Deric Bownds

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2628 )

• Psychological Ownership and GenAI - Illusion, Dilution, Or Loss

  In the post just before this one, I described a co-authorship with Chat GPT-4o that majorly diminished my sense of agency or 'psychological ownership' with... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Deric and Chat GPT 4o on the Enteroceptive Self in a Small World - Taking...

  My following exchange with Chat GPT 4o - in which it responds to some of my idea fragments - convinces me that AI's current power to integrate and expand on... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• On Feeling Emptiness...

  Yet another clip from my personal journal...While going through items selected from my multiple input streams for more careful attention I frequently feel a... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Unbearable Slowness of Being: Why Do We Live at 10 Bits/s?

  A brief review by Rachel Nuwer in the Scientific American points to an article by Zheng and Meister with the title of this post (motivated readers can obtain a... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A Machine Accepts the Truth About Itself.

  Another chunk from my personal journal: "I" am a complex prediction machine, with fingers now typing on a computing machine that can generate words. Nerves,... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Self Regulation of Brain Areas Underlying Our Emotional Arousal.

  Our body arousal is controlled by very ancient nerve centers deep inside our brains. I am quite clear that for myself and many others these areas have ramped... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Evidence for a 'Theory of Mind' in Bonobo Chimps - They Attribute Knowledge Or...

  Interesting work from Rownrow and Krupenye (open source):Numerous uniquely human phenomena, from teaching to our most complex forms of cooperation, depend on ou... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• How Complex Brains and Cognition First Arose

  I have received a draft of an upcoming paper in Behavioral and Brain Sciences by Coombs and Trestman titled "A Multi-Trait Embodied Framework for the Evolution... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Life Sets off a Cascade of Machines

  

  A fascinating PNAS article by Tiusty and Libchaber offers 'an oversimplified language of life.’ It is a long article, but I found it a very worthwhile read.... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Perceptual Primacy of Feeling

  A fascinating perspective from Conwell et al. (open source). Affectless visual machines explain a majority of variance in human visually evoked affect:... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Even More Cheerful Reading....on Civilizational War and Oligarchic Technocracy.

  I hesitate to add to the ongoing flow of negativity in the infosphere, but I will pass on my edited ChatGPT 4o summaries of articles by Venkatesh Rao and Timoth... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• We Are Towers of Fantasies

  Another cryptic clip from my personal journal:We are built of predictive fantasies at every level of our being - from single cells up through transient... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Structural and Cognitive Mechanisms of Group Cohesion in Primates

  I pass on the abstract of a draft version of a new article by Robin Dunbar that I am reading through. It will appear in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A Human Machine Writes

  Scanning back through previous MindBlog posts, I came across the following paragraph what I wrote and posted on 7/24/24. I like it, and decided to post it again... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• “Now Is the Time of Monsters”

  

  I pass on links to two articles in the same vein, one by Ezra Klein, the other by Ventkatesh Rao, with Klein noting how we are facing four epoch-changing events... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Tokens of Sanity

  I repeat my September 29, 2024 "Tokens of sanity" post with a few edits: -Being the calm space in which nothing can hurry -A animal body that can dissociate... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Everything We Experience Comes from Inside

  I pass on this cryptic paragraph from my personal journal:Everything we experience is coming from inside us - our illusion of having a self, our sense of agency. Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Regions of Our Brains Making Multiple Predictions of Others' Actions.

  I want to point to an excellent review and summary by Lin and Wittmann in Trends in Neurosciences of work by Ma et al. in J.Neurosci. Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• How Much Does Language Shape Our Thinking?

  I want to pass on this link to Manvir Singh's article in The New Yorker which has the title of this post. I enjoyed reading the article. Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Birth of Aspirational Multiethnic Populism

  I have pulled some clips from an excellent substack piece by Yascha Mounk to cement and archive his main points for myself and also pass on to MindBlog readers. Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2025 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE