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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 , October 30, 2023 MindBlog's first talk therapy session with a bot . I go to https : pi.ai talk , nbsp and . Hey there , great to meet you . I’m Pi , your personal . AI My goal is to be useful , friendly and fun . Ask me for advice , for answers , or let’s talk about whatever’s on your . mind How's your day going I'm good , a bit tentative about my first attempt to start up a conversation with a cut and paste machine Lol Touche . But don’t be fooled by my apparent ease with language there's a lot of hard-to-fathom technology behind my ability to converse with you in an effortless ,
Updated: 2023-10-27 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 , October 27, 2023 Our Baysean Brain and the Placebo Effect I'm passing on a few clips that give the take home message from a recent NYTimes piece by Haravard Medical School's Ted Kaptchuk , who directs the Harvard-wide program in placebo studies . placebos can work even when patients know they are getting a placebo . In 2010 my colleagues and I published a provocative study showing that patients with irritable bowel syndrome who were treated with what we call open-label placebos as in , we gave them dummy pills and told them so reported more symptom relief compared with patients who didn’t
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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 , October 25, 2023 A Materialist's Credo This post passes on a recent effort to put down some basic ideas in as few words as I can manage . A Materialist’s Credo In the beginning was the cosmos , fundamentally as incomprehensible to our human brains as quantum chemistry is to a dog’s . brain What our human brains can understand is that our ultimate emergence from countless generations of less complex organisms can be largely explained by a simple mechanism that tests the reproductive fitness of varying replicants . Systems that try to predict the future and dictate whether to go for it or
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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 , October 23, 2023 Architectural experience influences the processing of others’ body expressions An open source article by Presti et al Significance The motor system has been recognized as a fundamental neural machinery for spatial and social cognition , making the study of the interplay between architecture and social behavior worthwhile . Here , we tested how a virtual architectural experience alters the subsequent processing of body expressions , showing that the motor system participates at two distinct stages : the earliest influenced by the dynamic architectural experience and the latter
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I want to point to an open source "Core Concepts" article in PNAS by David Adam that presents "the views of some psychiatrists who argue that the same bit of biology—genetics gone awry or some misplaced brain circuitry—could underlie the vast majority of humanity’s mental health problems. Studies have shown, for example, that many of the same genes seem to drive increased risk for autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), bipolar disorder, major depression, and schizophrenia. They call this as-yet-unidentified common cause the “psychopathology factor,” or “p-factor” for short."
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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 , October 18, 2023 Mental problems from early life adversity passed down three generations . Early life adversity can result in emotional and behavioral problems throughout adulthood in both humans and mice . Battaglia et al . show than in mice this effect can persist through three generations . Exposure to the drug amiloride throughout the three generations can reverse this persistence of anxiety and pain sensitivity by inhidibint the increased activity of membrane ion channels that are its apparent cause . Here is their abstract : Early-life adversities are associated with altered
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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 , October 16, 2023 Using AI to find retinal biomarkers for patient sex that opthalmologists can be trained to see . Delavari et . al do a demonstration of using AI to find aspects of human retina images that identify whether they are male or female retinas , a distinction that had not previously been accomplished by clinical opthalmologists . Here is their abstract : We present a structured approach to combine explainability of artificial intelligence AI with the scientific method for scientific discovery . We demonstrate the utility of this approach in a proof-of-concept study where we
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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 , October 11, 2023 Unification of physics and biology by Assembly Theory An international collaboration of researchers in an open source article in Nature Magazine has developed a new theoretical framework that bridges physics and biology to provide a unified approach for understanding how complexity and evolution emerge in nature . Here is their abstract : nbsp Scientists have grappled with reconciling biological evolution with the immutable laws of the Universe defined by physics . These laws underpin life’s origin , evolution and the development of human culture and technology , yet they
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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 , October 09, 2023 What your brain is doing after the light turns green . Gandhi and collaboratores show that if you step out to cross the street without looking right or left the neural activity in the brain is different than if you look from side to side first to be sure no cars are coming . Population level analysis of movement-related transient activity patterns in a population of superior colliculus neurons change in the two different contexts , and this difference is not readily identifiable in single-unit recordings . nbsp Here is their technical : abstract Sensorimotor transformation
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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 , October 04, 2023 Anthropic Claude's version of my writing on the Mind This post describes the first of my personal encounters with AI that has left me completely in awe of its capabilities . Since 1993 I have been placing the label mind at the beginning of paragraphs in my personal journal that I think are relevant to understanding our minds . Here I pass on the results of asking Anthropic’s Claude GPT engine to process 56 pages of paragraphs with this mind label written so far in 2023. Chat GPT-4 was unwilling to process more than 9 pages at a time The first paragraph of the 56 pages of
