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  • “Now Is the Time of Monsters”

    Updated: 2025-02-03 06:00:00
    : 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 03, 2025 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 , any one of which could utterly change the world we have know for the past 70 years . nbsp Both articles cite the writing of the Marxist Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci , who wrote a well know sentence usually translated as The old world is dying , and the new world struggles to be born : Now is the time of monsters . 8221 Rao offers the following graphic of the : transition Klein

  • Tokens of sanity

    Updated: 2025-01-31 06:00:00
    : 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 31, 2025 Tokens of sanity I repeat my September 29, 2024 Tokens of sanity post with a few edits : nbsp Being the calm space in which nothing can hurry A animal body that can dissociate itself from the word cloud and emotional reactivities of self and other . selves A courteous guest in its own body and when with others , owning its own experience and letting others own . theirs Favoring reflectivity over reactivity , caressing novelty Clinging to nothing , the current self being a passing fantasy Letting each moment be what it is , not what it should be A blip in the flow of cosmic

  • Everything we experience comes from inside

    Updated: 2025-01-29 06:00:00
    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. This includes attributing causal agency to others, as in 'they are making me do this,’ This 'error' allows individuals in a kinship group or tribe who share the same error to form an imaginary 'we' hive mind supporting unified action. The higher metacognitive stance is to participate when necessary in the group illusion while maintaining clarity on the fact that the actual agency is within oneself. 

  • Regions of our brains making multiple predictions of others' actions.

    Updated: 2025-01-27 06:00:00
    : . 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 27, 2025 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 both are open source texts that deal with the role of evolutionarily younger primate cortical brain regions such as posterior cingulate cortex and medial preforntal cortex in social belief inference . Such combined modeling and imaging studies are revealing in greater and greater detail the anatomical correlates of social cognition strategies . nbsp Here is the

  • How much does language shape our thinking?

    Updated: 2025-01-24 06:00:00
    : 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 24, 2025 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 . nbsp I enjoyed reading the article . nbsp Also , I've been comparing the responses of LLMs Chat GPT 4o , Perplexity , Anthropic , Gemini to the very simple prompt : nbsp Please summarize the following essay with the title : I'm frequently finding the Perplexity response most useful . It provides a list of steps it is following and HTML links to the sources it is using . nbsp I estimate it would take me at least 30 min to prepare

  • The birth of aspirational multiethnic populism

    Updated: 2025-01-22 06:00:00
    : 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 22, 2025 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 . nbsp He points out that Trump won a more convincing victory in 2024 than 2016 by doing what academics are supposed to be expert in : recognizing that the popular understanding of some concept—in this case , populism—is actually constituted by two elements which are logically separable . In his more recent incarnation , Trump has held on to his disdain for longstanding

  • Poof! I'm 15-20 years younger...

    Updated: 2025-01-20 06:00:00
    : . 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 20, 2025 Poof I'm 15-20 years younger . A Wall Street Journal article recently pointed me to two websites using AI to estimate one's biological age . So . I took a selfie of my 82 year old face with my iPhone to get novoslabs.com's and facialage.com's estimates that I am 63 and 67 years old , respectively Now , two weeks later , I have asked my stable of bots GPT 4o , Perplexity , etc for other vendors providing the same service and found four more sites to try . Here are the reactions of all six sites to a further selfie I just took with my : iPhone https : novoslabs.com faceage

  • The Neurobiology of Aging

    Updated: 2025-01-17 06:00:00
    I want to point to the Jan. 8 issue of the journal "Neuron" which is largely devoted to the neuroscience of aging. A number of its review articles are open source. The writing is mostly gibble-gabble, but many useful references can be extracted, particularly on interactions between the immune and nervous systems relevant to aging. 

  • The origin of color categories

    Updated: 2025-01-15 06:00:00
    : 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 15, 2025 The origin of color categories Garside et . al make observations suggesting that cognitive mechanisms such as language are required for the expression of consensus color . categories Significance A hallmark of intelligence is the use of concepts . Are people innately equipped with concepts Prior research has addressed the question using color , because color is experienced categorically : color categories reflect concepts of color . This study tested for color categories in macaque monkeys , a species with the same visual-encoding systems as humans . If color categories

  • Is critical race theory an inversion of history?

    Updated: 2025-01-13 06:00:00
    : 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 13, 2025 Is critical race theory an inversion of history John Ellis , who says yes , is a professor emeritus of German literature at the University of California , Santa Cruz and author of A Short History of Relations Between Peoples : How the World Began to Move Beyond Tribalism . 8221 I've decided to share his recent WSJ essay to archive them for myself and interested MindBlog readers , even though it is overly simplistic in its emphasis on the virtues of the Anglosphere versus its vices . His basic argument is that so-called White Privilege of the Anglosphere is what originally

  • Breathing during sleep orchestrates hippocampal nested sleep oscillations underlying memory consolidation

    Updated: 2025-01-10 06:00:00
    : 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 10, 2025 Breathing during sleep orchestrates hippocampal nested sleep oscillations underlying memory consolidation A fascinating correlation is found by Sheriff et al Their : abstract Nested sleep oscillations , emerging from asynchronous states in coordinated bursts , are critical for memory consolidation . Whether these bursts emerge intrinsically or from an underlying rhythm is unknown . Here , we show a previously undescribed respiratory-driven oscillation in the human hippocampus that couples with cardinal sleep oscillations . Further , breathing promotes nesting of ripples in

  • Predictive coding for social perception

    Updated: 2025-01-08 06:00:00
    : 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 08, 2025 Predictive coding for social perception Rittershofer et . al introduce a special issue of Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews titled Neurobiology of Social Interactions Across . Species Here is the first part of that : introduction Perception cannot rely solely on bottom-up processes , whereby patterns of receptor stimulation are passed up the hierarchy to generate a corresponding awareness . Such bottom-up processes would always generate experiences that are out-of-date and saturated by noise . Predictive processes are thought to play a key role in overcoming these

  • Romantic Relationships Matter More to Men than to Women

    Updated: 2025-01-06 06:00:00
    : 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 06, 2025 Romantic Relationships Matter More to Men than to Women I pass on the abstract of an interesting manuscript that has been accepted by Behavioral and Brain Science , by Wahring et al . Women are often viewed as more romantic than men , and romantic relationships are assumed to be more central to the lives of women than to those of men . Despite the prevalence of these beliefs , some recent research paints a different picture . Using principles and insights based on the interdisciplinary literature on mixed-gender relationships , we advance a set of four propositions relevant

  • Children as agents of cultural adaption

    Updated: 2025-01-03 06:00:00
    : 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 03, 2025 Children as agents of cultural adaption When I scroll through some of the social medial sites Instagram , Tik-Tok , X , YouTube , etc . used by today's teenagers and their influencers I feel I am visiting another planet whose denizens have brains that process reality in an entirely different way from my 82 year old model . They have much shorter attention spans that remain focused on one context for only a few seconds before flitting on . What kind of culture does this peer group inhabit This issue is addressed in a manuscript by Levy and Amir accepted by Behavioral and Brain

  • How our brain networks are reconfigured by a cortisol increase 30-45 min after our waking.

    Updated: 2025-01-01 06:00:00
    : . 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 01, 2025 How our brain networks are reconfigured by a cortisol increase 30-45 min after our waking . Zeng et . al offer a fascinating account of how the rise in our body cortisol levels 30-45 min after waking orchestrates a reconfiguration of brain networks underlying working memory , emotional reguation and executive functioning . nbsp I pass on the introductory paragraph of the article , followed by the article's abstract . Motivated readers can obtain a PDF of the entire paper with graphics by emailing me . The introductory paragraph : nbsp For centuries , scientists have

  • Awe as a Pathway to Mental and Physical Health

    Updated: 2024-12-30 06:00:00
    : 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 30, 2024 Awe as a Pathway to Mental and Physical Health Reading this open source review from Maria Monroy and Dacher Keltner leaves me feeling substantially more mellow Their abstract , followed by a quote from Emerson , and then a summary graphic . How do experiences in nature or in spiritual contemplation or in being moved by music or with psychedelics promote mental and physical health Our proposal in this article is awe . To make this argument , we first review recent advances in the scientific study of awe , an emotion often considered ineffable and beyond measurement . Awe

  • Oliver Sacks - The Machine Stops

    Updated: 2024-12-26 15:12:00
    : 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 26, 2024 Oliver Sacks The Machine Stops A slightly edited MindBlog post from 2019 worth another read : I want to point to a wonderful short essay written by Oliver Sacks before his death from cancer , in which he notes the parallels between the modern world he sees around him and E.M.Forster's prescient classic 1909 short story The Machine Stops , in which Forster imagined a future in which humans lived in separate cells , communicating only by audio and visual devices much like today the patrons of a bar at happy hour are more likely to looking at their cells phones than chatting

  • Steven Fry: "AI: A Means to an End or a Means to Our End?"

    Updated: 2024-12-23 14:59:00
    : : : 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 23, 2024 Steven Fry : AI : A Means to an End or a Means to Our End I have to pass on to MindBlog readers and my future self this link to a brilliant lecture by Steven . Fry It is an engaging and entertaining analysis , steeped in relevant history and precedents , of ways we might be heading into the future . nbsp Here is just one clip from the : piece We cling on to the fierce hope that the one feature machines will never be able to match is our imagination , our ability to penetrate the minds and feelings of others . We feel immeasurably enriched by this as individuals and as

  • Sculpting new visual categories into the human brain.

    Updated: 2024-12-18 06:00:00
    : . 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 , December 18, 2024 Sculpting new visual categories into the human brain . Fascinating work from Iordan et . al open source I pass on the abstract and the first paragraph of the article that makes more clear what they are . doing Abstract Learning requires changing the brain . This typically occurs through experience , study , or instruction . We report an alternate route for humans to acquire visual knowledge , through the direct sculpting of activity patterns in the human brain that mirror those expected to arise through learning . We used neurofeedback from closed-loop real-time

  • Analysis of the dumbing down of language on social media over time

    Updated: 2024-12-16 06:00:00
    : 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 16, 2024 Analysis of the dumbing down of language on social media over time Di Marco et . al open source do a comparative analysis of 8 different social media platforms Facebook , Twitter , YouTube , Voat , Reddit , Usenet , Gab , and Telegram focusing on their complexity and temporal shifts in a dataset of 300 million English comments over 34 years.Their : abstract Understanding the impact of digital platforms on user behavior presents foundational challenges , including issues related to polarization , misinformation dynamics , and variation in news consumption . Comparative

  • Sustainability of Animal-Sourced Foods - how to deal with farting cows...

    Updated: 2024-12-12 06:00:00
    : . 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 12, 2024 Sustainability of Animal-Sourced Foods how to deal with farting cows . I've just read through a number of articles in a Special Feature section of the most recent issue of PNAS on the future of animal and plant sourced food . After a balanced lead article by Qaim et . al a following article that really caught my eye was Mitigating methane emissions in grazing beef cattle with a seaweed-based feed additive : Implications for climate-smart agriculture First line of it's abstract is This study suggests that the addition of pelleted bromoform-containing seaweed Asparagopsis

  • Neurons in the amygdala jointly encode the status of interacting individuals

    Updated: 2024-12-10 06:00:00
    : 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 . Tuesday , December 10, 2024 Neurons in the amygdala jointly encode the status of interacting individuals From Lee et al . Highlights Monkeys infer the social status of conspecifics from videos of dyadic interactions During fixations , neural populations signal the social status of attended individuals Neurons in the amygdala jointly encode the status of interacting individuals Summary Successful integration into a hierarchical social group requires knowledge of the status of each individual and of the rules that govern social interactions within the group . In species that lack morphological

  • An AI framework for neural–behavioral modeling

    Updated: 2024-12-09 06:00:00
    : 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 09, 2024 An AI framework for neural–behavioral modeling Work of Sani et . al open access is reported in the Oct . 2024 issue of Nature Neuroscience . From the editor's : summary Neural dynamics are complex and simultaneously relate to distinct behaviors . To address these challenges , Sani et al . have developed an AI framework termed DPAD that achieves nonlinear dynamical modeling of neural–behavioral data , dissociates behaviorally relevant neural dynamics , and localizes the source of nonlinearity in the dynamical model . What DPAD does is visualized as separating the overall

  • Battle of the Bots - AI gets creative with Brain Hacks

    Updated: 2024-12-07 15:09:00
    : 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 , December 07, 2024 Battle of the Bots AI gets creative with Brain Hacks This post is meant to archive my recent exercise of asking ChatGPT , 4o Perplexity Gemini+ advanced and Anthropic which does not offer links to its responses to expand my MindBlog's Brain Hacks post into a more complete essay that offers more background and context . nbsp They responded with slightly different styles and impressive results that required tweaking for only a few small errors . nbsp I thought my more concise text was more inviting , and didn't see anything really new , so my next prompt which I had asked

  • Magnetic soft microrobots for erectile dysfunction therapy!

    Updated: 2024-12-06 06:00:00
    : 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 , December 06, 2024 Magnetic soft microrobots for erectile dysfunction therapy I can't resist passing on these abstracts describing work reported by a large number of researchers at South China University of Technology , Guangzhou International Campus . I wonder if the results obtained with both both rat and beagle ED models will eventually prove relevant to 82 year old retired professors Significance Erectile dysfunction ED a prevalent form of sexual dysfunction , significantly affects fertility and quality of life . Mesenchymal stromal cell MSC therapies show promise for ED treatment , yet

  • Office Clip for Interpersonal Communications

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  • The Office - Conflict Clip

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  • My Essay is at the bottom of this page

    Updated: 2024-11-10 01:40:31
    For some reason I can't post the essay to the top.

  • Approaches to Illustrations (Updated 27.9.23)

    Updated: 2024-11-10 01:40:21
    I’ve been exploring the use of generative AI for images which has taken me on a journey. With my primary interest being psychiatry and the images being secondary I have limited my approach. Firstly there are the more practical applications. Secondly there is the relationship with the theoretical underpinnings. I am writing about this second […]

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