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  • Networks of connectivity are the battleground of the future.

    Updated: 2024-11-30 20:32:34
    : . 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 , September 28, 2024 Networks of connectivity are the battleground of the future . From Nathan Gardels , editor of Noema Magazine : From Mass To Distributed Weapons Of Destruction The recent lethal attacks attributed to Israel that exploded pagers and walkie-talkies dispersed among thousands of Hezbollah militants announces a new capacity in the history of warfare for distributed destruction . Before the massive bombing raids that have since ensued , the terror-stricken population of Lebanon had been unplugging any device with batteries or a power source linked to a communication network

  • Tokens of sanity

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    -Being a calm space in which nothing can hurry -An animal body that pretends to be human -Dissociating from the word cloud and emotional reactivities of self and other selves. -A courteous guest in one’s own body and when with others, owning one’s 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 time

  • The Fear of Diverse Intelligences Like AI

    Updated: 2024-11-30 20:32:34
    : 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 , September 15, 2024 The Fear of Diverse Intelligences Like AI I want to suggest that you read the article by Michael Levin in the Sept . 3 issue of Noema Magazine on how our fear of AI’s potential is emblematic of humanity’s larger difficulty recognizing intelligence in unfamiliar guises . One needs to be clear however , that AI of the GTP engines is not intelligence' in the broader sense of the term . They are large language models , LLMs . Here are some clips from the later portions of his : essay Why would natural evolution have an eternal monopoly on producing systems with preferences ,

  • A caustic review of Yuval Harari's "Nexus"

    Updated: 2024-11-30 20:32:34
    : 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 , September 15, 2024 A caustic review of Yuval Harari's Nexus I pass on the very cogent opinions of Dominic Green , fellow of the Royal Historical Society , that appeared in the Sept . 13 issue of the Wall Street Journal . He offers several caustic comments on ideas offered in Yuval Harari's most recent book , Nexus Groucho Marx said there are two types of people in this world : those who think people can be divided up into two types , and those who don’t . 8221 In Nexus , 8221 the Israeli historian-philosopher Yuval Noah Harari divides us into a naive and populist type and another type that he

  • MindBlog's Brain Hacks

    Updated: 2024-11-29 17:10:00
    : 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 , November 29, 2024 MindBlog's Brain Hacks Introspective awareness and modulation of both ancient and more recently evolved aspects of our cognition : Brain Hack 1 The reptilian brain whose modern descendant is found in the mammalian hypothalamus generates affective states along axes of arousal and valence , whose states in higher primates can be assessed by introspective awareness . Brain Hack 2 The early mammalian emotional brain , whose ability to model a self correlating with the appearance of the agranular prefrontal cortex develops the ability to distinguish the difference between being

  • Half a century of quantitative cultural evolution

    Updated: 2024-11-27 13:07:00
    The latest PNAS issue has a fascinating open source section on quantitative studies of recent cultural evolution. 

  • Our looming civil unrest is predicted by Turchin's historical model.

    Updated: 2024-11-22 14:44:00
    : . 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 , November 22, 2024 Our looming civil unrest is predicted by Turchin's historical model . I recommend you have a look at Graeme Wood's article on the writing and thoughts of Peter Turchin , who has developed a model based on the past 10,000 years of human history that in 2010 predicted that an age of discord worse than most Americans have experienced would get serious around 2020. Here are some clips : The fundamental problems , he says , are a dark triad of social maladies : a bloated elite class , with too few elite jobs to go around declining living standards among the general population

  • Office Clip for Interpersonal Communications

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  • Communicate with Confidence

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  • The Office - Conflict Clip

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  • My Essay is at the bottom of this page

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    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 […]

  • The delusions of transhumanists and life span extenders

    Updated: 2024-08-30 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 . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Friday , August 30, 2024 The delusions of transhumanists and life span extenders One futurist story line is that we all will be seamlessly integrated with AI and the cloud , and bioengineered to live forever . This simplistic fantasy does not take into account the pervasive and fundamental relationships and fluxes between all living things . The cellular mass of individual humans , after all , is mainly composed of their diverse microbiotas bacteria , fungi , protists that influence how all organ systems interact with environmental input . nbsp Humans dominate the planet because their brains first

