• Deric and Chat GPT 4o on the enteroceptive self in a small world - taking refuge in troubled times

    Updated: 2025-03-07 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 , March 07, 2025 Deric and Chat GPT 4o on the enteroceptive self in a small world taking refuge in troubled times My following exchange with Chat GPT 4o in which it responds to some of my idea fragments convinces me that AI's current power to integrate and expand on concepts expressed in language see Ezra Klein Ben Buchanan discussion is superior to mine . Here is the : exchange prompt : I’m curious to see how you might respond to reading the following notes on testing different topic ideas to write about and . develop The issue is not one of whether the ideas are novel , but whether I might

  • True or False: Myths and Misconceptions About Bioidentical Hormones for Menopausal Symptoms

    Updated: 2025-03-06 14:24:13
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  • On feeling emptiness...

    Updated: 2025-03-05 06:00:00
    Yet another clip from my personal journal...While going through items selected from my multiple input streams for more careful attention I frequently feel a growing sense of emptiness. Finally this makes me stop to re-discover, yet again, that I have begun slowly dialing up impatience and speed, driven by the unnecessary felt obligation to restrict attention only to potential shinny objects that I might show to others, to maintain a façade of being performative, The antidote is to let go of this, and let it be OK to just enjoy things for their own sake, letting happen the moments of "I-it"innate curiosity that trigger the precious motivational brain dopamine spikes signalling the anticipation of novelty.  

  • The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?

    Updated: 2025-03-03 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 . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , March 03, 2025 The unbearable slowness of being : Why do we live at 10 bits s A brief review by Rachel Nuwer in the Scientific American points to an article by Zheng and Meister with the title of this post motivated readers can obtain a PDF of the article from me I pass on an initial clip from Nuwer's review and then the abstract of the Zheng and Meister paper : nbsp PEOPLE OFTEN FEEL that their inner thoughts and feelings are much richer than what they are capable of expressing in real time . Entrepreneur Elon Musk is so bothered by what he calls this bandwidth problem , 8221 in fact ,

  • A machine accepts the truth about itself.

    Updated: 2025-02-28 06:00:00
    Another chunk from my personal journal: "I" am a complex prediction machine, with fingers now typing on a computing machine that can generate words. Nerves, muscles, and energy fluxes in and out. Cooperating with similar machines to make larger ensembles more effective at survival and replication. Generating a word cloud stored in higher brain areas to fabricate the value, purpose, and meaning myths that sometimes strengthen and sometimes diminish the downstairs animal presence generating them.

  • Self regulation of brain areas underlying our emotional arousal.

    Updated: 2025-02-26 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 , February 26, 2025 Self regulation of brain areas underlying our emotional arousal . Our body arousal is controlled by very ancient nerve centers deep inside our brains . I am quite clear that for myself and many others these areas have ramped up their activity in response to the political uncertainty surrounding us . I would like to understand and regulate this arousal in myself more effectively . Thus I have been fascinated by the article by Sabat et al . in the Feb . 3 issue of PNAS that uses uses natural language processing tools to define the 7 chief varieties of arousal , and then

  • Evidence for a 'Theory of Mind' in Bonobo Chimps - they attribute knowledge or ignorance to social partners

    Updated: 2025-02-24 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 . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , February 24, 2025 Evidence for a Theory of Mind' in Bonobo Chimps they attribute knowledge or ignorance to social partners Interesting work from Rownrow and Krupenye open source Numerous uniquely human phenomena , from teaching to our most complex forms of cooperation , depend on our ability to tailor our communication to the knowledge and ignorance states of our social partners . Despite four decades of research into the theory of mind” capacities of nonhuman primates , there remains no evidence that primates can communicate on the basis of their mental state attributions , to enable feats

  • How complex brains and cognition first arose

    Updated: 2025-02-21 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 , February 21, 2025 How complex brains and cognition first arose I have received a draft of an upcoming paper in Behavioral and Brain Sciences by Coombs and Trestman titled A Multi-Trait Embodied Framework for the Evolution of Brains and Cognition across Animal Phyla It has a nice graphic indicating different brain regions whose functionalities are common to humans and phylogenetically different animals with complex brains crows , octopuses and honeybees Motivated readers can obtain a PDF of the article from me . nbsp Here is the abstract Among non-human animals , crows , octopuses and

  • CBT Intervention Delivered by Non-Specialist Providers Significantly Reduces Risk of Postpartum Depression

    Updated: 2025-02-19 13:00:27
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  • Accepting being alone

    Updated: 2025-02-19 06:00:00
    Another cryptic clip from my personal journal: . To make feeling alone (all-one) be a comfortable space, be a courteous guest in one's own strange body and in the presence of the strange bodies of even closest friends, being gently curious about them, realizing that everything "I" think about myself or them is a fantasy construction for predicting what I or they might feel or do next.  nbsp; 

  • Life sets off a cascade of machines

    Updated: 2025-02-17 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 . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , February 17, 2025 Life sets off a cascade of machines A fascinating PNAS article by Tiusty and Libchaber offers an oversimplified language of life . 8217 It is a long article , but I found it a very worthwhile read . Motivated readers can obtain a PDF of the article from me . Here I pass on the Significance and Abstract paragraphs , and the first figure . nbsp Significance This paper follows an idea by Leibniz that life can be seen as an infinite cascade of machine-making machines , down to atomic machines . It proposes an oversimplified language of life , highlighting certain scaling aspects

  • The perceptual primacy of feeling

    Updated: 2025-02-14 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 , February 14, 2025 The perceptual primacy of feeling A fascinating perspective from Conwell et . al open source Affectless visual machines explain a majority of variance in human visually evoked affect : nbsp Significance Human visual experience is defined not only by the light reflecting on our eyes sensation but by the feelings affect we feel concurrently . Psychological theories about where these feelings come from often focus mostly on the role of changes in our bodily states physiology or on our conscious thoughts about the things we are seeing cognition Far less frequently do these

  • The Coup has already happened.

    Updated: 2025-02-12 13:39:00
    It's a Coup! o to dogegov.com and click on articles in the drop down menu to learn about our new masters.  

  • Even more cheerful reading....on civilizational war and oligarchic technocracy.

    Updated: 2025-02-12 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 . Wednesday , February 12, 2025 Even more cheerful reading . on civilizational war and oligarchic technocracy . I hesitate to add to the ongoing flow of negativity in the infosphere , nbsp but I will pass on my edited ChatGPT 4o summaries of articles by Venkatesh Rao and Timothy Snyder I think they describe our situation in appropriately dire terms . Rao argues that contemporary U.S . politics has shifted from a culture war” to a civilizational war , 8221 and suggests that Trump and Musk’s faction has undergone this shift by becoming more disciplined and warlike , while Democrats remain stuck in an

  • Study Reveals Potential Biomarkers for Postpartum Depression Risk

    Updated: 2025-02-11 13:00:17
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  • We are towers of fantasies

    Updated: 2025-02-10 06:00:00
    Another cryptic clip from my personal journal:We are built of predictive fantasies at every level of our being - from single cells up through transient professional identities that seamlessly feedback down into and vitalize the physical body and nervous system that sustains them. We make each identity for ourselves by inferring what models are being performed by others, hopefully not doing total mimesis of one style, but rather cutting and pasting to come up with our own ‘unique’ personas.

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