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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 , July 26, 2024 Nuances of non-dual awareness progress after waking up I want to share clips from a recent exchange at the Waking Up Community that I found very useful . nbsp Sam , who is mentioned several times , is Sam Harris , whose WAKING UP App offers theory , lessons , and exercises on non-dual awareness . nbsp From a questioner's post I accept , understand and find great peace in the fact that the self is an . illusion Once non-dual awareness is accepted , is there nothing else to find” or not Is there an advanced course for those for whom non-dual awareness is now an accepted reality
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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 , July 24, 2024 A human machine writes . I think the spookily impersonal paragraph I pass on below composed while getting back to sleep after a 2 a.m . pee-wake is the way things work . Dry and mundane mechanical processes underlie the rich experienced emotions and feelings that make us human . nbsp Machinery here , pushing down keys of another machine , generating words , just like a human does . Much simpler than pretending to be one . Just nerves , muscles , and energy fluxes in and out . Curatorial rather than inspirational . Cooperating with other similar machines to make larger
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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 , July 22, 2024 The blanding and flattening of our culture Since I returned to live in my family home in Austin Texas in 2017 I have been sad to see the continuing disappearance of kinky Keep Austin Weird coffee shops , book stores , bars , and restaurants that have catered to the remnants of the slacker and hippie cultures of the 60s and 79s , as well as online Tech Bros . nbsp Instead we now have the monoculture of countless Starbucks and other chains pointed to by internet platforms that curate our options by pointing us to a bland uniformity of vendors whose shops and products are identical
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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 , July 19, 2024 MindBlog does a survey of futurists and recommends a few . In the wild and wooly world of thinking about futures for the earth , its living forms , and humanity there exists a tier of well know public intellectuals . I prompted 5 different GPT engines Google Gemini , ChatGPT 4o , Anthropic Claude , Perplexity , Microsoft Copilot to Please act as an author who has chosen a list of the 10 most influential futurists public intellectuals who speculate about the future of humanity . Write a brief essay describing each of them and and their basic messages The names selected by 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 , July 17, 2024 An essay on Geopolitics and Globalization I want to pass on one complete section , indicating titles of the others , of a larger essay addressing tribalism versus global . consciousness Untimely Meditations Philosophy goes against the grain of political immediacy to insist on inconvenient . truths Nathan Gardels , Noema Magazine Editor-in-Chief The Condition of Planetarity The Politics of Planetary Realism Conceptual demolition of the outmoded paradigm of nation-state realism , however , does not erase its still firmly rooted expression in present practice . Building 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 , July 15, 2024 What about some positive news for a change Doomsaying can become a self-fulfilling prophesy , as David Brooks points out I want to point to Fix The News a website curated by Angus Hervey and Amy Davoren-Rose , that points out positive stories , and offers to send occasional emails Which I enjoy receiving that list some of its content . nbsp Another positive and totally woke effort at making a more positive future is described in the document New voices for a better society I would also point to previous MindBlog posts on the positive views of Steven Pinker Nicholas Christakis
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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 , July 12, 2024 The emerging world order as a global version of the pre-Westphalian Middle Ages . I would like to pass on this link to an essay by Parag Khanna in Noema Magazine which is one of the best description of the increasing entropy in global geopolitical systems as America's former hegemony contines its rapid decline . A previous MindBlog post has pointed to Zeihan's version of this story . Here are a few clips from the start of the piece that indicate its direction : In global politics , entropy is captured by the term devolution , the transfer or surrender of power toward ever 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 , July 10, 2024 From nematodes to humans a common brain network motif intertwines hierarch and modularity . Pathak et . al abstract below suggest the evolved pattern they describe may apply to information processing networks in general , in particular to those of evolving AI . implementations Significance Nervous systems are often schematically represented in terms of hierarchically arranged layers with stimuli in the input” layer sequentially transformed through successive layers , eventually giving rise to response in the output” layer . Empirical investigations of hierarchy in specific
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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 , July 08, 2024 Our well being influences our mitochondrial biology . I pass on the abstract from Trumoff et al open source below . The bottom line is that our experienced well being correlates with with higher levels of energy transformation machinery in our mitochondria . Significance Psychosocial experiences predict health trajectories , but the underlying mechanism remains unclear . We report that positive psychosocial experiences are linked to greater abundance of the mitochondrial energy transformation machinery , whereas negative experiences are linked to lower abundance . Overall ,
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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 , July 05, 2024 ChatGPT as a lab rat for understanding how our brains process language . I've now read twice through a fascinating PNAS piece by Mitchell Waldrop Open source , with useful references and urge MindBlog readers to havve a look . Our brains , as well as all of the GPT Generative Pretrained Transforer engines are prediction machines . The following slilghtly edited extract gives context . computer simulations of language are working in ways that are strikingly similar to the left-hemisphere language regions of our brains , using the same computational principles . The reasons for
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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 , July 03, 2024 Cumulative human culture began 600,000 years ago , during the Middle Pleistocene An interesting study by Paige and Perreault Significance Our species , Homo sapiens , occupies a uniquely diverse set of ecological habitats . Humans expanded into tropical forests and arctic tundra through cumulative culture . Cumulative culture is the accumulation of modifications , innovations , and improvements over generations through social learning . Generations of variant accumulations allow humans to use technologies and know-how well beyond what a single naive individual could invent
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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 , July 01, 2024 There are no more human elites of any sort . I want to pass on the conclusion of a great essay by Venkatesh Rao giving the meanings of several acronyms in parentheses . You should read the entire . piece Let me cut to the conclusion : There are no more human elites of any sort . In the sense of natural rulers that is . There are certainly all sorts of privileged and entitled types who want the benefits of being elites , but no humans up to the task of actually being . elite It is only our anthropocentric conceits that lead us to conclude that a complex system like
