• The delusions of transhumanists and life span extenders

    Updated: 2024-08-30 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 , August 30, 2024 The delusions of transhumanists and life span extenders One futurist story line is that we all will be seamlessly integrated with AI and the cloud , and bioengineered to live forever . This simplistic fantasy does not take into account the pervasive and fundamental relationships and fluxes between all living things . The cellular mass of individual humans , after all , is mainly composed of their diverse microbiotas bacteria , fungi , protists that influence how all organ systems interact with environmental input . nbsp Humans dominate the planet because their brains first

  • Regulating our subjective well being - our brain's axes of arousal, valence, and agency

    Updated: 2024-08-28 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 . Wednesday , August 28, 2024 Regulating our subjective well being our brain's axes of arousal , valence , and agency I've now read several times through a daunting review article by Feldman et al . nbsp in the July issue of Trends in Cognitive Science titled The Neurobiology of Interoception and . Affect motivated readers can obtain a copy of the whole article from me The bottom line is that the subjective feelings of what is going on inside our bodies that taken together form our sense of well being rise from a an array of cortical and visceral neuroendocrine systems that are much more complex

  • Risk of Malformations in Children with Prenatal Exposure to Antidepressants and Benzodiazepines

    Updated: 2024-08-28 00:00:00
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  • The brain simulates actions and their consequences during REM sleep

    Updated: 2024-08-26 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 . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , August 26, 2024 The brain simulates actions and their consequences during REM sleep During REM sleep our brains make up and work though simulated scenarios , while putting our bodies into paralysis so we don't thrash about dangerously . Senzai and Scanziani show what in going on in mouse brains . Here is the first paragraph abstract of their open source : text Vivid dreams mostly occur during a phase of sleep called REM1–5. During REM sleep , the brain’s internal representation of direction keeps shifting like that of an awake animal moving through its environment6–8. What causes these shifts

  • An epilogue

    Updated: 2024-08-23 19:02:00
    : 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 , August 23, 2024 An epilogue I want to pass on a clip from the epilogue of Jim Holt's 2012 book Why Does the World Exist An Existential Detective Story in which he describes his attending a small ninetieth birthday celebration for Claude Lévi-Strauss 1908-2009 the famous French anthropologist and ethnologist The master made the following brief : comments Montaigne , 8221 he begins , said that aging diminishes us each day in a way that , when death finally arrives , it takes away only a quarter or half the man . But Montaigne only lived to be fifty-nine , so he could have no idea of the extreme

  • Weekly Roundup for August 23, 2024: Recent Publications in Women’s Mental Health

    Updated: 2024-08-23 11:29:32
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  • What About Dads? How We Can Improve Screening for Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders

    Updated: 2024-08-15 00:00:40
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  • Human distinctiveness and Artificial Intelligence

    Updated: 2024-08-14 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 . Wednesday , August 14, 2024 Human distinctiveness and Artificial Intelligence I pass on some random thoughts occasioned by the previous post . What is distinctive about humans There are millions of humans , there can be only a few LLMs , given the enormous amounts of material and energy required to make them . Many humans are required to generate and mirror shared illusions about value,purpose , and meaning that bind together and distinguish different cultures . For GPT engines to obtain such a capability would require that they be embodied , self sufficient , energy efficient , replicable , and

  • Human Distinctiveness in Different Cultures

    Updated: 2024-08-12 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 . Monday , August 12, 2024 Human Distinctiveness in Different Cultures I want to pass on a clip of text from Samuel Arbesman's recent Substack email , on the path dependence of fundamental ideas about ourselves . I suggest checking out the links to his related writing on human : distinctiveness The Orang-Outang” Awhile back I wrote about AI and human distinctiveness basically my argument was that we should be less concerned by whether or not AI can do we what we can and care more about what we want to be doing . In other , words focus on what is quintessentially human , rather than what is uniquely

  • Recruiting for Research Study: THRIVE (Targeting Health and Resilience for Individuals with a Vulnerable Eating History)

    Updated: 2024-08-12 00:00:29
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  • Weekly Roundup for June 21, 2024: Recent Publications in Women’s Mental Health

    Updated: 2024-08-10 01:51:02
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  • Selections from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS.org)

    Updated: 2024-08-09 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 , August 09, 2024 Selections from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences PNAS.org Below are URLs of journal articles I find interesting and think might be of interest to some MindBlog readers . nbsp Most are open source . Email me if you hit a paywall and would like me to send you a PDF of the complete article . The health risk of social disadvantage is transplantable into a new host . https : www.pnas.org doi 10.1073 pnas.2404108121 relevant to transferring immune-reconstituting cells from a healthy donor to a cancer patient recipient . Can names shape facial appearances https :

  • Psilocybin desynchronizes our brains during ego dissolution

    Updated: 2024-08-05 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 . Monday , August 05, 2024 Psilocybin desynchronizes our brains during ego dissolution From Siegel et al open source A single dose of psilocybin , a psychedelic that acutely causes distortions of space–time perception and ego dissolution , produces rapid and persistent therapeutic effects in human clinical trials 1 2 3 4 In animal models , psilocybin induces neuroplasticity in cortex and hippocampus 5 6 7 8 It remains unclear how human brain network changes relate to subjective and lasting effects of psychedelics . Here we tracked individual-specific brain changes with longitudinal precision functional

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