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• Evolved Mental Errors That Underlie Our Current Cultural and Political Malaise

  

  I recently looked back at a book I read in 2019, “ Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think” written by... Read more

  The 26 september 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Could Humans and AI Become a New Evolutionary Individual?

  This PNAS opinion piece (open source) by Rainey and Hochberg is well worth a read. It suggests that as different AI implementations suffuse into cultures,... Read more

  The 24 september 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Enlightenment, Habituation, and Renewal - Non-dual Awareness as the Opiate of th...

  Enlightenment traditions in Abrahamic, Buddhist, Hindu, or other schools of meditative insight have a common issue. How can the central canon or dogma of the wa... Read more

  The 22 september 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Value, Purpose, Meaning, Futures

  Value, purpose, and meaning vary between religions and cultures, and are best viewed as emergent properties supporting altruistic behaviors bonding us into... Read more

  The 19 september 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• How Humans Work - an Integrated Model

  I was ruminating this morning over a number of books I have read, and decided to send the following prompt to ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Deep Seek, and Claude... Read more

  The 17 september 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• CFA: Philosophy of Physics Society at the APA

  The Philosophy of Physics Society invites submissions of abstracts (300–500 words, not including references) for its group meeting at the Pacific APA, which wil... Read more

  The 15 september 2025 by   Wuthrich
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• The Brain Fires up Immune Cells When Sick People Are Nearby

  When people view virtual avatars with coughs or rashes, their brains their brains trigger an immune response. Serino and collaborators (open source) outfitted... Read more

  The 15 september 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Chants Across Seven Traditions Share Acoustic Traits That Enhance Subjective...

  From Canessa-Pollard et al.: For over 5,000 y, chanting has been practiced across many Western and Eastern traditions. However, there is hardly any empirical... Read more

  The 12 september 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Rethinking How Our Brains Work.

  

  After reviewing Hoffman's mind-bending ideas that were the subject of the previous post, I decided to look back at another post on changing our perspective on... Read more

  The 08 september 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Resetting My Brain…

  After a jolt of caffeine or intense exercise I sometimes feel a sudden quiet - a mind reset or emptying during which a quiet space appears that is not the... Read more

  The 03 september 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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