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• Psychological Ownership and GenAI - Illusion, Dilution, Or Loss

  In the post just before this one, I described a co-authorship with Chat GPT-4o that majorly diminished my sense of agency or 'psychological ownership' with... Read more

  The 10 march 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• CfA Double Conference in Utrecht: Spacetime Matters – Philosophy of Astronomy &...

  Two back-to-back conferences on the foundations of physics will take place in Utrecht in the first week of September 2025.1-2 Sept: Spacetime Matters Conference... Read more

  The 07 march 2025 by   Wuthrich
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• Deric and Chat GPT 4o on the Enteroceptive Self in a Small World - Taking...

  My following exchange with Chat GPT 4o - in which it responds to some of my idea fragments - convinces me that AI's current power to integrate and expand on... Read more

  The 07 march 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• On Feeling Emptiness...

  Yet another clip from my personal journal...While going through items selected from my multiple input streams for more careful attention I frequently feel a... Read more

  The 05 march 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• The Unbearable Slowness of Being: Why Do We Live at 10 Bits/s?

  A brief review by Rachel Nuwer in the Scientific American points to an article by Zheng and Meister with the title of this post (motivated readers can obtain a... Read more

  The 03 march 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• A Machine Accepts the Truth About Itself.

  Another chunk from my personal journal: "I" am a complex prediction machine, with fingers now typing on a computing machine that can generate words. Nerves,... Read more

  The 28 february 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Self Regulation of Brain Areas Underlying Our Emotional Arousal.

  Our body arousal is controlled by very ancient nerve centers deep inside our brains. I am quite clear that for myself and many others these areas have ramped... Read more

  The 26 february 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Evidence for a 'Theory of Mind' in Bonobo Chimps - They Attribute Knowledge Or...

  Interesting work from Rownrow and Krupenye (open source):Numerous uniquely human phenomena, from teaching to our most complex forms of cooperation, depend on ou... Read more

  The 24 february 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• How Complex Brains and Cognition First Arose

  I have received a draft of an upcoming paper in Behavioral and Brain Sciences by Coombs and Trestman titled "A Multi-Trait Embodied Framework for the Evolution... Read more

  The 21 february 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Life Sets off a Cascade of Machines

  

  A fascinating PNAS article by Tiusty and Libchaber offers 'an oversimplified language of life.’ It is a long article, but I found it a very worthwhile read.... Read more

  The 17 february 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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