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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 Friday , April 28, 2023 Are we living in a simulated world This post is the sixth installment of my passing on to both MindBlog readers and my future self my idiosyncratic selection of clips of text from O’Gieblyn’s book God , Human , Animal , Machine’ that I have found particularly interesting . Here are fragments of Chapter 8 from the fourth section of her book , nbsp titled Paradox . Bostrom , a prominent transhumanist , believes that humanity is in the process of becoming posthuman as we merge our bodies with technology . We are becoming superintelligence ourselves . His simulation hypothesis begins by imagining a future , many generations from
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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 , April 24, 2023 Networks and Emergentism This post is the fourth installment of my passing on to both MindBlog readers and my future self my idiosyncratic selection of clips of text from O’Gieblyn’s book God , Human , Animal , Machine’ that I have found particularly interesting . Chapters 5 and 6 form the third section of her book , nbsp titled Network . From Chapter : 5 When it comes to biological systems like forests and swarms , emergent behavior that appears to be unified and intelligent can exist without a centralized control system like a brain . But the theory has also been applied to the brain itself , as a way to account for human
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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 Sunday , April 23, 2023 How does a meditation app move toward becoming a corporate behemoth I've spoken highly of Sam Harris' Waking Up App , which now clocks me as having done 776 practice or theory sessions . nbsp I would recommend his theory sessions on the fundamentals of meditation , the illusory self , and free will are the best I have come across . My use of the App has diminished as I have become habituated and mildly allergic to Harris' spoken delivery style , but the continual recruitment of new contributing gurus alleviates that problem . I could wish he would put all of his own material down in written form . nbsp The app has been so
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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 Friday , April 21, 2023 Equivalence of the metaphors of the major religions and transhumanism This post is the third installment of my passing on to both MindBlog readers and my future self my idiosyncratic selection of clips of text from O’Gieblyn’s book God , Human , Animal , Machine’ that I have found particularly interesting . Chapters 3 and 4 form the second section of her book , nbsp titled Pattern . From Chapter : 3 Once animal brains began to form , the information became encoded in neural patterns . Now that evolution has produced intelligent , tool-wielding humans , we are designing new information technologies more sophisticated than any
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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 , April 19, 2023 The Illusion of the Self as Humans become Gods . This post continues my passing on to both MindBlog readers and my future self my idiosyncratic selection of clips of text from O’Gieblyn’s book God , Human , Animal , Machine’ that I have found particularly interesting . nbsp This post deals with Chapter 2 from the first section of the book , Image . I’m discontinuing the experiment of including Chat GPT 4 condensations of the excerpts . Here are the : clips It turns out that computers are particularly adept at the tasks that we humans find most difficult : crunching equations , solving logical propositions , and other
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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 Friday , April 14, 2023 Breath Some basic facts and instructions I’ve enjoyed reading through James Nestor’s book Breath The new science of a lost , art and I tried out some of the exercises he points to , such as Tummo , which increases breathing to deliver a brief shock therapy to the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems that regulate breathing , thus temporarily resetting to a more appropriate balance between the two . nbsp He describes numerous useful breathing therapies that have been discovered , forgotten , and then rediscovered over the past 3000 years by different cultural and religious traditions , and in the past 300 years 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 Monday , April 10, 2023 If we don’t master AI , AI will master us A brief list of articles by prominent intellectuals . With technology companies now choosing speed over caution in the race to develop the dominant A.I . Chatbot application , nbsp I’m using this post to save for myself the links to a few influential recent cautionary articles by the likes of Noam Chomsky , Yuval Harari , Ezra Klein and others , and pass them on in case a few MindBlog readers might find them useful . I have asked ChatGPT to summarize the messages of the first two articles in 300 words . In the second Gogggle's Bard gives a more balanced version than . ChatGPT This
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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 Friday , April 07, 2023 Our heartbeat shapes our perception of time and a comparison of how ChatGPT and Google Bard condense an account of work showing this Ellen Barry has done a review of work by Sadeghi et al as well as others , on how heart-brain interactions influence our perception of time . I asked ChatGPT to do a 200 word summary of her article of 795 words . It generated 237 words below to which I made a small addition . I feels like I'm using the language generating mental equivalent of a physical prosthesis . That is followed by Google Bard's response , very impressive . Microsoft's Bing was unable to deal with the task . A recent study
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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 , April 05, 2023 The fundamentals of empathy Akinrinade et al . show that the neuropeptide oxytocin is responsible for emotional fear contagion , and involves the same regions of the brain in zebrafish and in mammals , suggesting this most basal form of empathy could have evolved many , many millions of years ago . Emotional contagion is the most ancestral form of empathy . We tested to what extent the proximate mechanisms of emotional contagion are evolutionarily conserved by assessing the role of oxytocin , known to regulate empathic behaviors in mammals , in social fear contagion in zebrafish . Using oxytocin and oxytocin receptor
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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 , April 03, 2023 Can we fight cancer in ourselves with thoughts David Linden , a professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins Medical Schoo , has done an interesting piece on his own experience with a tumor in his heart , written 23 months after being told to expect to live 6 to 18 months after radiation and chemotherapy . The remnant tumor has become stable , and no metastases have developed . And so , at the age of 61, I find myself in the weird and liminal state of having a terminal illness but feeling fine and having no immediate threat to my health . Since my diagnosis , I have received a lot of unsolicited medical advice . Much of this