  • Regulating our subjective well being - our brain's axes of arousal, valence, and agency

    Updated: 2024-08-28 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 . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , August 28, 2024 Regulating our subjective well being our brain's axes of arousal , valence , and agency I've now read several times through a daunting review article by Feldman et al . nbsp in the July issue of Trends in Cognitive Science titled The Neurobiology of Interoception and . Affect motivated readers can obtain a copy of the whole article from me The bottom line is that the subjective feelings of what is going on inside our bodies that taken together form our sense of well being rise from a an array of cortical and visceral neuroendocrine systems that are much more complex

  • The brain simulates actions and their consequences during REM sleep

    Updated: 2024-08-26 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 . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , August 26, 2024 The brain simulates actions and their consequences during REM sleep During REM sleep our brains make up and work though simulated scenarios , while putting our bodies into paralysis so we don't thrash about dangerously . Senzai and Scanziani show what in going on in mouse brains . Here is the first paragraph abstract of their open source : text Vivid dreams mostly occur during a phase of sleep called REM1–5. During REM sleep , the brain’s internal representation of direction keeps shifting like that of an awake animal moving through its environment6–8. What causes these shifts

  • An epilogue

    Updated: 2024-08-23 19:02:00
    : 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 , August 23, 2024 An epilogue I want to pass on a clip from the epilogue of Jim Holt's 2012 book Why Does the World Exist An Existential Detective Story in which he describes his attending a small ninetieth birthday celebration for Claude Lévi-Strauss 1908-2009 the famous French anthropologist and ethnologist The master made the following brief : comments Montaigne , 8221 he begins , said that aging diminishes us each day in a way that , when death finally arrives , it takes away only a quarter or half the man . But Montaigne only lived to be fifty-nine , so he could have no idea of the extreme

  • Human distinctiveness and Artificial Intelligence

    Updated: 2024-08-14 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 . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , August 14, 2024 Human distinctiveness and Artificial Intelligence I pass on some random thoughts occasioned by the previous post . What is distinctive about humans There are millions of humans , there can be only a few LLMs , given the enormous amounts of material and energy required to make them . Many humans are required to generate and mirror shared illusions about value,purpose , and meaning that bind together and distinguish different cultures . For GPT engines to obtain such a capability would require that they be embodied , self sufficient , energy efficient , replicable , and

  • Human Distinctiveness in Different Cultures

    Updated: 2024-08-12 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 . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , August 12, 2024 Human Distinctiveness in Different Cultures I want to pass on a clip of text from Samuel Arbesman's recent Substack email , on the path dependence of fundamental ideas about ourselves . I suggest checking out the links to his related writing on human : distinctiveness The Orang-Outang” Awhile back I wrote about AI and human distinctiveness basically my argument was that we should be less concerned by whether or not AI can do we what we can and care more about what we want to be doing . In other , words focus on what is quintessentially human , rather than what is uniquely

  • Selections from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS.org)

    Updated: 2024-08-09 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 . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Friday , August 09, 2024 Selections from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences PNAS.org Below are URLs of journal articles I find interesting and think might be of interest to some MindBlog readers . nbsp Most are open source . Email me if you hit a paywall and would like me to send you a PDF of the complete article . The health risk of social disadvantage is transplantable into a new host . https : www.pnas.org doi 10.1073 pnas.2404108121 relevant to transferring immune-reconstituting cells from a healthy donor to a cancer patient recipient . Can names shape facial appearances https :

  • Psilocybin desynchronizes our brains during ego dissolution

    Updated: 2024-08-05 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 . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , August 05, 2024 Psilocybin desynchronizes our brains during ego dissolution From Siegel et al open source A single dose of psilocybin , a psychedelic that acutely causes distortions of space–time perception and ego dissolution , produces rapid and persistent therapeutic effects in human clinical trials 1 2 3 4 In animal models , psilocybin induces neuroplasticity in cortex and hippocampus 5 6 7 8 It remains unclear how human brain network changes relate to subjective and lasting effects of psychedelics . Here we tracked individual-specific brain changes with longitudinal precision functional

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