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: Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , February 28, 2024 What Is a Society The Importance of Building an Interdisciplinary Perspective I'm passing on the abstract I just received of a forthcoming article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences that I am starting to have a look through . Motivated readers can obtain a PDF of the article by emailing me . Abstract : I submit the need to establish a comparative study of societies , namely groups beyond a simple , immediate family that have the potential to endure for generations , whose constituent individuals recognize one another as members , and that maintain control over access to a
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: Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , February 26, 2024 The enjunkification of our online lives I want to pass on two articles I've poured over several times , that describe the increasing complexification or enjunkification of our online lives . The first is The Year Millennials Aged Out of the Internet by Millenial writer Max Reed . Here are some clips from the article . nbsp Something is changing about the internet , and I am not the only person to have noticed . Everywhere I turned online this year , someone was mourning : Amazon is making itself worse” as New York magazine moaned Google Search is a bloated and overmonetized”
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: Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Friday , February 23, 2024 Using caffeine to induce flow states I pass on this link to an article in Neuroscience Biobehavioral Reviews open access and show the Highlights and Abstract of the article below . nbsp One of the coauthors , Steven Kotler , who is executive director at the Flow Research Collective was mentioned in my previous 2019 Mind Blog post A Schism in Flow-land Flow Genome Project vs . Flow Research Collective . It was the last in a series of critical posts that started in 2017. While I agree from my personal experience that caffeine as well other common stimulants can induce more
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: . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , February 21, 2024 AI makes our humanity matter more than ever . I want to pass on this link to an NYTimes Opinion Guest essay by Aneesh Raman a work force expert at LinkedIn , nbsp and Maria Flynn , president of Jobs for the Future For readers blocked by the NYTimes paywall , I paste in the conclusion of the : article Minouche Shafik , who is now the president of Columbia University , said : In the past , jobs were about muscles . Now they’re about brains , but in the future , they’ll be about the heart . 8221 The knowledge economy that we have lived in for decades emerged out of a goods
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: Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , February 19, 2024 Comparing how generative AI and living organisms generate meaning suggests future direction for AI development I want to pass on this open source opinion article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences by Karl Friston , Andy Clark , and other prominent figures who study generative models of sentient behavior in living organisms . nbsp They suggest a future direction for AI development that is very similar to the vision described in the previous MindBlog post which described a recent article by Venkatesh Rao . Here are the highlights and abstract of the article . Highlights
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: : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Saturday , February 17, 2024 Gemini 1.5 : Unlocking multimodal understanding across millions of tokens of context I pass on the PDF of an article from the Gemini Team at Google . Here's the abstract describing a working memory system vastly greater than our own , that can hold 10 million tokens a token' is roughly 0.75 words In this report , we present the latest model of the Gemini family , Gemini 1.5 Pro , a highly compute-efficient multimodal mixture-of-experts model capable of recalling and reasoning over fine-grained information from millions of tokens of context , including multiple long
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: Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , February 14, 2024 How long has humanity been at war with itself I would like to point MindBlog readers to an article by Deborah Barsky with the title of this post . The following clip provides relevant links to the Human Bridges project of the Independent Media Institute . nbsp Deborah Barsky is a writing fellow for the Human Bridges project of the Independent Media Institute , a researcher at the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution and an associate professor at the Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona , Spain , with the Open University of Catalonia UOC She is
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: Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , February 12, 2024 The Art of Doing Nothing Deep into the Juniper Cedar pollen allergy season in Austin TX , I'm being frustrated that I have so little energy to do things . It's as if my batteries can not muster more than a 10 charge . I try to tell myself that it's OK to just be to do nothing , and have not been very successful at this . nbsp So , I enjoyed stumbling upon a recent Guardian article , The art of doing nothing : have the Dutch found the answer to burnout culture whose URL I pass on to MindBlog readers . nbsp It describes the concept of niken , or the Dutch art of doing nothing
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: Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Friday , February 09, 2024 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 structural aspects influence bodily sensations and whether these sensations are consistent across cultures . Bodily sensations evoked by music varied depending on its emotional qualities , and the music-induced bodily sensations and emotions were consistent across the tested cultures . Musical features also influenced the emotional experiences and bodily sensations
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: Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , February 07, 2024 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 as Culturally Evolved Technologies for Coalitional Recruitment . Motivated readers can obtain a PDF of the article from me . nbsp One of the most remarkable manifestations of social cohesion in large-scale entities is the belief in a shared , distinct and ancestral past . Human communities around the world take pride in their ancestral
