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• Comparing How Generative AI and Living Organisms Generate Meaning Suggests Futur...

  I want to pass on this open source opinion article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences by Karl Friston, Andy Clark, and other prominent figures who study... Read more

  The 19 february 2024 by   Deric Bownds
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• Gemini 1.5: Unlocking Multimodal Understanding Across Millions of Tokens of...

  I pass on the PDF of an article from the Gemini Team at Google. Here's the abstract describing a "working memory" system vastly greater than our own, that can... Read more

  The 17 february 2024 by   Deric Bownds
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• An Agent-based Vision for Scaling Modern AI - Why Current Efforts Are Misguided.

  I pass on my edited clips from Venkatesh Rao’s most recent newsletter - substantially shortening its length and inserting a few definitions of techo-nerd-speak... Read more

  The 16 february 2024 by   Deric Bownds
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• How Long Has Humanity Been at War with Itself?

  I would like to point MindBlog readers to an article by Deborah Barsky with the title of this post. The following clip provides relevant links to the Human... Read more

  The 14 february 2024 by   Deric Bownds
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• Latest on Covid Origins

  

  A recent FOIA request by Right To Know’s Emily Kopp yielded new information about Project Defuse, a DARPA grant proposal from 2018 to study bat-borne... Read more

  The 14 february 2024 by   Neuroamer
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• The Art of Doing Nothing

  Deep into the Juniper/Cedar pollen allergy season in Austin TX, I'm being frustrated that I have so little energy to do things. It's as if my batteries can not... Read more

  The 12 february 2024 by   Deric Bownds
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• Bodily Maps of Musical Sensations Across Cultures

  Interesting work from Putkinen et al. (open source): Significance Music is inherently linked with the body. Here, we investigated how music's emotional and... Read more

  The 09 february 2024 by   Deric Bownds
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• Historical Myths as Culturally Evolved Technologies for Coalitional Recruitment

  I pass on to MindBlog readers the abstract of a recent Behavioral and Brain Science article by Sijilmassi et al. titled "‘Our Roots Run Deep’: Historical Myths... Read more

  The 07 february 2024 by   Deric Bownds
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• Functional Human Brain Tissue Produced by Layering Different Neuronal Types...

  A very important advance by Su-Chun Zhang and collaborators at the University of Wisconsin that moves studies of nerve cells connecting in nutrient dishes from... Read more

  The 05 february 2024 by   Deric Bownds
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• Music and the Brain…..

  

  Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music. Larry S. Sherman and Dennis Plies. 2023. Columbia University Press. [ISBN 978-... Read more

  The 04 february 2024 by   Jkinyoun
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