Deric Bownds

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2661 )

• Self-Organization: Nature's Intelligent Design

  I was to pass on this link to a talk by Clint Sprott, who initiated the Chaos and Complexity Discssion group that I was an active member of before leaving... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Visual Event Segmentation Alters Higher-level Thought.

  An interesting piece of work from Ongchoco et al.: Significance Numbers can be unexpectedly powerful. Suppose you must provide the last two digits of your socia... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• How Our Genes Support Our Illusory Selves - the "Baldwin Effect"

  I have been thinking about giving more explanation of a paragraph from my Oct. 25 post, A Materialist's Credo: Modern neuroscience has proved that our... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• David Brooks on "What is a Person?"

  David Brooks has an astounding ability to simplify and present important ideas. I pass on a few clips from Chapter 5 - titled "What is a Person? Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• MindBlog's First Talk Therapy Session with a Bot.

  I go to https://pi.ai/talk, and...... Hey there, great to meet you. I’m Pi, your personal AI.My goal is to be useful, friendly and fun. Ask me for advice, for... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Our Baysean Brain and the Placebo Effect

  I'm passing on a few clips that give the take home message from a recent NYTimes piece by Haravard Medical School's Ted Kaptchuk, who directs the Harvard-wide... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A Materialist's Credo

  This post passes on a recent effort to put down some basic ideas in as few words as I can manage. A Materialist’s CredoIn the beginning was the cosmos,... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Architectural Experience Influences the Processing of Others’ Body Expressions

  An open source article by Presti et al: Significance The motor system has been recognized as a fundamental neural machinery for spatial and social cognition,... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Does a "P-factor" Underlie Core Attributes of Mental Health Maladies?

  I want to point to an open source "Core Concepts" article in PNAS by David Adam that presents "the views of some psychiatrists who argue that the same bit of... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Mental Problems from Early Life Adversity Passed Down Three Generations.

  Early life adversity can result in emotional and behavioral problems throughout adulthood in both humans and mice. Battaglia et al. show than in mice this effec... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Using AI to Find Retinal Biomarkers for Patient Sex That Opthalmologists Can Be...

  Delavari et al. do a demonstration of using AI to find aspects of human retina images that identify whether they are male or female retinas, a distinction that... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Blithe Spirits and Heavy Souls

  This post is another abstracting/condensation of a recent Ventkatesh Rao essay with the title of this post (Its subtitle: ‘ Learning an experiential posture... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Unification of Physics and Biology by "Assembly Theory"

  An international collaboration of researchers in an open source article in Nature Magazine, has developed a new theoretical framework that bridges physics and... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• What Your Brain is Doing After the Light Turns Green.

  Gandhi and collaboratores show that if you step out to cross the street without looking right or left the neural activity in the brain is different than if you... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Anthropic Claude's Version of My Writing on the Mind

  This post describes the first of my personal encounters with AI that has left me completely in awe of its capabilities. Since 1993 I have been placing the... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Fluid Fogs and Fixed Flows

  For the MindBlog readers who may have have noted my  "This is the New 'Real World' post and followed me down the rabbit hole of Ventkatesh Rao’s narrative... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• AI, a Boon for Science and a Disaster for Creatives

  The Sept. 16 issue of the Economist has two excellent articles: How artificial intelligence can revolutionise science and How scientists are using artificial... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Memory for Stimulus Sequences Unique to Humans?

  Continuing the never-ending quest to find fundamental human abilities or behaviors lacking in other animals (many, like the mirror recognition test, have... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Emergent Analogical Reasoning in Large Language Models

  Things are moving very fast in AI development. From Webb et al: The recent advent of large language models has reinvigorated debate over whether human... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• This is the New Real World

  For my own later reference, and hopefully of use to a few MindBlog readers, I have edited, cut and pasted, and condensed from 3960 to 1933 words the latest... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE