Updated: 2023-06-02 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 , June 02, 2023 Gender inequality is associated with differences between the brains of men and women Sobering but not surprising analysis by Jugman et . al Significance Gender inequality is associated with worse mental health and academic achievement in women . Using a dataset of 7,876 MRI scans from healthy adults living in 29 different countries , we here show that gender inequality is associated with differences between the brains of men and women : cortical thickness of the right hemisphere , especially in limbic regions such as the right caudal anterior cingulate and right medial orbitofrontal , as well as the left lateral occipital ,
Updated: 2023-05-31 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 Wednesday , May 31, 2023 Some notes on Constructing Self and World” I’ve just listened to one of Sam Harris’ podcasts in his Making Sense” series titled Constructing Self and World . 8221 It is a conversation with Shamil Chandaria , who is a philanthropist , serial entrepreneur , technologist , and academic with multidisciplinary research interests . During the conversation a number of ideas I am familiar with were framed in a very useful way , and I’m wanting to put down and pass on to MindBlog readers my thumbnail summary : nbsp There is a strong similarity between the predictive processing brain model that has been the subject of numerous Mind
Updated: 2023-05-29 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 , May 29, 2023 To fulfill its promise , artificial intelligence needs to deepen human intelligence . For MindBlog readers interested in AI , I have to point to another must-read article by Ezra Klein Below are some clips that try to communicate his central points . And no , I'm not using ChatGPT to generate this post , because of several of AI's limitations that he notes . Klein starts by noting the many ways in which the internet has not fullfiled its promise , overwhelming us with more information than we can process , degrading our political discourse and attention spans , and leading us multitasking which not only diminished our
Updated: 2023-05-26 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 Friday , May 26, 2023 When Their Idea of Liberty Is Your Idea of Death This post gives a snapshot of another really excellent Thomas Edsall piece provided courtesy of Chat GPT-4, making the central points accessible to MindBlog readers who are blocked by the NYTimes paywall . nbsp In this essay , Thomas Edsall explores the concept of freedom as a contested ideal in American politics , particularly in the run-up to the 2024 . election President Biden , in announcing his re-election bid , frames freedom as being under threat by MAGA extremists . He emphasizes defending democracy , personal freedom , and civil rights , portraying the election as a
Updated: 2023-05-24 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 , May 24, 2023 Using AI to decipher words and sentences from brain scans Things are happening very fast in AI , as this work from Huth and his collaborators shows . Previous work has shown that speeh articulation and other signals can be decoded from invasive intracranial recordings , and they have developed a language decoder that now accomplishs this with non-invasive fMRI . Motivated readers can obtain the detailed description of the work by emailing me . Their abstract : A brain–computer interface that decodes continuous language from non-invasive recordings would have many scientific and practical applications . Currently , however ,
Updated: 2023-05-24 00:00:36
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Updated: 2023-05-22 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 , May 22, 2023 Multilevel cultural evolution new theory and practical applications I want to point to a exceptionally lucid and well written expostion by David Sloan Willson et . al and pass on the opening paragraphs of their article that frames the context for understanding how group level selection operates at multiple levels , from cells to societies to the entire earth system . I strongly recommend reading through it slowly and carefully . If that seems a bit much , skip down to the section titled The earth system as the ultimate unit of selection . added note : for a comprehensive game theoretic analysis of evolutionary dynamics within
Updated: 2023-05-19 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 , May 19, 2023 Liberty , Equality , and Fraternity in the Postmodern , Neoliberal Age I want to share with MindBlog readers the background material prepared by Austin Rainbow Forum member Daniel Owen to support our Sunday June 4 2023 discussion on the conflict between the ideals of liberty , equality , and fraternity : nbsp Liberty , Equality , and Fraternity in the Postmodern , Neoliberal Age The French motto of liberty , equality , and fraternity has symbolized democracy and human rights since the French Revolution . Our U.S . Declaration of Independence declares , We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created
Updated: 2023-05-17 11:44:47
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Updated: 2023-05-17 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 Wednesday , May 17, 2023 An evolutionary psychology perspective on the politics of leadership Thomas Edsall does another of his scholarly analyses , this time putting Trump as the wannabe alpha male in a larger evolutionary context . I started this post with a number of clips from Edsall's text , but then decided to have another go at asking ChatGPT 4 to do a summary for me . In response to my request Please condense and summarize the following essay by Thomas Edsall it did a quite credible job , and I'm going to be lazy and pass on what the bot did Thomas Edsall's essay discusses how Donald Trump's alpha-male image conflicts with the barrage of
Updated: 2023-05-16 00:49:18
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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 , May 15, 2023 People who talk too much I host a monthly discussion group in Austin TX , The Austin Rainbow Forum , that meets at 2 pm on the first Sunday of every month to consider interesting topics and ideas . On this past May 7, one of our group members led a discussion of Overtalking in the modern world , which has got us all spouting opinions , giving advice , and getting ourselves in trouble , according to Dan Lyons in his recent book titled STFU : The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World . The central ideas in Lyons’ book are summarized in this Time Magazine article I looked through a reviewers copy of the book
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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 , May 10, 2023 MindBlog paragraphs bloviating on the nature of the self ask Google Bard and Chat GPT 4 for help I can’t resist passing on this example of checking out what Google Bard and OpenAI’s Chat GPT-4 might do with some of my opaque paragraphs . nbsp I asked them to clarify and improve the following two paragraphs , which they did Microsoft Bing again proved to be useless My : paragraphs There can be a calm in the understanding that our transient Anthropocene era is a brief blip in the history of this planet and the cosmos . nbsp A disappearance of Homo Sapiens as we know it seems a certainty , a transition either to extinction or
Updated: 2023-05-08 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 , May 08, 2023 Can a theory of events-in-time our future history ever be crafted I first drafted this as I usually do to pass on clips that attempt to extract the core points from a fascinating brief piece by Venkatesh Rao . nbsp I then decided to ask Chat GPT 4, Google's bard and Microsoft Bing to Please condense the core ideas in the following document into a few paragraphs : The response from Chat GPT 4 was amazing , so I paste it in here before giving you my clips Venkatesh Rao explores the idea of the End of History as an analogy to the End of Biology , where biology transitioned from an independent area of intellectual inquiry to one
Updated: 2023-05-07 11:20:04
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