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: Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , February 05, 2024 Functional human brain tissue produced by layering different neuronal types with 3D bioprinting 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 two to three dimensions : nbsp Highlights Functional human neural tissues assembled by 3D bioprinting Neural circuits formed between defined neural subtypes Functional connections established between cortical-striatal tissues Printed tissues for modeling neural network impairment Summary Probing how human neural networks
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: Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Friday , February 02, 2024 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 Assembly in Istanbul part of DevConnect , a major Ethereum ecosystem event His latest newsletter Towards a Metaphysics of Worlds” gives adds some notes and context , and gives a link to its slides As Rao : notes This may seem like a glimpse into a very obscure and nerdy subculture for many most of you , but I think something very important and interesting is brewing in this scene and
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: Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , January 29, 2024 Mind blog’s first 18 years what next A space for discussions among MindBlog readers This is post number 5,537 of Deric's MindBlog , which will soon be celebrating its 18th birthday . nbsp I started this blog on Feb . 6, 2006, in the middle of the golden age of Blogging , with a post titled Dangerous Ideas In the late 2000s the rise of social media like Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram shifted audiences towards shorter more engaging posts , and after 2010 multimedia platforms like YouTube , Twitch , and TikTok became popular . Max Read laments the increasing effort required
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: . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Friday , January 26, 2024 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 Uncertain World . A few : clips a wave of new scientific discoveries reveals that learning to lean into uncertainty in times of rapid change is a promising antidote to mental distress , not a royal road to angst , as many of us assume . Studies of the pandemic era offer a starting illustration of the links between uncertainty and flourishing . Ohio State researchers have
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: : , , Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , January 24, 2024 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 Nestler with the title of this post . nbsp The special : feature explores the consequences of the broad-scale increase in psychological stress and the evidence that we are facing a second pandemic of depression , anxiety , and other stress-related disorders . The authors of this feature describe challenges faced and scientific advances
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: Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Sunday , January 21, 2024 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 Creed for the humanistic scientific materialist https : mindblog.dericbownds.net 2006 03 apostles-creed-for-humanistic.html Some rambling on Selves and Purpose” https : mindblog.dericbownds.net 2007 10 some-rambling-on-selves-and-purpose.html Self , purpose , and tribal mentality as Darwinian adaptations or Why why aren’t we all enlightened https : mindblog.dericbownds.net
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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 brain mechanisms by which therapeutically effective psychedelics such as MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, commonly known as ecstacy), psilocybin, and LSD have their effect. They all act on serotonin receptors.
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: Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , January 08, 2024 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 purposes , I will define earnestness as being helplessly locked into a single way of looking at what you’re doing , unaware of other . ways I suspect there are only a few known and culturally familiar modes of being non-earnest I think they are humor , irony , and surrealism . I’d guess humor is at least as old as civilization and possibly as old as life . Irony proper seems like an
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Wow, Google knows EVERYTHING I am doing on my computer.....
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: . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , January 01, 2024 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 Johannes Kepler 1634 1 Perhaps the greatest conceptual earthquake in the history of civilization was the Copernican Revolution . Prior to Copernicus , there were two realms : the celestial and the terrestrial . Celestial things orbit , terrestrial ones fall . The former are eternal , the latter perishable . Copernicus proposed a different organization of reality , in which the sun is in a
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: , , . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Thursday , December 28, 2023 Origins of our current crises in the 1990s , the great malformation , and the illusion of race . 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 the populist right , but I have to admit there’s a lot of intellectual energy there these days . The Sidneys go to essays that challenge readers , as well as to those that affirm . With that , the first Sidney goes to Christopher Caldwell for his essay The Fateful Nineties in First Things . Most people see the
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: . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , December 25, 2023 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 languages of humans . This resemblance has given rise to claims that LMs can serve as the basis of a theory of human language . Given the absence of transparency as to what drives the performance of LMs , the characteristics of their language competence remain vague . Through systematic testing , we demonstrate that LMs perform nearly at chance in some
