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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 Wednesday , August 30, 2023 Neuron–astrocyte networks might perform the core computations performed by AI transformer blocks Fascinating ideas from Kozachkov et . al Their text contains primers on Astrocyte biology and the transformers found in AI Generative Pre-trained Transformers such as ChatGPT . Significance Transformers have become the default choice of neural architecture for many machine learning applications . Their success across multiple domains such as language , vision , and speech raises the question : How can one build Transformers using biological computational units At the same time , in the glial community , there is gradually
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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 Monday , August 28, 2023 A shared novelty-seeking basis for creativity and curiosity I pass on the abstract of a target article having the title of this post , sent to me by Behavioral and Brain Science . I'm reading through it , and would be willing to send a PDF of the article to motivated MindBlog readers who wish to check it out . Curiosity and creativity are central pillars of human growth and invention . While they have been studied extensively in isolation , the relationship between them has not yet been established . We propose that curiosity and creativity both emanate from the same mechanism of novelty-seeking . We first present 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 Friday , August 25, 2023 The promise and pitfalls of the metaverse for science A curious open-sourse bit of hand waving and gibble-gabble about the metaverse . I pass on the first two paragraphs and links to its references . Some technology companies and media have anointed the metaverse as the future of the internet . Advances in virtual reality devices and high-speed connections , combined with the acceptance of remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic , have brought considerable attention to the metaverse as more than a mere curiosity for gaming . Despite substantial investments and ambitiously optimistic pronouncements , the future of 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 Wednesday , August 23, 2023 Why citizens vote away the democracies they claim to cherish . Here is an interesting bit of research from Braley et . al reported in Nature Human Behaviour . Their abstract : Around the world , citizens are voting away the democracies they claim to cherish . Here we present evidence that this behaviour is driven in part by the belief that their opponents will undermine democracy first . In an observational study N 1,973 we find that US partisans are willing to subvert democratic norms to the extent that they believe opposing partisans are willing to do the same . In experimental studies N 2,543, N 1,848 we revealed to
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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 Thursday , August 17, 2023 Born Rich I want to pass on a few slightly edited clips from an interesting essay in The Dispatch by conservative writer Kevin Williamson that a friend pointed me to . And then I pass on the comment on Williamson's ideas offered by another friend : Wow , this one’s a big gulp of the Kool-Aid . This thesis is patently untrue . As the one percent continues to grow in our current corporate low-tax , constantly crippled regulated business environment , the fallacy of this perspective grows along with it . This is exactly the thinking that book I recommended discusses Oreskes and Conway : How American business taught us to
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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 Tuesday , August 15, 2023 Human History gets a rewrite . I want to point to two articles I have enjoyed reading , both describing the recent book by Graeber and Wengrowa The Dawn of Everything : A New History of Humanity The review by Deresiewicz is in The Atlantic Magazine , and The New Yorker Review is by Lewis-Krause . Some clips from Deresiewicz : The Dawn of Everything is written against the conventional account of human social history as first developed by Hobbes and Rousseau elaborated by subsequent thinkers popularized today by the likes of Jared Diamond , Yuval Noah Harari , and Steven Pinker and accepted more or less universally . 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 Friday , August 11, 2023 The immaturity of America's therapeutic culture I recommend reading the most recent NYTimes David Brook's piece and pass on here ChatGPT 4's response to my request to summarize the main its 1,472 words . It produced the following 339 words which nicely cover Brook's core points . nbsp I think I will start using ChatGPT 4 more frequently for this purpose since I've only recently realized that MindBlog readers who do not subscribe to the NYTimes can not read articles that I point to . nbsp Also , I simply don't have the time to generate summaries myself , because I want to be working on other things . Summary of the Essay on
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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 Wednesday , August 09, 2023 What is intelligence I want to share a message sent by Clint Sprott to the Chaos and Complexity seminar group at the University of Wisconsin which he started many years ago it is currently engaged in a discussion of : intelligence I asked ChatGPT to define intelligence and whether it is : intelligent User How would you define intelligence ChatGPT Defining intelligence is a complex and multifaceted task , as it encompasses a wide range of abilities and capacities exhibited by living organisms and artificial systems . Intelligence can be broadly described as the ability to acquire and apply knowledge , learn from
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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 Monday , August 07, 2023 America's legacy of poverty The injustice of place . Having moved back into the house in which I grew up in Austin Texas , and watching the city inexorably move towards becoming a dystopian metroplex , the analysis of Edin , Schaefer and Nelson makes me feel like returning to the Midwest , where I spent most of my adult life as a professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison . They paint the most clear and focused explanation for the roots of inequality in America that I have read , concluding that the upper Midwest is the best place to live in America . Here is the concluding paragraph of their piece in the 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 Friday , August 04, 2023 18-month old humans discriminate moral violations from disobedient or unexpected events Fascinating studies from Kassecker et al . open source have used multiple methods eye-tracking , observations of expressive behaviors to probe the developmental origins of human moral cognition by assessing infants’ ability to differentiate between prototypical harmful moral and harmless conventional violations : Humans reason and care about ethical issues , such as avoiding unnecessary harm . But what enables us to develop a moral capacity This question dates back at least to ancient Greece and typically results in the traditional
