Deric Bownds

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2549 )

• Bodily Maps of Musical Sensations Across Cultures

  Interesting work from Putkinen et al. (open source): Significance Music is inherently linked with the body. Here, we investigated how music's emotional and... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Historical Myths as Culturally Evolved Technologies for Coalitional Recruitment

  I pass on to MindBlog readers the abstract of a recent Behavioral and Brain Science article by Sijilmassi et al. titled "‘Our Roots Run Deep’: Historical Myths... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Functional Human Brain Tissue Produced by Layering Different Neuronal Types...

  A very important advance by Su-Chun Zhang and collaborators at the University of Wisconsin that moves studies of nerve cells connecting in nutrient dishes from... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Towards a Metaphysics of Worlds

  

  I have a splitting headache from having just watched a 27 minute long YouTube rapid fire lecture by Venkatesh Rao, given last November at the Autonomous Worlds... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• MindBlog Offers Some Random Clips on Self, Mind, and Consciousness

  In the spirit of the original personal WebLogs of the 1990s that morphed into Blogs that enjoyed a golden era in the 2000s, I am offering readers a trial versio... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Mind Blog’s First 18 Years - What Next? A Space for Discussions Among MindBlog...

  This is post number 5,537 of Deric's MindBlog, which will soon be celebrating its 18th birthday. I started this blog on Feb. 6, 2006, in the middle of the golde... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Tolerance of Uncertainly as a Key to Resilience.

  As a followup to the previous post on The Neurobiology of Stress I want to point to Maggie Jackson's opinion piece in the NYTimes titled "How to Thrive in an... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Neurobiology of Stress: Vulnerability, Resilience, and Major Depression

  A valuable trove of open source articles is provided in the Special Feature section of the Dec. 5 issue of PNAS with an introductory article by Akil and... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Titles and URLs for Key MindBlog Posts on Selves

  I pass on a chronological list of titles and URLs of MindBlog posts assembled in preparation for a video chat with a European MindBlog reader:An "Apostle's... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• If Psychedelics Heal, How Do They Do It?

  I pass on from a recent issue of PNAS this informative "News Feature" article by Carolyn Beans (open source). It discusses studies trying to determine the... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Importance of Not Being Earnest

  I pass on some of the paragraphs from Rao's latest piece to archive them for myself here on MindBlog, and to make them available to other readers:For my... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Capturing Non-dual Reality in Language

  For my own future reference and for MindBlog readers interested in my previous MindBlog posts on non-duality, I want to pass on the start of a discussion... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• On Shifting Perspectives....

  I pass on clips from a piece in the 12/202/23 Wall Street Journal by Carlo Rovelli, the author, most recently, of ‘ White Holes: Inside the Horizon’ Somnium By... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Origins of Our Current Crises in the 1990s, the Great Malformation, and the...

  I'm passing on three clips I found most striking from David Brooks, recent NYTimes Sydney awards column:I generally don’t agree with the arguments of those on... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Large Language Models Are Not Yet Providing Theories of Human Language.

  From Dentella et al. (open source): Significance The synthetic language generated by recent Large Language Models (LMs) strongly resembles the natural... Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• 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