Deric Bownds

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2661 )

• Is the Mind a Reliable Mirror of Reality? The Marriage of Physics and Informatio...

  This post is the fifth installment of my passing on to both MindBlog readers and my future self my idiosyncratic selection of clips of text from O’Gieblyn’s boo... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Networks and Emergentism

  This post is the fourth installment of my passing on to both MindBlog readers and my future self my idiosyncratic selection of clips of text from O’Gieblyn’s... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• How Does a Meditation App Move Toward Becoming a Corporate Behemoth?

  I've spoken highly of Sam Harris' "Waking Up" App, which now clocks me as having done 776 practice or theory sessions. I would recommend his theory sessions on... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Equivalence of the Metaphors of the Major Religions and Transhumanism

  This post is the third installment of my passing on to both MindBlog readers and my future self my idiosyncratic selection of clips of text from O’Gieblyn’s boo... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Illusion of the Self as Humans Become Gods.

  This post continues my passing on to both MindBlog readers and my future self my idiosyncratic selection of clips of text from O’Gieblyn’s book ‘God, Human,... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Disenchantment of the World and the Computational Metaphors of Our Times.

  I am doing a second reading of Meghan O’Gieblyn’s book “Gods, Humans, Animals, Machines” and extracting clips of text that I find most interesting. Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Breath - Some Basic Facts and Instructions

  I’ve enjoyed reading through James Nestor’s book “Breath - The new science of a lost art,” and I tried out some of the exercises he points to, such as Tummo,... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Physics of Intelligence - and LDMs (Large Danger Models)

  I want to pass on my abstracting of an interesting article by Venkatesh Rao, another instance of my using MindBlog as my personal filing system to be sure I... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• If We Don’t Master AI, AI Will Master Us - A Brief List of Articles by...

  With technology companies now choosing speed over caution in the race to develop the dominant A.I. Chatbot application, I’m using this post to save for myself... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Our Heartbeat Shapes Our Perception of Time (and a Comparison of How ChatGPT...

  Ellen Barry has done a review of work by Sadeghi et al, as well as others, on how heart-brain interactions influence our perception of time. I asked ChatGPT to... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Fundamentals of Empathy

  Akinrinade et al. show that the neuropeptide oxytocin is responsible for emotional fear contagion, and involves the same regions of the brain in zebrafish and i... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Can We Fight Cancer in Ourselves with Thoughts?

  David Linden, a professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins Medical Schoo, has done an interesting piece on his own experience with a tumor in his heart,... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Humans Are More Than AI Machines - OpenAI's chatGPT Edits a MindBlog...

  I am feeling majorly freaked out now. .. I asked ChatGPT to improve one of the draft paragraphs that I mentioned in this past Tuesday's post. Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• MindBlog's Seduction by AI

  I decided to drink the kool aid, go down the rabbit hole, of learning more about AI, and have ceased regular MindBlog posts. As I have been reading numerous... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Is the Hype Over A.I. Justified? Does It Really Change Everything?

  I know, I know…. We’re all tired of the hysteria resulting from the sudden appearance of ChatGPT-like programs that feel to us as though they are intelligent an... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• To the Mountains - an Analysis of China's Current State

  To any any MindBlog readers who might be China buffs I highly recommed reading Dan Wang's 2022 letter on China's current and future prospects. Here is a clip... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Blood-derived Signals as Potent Drivers of Both Age-related Brain Dysfunction an...

  An open source review from Bieri et al. has some nice graphics and tables summarizing the varieties of pro-aging and rejuvenating interventions. Here is their... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• An Arthritis Drug Mimicks the Anti-aging Benefits of Youthful Blood Transfusions

  Some edited clips from the New Atlas description of research by Passegué and collaborators on rejuvenating the stem cells located in the blood marrow that... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A Skeptical Take on the AI Revolution

  I want to pass on to MindBlog readers some clips I have made for my own use from the transcript of a podcast interview of Gary Marcus by Ezra Klein. Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• MindBlog as a Portal to Open AI's ChatGPT? A Few Stumbles on the Way...

  

  After my initial foray into playing with OpenAI's ChatGPT last December I decided to return for another chat today, and was initially blown away by the results. Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE