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  • Humans are more than AI machines - OpenAI's chatGPT edits a MindBlog preliminary draft

    Updated: 2023-03-31 05:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Friday , March 31, 2023 Humans are more than AI machines OpenAI's chatGPT edits a MindBlog preliminary draft I am feeling majorly freaked out now . I asked ChatGPT to improve one of the draft paragraphs that I mentioned in this past Tuesday's . post My request to ChatGPT Please make improvements to the following draft of a blog post : nbsp We humans are AI machines . As with the nerve networks of GPT-4, our developing neuronal connections in the embryo are reinforced by learning correlations that link , sensory and motor capabilities . What we have that is missing in the silicon and metal nerve nets of large language models is a developmental

  • The Fifth Edition of Discovering Behavioral Neuroscience Is Available Now!

    Updated: 2023-03-29 20:32:03
    I’m very excited to announce that my fifth edition is officially in print (and available electronically). In fact, I received a notification that my author’s copies from Cengage will be arriving via UPS tomorrow. There’s nothing quite like holding your book for the first time! I hope you like the […]

  • MindBlog's seduction by AI

    Updated: 2023-03-28 21:29:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Tuesday , March 28, 2023 MindBlog's seduction by AI I decided to drink the kool aid , go down the rabbit hole , of learning more about AI , and have ceased regular MindBlog posts . As I have been reading numerous articles and a few books I have curbed my urge to rapidly summarize , abstract , and post their main ideas . This has been in the hope that a more integrative summary that feels faintly original might perhaps rise from the mists of my unconscious during a waking period at night . A few paragraphs that feel like they might be of that sort are in draft form . nbsp I'm going to break my reticence with this post , however , to share with

  • Is the hype over A.I. justified? Does it really change everything?

    Updated: 2023-03-17 05:00:00
    : . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Friday , March 17, 2023 Is the hype over A.I . justified Does it really change everything I know , I know We’re all tired of the hysteria resulting from the sudden appearance of ChatGPT-like programs that feel to us as though they are intelligent and are already shaping much of our lives . Still , I’m inclined to agree with Sundar Pichai , the chief executive of Google , who said in 2018 that the invention of AI is more profound than the discovery of fire and electricity . New York Times writer Ezra Klein also thinks that things will never be the same Below are a few clips from his piece , and I focus on a section describing the thoughts of Meghan

  • To the mountains - an analysis of China's current state

    Updated: 2023-03-15 05:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Wednesday , March 15, 2023 To the mountains an analysis of China's current state To any any MindBlog readers who might be China buffs I highly recommed reading Dan Wang's 2022 letter on China's current and future prospects . Here is a clip from the end of the article . To the mountains Is there room to maneuver in an era of political tightening Perhaps so . It’s time to follow the wisdom of the ancients and head into the mountains . The mountains are still high , though the emperor may no longer be so far away . As Scott wrote see clip on Scott below the state has mostly learned to climb the hills . Mostly . There are still some ways to avoid

  • Blood-derived signals as potent drivers of both age-related brain dysfunction and brain rejuvenation.

    Updated: 2023-03-13 05:00:00
    : . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Monday , March 13, 2023 Blood-derived signals as potent drivers of both age-related brain dysfunction and brain rejuvenation . An open source review from Bieri et . al has some nice graphics and tables summarizing the varieties of pro-aging and rejuvenating interventions . nbsp Here is their abstract . Aging induces molecular , cellular and functional changes in the adult brain that drive cognitive decline and increase vulnerability to dementia-related neurodegenerative diseases . Leveraging systemic and lifestyle interventions , such as heterochronic parabiosis , administration of young blood’ , exercise and caloric restriction , has challenged

  • An arthritis drug mimicks the anti-aging benefits of youthful blood transfusions

    Updated: 2023-03-10 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 Friday , March 10, 2023 An arthritis drug mimicks the anti-aging benefits of youthful blood transfusions Some edited clips from the New Atlas description of research by Passegué and collaborators on rejuvenating the stem cells located in the blood marrow that produce blood cells : An aging blood system , because it’s a vector for a lot of proteins , cytokines , and cells , has a lot of bad consequences for the organism . A 70-year-old with a 40-year-old blood system could have a longer healthspan , if not a longer lifespan . 8221 The bone marrow niche in which stem cells exist deteriorates over time and becomes overwhelmed by inflammation , which

  • Empathy lost and regained in a mouse model of dementia

    Updated: 2023-03-03 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 Friday , March 03, 2023 Empathy lost and regained in a mouse model of dementia A PNAS Journal Club article by Carolyn Beans points to work by Yao and colleagues that shows that a loss of empathy that is especially problematic for those experiencing frontotemporal dementia FTD . a rare condition that often develops earlier in life than other types of dementia can be linked to slowed activity in a particular brain region of a mouse model of FTD . When Yao and colleagues experimentally increased brain activity , empathy returned . Here is the technical abstract of Yao and : collaborators Highlights Mice display dmPFC-dependent emotional contagion and

  • Licensed Clinical Psychologist - Clayman & Associates, PLLC - Charleston, WV

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  • Possible mechanism of psychedelic therapeutic effects

    Updated: 2023-02-27 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 Monday , February 27, 2023 Possible mechanism of psychedelic therapeutic effects From the latest issue of Science Magazine : The mechanism underlying psychedelic action Psychedelic compounds promote cortical structural and functional neuroplasticity through the activation of serotonin 2A receptors . However , the mechanisms by which receptor activation leads to changes in neuronal growth are still poorly defined . Vargas et . al found that activation of intracellular serotonin 2A receptors is responsible for the plasticity-promoting and antidepressant-like properties of psychedelic compounds , but serotonin may not be the natural ligand for those

  • MindBlog picks some of its favorite posts on defining what a self is…

    Updated: 2023-02-24 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 Friday , February 24, 2023 MindBlog picks some of its favorite posts on defining what a self is The following links are from a recent scan of what pops up if I click on items in Selected MindBlog Categories’ in the right column of this page to remind myself of some of the results of my personal reflections on the topics indicated . The chronological list starts with the most recent posts . Enlightenment , Habituation , and Renewal Or , Mindfulness as the opiate of the thinking classes The non-duality industry as a panacea for the anxieties of our times I am not my problem Self , purpose , and tribal mentality as Darwinian adaptations or Why why

  • A fish passes the mirror self recognition test!

    Updated: 2023-02-22 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 Wednesday , February 22, 2023 A fish passes the mirror self recognition test Our human abilities continue to found in more evolutionarily distant species . From Kohda et . al Some animals have the remarkable capacity for mirror self-recognition MSR yet any implications for self-awareness remain uncertain and controversial . This is largely because explicit tests of the two potential mechanisms underlying MSR are still lacking : mental image of the self and kinesthetic visual matching . Here , we test the hypothesis that MSR ability in cleaner fish , Labroides dimidiatus , is associated with a mental image of the self , in particular the self-face ,

  • Fundamentally rethinking what a mind is and how a brain works.

    Updated: 2023-02-20 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 Monday , February 20, 2023 Fundamentally rethinking what a mind is and how a brain works . The February Issue of Trends in Cognitive Science has an open source Opinions article from Lisa Feldman Barrett and collaborators that suggests that new research approaches grounded in different ontological commitments will be required to properly describe brain-behavior relationships . Here is a clip of the introductory text and a graphic clip from the article . Finally , I pass on the concluding remarks on fundamentally rethinking what a mind is and how a brain . works Most brain imaging studies present stimuli and measure behavioral responses in temporal

  • The touch sensitive nerve cells that make mice (and probably us) horny.

    Updated: 2023-02-17 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 Friday , February 17, 2023 The touch sensitive nerve cells that make mice and probably us horny . From Elias et . al open source in the journal Cell : Highlights Activation of Mrgprb4-lineage touch neurons induces lordosis-like posture Activation of Mrgprb4-lineage touch neurons is rewarding Mrgprb4-lineage touch neurons are required for female sexual receptivity Mrgprb4-lineage touch neurons engage dopaminergic neurons during social behavior Summary Pleasurable touch is paramount during social behavior , including sexual encounters . However , the identity and precise role of sensory neurons that transduce sexual touch remain unknown . A

  • A.I. as a path towards mass lunacy

    Updated: 2023-02-15 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 Wednesday , February 15, 2023 A.I . as a path towards mass lunacy MindBlog wants to be part of the passing on of this elegantly stated clip from an article by novelist , literary critic , and essayist Walter Kirn : What chatbots do is scrape the web , the library of texts already written , and learn from it how to add to the collection , which causes them to start scraping their own work in ever enlarging quantities , along with the texts produced by future humans . Both sets of documents will then degenerate . For as the adoption of A.I . relieves people of their verbal and mental powers and pushes them toward an echoing conformity , much as the

  • An fMRI marker of drug and food craving

    Updated: 2023-02-13 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 Monday , February 13, 2023 An fMRI marker of drug and food craving Koban et al . identify an fMRI-based neural signature of craving that is common to both food and drugs , predicts self-reported craving , distinguishes drug users from non-users , and tracks the efficacy of a cognitive therapy technique to reduce craving : Craving is a core feature of substance use disorders . It is a strong predictor of substance use and relapse and is linked to overeating , gambling , and other maladaptive behaviors . Craving is measured via self-report , which is limited by introspective access and sociocultural contexts . Neurobiological markers of craving are

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  • Multigenerational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net.

    Updated: 2023-02-10 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 Friday , February 10, 2023 Multigenerational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net . In an open source article in the January issue of the American Economic Review East et al . show that early life exposure to Medicaid enhances the next generation's health . We examine multigenerational impacts of positive in utero health interventions using a new research design that exploits sharp increases in prenatal Medicaid eligibility that occurred in some states . Our analyses are based on US Vital Statistics natality files , which enables linkages between individuals' early life Medicaid exposure and the next generation's health at birth . We find

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  • Shifting from foraging to farming, beginning ~12,000 years ago, changed everything.

    Updated: 2023-02-08 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 Wednesday , February 08, 2023 Shifting from foraging to farming , beginning 12,000 years ago , changed everything . A special Feature section in the Jan . 17 issue of PNAS offers a series of perspectives on the past 12,000 years of human behavior , adaptation , and evolution that shaped who we are today . An introduction to the special section by Larsen does an overview and brief summary of each of perspectives presented . I pass on the last paragraph Conclusions of that summary : In evolutionary terms , the transition at the Pleistocene–Holocene boundary was extraordinary , especially in consideration of the beginning of a fundamental shift

  • Openness to spiritual experiences...with caution

    Updated: 2023-02-06 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 Monday , February 06, 2023 Openness to spiritual experiences . with caution After a Protestant Christian upbringing I was a teenage organist in an Austin Lutheran Church , and took a course from theologian Paul Tillich at Harvard my adult materialistic scientific Deric has never been able to fathom how an intellectual like Ross Douthat could be a devout Catholic . My irrational faith is in a materialism that is open to spiritual experiences and insights , but also strives to explain them in materialistic terms as I think near-death experiences have been I think Douthat’s recent opinion piece in the NYTimes very lucid , although I take exception to

  • Cryptocurrency isn't going away - any more that Gold is...

    Updated: 2023-02-03 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 Friday , February 03, 2023 Cryptocurrency isn't going away any more that Gold is . as long as cryptocurrency maintains a core of true believers in the block chain concept for guaranteeing trustworthiness . All currencies are useful as tokens for exchange only to the extent that humans believe in them . The point of this brief post is just to pass on links to two recent screeds by Desai and Krugman that make entertaining reading : nbsp Mihir A . Desai The Crypto Collapse and the End of the Magical Thinking That Infected Capitalism Paul Krugman Wonking Out : Give Me That Gold Time Religion Posted by Deric Bownds at 12:00 AM Email This BlogThis Share

  • Market exposure and human morality

    Updated: 2023-02-01 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 Wednesday , February 01, 2023 Market exposure and human morality In the face of resurgent threats to place religion over the rest of civil society , and specious claims that we can't have a moral society without the varying moral injunctions of various religions , this recent article by Enke in Nature Human Behavior offers a nice explication of one of several other routes by which moral behaviors have evolved over time . Here is the abstract : According to evolutionary theories , markets may foster an internalized and universalist prosociality because it supports market-based cooperation . This paper uses the cultural folklore of 943 pre-industrial

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  • How sleep shapes what we remember and forget.

    Updated: 2023-01-30 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 Monday , January 30, 2023 How sleep shapes what we remember and forget . I have found monitoring the quality of my sleep to be a fascinating and useful activity . I use both the Oura ring and Apple watch to monitor body temperature , body movement , heart rate , and heart rate variability , and then compare their different but broadly similar algorithmic estimates of deep sleep , REM sleep , non-REM sleep , and wake periods . I'm on the lookout for articles on sleep during my scans of journals' tables of contents , and have come upon this review by Sakai of what is happening in our sleep to be concise and useful . Below is a more general overview

  • MindBlog's 2010 recital and lecture in Istanbul

    Updated: 2023-01-27 06:00:00
    I've been meandering back over old MindBlog posts and found an orphaned .mov file that I've reposted to my YouTube channel, quite a bit of nostalgia. The guy turning my pages was my handler and guide during my 10 day visit to Istanbul. He is now a Turkish Airlines pilot. nbsp;

  • The Evolution of Peace

    Updated: 2023-01-25 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 Wednesday , January 25, 2023 The Evolution of Peace I pass on the abstract of an article by Luke Glowacki that has been submitted to the network of Behavioral and Brain Science reviewers who might offer commentary on its arguments . Motivated readers can obtain a copy of the article from me . Abstract : While some species have affiliative and even cooperative interactions between individuals of different social groups , humans are alone in having durable , positive-sum , interdependent relationships across unrelated social groups . Our capacity to have harmonious relationships that cross group boundaries is an important aspect of our species'

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