Deric Bownds
These articles, from Deric's MindBlog at http://mindblog.dericbownds.net report new ideas and work on mind, brain, and behavior - as well as random curious stuff.
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Deric Bownds' MindBlog
http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/
This blog reports new ideas and work on mind, brain, and behavior - as well as random curious stuff.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 2494 )
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Three Common Assumptions About Inflammation, Aging, and Health That Are...
The abstract of a recent PNAS article by Thomas W. McDade (motivated readers can obtain the whole article from me): Significance Inflammation is one of the... Read more
Posted on 22 December 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
In Search of Hardness - Protocol Studies, the Next Crypto Cycle, and the Next Ag...
I’m using this posting to save for myself some clips of text from Venkatesh Rao’s most recent piece, to continue mulling over where I place it on the trivial... Read more
Posted on 20 December 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Traumatic Memories Are Processed as Present Experience
Ellen Barry points to work by Perl et al. showing that different patterns of brain activity underlie sad versus traumatic autobiographical memories. The Perl... Read more
Posted on 18 December 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The Ebb and Flow of Physical and Cognitive Fatigue
Matthews et al. Have investigated moment-to-moment fluctuations in fatigue using behavioral experiments and computational modeling to offer a precise account... Read more
Posted on 15 December 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
AI is a Camera, Not an Engine.
Yet another brilliant essay from Venkatest Rao on how modern AI puts us into an age of exploration of computational reality. I got halfway through my usual gig... Read more
Posted on 13 December 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
There Are More Living Cells on Earth Than Stars in the Universe: ~ 10^30 Vs. ~...
These numbers come from a fascinating piece by Dennis Overbye summarizing work by a team of biologists and geologists. Selected clips: According to the fossil... Read more
Posted on 11 December 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Goggle's Bard and Chat GPT-4 on Using AI to Explore Beyond Language and Words...
I show first the prompt I addressed yesterday afternoon to both Bard and ChatGPT-4. The more nuanced response I received from Bard makes me wonder if Google... Read more
Posted on 07 December 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
A Flash of Clarity on What Current LLMs Can and Can Not Do. An AI Apocalypse Doe...
In his most recent newsletter, Venkatesh Rao pulls up a twitter thread he wrote in 2017 making what he calls an ontological distinction between boundary... Read more
Posted on 03 December 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Meta-Learned Models of Cognition
I pass on the text of a recent email from Behavioral and Brain Sciences inviting commentary on an article by Binz et al. I am beginning to plow through the... Read more
Posted on 29 November 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The Feasibility of Artificial Consciousness Through the Lens of Neuroscience
Some interesting perspectives from Aru, Larkum, and Shine in Trends in Neurosciences. Motivated readers can obtain a copy of the article's text from me. Read more
Posted on 27 November 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Religious Wars in the Tech Industry.
In this post I continue to use MindBlog as my private reference library to put down essential ideas I want to hang onto by extracting relevant clips, in this... Read more
Posted on 26 November 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
AI is Infusing Our Daily Lives. Is It an Existential Threat?
As AI is being subtly melded into our daily lives by the Google, Apple, and Microsoft clouds there is continuing debate over whether it is or Isn’t an... Read more
Posted on 19 November 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Personalized Chatbots and Wearable AI Devices for Melding AI with Our Everyday...
Personalized GPTs are here, but apparently not yet at the level of consumers like myself who don't want to do coding. I've been looking into making my own... Read more
Posted on 10 November 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
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