Bbenzon
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Humankind got its start on the African savannas some hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years ago. At various times in our cultural history we’ve moved to distinctly new cultural ground, as it were. And so we are moving now, and have been for the past half century. This blog is how I see that move. Intellectually, I'm broadly interested in culture and the brain. Within that compass, anything could show up here. Literature and films (including animation), certainly, music as well, and graffiti. But, other things may show up as well. It's a blog, don't you know, it moves.
MY BLOGS
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New Savanna
http://new-savanna.blogspot.com/
Humankind got its start on the African savannas some hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years ago. At various times in our cultural history we’ve moved to distinctly new cultural ground, as it were. And so we are moving now, and have been for the past half century. This blog is how I see that move. I'm broadly interested in culture and the brain. Within that compass, anything could show up here. Literature and films (including animation), certainly, music as well, and graffiti. But, other things may show up as well. It's a blog, don't you know, it moves.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 7628 )
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Hoboken Surprise
Posted on 01 March 2023
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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The NYTimes is Doing Better on Next-word Prediction, Much Better [Here Be...
Cade Metz, Why Do A.I. Chatbots Tell Lies and Act Weird? Look in the Mirror. NYTimes, Feb 26, 2023. After some setting the stage, including introducing Terry... Read more
Posted on 01 March 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
China and AI
Power in the Age of AI | Robert Wright Paul Scharre 00:37 Paul’s new book, Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence 11:42 Will AIs... Read more
Posted on 01 March 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Snow!!!!
Posted on 28 February 2023
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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My Current Thinking About ChatGPT @3QD [Gärdenfors, Wolfram, and the Value of...
Some of it anyhow, but by no means all of it. My thinking about the Chatster goes off in many directions, too many to chase down and corral for a single article... Read more
Posted on 28 February 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
A Small Surprise on My Academia.edu Page
I’d expected that the increased activity that started on the 20th would have subsided by now. Things were certainly headed in that direct, but then yesterday,... Read more
Posted on 28 February 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Chat GPT for Robots
ChatGPT for Robotics: Design Principles and Model Abilities https://t.co/qWmtgsZcCk— Bill Benzon, BAM! Bootstrapping Artificial Minds (@bbenzon) February 27, Read more
Posted on 27 February 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Faculty Psychology and the Will [cognitive Science Meeets History of Ideas]
This is a section from my article, Cognitive Networks and Literary Semantics. It's a bit crippled without the context provided by that article. Read more
Posted on 27 February 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Jazz-ma-tazz
Posted on 27 February 2023
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
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Rick Beato Interviews the Great Keith Jarrett
Beato's notes: Keith Jarrett is an American jazz pianist and composer born in Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1945. He is considered one of the most influential and... Read more
Posted on 27 February 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Evolutionary Innovations That Gave Rise to the Mammalian Six-layered Neocortex
Cell-type profiling in salamanders identifies innovations in vertebrate forebrain evolution https://t.co/zKcEFCWpdV— Bill Benzon, BAM! Read more
Posted on 27 February 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Clockworks
Posted on 26 February 2023
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PHILOSOPHY,
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ChatGPT on Printing, Arithmetic, the Clockwork Universe, and the Steam Engine
Over there at Marginal Revolution Tyler Cowen has a post entitled, Who was the most important critic of the printing press in the 17th century? Read more
Posted on 26 February 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Things You Might Dream About [All at Once? – Why Not?] [hallucinated City]
Posted on 26 February 2023
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PHILOSOPHY,
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The Benefits of Dreaming
Carolyn Todd. REM Sleep Is Magical. Here’s What the Experts Know. NYTimes. Feb 25, 2023. When we sleep we go cycle through five stages of sleep. We dream... Read more
Posted on 26 February 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
On the Mystery Train to Hoboken
Posted on 25 February 2023
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PHILOSOPHY,
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Denying Death the American Way
Jeffrey Kluger, Why Americans Are Uniquely Afraid to Grow Old, Time, Feb. 23, 2023. Why are Americans age averse? But apart from fear of death—which, admittedly... Read more
Posted on 25 February 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Language Model Crossover
The paper (https://t.co/HYLDzlcVey) shows results in symbolic regression (i.e. evolving equations to match data), text style-transfer (changing text... Read more
Posted on 24 February 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Life of a Professor at a German University in 1900
Irwin Collier, Germany. University life seen through American eyes. Tupper, 1900-1901, Economics in the Rear-View Mirror, Feb 23, 23. Now for the German... Read more
Posted on 24 February 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
A Cute Little Object – a Pincushion Perhaps? – Posed in Several Settings
Posted on 24 February 2023
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PHILOSOPHY,
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