (open source).:A single dose of psilocybin, a psychedelic that acutely causes distortions of space–time perception and ego dissolution,... Read more
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The Ooze is Growing
In case you haven't seen enough pessimistic predictions about the next ~10-20 years, I pass on the following clips from a recent installment of my email... Read more
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How We Got to Where We Are
In the beginning was the cosmos, fundamentally as incomprehensible to our human brains as quantum chemistry is to a dog’s brain. Read more
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Positive Effects of Aging on Cognition and Emotion Regulation
After I returned to Austin Texas in late 2017 to live in the family house of my childhood I started a discussion group (The Austin Rainbow Forum) that meets on... Read more
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