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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 , May 27, 2024 Ancient origins of aspects of instrumental and song melodies distinctive from those of language . A global collaboration from many cultures shows that songs and instrumental melodies are slower and higher and use more stable pitches than speech , suggesting evolutionary origins universal to all humans that cannot simply be explained by culture . The numerous samples of music collected could be arranged in a musi-linguistic continuum from instrumental music to spoken . language Both music and language are found in all known human societies , yet no studies have compared
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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 , May 24, 2024 Think AI Can Perceive Emotion Think Again . Numerous MindBlog posts have presented the work and writing of Elizabeth Feldman Barrett enter Barrett in the search box in the right column of this web page Her book , How Emotions Are Made , is the one I recommend when anyone asks me what I think is the best popular book on how our brains work . nbsp Here I want to pass on her piece on AI and emotions in the Sat . May 18 Wall Street Journal . I t collects together the various reasons that AI can not , and should not , be used for detecting our emotional state from our facial
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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 , May 22, 2024 The Happiness Gap Between Left and Right I want to pass on a few clips from a recent Thomas Edsall essay followed by a condensed version of the longer piece provided by Chat GPT 4 : Why is it that a substantial body of social science research finds that conservatives are happier than liberals psychologists and other social scientists have begun to dig deeper into the underpinnings of liberal discontent not only unhappiness but also depression and other measures of dissatisfaction . One of the findings emerging from this research is that the decline in happiness and in a sense
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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 , May 20, 2024 Age of Revolutions I've finished reading through Fareed Zakaria’s recent magisterial book : Age of Revolutions Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present . 8221 I was so impressed with the concluding pages of the book , titled The Infinite Abyss that I have re-read it several times , and was about to attempt a summary of its main points before checking and finding , sure enough , that Chat GPT4 and Anthropic Claude saved me at least an hour of work by performing their quite adequate responses to my prompt : Writing as professional historian please write an approximately 1000
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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 , May 17, 2024 Evolutionarily conserved neural responses to affective touch transcend consciousness and change with age Interesting work from Charbonneau et . al in macaque monkeys on the affective gentle , pleasant touch pathways that in humans use a different neural network than pathways of discriminative : touch Significance Affective touch is thought to be a critical substrate for the formation of the social relationships which exist as a foundation for primate societies . Although grooming behavior in monkeys appears to recapitulate features of affective touch behavior in humans , it is
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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 , May 15, 2024 Collective behavior from surprise minimization A fascinating model for collective behavior from Heins et al Significance We introduce a model of collective behavior , proposing that individual members within a group , such as a school of fish or a flock of birds , act to minimize surprise . This active inference approach naturally generates well-known collective phenomena such as cohesion and directed movement without explicit behavioral rules . Our model reveals intricate relationships between individual beliefs and group properties , demonstrating that beliefs about
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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 , May 13, 2024 How the US is destroying young people's future . When I wake up in the morning , I frequently remind myself to be grateful for the luck of having been born in 1942, and being able to ride the crest of a number of fortunate external circumstances that made my generation vastly better off than those who followed . I was in high school in the late 50s when Sputnik happened , fueling a huge increase in federal research funding that , powered my laboratory research career how our vision works . Both my parents and myself were clients of state governments or universities that offered
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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 , May 10, 2024 Blueprint Nicholas Christakis on the evolutionary origins of a good society This opinion piece by Frank Bruni in the NYTimes motivated me to download and read Nicholas Christakis' Magnum Opus Blueprint” very much in the everything you need to know about humans' spirit of Sapolsky's Behave and Harari's Sapiens , and Homo Deus and 21 Lessons all books that I have made the subject of previous posts . It echoes Pinker's emphasis on the more positive aspects of human nature and progress It is a very engaging read , and not amenable to a simple summary , but here is a bit from his
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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 , May 08, 2024 Another Big History why the West is WEIRD Western , educated , industrialized , rich , democratic Alas , I usually end up reading reviews of books rather than the books themselves . Here I want to pass on clips from Shulevitz's review in The Atlantic of Joseph Henrich's theory-of-everything type book The WEIRDest People in the World : How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous . Henrich directs Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology . Consider this the latest addition to the Big History category , popularized by best sellers
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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 , May 06, 2024 Are we the cows of the future One of the questions posed by Yuval Harari in his writing on our possible futures is What are we to do with all these humans who are , except for a small technocratic elite , no longer required as the means of production Esther Leslie , a professor of political aesthetics at Birkbeck College , University of London , does an essay on this issue pointing out that our potential futures in the pastures of digital dictatorship crowded conditions , mass surveillance , virtual reality are already here . You should read her essay , and I passon just a few
